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Reviews
“Andromalius shows his first results. Yesterday someone booked a reading session with me (I don’t offer that!) and today I also found my first treasure. How cool is that?” – Marcel Schmidt
Description
The focus of this book is Andromalius, the 72nd demon in the Goetia, and how he functions as a mirror of Lucifer himself. In the process of illustrating the Lucifer/Andromalius entanglement, Camelia Elias tells stories about how Andromalius fares when dispatched to perform over and above what the Goetia prescribes. Andromalius doesn't merely deliver the mail, or 'find treasures, catch thieves, and punish the wicked,' but rather functions as a spy, orchestrates dreams, and divines for missing links. Elias also tells stories about how pacts are made and by whom, and what literature, poetry, and Zen have to say about demonic encounters.
These stories are not merely anchored in the set descriptions of how to conjure a demon and put him to work that we find in most grimoires. Rather, they are stories of collaboration that are entirely based on an assessment of skill in relation to style. This book discusses style in magic, and about how the magician, occultist, or fortuneteller as a stylist manipulates with the perception of the received images of spirit personalities in grimoires. What is the grammar of these images and how does it participate in creating a unique signature for the magician in his encounter with demons?
In practical magic that aims at evocation, invocation, and conjuration of spirits and demons, it's one thing to go by the instruction book and match a demon's office and function with what the scope of an operation is, and quite another to think about how authority is established in heaven and hell. Without being ceremonial about working with the grimoires, the author contributes original, scholarly, and penetrating ideas to the philosophy and practice of demonology.
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A talismanic book
Not just an object for reading, but one that makes its own speech act through additional inks, maps, and devils. As already stated above, with the map you find treasure, with the Devil you make pacts.
Each copy of the 144 available books, Andromalius, Take Two: Goetic Stories, is accompanied by original talismanic artwork in the form of sigils on old maps and cards.
There are 72 maps torn at random from a large atlas published by Gyldendal in 1948 (11.5 x 19.5 inch). They accompany the copies numbered 1–72.
There are 72 facsimile cards from the original Carolus Zoya Marseille Tarot, ca. 1780, printed on Illusion Parchment Celtic Velum paper (3.5 x 6.5 inch). They accompany the copies numbered 73–144.
Each map and card is individualized through calligraphic seals in ritual.
Astro magic
On September 23rd Mercury was cazimi, that is to say, Mercury was with the King, in the bosom of the Sun. This is a most auspicious place to be for a planet. Whatever petition you make, chances are that your wish will be granted. The Moon was also applying to a tight conjunction with the fixed star Regulus, a star that enhances the authority of occult interests, and gives great power, honor, wealth and independence, to all who petition.
The election took place on the west coast of Denmark. This means that at the time of the conjunction in Mercury’s own hour, Mercury and the Sun were in the 12th house, the house of demons. What is Andromalius? A demon.
Mercury was petitioned to grant its powers of enchantment, transactional wit, and swift communication to Andromalius’ domain, which is to find treasures, deliver goods in transit, and also locate thieves and punish them. All excellent and useful functions. All tied to the book.
The talismanic art intended to accompany the book on Andromalius was done and consecrated in this window. Those who receive the book and the magic that is made for it, can expect a manifestation of all of the above. Read more about this art in the essay, The Book as a Talisman.
More goetic magic
Signing Andromalius and noticing how the last words on various pages participate in enhancing the calligraphic magic.
Magic works with the spontaneity of chance encounters, such as the ones between word and number, or word and image.
As I was signing Andromalius, when I got to copy 133, just before I closed the book, it opened to page 66. I looked at the last line on that page. It consists of one word only: kinship.
‘I’ll be damned,’ I thought to myself. ‘There is kinship,’ I said to myself and it comes as a bond. ‘I might be thinking of Lucifer,’ I also wrote on that page, right below the word Andromalius, which made me think of the entanglement between these two stars. I nodded, for this innocent bibliomancy here felt like a strengthening of my argument in the book.
Great bonds all of them, including the kinship between the numbers 66 to 133. 133 is 66+66+1. There’s nothing like cool arithmetic associations. As everything is an abstract in performance, we go with this magic.
I had to make a film for it, because why not? Especially since my head was well fumigated and irrigated: Dragon blood and wormwood. The evening dew in a fine crystal glass shimmered in the full moon’s silver light. Magic is magic…
