Description

Collectanea Goêtica collects Frater Acher’s goêtic writings from 2016 to 2024 in a definitive two-volume edition. They record eight years of intensive magical work, near-monastic focus and direct spirit contact, and together they make a major statement of a living, contemporary goêteia.

The work builds on the foundations laid by Jake Stratton-Kent, who contributes a foreword, but takes its own uncompromising path. Acher moves away from grimoire orthodoxy, historical reconstruction and the old Western urge to command and control. Instead, he sets out a relational, non-anthropocentric sorcery: building small, reciprocal cultures with daimones and the radically Other, and learning from the spirits themselves, not imposing human-centred rites on them. Chthonic intimacy, the body as a meeting point with the more-than-human, the wilderness as a place of encounter, and reverence for the dead run through every part of it.

Volume I collects Goêtic Common Sense, a practical philosophy built from the figure of the goês, the marginal night-wandering sorcerer. It also has Clavis Goêtica, which follows goêtic necromancy from ancient Greece to the present, with Acher’s own workings in the caves of the Northern Alps and the rare eighteenth-century skull-divination rite Ars Phytonica. The third work is Mutabor, a manifesto of embodied, atavistic sorcery that ranges from the Scythians to Cthulhu.

Volume II brings together Goêtic Atavisms, Goêtic Grammarye and Goêtic Deviance. These draw on Zosimos, Goethe’s Earth Spirit and Austin Osman Spare, and they also take an honest look at the social costs of walking the goêtic path. The volume closes with Paracelsus’ Treasure House of Insults, a gleefully scurrilous tribute to the combative Doctor Bombastus, with ribald illustrations by José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal.

It is challenging, deeply personal and grounded in practice, and it is an essential addition to the modern goêtic canon.

Contents:

Volume I: Introduction; Goêtic Common Sense; Clavis Goêtica: Keys to Goêtic Sorcery (foreword by Jake Stratton-Kent); Mutabor: A Journey into the Goêtic Flesh; Bibliography.

Volume II: Goêtic Atavisms; Goêtic Grammarye; Goêtic Deviance; Paracelsus’ Treasure House of Insults; Bibliography.

London: Scarlet Imprint, 2026. Standard hardback edition, limited to 1,000 copies. Two volumes, octavo (245 × 165 mm), 240 pp and 272 pp. Bound in black faux goatskin, stamped in red and gold foil on the front and spine, with textured red endpapers. Printed on 150gsm paper. Illustrated by José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal, David Herrerías and Rafael Pascuale Zamora.