Conjure, Necrodaimonic Sorcery: Leather Edition – Edgar Kerval & E.A. Koetting (Balg)

Description

Since early antiquity, the Spirits of the Dead were believed to endure as vital beings in the tomb. Despite this, the majority of humans have always expressed deep anxieties about the fate of the Dead.

Practitioners were always trying to get a proper communication with the Dead, and to find the proper oracle technique for divinatory purposes. Each ancient culture had its own methods of divination relating to Death and the Dead. From having vessels full of blood of the Dead, to obsidian mirrors reflecting the will and intention of the sorcerer, to invoking the dead into seashells in the tomb of an ancestor, relative, or friend, or simply invoking the Spirit of a Lord of Death to guide the practitioner’s life. The emerging pantheon of Infernal deities was complemented by a vision of a vast Underworld universe, in which we can communicate all the time with all Spirits, Demons, or abandoned Souls marching through the Void.

However, like many other occult truths, the nature of entities, Demons, or Spirits has been explained both correctly and incorrectly over the years. To understand why this is so, it is important to first understand who originated these theories.

Throughout the ages there have always been two kinds of occultists:

1. 1. Armchair theorists

1. Practicing magicians

The former has, in the past century, attempted to explain occult phenomena using the science of time, neglecting the fact that the Occult Science is a science of the future. As a result of the efforts of these armchair occultists, all sorts of psychological theories about magick have surfaced. These concepts are hopelessly flawed, as their creators were basically guessing about a topic they didn’t understand and have never personally experienced.

On the other hand, practicing magicians, a.k.a. hardcore necromancers, have experimented with magical techniques and achieved repeatable results. These tested theories are the ones the student of the Occult Science will find most useful.

The theory that entities only exist in the magician’s mind originated with the armchair occultists of history. According to them, evocations do nothing but bring these entities “up” from one’s subconscious, and “out” into seemingly external appearance. Followers of this teaching feel that all information gained by evocations is the result of some type of telepathy, and that materializations witnessed by a number of practitioners are the result of some type of telepathic projection on the part of the magician performing the ritual. To someone who has never practiced magick, this concept could seem feasible. But to a real trained magician, the flaws of this theory are immediately obvious, for a number of reasons clarified at length in my new grimoire, Conjure: Necrodaimonic Sorcery.