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It sure packs a TON of info from several sources into its smallish size. And the multiple descriptions are organized in a very logical and user-friendly way. This is a beautiful version of this classic grimoire; very glad to have it! Thanks for the deeper dive, Denis!!
Quite a nice edition of the Ars Goetia! Thank you (as always) for the review video! Oh, and quite nice of you to tell viewers not to keep this in their bedrooms unless they really know what they're doing! 😄
Great review as usual. This looks like a wonderful book. I'm curious that since it draws from so many sources does it include the "Headless Rite" as a preliminary to the conjurations, an invocation that I think is unique only to the Mathers/Crowley edition, assumed (I believe accurately) added by Crowley? Also, I think I know the answer but is this an edition that one would want to bring in to the circle for an operation or more of a beautiful and very informative reference guide to the Goetia that should be handled with care and may not be so practical for actual work? Thanks again!
Gorgeous book; I wish BLP's books wouldn't get scratched tho as some of mines do like for Agrippas 4 books. The covers are so easy to scratch with this publisher. Here I can see the scratches on your center piece and also on the spine of the book. As someone who started collecting (heavily inspired by your channel) books, it's nice to have them mint-condition. Hopefully they fix this for future prints and books, since we do pay for value. Also, less expensive books I own don't scratch like such.
I was debating this one but the video you made pushed me over the edge. I really wanted to see how clear the sigils were along with the text. I do wish BLP made their books a tad larger but the content is undisputed.
@@FoolishFishBooks the correct hierarchy wasn't givin instead a blind was placed. The three chiefs and correct 4 kings wasn't givin on purpose so the system wouldn't work proper. This is common knowledge JSK, Dr. Cummins, Julio Ody etc. All have written on this. The correct hierarchy and spirit catalog is found in The Book of Oberon.
@@angelorosini4326 Right! :) BLP have not set out to change the texts, or give their (or others') opinions on what the texts SHOULD have said, just to give us the unaltered original texts, which they've done to the delight of many, and it seems, the disapointment of at least one, I assume? Luckily we have Daniel Harms' recent edition of the Book of Oberon to cover the issue you mention. 🙏 It's an interesting thread for anyone reading who should decide to pull on it, but of course it's also worth mentioning that just like Mathers' inaccurate Abramelin, the hierarchy listed in Ars Goetia has worked just fine for countless practitioners for centuries as is. This point notwithstanding, more accuracy is obviously preferable to less. Thank you for bringing it up!
Man I wish I could pick this up now, but Im poor so Im waiting for the full set so I dont pay five times the shipping :(. Im so excited though. Beautiful book and Im sure the rest in the series will be just as good
Goetic spirits are fallen angels, mostly djinn, and ancient humans that where powerful sorcerers and descended, or humans that where nephilim, or humans that where half djinn
I'm sorry, while I may or may not agree with you, you can't just make a sweeping statement like that without giving a source. "This is the truth because I say so" is one of the major problems with the world right now.
@@FoolishFishBooks no I didn’t mean it like that and I’m really sorry if you took it as me being brash. I know that everyone is untitled to there own opinion but my sources are Sufis and there materials, a lot of sorcerers, some magicians, and I have a large library myself filled with manuscripts and etc. Not as big as yours but a lot. I never claimed to be a known it all and never will and idk how you got that from my statement but I do apologize for rubbing you the wrong way
If you don't have enough magical experience to understand the advice, you're better off just trusting the advice of someone who does have that experience If you're walking around one day, and a random thought crosses your mind, "I'm worthless", then your conscious awareness can catch the thought, recognize it as false and unhelpful, and dismiss it. As a gross exaggeration for demonstration purposes, if you put in headphones before bed that play "I'm worthless" on a loop all night, that will seep into your subconscious and be much more difficult to dismiss. Thoughts arise out of emotions. Emotions arise out of energy. This is one reason you meditate, training your awareness to watch where your thoughts and then emotions arise out of. If there exists a metaphysical force, an energy that radiates around the concepts of the ars goetia, then it can influence that deepest level of energy, which then bubbles up as emotions, and bubbles up again now not just a thought, but whole narratives that are unhelpful to your well being. It's like exposing yourself to radioactive material. Do you need to know exactly how the radiation will ionize your DNA in order to trust the physicist telling you not to eat the radium watch hands? No, of course not. If you care, study for a decade and become a physicist yourself so that you can understand how the stories we tell about physics (say, atoms with electrons in circular, concentric orbits) actually manifest in real life. If you don't know physics and choose to ignore the advice of trained physicists, you eat that radium at your own peril. The one thing you can't say is that you were never warned, because you have been
Well you know the movie the exorcist? Well the spirit that possessed little Ragen in that film is Paimon. He is just 1 of 72 demons whose sigils this book contains. So you might want to treat it with some respect to say the least.
@@FoolishFishBooks so it turns out that DHL actually returned the parcel saying "incomplete address" as the reason. BLP sent me a photo of the parcel, which does, in fact, have my full address on it. lmao.
Without wishing to sound, … arsey, I suppose, none of the books of Lemegeton are really called 'ars' anything. I blame Wikipedia. In the title pages of all the nine or so extant manuscripts (complete or partial) the names of the books are simply Goetia, Theurgia Goetia, the Pauline Art, Almadel (Almadee in one instance, Ars Almadel Solomonis in another) and Artem Novem or the Notory Art (Ars Notoria in two instances). Internal titles refer only to the 'art Goetia', 'art Theurgia Goetia', 'Art Pauline', 'Art Almadel' ('Solomon's Almadel Art' in one case) and 'Notory Art' (Ars Notoria in one instance). In particular I think it is important to differentiate between the Lemegeton's Pauline Art and the earlier Latin Ars Paulina (a variation on the Ars Notoria and completely different to what's in the Lemegeton) and the Lemegeton's Almadel and the Latin Ars Almadel (substantially different to the seventeenth century English version) in order to avoid possible confusion netween the different texts. As for my (unsolicited) opinion of the BLP book, the presentation is lovely but after reading I found it a terrible waste of an opportunity to produce something fresh or innovative. Put another way I think the editor Arsed it up. [that's enough 'ars' puns: - ed.]
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Received my copy a couple weeks ago. It’s absolutely gorgeous
It sure packs a TON of info from several sources into its smallish size. And the multiple descriptions are organized in a very logical and user-friendly way. This is a beautiful version of this classic grimoire; very glad to have it! Thanks for the deeper dive, Denis!!
Wonderful! Looking forward to see the next volumes.
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gorgeous book
Quite a nice edition of the Ars Goetia! Thank you (as always) for the review video! Oh, and quite nice of you to tell viewers not to keep this in their bedrooms unless they really know what they're doing! 😄
That looks very nice indeed, has a more traditional book(as in vintage) feel about it
Beautifully made book! Yes, I snatched one up. 😂
Great review as usual. This looks like a wonderful book. I'm curious that since it draws from so many sources does it include the "Headless Rite" as a preliminary to the conjurations, an invocation that I think is unique only to the Mathers/Crowley edition, assumed (I believe accurately) added by Crowley? Also, I think I know the answer but is this an edition that one would want to bring in to the circle for an operation or more of a beautiful and very informative reference guide to the Goetia that should be handled with care and may not be so practical for actual work? Thanks again!
Crowley's method for conjuration is not detailed here, only his introduction. Methods from several other sources are included.
No it's pretty but a poor translation, go with joseph petersons translation.
Gorgeous book; I wish BLP's books wouldn't get scratched tho as some of mines do like for Agrippas 4 books. The covers are so easy to scratch with this publisher. Here I can see the scratches on your center piece and also on the spine of the book. As someone who started collecting (heavily inspired by your channel) books, it's nice to have them mint-condition.
Hopefully they fix this for future prints and books, since we do pay for value. Also, less expensive books I own don't scratch like such.
Thank you for this comment.
Ohhh i so need this. ❤
Thanks for the warning 👍🫶
I was debating this one but the video you made pushed me over the edge. I really wanted to see how clear the sigils were along with the text. I do wish BLP made their books a tad larger but the content is undisputed.
Yes, the sigils are definitely clear, they've done a stellar job at cleaning them up!
Thank you. More than 72 and that's definitely worth paying the extra..
They should do a GV book also.
So does he give the corrected hierarchy instead of the blind version?
I'm afraid I don't understand what you're asking.
@@FoolishFishBooks the correct hierarchy wasn't givin instead a blind was placed. The three chiefs and correct 4 kings wasn't givin on purpose so the system wouldn't work proper. This is common knowledge JSK, Dr. Cummins, Julio Ody etc. All have written on this. The correct hierarchy and spirit catalog is found in The Book of Oberon.
@@angelorosini4326 Right! :)
BLP have not set out to change the texts, or give their (or others') opinions on what the texts SHOULD have said, just to give us the unaltered original texts, which they've done to the delight of many, and it seems, the disapointment of at least one, I assume? Luckily we have Daniel Harms' recent edition of the Book of Oberon to cover the issue you mention. 🙏
It's an interesting thread for anyone reading who should decide to pull on it, but of course it's also worth mentioning that just like Mathers' inaccurate Abramelin, the hierarchy listed in Ars Goetia has worked just fine for countless practitioners for centuries as is. This point notwithstanding, more accuracy is obviously preferable to less. Thank you for bringing it up!
@@FoolishFishBooks thank you and Blact Letter Press for making these classics available!
Man I wish I could pick this up now, but Im poor so Im waiting for the full set so I dont pay five times the shipping :(. Im so excited though. Beautiful book and Im sure the rest in the series will be just as good
I always thought it was weird that the demons have nobile titles such as prince and count.
Does anyone know the reason behind this ?
72 👼+ 72 👹 = 144 entities collective albeit dual in aspect and nature
First! 💪
Goetic spirits are fallen angels, mostly djinn, and ancient humans that where powerful sorcerers and descended, or humans that where nephilim, or humans that where half djinn
I'm sorry, while I may or may not agree with you, you can't just make a sweeping statement like that without giving a source. "This is the truth because I say so" is one of the major problems with the world right now.
@@FoolishFishBooks no I didn’t mean it like that and I’m really sorry if you took it as me being brash. I know that everyone is untitled to there own opinion but my sources are Sufis and there materials, a lot of sorcerers, some magicians, and I have a large library myself filled with manuscripts and etc. Not as big as yours but a lot. I never claimed to be a known it all and never will and idk how you got that from my statement but I do apologize for rubbing you the wrong way
So this is the most critical edition of the goetia (used most of the manuscripts compared to other editions)
No, I'm afraid not. it's pretty but not a good translation. Go for peterson if you want a good translation.(or pretty much any other)
I’ll say it again. Absolutely gorgeous!
Why do you recommend not to keep this book where we sleep? Why not? What's the worst that could happen?
If you don't have enough magical experience to understand the advice, you're better off just trusting the advice of someone who does have that experience
If you're walking around one day, and a random thought crosses your mind, "I'm worthless", then your conscious awareness can catch the thought, recognize it as false and unhelpful, and dismiss it. As a gross exaggeration for demonstration purposes, if you put in headphones before bed that play "I'm worthless" on a loop all night, that will seep into your subconscious and be much more difficult to dismiss.
Thoughts arise out of emotions. Emotions arise out of energy. This is one reason you meditate, training your awareness to watch where your thoughts and then emotions arise out of. If there exists a metaphysical force, an energy that radiates around the concepts of the ars goetia, then it can influence that deepest level of energy, which then bubbles up as emotions, and bubbles up again now not just a thought, but whole narratives that are unhelpful to your well being.
It's like exposing yourself to radioactive material. Do you need to know exactly how the radiation will ionize your DNA in order to trust the physicist telling you not to eat the radium watch hands? No, of course not. If you care, study for a decade and become a physicist yourself so that you can understand how the stories we tell about physics (say, atoms with electrons in circular, concentric orbits) actually manifest in real life. If you don't know physics and choose to ignore the advice of trained physicists, you eat that radium at your own peril. The one thing you can't say is that you were never warned, because you have been
heh, there is always one.
Well you know the movie the exorcist? Well the spirit that possessed little Ragen in that film is Paimon. He is just 1 of 72 demons whose sigils this book contains. So you might want to treat it with some respect to say the least.
My mom bought one kislux and she loves it. It had been there for over 10 years when she went out with it.
Thanks for the review, mine is now officially lost by DHL so I guess I'm getting a refund instead.
Ah! Such a shame 🙇♂️ luckily BLP are very reliable with customer service.
@@FoolishFishBooks so it turns out that DHL actually returned the parcel saying "incomplete address" as the reason. BLP sent me a photo of the parcel, which does, in fact, have my full address on it. lmao.
@@alexanderking9462 wow. 🤦♂️ Well, again, confirmation that BLP have the kind of customer service I can recommend 😄🙏
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Can you name the 5 books of the goetia please.
I guess you mean the 5 books from the Lesser Key of Solomon.
Ars Goetia, Ars Theurgia Goetia, Ars Paulina, Ars Almadel, Ars Notoria.
Without wishing to sound, … arsey, I suppose, none of the books of Lemegeton are really called 'ars' anything. I blame Wikipedia. In the title pages of all the nine or so extant manuscripts (complete or partial) the names of the books are simply Goetia, Theurgia Goetia, the Pauline Art, Almadel (Almadee in one instance, Ars Almadel Solomonis in another) and Artem Novem or the Notory Art (Ars Notoria in two instances). Internal titles refer only to the 'art Goetia', 'art Theurgia Goetia', 'Art Pauline', 'Art Almadel' ('Solomon's Almadel Art' in one case) and 'Notory Art' (Ars Notoria in one instance). In particular I think it is important to differentiate between the Lemegeton's Pauline Art and the earlier Latin Ars Paulina (a variation on the Ars Notoria and completely different to what's in the Lemegeton) and the Lemegeton's Almadel and the Latin Ars Almadel (substantially different to the seventeenth century English version) in order to avoid possible confusion netween the different texts.
As for my (unsolicited) opinion of the BLP book, the presentation is lovely but after reading I found it a terrible waste of an opportunity to produce something fresh or innovative. Put another way I think the editor Arsed it up. [that's enough 'ars' puns: - ed.]