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关于精神助手以及相关仪式、传统等，具体请见英文简介：
The familiar has been a staple element of the image of the witch for centuries. Despite its ubiquity in folklore, art, books, movies, and television depicting witches and magicians, familiar spirits are an under explored element of modern magical literature. Familiar Unto Me changes that by presenting a comprehensive look at familiar spirits.
The book is divided into three parts. Part One introduces and discusses the concept of the familiar spirit. The basics of acquiring, maintaining, and working with a familiar are presented. Considerations for planning your own rituals for obtaining a familiar spirit are discussed, and example rituals are presented. The focus in part one is familiars for witches and sorcerers; the defining elements of each approach to magic and how it impacts acquiring a familiar are discussed.
Part two explores the concept of familiar spirits in Pagan and NeoPagan contexts with a focus on mythology, faerylore, and the history of the familiar in trial evidence and folklore. Copious descriptions of myths, folktales, and faery stories are presented along with detailed exploration of historical figures, literature, and folk beliefs to paint a picture of the worldview and history of ideas surrounding the familiar spirit. Contemporary approaches to working familiars, fetches, and fylgjur are discussed and analyzed along with traditional lore to explore new and innovative magical concepts adjacent to the familiar spirit. Methods for acquiring a faery familiar are discussed along with the presentation of an early modern ritual for encountering a faery queen.
Part three explores the adventure of a group of magicians acquiring a familiar spirit for their lodge. It presents the rituals, details of planning and execution, and a discussion of the experience. This exploration becomes the basis of exploring the role of familiars, and positive spirit possession in contemporary revivals of magic as a path towards creating living spirit traditions rooted in historical European magical practice, informed by the wisdom and experience of living spirit traditions in the Americas. Part three also explores often overlooked role of spirit magic in the Victorian magical revival and the evidence of sex magical practices related to familiar spirits. Rituals for an elemental lover round out the collection of rituals.
The text provides nine rituals. Two of the rituals are presented with variants for the elements so that the magician can work directly and conveniently from the book. An additional traditional ritual is described and analyzed in detail along with comparison to a description of the ritual in a folktale. Each ritual has either some analysis of the ritual, explanations of why it is designed the way it is, or discussion of experience executing the ritual.
The book discusses spirit assistants from antiquity through today. Modes of working for grimoire magic, traditional witchcraft, NeoPagan witchcraft, Paganism and modern ceremonial magic are all presented or discussed. |
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BJ Swain |
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Part One: Familiar Spirits
Care and Feeding of your Familiar 1
Working With your Familiar 7
How Much is that Feral Cat in the Window? 13
A Witch’s Familiar 23
Ritual for Acquiring a Familiar from the Witches’ Devil 27
Ritual for Acquiring a Familiar from the Queen of Elphame 31
A Sorcerer’s Familiar 35
Ritual to Bind a Planetary Familiar to a Ring 40
The Abramelin Familiars and The Use of the Abramelin Squares 45
Are All Familiars the Same? 49
Part Two: Faeries, Fetches, and Fylgja: Familiars in Pagan and Folklore Contexts
History and Comparative Concepts 55
Faery Faith and Household Spirits 61
Faery Lovers in Myths and Folklore 69
The Birth of CuChulainn 70
The Voyage of Bran 71
The Lay of Volund 72
The Wooing of Etain 75
Ethna and Finvarra 83
The Daughter of the King Under-Waves 87
Thomas the Rhymer and the Hidden Folk 92
Faery Widowers 94
The Leannan Sidhe and Fatal Lovers 99
Conclusion 113
The Faery Familiar 115
The Faery Kings and Queens in Surviving Books of Magic 129
Encountering a Faery 137
A Ritual to Sibylla from the Cambridge Book of Magic 138
The Fetch 149
The Fylgja 165
It’s a Bird! It’s a Fetch! It’s a Familiar! 179
Part Three: The Demon of Baltimore
Why Would You Want a DEMON?!? 193
Initiations Sacraments and Conjuration 205
Planning and Preparations 219
Conjuring a Familiar To Bind to a Bottle in a Lodge 226
Analysis of the Ritual for Conjuring a Familiar 241
A Familiar in a Crystal 249
How to Enclose a Spirit in a Crystal Stone 251
A Demon Sabbat 255
A Demon’s Sabbat 260
Analysis and Why it’s Important 267
Revisiting: Spirit Possession in
the Modern Western Tradition 279
Cross of a Frog and Nymphs 297
Elemental Familiars 303
Rituals to Marry an Elemental Familiar
in the Context of Enochian Sex Magic 319
First Group: Rituals Drawn from
Crowley’s Liber Chanokh 320
Air 320
Water 325
Earth 330
Fire 335
Second Group: Golden Dawn/ Thelemic Inspired Rituals Utilizing John Dee’s Conjurations 339
Air 339
Water 346
Earth 353
Fire 360
Sex, Blood, and Semen 367
Conclusion 373
Works Consulted 375
Index 383 |
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