Necromantic Sacraments: The companion chapbook to S. Connolly’s bestselling Honoring Death and companion to Keys of Ocat. This is a supplementary ritual and prayer book that completes S. Connolly’s trilogy of Daemonolatry necromancy reference works.
While the other books aren’t necessary to understand or use this book, if you are unfamiliar with Daemonolatry necromancy you might want to first read Honoring Death.
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The Keys of Ocat reveals the never before published Saturn rites, seals, and theophantic gate opening rituals of Ocat, the abyssal gatekeeper of the dead. Behind His gates dwell the Daemons of death including Euronymous, Balberith, Bune, Hekate, Frucisierre, and many others. These blood magick rituals, talismans and seals will aid the advanced magician in conjuring Daemons to speak with the dead, commune with death, and discover the true meaning of mortality and spiritual immortality. Be forewarned, however, Ocat is not known to be a friendly gatekeeper to all magi who approach Him, and the Daemons behind His gates are some of the most terrifying of their nature.
Both editions of The Keys of Ocat are 6″x9″, heavy cream, smythe sewn, archival quality paper. The LIbrary Edition, in only 450 copies, is bound in Red cloth and has gold foil stamping while the Deluxe Edition is bound in Red Leather with a shallow embossing of a necromantic formula on the cover. The Deluxe Edition, limited to 200 copies, contains a silver place marker ribbon and each one was autographed by the author.
There will also be a Funerary Temple Edition bound in full red Goatskin by a noted artisan binder. The price of these is yet to be determined as the publisher has just had them commissioned.
The Standard Editions and Funerary Temple Edition are both SOLD OUT! The Deluxe Edition, however, still has copies available!
Active conversion and what is commonly referred to as evangelism has always been somewhat of a mystery to me, at least as far as Satanism is concerned. I get why Christians and other religions do it, “spreading the good word” is a compulsory act in many of them. But Satanism is supposed to be about a person’s own individual relationship with Satan and the Demons, and how that relationship can best be utilized for personal growth and discovery. What others believe and do should be of little importance, as they have nothing to do with that relationship. There are no mediators in Satanism.
Religion and spirituality should be an intensely personal experience. I believe this to be especially true when it comes to Satanism. There used to be an expression used quite often that went “Those who are meant to be with Satan, will find him in their own time.” Speaking strictly from my own personal experience, I find this to be uncannily true. When I was a child, being raised as a baptist, I would have never guessed I would end up as a Satanist. And even when I initially left the church, I would have considered myself more likely to return to Christianity, than to go in the opposite direction entirely. But as years passed, and people came in and out of my life, events transpired around me, seemingly almost entirely out of my control. And over the course of years, connections were made and relationships I formed led me down a winding path towards Satan. Now, I am completely convinced that I was truly meant to be with Satan. But I am also conscious of the fact that my path towards Satan, the experiences and relationships that led me to Him, have taught me a great deal and helped shape my current perspective and outlook. I would not be the same Satanist today, if I had not found Satan, essentially, on my own.
So with that being said, I couldn’t care less what someone else believes. It is of no concern to me. I am a Satanist because it challenges me to be better every single day. It leads me down a path towards what I have found to be divine. And when I start getting depressed, or down on myself for not accomplishing enough, I remember that my path has already been set before me. So while I may not like where I am, I was meant to be there, at least for a time, on my way to the end of the road. I don’t think someone who has had Satanism rammed down their throat, and then been converted, would have this same kind of personal connection to their faith, especially when times get hard. This is a major reason why I don’t believe in active conversion or evangelism. If someone is meant to become a Satanist, they will, in their own time and on their own path. And they will be better for it.
So as long as I am left alone, and to my own devices, I am happy enough to do the same for everyone else. But when people start spreading misinformation or wish to perpetuate a blatantly false stereotype, I feel compelled to speak. And I believe this to be a major part of my life’s calling. But education is vastly different than evangelism, and I do my best to keep my writing and blogging in the realm of the former, rather than the latter. People need to be shown the truth about Satanism, without conversion or influence being a part of it. Any truth or knowledge shared is almost instantly dismissed if an ulterior motive is detected. But truth, undiluted and presented without prejudice, speaks for itself. And regardless of presentation, convincing a person to change preconceived opinions on a subject in one conversation is a futile en-devour. But if the world can be consistently shown an alternative to what is commonly held to be true, with enough time, minds might be changed. And when a person can proudly declare their Satanic beliefs without fear of prejudice, my work will be done. Instead of spending time and energy trying to convert others, I believe Satanists should be focusing on themselves, and living their lives by the ideals and principles they evangelize. Instead of looking at the label of Satanism and then making judgements about Satanists, we need to be convincing people to look at Satanists themselves, and allow what they see to influence their judgements about Satanism. But if we succeed in doing so, we better make damn sure Satanists are worthy of the attention, which is what I think we should all be concerning ourselves with.
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” – Thomas Paine (Common Sense)
I recently opened an email on my Facebook that read:
“He that observeth the wind shall not sow ; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child : even so thou knowest not the works of Satan who maketh all.”–Wisdom of Koheleth
Yes folks, Evangelical Satanism is alive and well. Interestingly enough, Koheleth was a Christian nihilist. The quote above was not his. He did say something very similar to this, so whoever came up with the quote simply modified it with “Satan”. That’s what Evangelical Satanism is. It’s where Satanists start quoting the bible at you, or passages from Christian writers that have been modified to include “Satan”.
Interestingly enough, this particular Evangelical Satanist also chose to remark on my infertility in his little “quote”. So clearly it’s someone who follows my blog very closely. I think the point of this quote was to tell me I’m not a *Real Satanist* (TM) I don’t contest this. It’s no secret that I’m not a Satanist. I’m a Daemonolatress and have been for many, many years.
I have not personally identified with the Satanist label since the mid 1980’s, probably because the most vocal Satanists are either angry atheists or they’re Evangelical Satanists. I call it Evangelical Satanism because its preachy and annoying. Those who practice it smack you with the bible while effectively saying, “This is how it is! If you don’t do what I say — YOU’RE WRONG and you’re not *one of us*!” The Evangelical Satanist mindset is no different than that of an Evangelical Christian. It’s their way or the highway and if you refuse to conform – you’re a piece of shit.
I don’t know about any of you – but I bow to no man (or woman). If the Daemons want something from me they’re very clear about it. They’ll tell me. Not once have their messages or instructions to me included, “Spread the word!” “Convert the heathens!” or “There is only one true way!”
Of course to each their own. I don’t begrudge Evangelical Satanists their beliefs or their right to free speech. However, I choose not to allow them to beat me over the head with the Bible, or their doctrines or dogma just as I won’t allow Christians to do it. I’ve chosen, quite innocently, to disassociate myself from Evangelical Satanists just as I disassociate myself with people who are involved in hate groups. It’s one of the reasons I’ve removed certain people from my personal Facebook page in recent months, and it’s one of the reasons I have slowly started to remove myself from the ‘open’ online occult scene.
As for fanatical Daemonolaters, I have met a few. Those folks don’t associate with me and I don’t associate with them. It’s a win-win situation for everyone.
From my point of veiw Evangelism its a pretty way of saying of indoctrination, the problem its that we hate to recive it from groups outside our beliefs us but its tempting to try on others or stirr polemic around it, and it is a problem the moment the devotee deems himself perfect, since evangelism and indoctrination can get passionate, and don’t get me wrong there is nothing wrong being passinate, but over doing it and for the wrong reasons it just tends to go into fiery stupidity.
Often I hear different points of veiw in heated debates, Atheists vs Religion (and vice versa), Christians vs Chatholics, and Satanics vs anything that reminds them of Christianism, but here is the thing, you are human being, you imperfect, your benevolence or reasons for indulgence both a have limit, you cannot apply moral rules, standards the same way to everything because the reference mark of your expirience has a limit that cannot reach everybody elses expiriences and when you start debating belifs that reach completely different Theological reference marks, you just end up looking stupid or stubborn, while you can always point obvious flaws and contradictions most of the debates will end up in nothing but angry people not talking to each other or worst, Jihads be it economical, social or actual belicose warfare.
The thing is you are not superior to anybody at anypoint for your beleifs (neither race or gender), no matter how much money you have, good looks, you could shoot out lasers out of your eyes and you could end up being a superpowerful prick if you used them to prove how superior you are, so I don’t look up good much to evangelization, I support letting the information be at reach of those whom want to study it, still Nick Farrell once pointed out the dubious quality of Golden Dawn Lodges went down when started to be permitted with fewer restrictions, so this doesn’t mean that everyone gets all things right just because they have the information, there are guides on the spritiual path; yet you to work it and make something by yourself, if you read book and adopt it on a one way purely dogmatic basis you are not growing spiritually, you have to live the most of those expiriences and make something out of it, Demonolatry its no necesarly everyone’s path, finally thats why we are free to choose and have options.
Blessings
Jeadean Lazulli
Evangelism seems to be seeping into every religion and spiritual practice these days. Recently we’ve seen even more of this this “My way or the highway” attitude in Demonolatry. So this month we ask the bloggers — Is Evangelism in Demonolatry a problem? Is it a good thing? When does Evangelism go to far? How does Evangelism strengthen or destroy groups whether in the real world or virtually? I imagine a lot of our readers have opinions about this, too. Feel free to join in the discussion and share your opinion!
Have a great February!
I believe the reworking of all grimoires to be an inevitability. Never before has occult knowledge been so readily available to those who seek it. Even in ancient times when such knowledge was more prevalent, I doubt the level of availability could rival the internet. But at the same time, the traditional grimoires have never been so inadequate at serving the needs of contemporary occultists. The days of blasting rods and circles of binding are over. At least for many of us. And as almost all of the traditional grimoires approach ritual and summoning from this angle, most modern day occultists don’t don’t find much pertinent, applicable knowledge from those texts. Which leaves very few options for the modern day practicing magician. One must either discover some long-lost hidden pre-Christian text that describes respectful evocation and summoning, or create their own. The only exception to this would seem to be generation Demonolatry grimoires handed down through families. But in that case they would be exactly that, for family use, and not available to the general public.
But this is not to say that there is nothing to be learned from the old texts. To the contrary, knowing what has come before is essential to being able to move into the future. Personally, I believe we are entering a time of great occult expansion, when we will experiment and refine the old traditions. We will explore the past and create the future. Now, as the weight of religious intolerance and discrimination is beginning to lift, we are called upon to discover.
Hello there everyone! I’m wishing a super late happy new year to you all. I’m going to try to keep this post sort of short since it’s also late. I didn’t know exactly how I wanted to go about phrasing my blog post this month, to be honest I’m still not sure.
I’m really spoiled by the quality of DB Publishing’s books. I mean, all the writing is down to earth and it doesn’t read like a technical instruction manual or like a book of poetry. Poetic imagery and detailed instructions are important, but I wish a lot more grimoires would take the time to write for their readers instead of mimicking the grimoires of the past.
If I wanted to read something written in a convoluted manner, I’d stick to the originals. Ye new but olden style of wording grimoires requireth the patience to withstand many a gilded moon of painstaking labour to unlock the Occult mysteries that are writ within. . . You must be strong of mind like the platypus that waits at dusk for three signs of the coming apocalypse to be revealed in the constellations. . . Call me foolish or naïve, but no thank you. We live in 2013, let’s act like it.
Don’t get me wrong, though. I still appreciate old grimoires for what they are. Just because they aren’t written in modern English (or worse… text speech.) doesn’t mean they are any less valuable. I just don’t think that there’s a need to emulate that writing style anymore. I’m sure that more interested people would stick to their occult studies if grimoires weren’t always so dry. Practical knowledge is much more useful in spiritual growth than trying to cram all the riddles you know into one book.
First off, apologies that this is two days late. Work ‘difficulties’ ! Please forgive me.
In today’s modern times, very few are interested in the ‘old sciences’ as I would call them. In exactly the same way that very few people today have the requisite knowledge to fix a broken steam engine, very few people today have any requisite knowledge on how to ‘fix’ difficulties with the occult and spirit world. Back in the 18-19 hundreds, when steam was the main power supply, there were many steam engineers and hopefuls wanting to get into area. Knowing about steam engineering in those days was a guaranteed source of income. With so many hopefuls, entry standards for training were high and strictly applied. What is he muttering on about I hear you say ?
Go back in time, to an era when sorcery, magic and the spirit world were very much believed. Nearly everything that went wrong was the doing of evil spirits, especially (even up to today) in Islam, where the Djinn were blamed. If you knew how to ‘fix’ these problems, you were in demand. You had to be careful though – admitting knowledge of this material in those days could have easily caused problems such as being burnt at the stake or worse. Anyhow, in many cultures, those with knowledge were in demand, much like our steam engineer. Hopefuls seeking training had to be tested in someway as to their suitability. The holders of the knowledge therefore had to find someway to protect it from all but only the most dedicated of seekers. How to do that ? Make it so bloody complicated and off putting that most couldn’t be bothered starting.
A classic example of this is The Lemegeton or as we all know it The Lesser Key of Solomon. A first glance at this is enough to put anyone off. Robes, circles, commanding demons with threats of intimidation. No thanks !
First off, how do you intimidate a demon ? Secondly, would you try ? What would be the reprisals if your intimidation didn’t work ? Then you’ve got all the rituals to contend with. How much of this is actually required ? How much s this is simply to put off all but the most dedicated ?
Modern grimoires certainly do not have the atmosphere of the old grimoires, but you must admit that the material is a lot more accessible. Magic and the occult is no longer believed in today in most ‘western’ cultures. Is is no longer feared. That is why I can buy a copy of The Lemegeton in my local bookshop as easy as a copy of 50 Shades of Grey, without fear of being burn’t at the stake. There is a slow movement returning to the old ways, which is made much easier by the very few seekers. Material is easy to understand, with very little in the way of ritual. Interestingly, the old ways tend to seek you out, and not you seeking them out.
Alchemy is now essentially defunct thanks to modern science, but yet so many of its teachings hold true and are applicable in todays world.
Truth its that I have not read a lot of the old Grimoires,because 1) english is my second lenguage and one thing its reading and speaking english and another is reading Ye olde English, second most of the old stuff I have it in digital format which hurts my eyes to read for long, While I have a copy of the Trve Grimoure, which its Jake Stratton Kent’s work on the Grimorium Verum, The Black Pullet, Key of Solomon, Abramelin, Honorius,Legemeton, etc.and other books that deal with the old stuff in some plain new fashioned writing by authors, still most of the basics of the books probably its covered all over dozens of books, or there are specialized books on that, still if you have acces to copies o comentary on old grimoires you can always enrich your expirience with that, noting also the most grimoire were written in a semi cryptic manner so the uninintated would not understand, and the old secrecy ways made it hard to make a take on the magus that precided us, also I dont read a lot of the old stuff because a lot goes by Lodges and secret societies its hard to know everything they talk about without being given a clue somewhere else, the important matter here is that is unlikely that one grimoire or book will satisfy all knowledge you could want for your magical prectice, so Im just going to drop a List of books on that should be on your read list, note that this are classical books of magic, check out DB Publishing at the top or Official Melissa Press for Demonolatry Grimoires if you haven’t already.
Astrology: Picatrix Al Hakim or the Goal of the Wise
Three Books of Occult Philosophy – Henry Cornelius Agrippa (cornerstone in the occult libraries)
Franz Bardon – Initiation Into Hermetics
Not so Old but very helpful: Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires: The Classical Texts of Magick Deciphered by Aaron Leitich
This should give you a head start where to begin with in many aspects, Peace out.