2016 Class Schedule!

the devilFor those of you who are planners, I figured I probably ought to get the schedule up sooner rather than later.  (And no – you can’t sign up yet!)

All 2016 classes (except the Ascension Practicum, which is a four-week course, on Sundays in May)  are on the LAST SUNDAY of the month at 1pm MST (3pm EST).  Frequent students, and members of ToA, TTS, OFS, etc… get discounts. Contact me if you get a discount.

  • February 28, 2016 – Creativity Magick
  • March 27, 2016 – Daemonic Wealth Magick
  • May 1, 15, 22, 29, 2016 – Ascension Practicum (May 8th will be taken off for Mother’s Day – FREE for ToA members)
  • June 26, 2016 – Daemonic Love Magick
  • July 31, 2016 – Daemonic Sigil Magick
  • August 28, 2016 – Creating Servitors via the Daemonic

Yes, it’s a much lighter schedule than 2015, and yes, most of the classes are happening Spring – Summer. For Daemonolatry Goetia students, your classes for the year 2016 are last Sunday of each month at 11am MST (1pm EST).

Remember that you can take our two most popular workshops: Daemonolatry Goetia and Daemonolatry Necromancy at any time by CLICKING HERE.  Our Alchemy Lab course is also self-paced and can be started at any time. Please, once you sign up for Alchemy Lab, contact the teacher (me) at [email protected] so I can give you any PDFs you’ll need to complete the course.

2016 Events have not been scheduled yet.

For those who have taken 2015 classes – certificates for the classes you’ve taken are forthcoming.

Daemonolater’s Guide to Daemonolatry Groups

demonolatrygroupsThe Daemonolater’s Guide to Daemonolatry Groups offers wisdom and advice about finding a Daemonolatry group, group dynamics, leading a group, and leaving a group. Also included is a questionnaire about assessing one’s calling to the priesthood, information about Daemonolatry Denominations, as well as other information useful to group leaders or those considering starting their own group.

Please Note: Some of the articles in this book have appeared in private group publications as well as the magazine *Black Serpent* over the years. All of these articles have been gathered together as a single resource for the practitioner.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
M. Delaney has ran a Daemonolatry group in the offline world for over twenty years. S. Connolly has been involved with Daemonolatry groups, in numerous capacities, since 1988.

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Wortcunning for Daemonolatry

wortcunning finalFINALLY — I am happy to announce the release of Wortcunning for Daemonolatry.  It was long overdue. The problem being I kept finding more and more to add. I don’t know how to put the pen down and step away from the manuscript evidently.

In this ultimate Daemonolatry formulary, learn tried and true techniques, as well as quick and dirty tips, for making incenses and oils, ointments, tinctures, elixirs, filtres, distillates, and numerous other magickal brews for Daemonolaters. 150+  magickal and Daemonic recipes (in extensive detail) included. Yes, some of these recipes have been included in other S. Connolly books, however you’ll find they are more detailed here, many with additional commentary from me. Not just lists of ingredients, but actual measurements and in some cases, methods by which to make the most effective mixture possible.  Also included, information on growing your own magickal plants and rituals for harvesting and growing them. Rituals for charging, offering, and discarding Daemonic magick brews also included.  Still waiting on the paperback for Amazon and it will be a few weeks before the hardcover hits other sales outlets.

  • Trim Size: 6×9 (Paperback, Standard Hardcover, eBook, Coil Bound)
  • Pages: 198 pp
  • Publisher: DB Publishing

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Temple of Atem

Temple of Atem is the only online Daemonolatry Temple that accepts solitary Daemonolaters into its ranks.  Some highlights of what the temple offers members:

  • Free Online Pre-Initiate Training
  • Formal Distance Initiations
  • Free Temple Events for Members
  • Private chats/classes/and workshops.
  • Discounts on demonolatry.org classes
  • Study Groups
  • Forums
  • Spiritual Counseling
  • Access to Clergy
  • Commiseration with other Daemonolaters.

To get more information and an application CLICK HERE.

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Daemonic Offerings

offeringsDaemonic Offerings by S. Connolly

The Daemonolater’s Guide to Daemonic Offerings explains the what, when, why, and how of Daemonic offerings in a simple, easy to follow step-by-step guide. This chapbook covers everything from how to build an altar to a basic offering ritual. It also covers various types of offerings, including blood offerings and sacrifice, and which Daemons those offerings are appropriate to. Please note that this guide is for the complete beginner to Daemonic offerings.

Author’s Note: So the Daemonolater’s Guide series is a series of how-to chapbooks (or mini-guides) for the complete beginner, and will be covering a wide variety of topics based on the how-to’s I’m most frequently asked for. So it appears the second guide is out. It covers the basics every beginner should know about Daemonic Offerings. Enjoy!

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Daemonic Pacts

pactsDaemonic Pacts (Daemonolater’s Guide Series) – S. Connolly: In this insightful chapbook, S. Connolly, well-known, successful Daemonolatress with over 30 years experience working with Daemons, goes into the do’s and don’t’s of successful Daemonic pact-making. If you’ve ever wanted to make a pact, thought about making a pact, or plan on making one, this book will demystify the process and make the practice accessible to you.

(Author’s Note: So here’s the thing – in the last month I’ve had no less than 20 people (some not even magicians) contact me about making pacts with Daemons. I want to state up front that this chapbook isn’t for those of you who already know what you’re doing. If you know what you’re doing and you’ve read my article on the matter in Bound by Blood and/or Anthology of Sorcery, then definitely skip this. I wrote this chapbook as an extension of my article “Pacts With Daemons: Selling Your Soul in the 21st Century”. It’s basically 40 pages explaining the how, why, when etc… of pact-making replete with explicit instructions for the beginner. I hope it helps those who need it!)

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The Power of ‘I Don’t Know’

This past year I celebrated my 11th year as a Satanist. Near the anniversary I planned on writing a post about what I had learned and how my views had changed over that span of time. After working on it for a time, I began to realize that I don’t really like to write about what I “know.” Instead, I always find myself much more comfortable speaking to what I don’t know.

I think this is because I try to always remind myself that I could be wrong about anything I believe, at any time. This does not have to apply to the magical or occult. We all know the sky is blue. But the sky is only blue because of the way the atmosphere interacts with sunlight. If anything about the atmosphere changes, then the sky can be a completely different color. When we look at a sunset, we see a red and orange sky because molecules in the atmosphere have scattered the blue light out and away from our line of sight. So really, the color of the sky depends on our position in relation to the sun (time), and our line of sight. Knowing this, is the sky really blue?

Well, it depends.

And that is my point entirely. Reality is really nothing but our individual perception of reality. Accepting this principle makes it much easier to entertain and explore ideas without having to accept them as fact. This ability is paramount to ideological pluralism.

Ideological pluralism is something this country is supposed to be built upon. The ability for each man and each woman to believe what they want, practice what they want, without interference of any kind. Acceptance for all under the stars and stripes. We may have the mechanics and laws in place, but our citizenry does not employ acceptance and pluralism as a daily practice. We take attitudes of right and wrong, rather than that of Mine and Yours. We ask each other if we believe in <X>, whether that be God, or Satan, or Magick. But the answers we give are in the form of knowledge, not belief. This may seem like a small thing, but as a writer I put a lot of weight in the meaning of words.

Know: to perceive or understand as fact or truth.

Believe: to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so.

If we honestly answer that question of “Do you believe in <X>” then by definition we have already admitted that we do not know for a fact. So why is it that anytime someone offers a differing opinion, we must cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war? Why can’t we simply smile, listen, and then go about our merry way? Until we can do so, collectively as a race, I fear we will never be capable, or worthy, of true advancement.

And this is the power of ‘I don’t know.” It’s a simple statement, and yet people are so threatened by it. By accepting the fact that we don’t know, we are freed from the fear of being wrong. There is no right; no wrong. Just belief.

Because what do we really know?

Is the sky blue? I don’t know, but I believe.

Does Satan exist? Does magick? I don’t know, but I believe.

 

MM

Happy New Year!

Since Frank is out of town I figured I’d drop the first post of the year. First off – Happy New Year!

2015 is going to be an exciting year here at demonolatry.org. Not only do we have tons of classes going on, other members have some pretty great projects, too.

First – to check out our class list for workshops, CLICK HERE.  I highly recommend the Establishing Your Daily Practice & Planning Your Year Ahead workshop on January 11! It’s only $10 to attend and you’ll get some personalized attention to help you plan out and meet your magickal goals for the new year!  To see what is being offered in longer classes longer classes, GO HERE. To see what kind of ritual events are happening in the virtual temple — CHECK OUT THIS PAGE.

Second – we added a few more readers to the roster here at demonolatry.org. This is the perfect time of year to get a reading to plan out your year ahead or just to see what’s coming up!

Next – HP Julie has finally opened up Temple of Atem – an  online temple for Daemonolaters who seek commiseration with others. I have heard rumors that the membership application may change, but in the meantime, you can check it out here.

Finally — I’m working on some new books for 2015! I am working with Andrieh Vitimus to bring you Rites of Belphegore.  2015 will also herald the release of Scott Hobbs’ Gates of Lucifer, and I am working my little tail off to FINALLY bring you Wortcunning for Daemonolatry. I know the latter has been a long time coming, but it required a great deal of work.  One of the reasons I stopped moderating this site and dropped out of most online forums was so I could concentrate on the books, and so I have.

If you love occult fiction, you’re welcome to check out my OTS series of books (written as Audrey Brice). I do have a tendency to spread myself a little thin.

Let’s see — I think that’s about it regarding things going on at the moment, but isn’t that enough???

May your 2015 bring you and yours health, prosperity, happiness and great success! 

-S. Connolly

 

 

The “Lazy” Magician? I Think Not!

goetia.jpgOver the past few years I have been heavily criticized for my book “Daemonolatry Goetia” because I basically took the entire Goetia out of its historical context, modified it for Daemonolatry magicians (who prefer to respect the divine intelligences they work with), and gave the Daemons/Spirits updated attributes for the modern age based on my own personal work with said Daemons/spirits. I still stand by my work and don’t mind the criticism. Bring it. What others think about my spiritual leanings or practices isn’t my problem, it’s theirs. But sadly it does matter to a lot of younger, maybe more inexperienced magicians who feel pressured to conform.

Evidently what I did with “Daemonolatry Goetia” was a huge no-no because somehow, my little book of modification (for Daemonolaters) got rather popular among even more mainstream magicians, and that pissed off a lot of old-school grimoiric magicians whose emphasis on tradition, history, and “one-size-fits-all” dogma doesn’t “sell” as well. Evidently those of us who think outside the box and don’t do things their way are “stupid” and “lazy”. (Of course.)

Mind you I don’t mind pissing people off. I’ve been proudly pissing off the religious right AND left since 1999. I will NOT stop writing books about magick or sharing my ideas. Love me/my work or hate me/my work – I’m not going anywhere folks. Suck it up, buttercup, and deal with it.

My techniques work for me and hundreds of other magicians. In my little magickal world, manifested results and personal experiences trump history and tradition. Sorry if that upsets people. The assumption that magicians from 100AD (or whenever) had more method to their madness than today’s modern magicians who are writing today’s modern grimoires is a lot of bullshit. Many of the occult authors I know have a very solid foundational knowledge of old school magick. They just realized that magick is not stagnant. The old grimoires were great for their time. But technology, and human sensibilities and priorities change as the centuries and decades pass. Something very relevant hundreds of years ago may not be as relevant today. I don’t think the Gods/Daemons exist in a vacuum. I believe they tolerate change rather well.

Just because modern magicians creatively apply their thinking to magick (and perhaps even throw out old traditions) doesn’t mean they didn’t develop their system based on trial and error. I worked a great deal of magick, tested it, built on it, and used deductive reasoning AND personal experience to come up with techniques that work. Now will my techniques work for everyone? Probably not. However, my techniques, modified, might. In the very least they will inspire someone else. Hence the reason I publish what works for me.

Why this pisses some people off is a mystery to me. Other people’s spiritual growth and practice is none of their damn business, so perhaps they should get off it already. Just because it pisses them off that I’ve taken the Goetia out of historical context to make it more workable for those who want to respect the spirits gives them no right to tell me that my methods are lazy or flawed. Those methods work for me and enhance my relationship with the divine, and that is none of their damn business either. This goes for every occult author and every magician.

Mind your own business instead of everyone else’s and quit worrying about selling your ideas to everyone else.

It takes massive hubris (which admittedly most magicians have in spades, myself included at times) to assume one possess the ONLY correct way of anything when it comes to the subjectivity of magick and spirit work. I’ve actually conversed with the spirits about my magick and they seem to be okay with it. Of course my critics would likely just say I’m a flake and maybe have some kind of disorder because my methods don’t match theirs. So I’m the quack, or the lazy magician. I get it. It makes them feel superior to call me names and push me around for being different. I could be a “school yard bully” or an internet troll too, if I wanted to be.

Also, all the snarky comments about “stupid Americans” haven’t been lost on me either. I get that many of my critics are rather chauvinist, provincial, or xenophobic. I’m sorry they feel that way. While I agree the United States does have its fair share of idiots (don’t we all), the hardcore practicing magicians are generally NOT within that group of people. Most, if not all, of the hardcore magicians I meet (and by hardcore I mean those who actually practice, not sit around waxing philosophic about it, or only performing in front of an audience) are highly intelligent people perfectly capable of making up their own minds about whether they want to follow the herd like blind automatons, or think for themselves and come to their own conclusions. I give my readers credit for being intelligent and being able to use deductive reasoning. I don’t need to tell them what to believe, and perhaps that’s why Daemonolatry Goetia has become so popular. I’m giving magicians permission to flex their creative muscles and step outside the box.

After all – magick is about creation. Real magicians create.

I always like to ask my critics a few simple questions when they start going off on me about how their by-the-book, historically accurate magick is better. 1. Is magick a creative process or not? 2. Is Magick about conformity? 3. Is Magick all about research, memorize, imitate/regurgitate, repeat? 4. If you are creating your own life and transforming yourself via magick, doesn’t that give the magician some creative license? After all, as above, so below. None of us grows in the exact same way(s) as our neighbor.

By-the-book Magick, imho, stagnated my growth, which is why I abandoned it early on in my career as a magician. Sure, know your roots, have foundation, know what magicians before you have done, and then take that knowledge and apply it in a way meaningful to you to connect with the divine, and transform your self and your life. Just because not everyone has a boner for old grimoires doesn’t make them any less a magician or lazy. Quite the opposite in fact. IMHO, having others do the work for you and you simply following their books to the letter is lazy. Eventually you have to grow past that. Eventually most serious magicians do!belial-sigil-d75739183

Also, it could be argued that focusing on the details like history and tradition is just an excuse to sit around waxing philosophic instead of getting into that magick circle and getting one’s hands dirty. Go ahead — think outside the box. Modify to your heart’s content. Sure, sometimes it won’t work, but sometimes it does, and when it does, you can pull it apart and figure out why it does and begin building your own “personal gnosis”, which isn’t the dirty little phrase everyone makes it out to be.

By-the-by, I don’t wish the by-the-book grimoiric magicians any ill. Personally I don’t care what they do because it doesn’t concern me. If their practice works for them and they’re getting results from their by-the-book magick – awesome, but them trying to browbeat others to conform to their ideas is rather annoying. It reminds me too much of evangelical Christianity. Can’t we all just live and let live? I have my magick, my critics have theirs — and I’m okay with that.  It’s sad, and it speaks volumes, that they aren’t.

Rant over.

Meet me at the Ziggurat

Today Ive started the Kasdeya Rite of Ba’al according to my calendar I will be done around mid aprilish – early may, so I started a blog to help me keep record along side with my journal, I will not go into ritual details,m but the insight I get and any events around the ritual that seem relevant:

http://mykasdeyablog.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/day-1-week-1-belial/

Wish me discipline to go trough it 🙂