Reviewing The Trithemian Conjuration Sam Block by Sam Block instant download after payment.

Preface

The present text is not normally I would have put to paper in any formal capacity, nor is it one I ever thought I would have written. What was originally conceived to be a single blog post on my website, The Digital Ambler, eventually got to be so long a post that I decided it might be better to break it out into two posts, which then became three, which then became five, which then. . .well, ended up becoming 23 in all. I only wanted to talk about a particular design choice used in the nowadays well-known “Trithemian conjuration ritual”, specifically the use of the four archangels versus the four demon princes on the table, but there ended up being so much to talk about to even get to that point that I needed to explain, and by the time I did that, I decided I may as well go on and write about the entire rest of the ritual, critiquing every aspect of the ritual, seeing where its grimoiric origins lie in older magical texts in the Western Solomonic and Hermetic traditions, and how various modern magicians have applied it in all their own ways. It eventually came out to be the equivalent of a doctoral thesis on the whole ritual—not what I had planned to write, but one I happily took to all the same. The whole series of posts went up in the late spring and early summer of 2019, and has already proven to be some of the most popular posts on my already long-running blog on magic and the occult. As I stated at the end of the series, I had no desire to turn it into a book or publication, mostly to save myself the headaches of referring to a number of other magicians’ blogs and the copyright issues that would ensue from the liberal use of their own pictures and designs, but my good friend and colleague Dr. Alexander Cummins convinced me to at least make a PDF-friendly copy of the posts for those who wished to print them out easily. I decided to take his advice, copy all my posts from my blog, reformat it into LATEX, and put it out for those who wanted something more gentle on their printers. Thus, the present document. Replicating the original blog-based format of the text required some changes; the post intros and outros have been removed, the division of text has been changed around slightly, links to other websites are replicated at the appropriate places as footnotes, and some images and their accompanying text are shifted around to places they may not have been so as to allow for a smoother read, but referred to accordingly as necessary throughout the text. Unfortunately, due to the shift in medium, I have not been able to preserve comments that were on the original posts; the reader is encouraged to check out my website for such post-specific dialog where they appear. I hope, dear reader, that you’ll forgive me any mistakes or oversights in the present text, whether due to formatting or my own lack of research and knowledge, and that it can help you in better understanding and applying this simple yet effective ritual of conjuring spirits and angels. Since the original posts are available on my blog for free, I find it likewise appropriate that this document also be put out for free so that anyone and everyone who has an interest in this ritual and practice of drawing spirits into crystals can have as strong a foundation and understanding of it as possible. I may yet write my own proper book one day on the subject, in the “formal bookvoice” I would normally use as opposed to my “informal blogvoice”, but for now, I hope that this will suffice.