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Evocation can be defined as the calling forth of

an entity from another plane of existence to an

external manifestation in either the astral or

physical plane.

INTRODUCTION

magician felt a surge of excitement run through him as he

icked up the leather-bound book. He carefully opened the old diary to

the section marked "Conjuration," and began to read by the red light

of the filtered lamp on the altar.

When the oration was completed, the magician glanced at the painted

wooden triangle he had positioned outside the magic circle. Toward the cen-

ter of the equilateral triangle, smoke rose from a brass censer in a steady

stream, filling the entire room with the scent of peppermint. Scattered about

this glowing bowl were pieces of iron, garnet, and red jasper; to the right of

the censer stood a metal figurine of a scorpion that cast moving shadows on

the floor as the glow of the coals illuminated it.

Slowly, the magician's gaze fixed upon the small object at the base of the

triangle. The red light in the room, combined with the faint glow of the

censer, clearly showed the symbol drawn on the round piece of paper. It was

this sigil that the magician began to focus on as he closed his eyes.

In a few moments, the magician held up his wand and slowly started

opening his eyes. The name "Phalegh," which he had been repeating mentally,

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escaped his lips as a whisper, and he continued calling the Mars spirit out

loud. With each repetition of the name, the magician opened his eyes a little

more, and his voice grew in volume and resonance.

Hovering in the smoke before him, a tall, muscular man with glowing

orange eyes was staring at the magician. He was dressed in red and held a

long brilliant sword in his right hand. A low rumbling sound began to fill the

room, and continued to grow louder as the figure standing in the triangle

became clearer.

The magician pointed his wand at the spirit and greeted him. The evocation

was a success, and the magician could now communicate with the spirit freely.

Magical evocation is one of the most fascinating yet misunderstood prac-

tices in the occult world. The idea of calling forth a spirit from another plane

to visible appearance, and of consequently commanding it to perform some

deed, has fascinated occultists since at least the beginning of written history,

and most likely before.

But why the fascination? Ask anyone who has read a grimoire such as the

Goetia or the Necronomicon and they'll tell you why. These books promise

great power and wealth to the would-be evoker. Most of the spirits presented

within their pages are described as being able to grant the magician a num-

ber of remarkable things, including the locations of hidden treasures, the

admiration of others, supernatural abilities (such as teleportation, enormous

strength, and even flight), and all forms of knowledge from languages to sci-

ences, making it pretty clear why the practice of evocation has maintained its

hold on the minds of magicians all over the world. What could .be more excit-

ing than rea9.ing a few lines from a book and having some supernatural

being grant you anything your heart desires? All you have to do is make sure

the words are pronounced correctly, right?

Wrong. The grimoires of ancient times weren't meant to teach someone

how to do evocations. They were more like notebooks or magical diaries. A

magician would only write in them the things he or she experimented with,

or didn't have time to memorize. Because of this, these tomes of mystical

knowledge are terribly incomplete and utterly useless to the uninitiated

magician. The wordy conjurations found in them are only part of a system-

atic, magical process.

Of course, when I was younger I didn't know this. Like many others before

me, I bought my copy of the Goetia (one of the books of the Lesser Key of

Solomon) and decided to practice conjurations. Using a piece of chalk, I drew a

rough facsimile on the floor of the magic circle shown in the book (boy, did that

INTRODUCTION

take hours), and got together some crude tools that I felt would do the job.

Armed with all these implements, I took my book and began to conjure.

After three repetitions of five different conjurations, which took about an

hour to get through, I was rewarded with little more than an intense

headache from trying to read by the light of two candles. My dream of

becoming a powerful magician was shattered at the age of fourteen, and it

was almost a whole year before I began looking into the occult again.

The works of Franz Bardon, the brilliant occultist, rekindled my interest in

magical evocation. Bardon had a few theories on how evocations work that

made a lot of sense. I took what I learned from him and began a five-year

search for other theories and techniques in hopes of coming up with a

method of evocation that worked. Sure enough, with a little bit of research, a

lot of experimentation, and an enormous amount of initial failures, I found

two distinct types of magical evocation that work remarkably well. But before

identifying these two forms of evocation, it is important to establish a work-

ing definition of what evocation really is.

Evocation can be defined as the calling forth of an entity from another

plane of existence to an external manifestation in either the astral or physical

plane. Evoked beings are brought closer to the magician, but never within

himself or herself. This is what separates evocations from invocations. In an

invocation, the magician brings some foreign intelligence within himself or

herself, and allows the entity to speak through his or her body. Channeling is

a well-known form of invocation.

In an evocation, however, the magician brings the entity to a plane where

the magician can view it and communicate with it. Evocation is therefore an

external manifestation of an entity, as it occurs outside of the magician's body.

This manifestation can take place in either the astral or physical plane,

depending upon the type of evocation performed.

Evocation to the astral plane is when an entity is brought to the nearby

astral plane, where a trained magician or clairvoyant can view it and estab-

lish contact. An excellent tool for "seeing" into the astral plane is the magic

mirror, and it is usually employed in this type of evocation. This type of mag-

ical evocation is the subject of Chapter 7.

Evocation to the physical plane is the more difficult of the two to master.

When evoking an entity in this manner, the magician must facilitate the full

materialization of the being on the physical plane. For this to be possible, the

room has to be made to agree with the entity's "nature." Once this prepara-

tion is made, the magician could then bring the spirit through the planes to

this one. The secrets behind this potent technique are revealed in Chapter 8.

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