Glitch Bottle Podcast

🔮#168 - Hygromanteia, Liber Bileth, & Solomonic Networks with Dr. Gal Sofer🔮 Why should we challenge the assumption that the Greek magical text, the Hygromanteia, is really the source of the Key of Solomon? Why is Frankenstein’s Monster a better way to look at the collection of ‘Solomonic’ manuscripts? What is a ‘Solomonic network’ with ‘genes’, ‘nodes’ and ‘clusters’? Dr. Gal Sofer - scholar, medical doctor and translator - discusses his first book, Solomonic Magic: Methodology, Texts, and Histories (Brill 2025), answers your Patreon supporter questions and more! ------>youtu.be/AOa7Mt-7d7c

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🔮#174 - Venetian Inquisition & Books of Magic with Dr. Federico Barbierato and Joseph H. Peterson What was the relationship between the Inquisition, the Clavicula Salomonis, booksellers, and magical texts in early modern Venice? How did male and female practitioners make it (or not make it) to court. Why were punishments surprisingly light? Dr. Federico Barbierato shares about his latest research 'In the Room of the Circles: The Inquisition and Books of Magic in Early Modern Venice'. He’s joined by esoteric scholar and researcher Joseph H. Peterson. -----> youtu.be/S4UsPUCgkNk

🔮#173 - Protecting Your Power & Spiritual Discernment with Frater Ashen Chassan | Glitch Bottle How can you interrogate a spirit? Should A.I. be used in Solomonic conjure? How can we avoid ‘group-think’ and cults of personality? Frater Ashen Chassan - author, ceremonial magician and martial artist - returns to share about these issues, answers your Patron supporter questions and more! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓

Off here temporarily for the foreseeable future: magical and mundane needs summon me beyond the circle. Focusing on exciting new upcoming episodes, guests and posts, which will be shared here!

🔮#172 - Magic Older Than The Gods & Egyptian Coffin Texts with Jack Grayle What are the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts from 4,000 years ago? How do they interweave with the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri (or PGM) spells? How can we become vessels through which the conjuratory power of the Gods flows to prevail against the darkness? Jack Grayle - author, ceremonial magician, playwright, practitioner, and devotee of Hekate - shares about the Coffin Texts and how he employs them in his latest PGM course, answers listener questions and more! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓

🔔Solomonic Bells Demonstration: Patron request!🔔 This was fun. ---> patreon.com/cw/glitchbottle

🪶The Best (Anonymous) Poem in English, Ever.🪶 400 years ago, a brazenly braggadocious begging ‘bedlamite’ possibly penned a poem so incantatorily-poignant, so wonder-woundedly-written, so symmetrically and cognitively bruising, that it demands to be memorized and chanted aloud. Let's dive into the song of Tom O' Bedlam. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓

LIVE 🔮#170 - Shattering Fossils & Humanizing Agrippa with Dr. Justin Sledge How is Kabbalah dynamic and fluid? Why should we STOP treating Agrippa’s writings like a pick-and-choose-magical-buffet, and instead as a system of spiritual illumination? Dr. Justin Sledge - scholar, author, professor and proprietor of the ESOTERICA YouTube channel - goes deep and answers your Glitch Bottle Patreon questions!

LIVE 🔮#170 - Shattering Fossils & Humanizing Agrippa with Dr. Justin Sledge 🔮 How is Kabbalah dynamic and fluid? Why should we STOP treating Agrippa’s writings like a pick-and-choose-magical-buffet, and instead as a system of spiritual illumination? What is Merkavah Mysticism? Dr. Justin Sledge - scholar, author, professor and proprietor of the ESOTERICA YouTube channel - shares about his latest research, insights into academic scholarship and answers your Glitch Bottle Patreon questions! -------> youtu.be/g5DGIBK8Vaw ⇓ ⇓ ⇓

#169 - Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras with Peter Mark Adams Who is Mithras, and what were the Mythraic Mysteries practiced thousands of years ago? How was the cult organized? What role did Orphic metaphysics and architecture play in communicating its mysteries? Peter Mark Adams - author, poet and essayist specialising in the ethnography and visuality of ritual, sacred landscape, esotericism, consciousness and healing - shares about his latest tome: Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras. The Secret Cult of Saturn in Imperial Rome, answers your Patreon supporter questions and more! ----->youtu.be/0tt88enBbp4

🔮#167 - Grimoires, Demons & Catholic Theology with Jimmy Akin🔮 What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Akin (@JimmyAkin3000) - Catholic theologian, philosopher, author and host of ‘Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World’ - goes deep into magic, theology, testing spirits, near-death-experiences, answers questions from Patrons and more! Jimmy is such a generous, kind person, and I was so honored he stopped by the podcast! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓

To call someone a 'whoreson zed' and 'unnecessary letter' (since Latin has no letter "z") might be the sickest burn in all literature.

One of my podcast Patrons asked me: 'What's the most important attribute you can bring in magic?' (Paraphrasing from a longer message) There are many potential answers to this question: discipline, research, consistency, a willingness to fail, an open mind, etc. But the one word that never leaves me is: sincerity. In my personal experience, spirits can absolutely sense when you are bringing your unvarnished, honest self into the circle before, during and after you begin an evocatory or invocatory procedure. Being willing to be still, sincere and honest about what you're asking from a spirit makes all of the difference in clarity of response and efficacy of manifestation. Let go of being a practitioner in imitation of a path, lodge or person, because *your* idiosyncratic neural-weavings and *your* specific requests mean *your* unique situation will be made to dance in the cobbled starlight, not mine or anyone else's. This applies to the sincerity you bring in preparing and consecrating magical implements. Left: 'Saint Francis of Assisi in His Tomb' (1630), by Spanish artist Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664). Oil on canvas Right: awkward magician

🔮#166 - Shekinah, Winds & Claves Spirituum with David Rankine 🗝️ Why is invoking directional winds vital in ceremonial magic? Who is the Shekinah, and why is calling this powerful feminine presence actually encrypted in the Solomonic tradition? David Rankine - author, esoteric researcher and magician - shares about his upcoming tome from Hadean Press - Claves Spirituum: Expanding the Horizons of Grimoire Conjuration.