What is the Ars Notoria, and how did it help people in the Middle Ages work with angels to rapidly learn complex subjects? Where did these incredibly mysterious “notae” or illustrations, come from? Internationally acclaimed author, practicing magician and scholar, Dr. Stephen Skinner, returns to talk about a wonderful tome he released with Daniel Clark “Ars Notoria: The Grimoire of Rapid Learning by Magic”.

In this second part of our two-part discussion, author and magician BJ Swain stops by to continue discussing his tome “Living Spirits: A Guide to Magic in a World of Spirits”. We discuss the importance of the Olympic Spirits in the Arbatel, necromancy and so much more….

What did ‘magic’, ‘science’ and ‘religion’ mean in the Middle Ages? Were the Dark Ages really that void of wisdom and investigation? Dr. Joanne Edge specializes in late-medieval and early modern European social and cultural history, with an emphasis on medicine and the ‘occult’ sciences: divination, magic and astrology. She is currently Latin Manuscripts Cataloger at the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester.

In this first part of our discussion, author and magician BJ Swain stops by to discuss his tome “Living Spirits: A Guide to Magic in a World of Spirits”, which is a comprehensive journey through the practical and historical topography of the Solomonic grimoire tradition, scrying, working with ancestors, the Four Kings, elemental spirits, the Holy Guardian Angel, and so much more.

What’s the relationship between ‘Solomonic’ magical practice and the ‘Faustian’ tradition? Nikolas Alvarez, founder and owner of Enodia Press, stops by to discuss the mythical Doctor Faust, the treatment of angels and cthonic entities in the Faustian tradition and more…

Mark Stavish is the Director of Studies for the Institute for Hermetic Studies, and stops by to share about his tome entitled “Egregores: The Occult Entities That Watch Over Human Destiny.”

Daniel Harms is an author, scholar and a true master of library science. He discusses the seminal “Book of Oberon, A Sourcebook of Elizabethan Magic”, presented along with Joseph H. Peterson and the illustrator James R. Clark.

Dr. Alexander Cummins returns on the podcast to talk about his combination of divination with ceremonial magic, an in-depth look at the Heptameron, his unique approach to geomancy, questioning what we mean when we say “Solomonic magic”, and so much more. Dr. Cummins is an author, historian, poet and practicing magician.

Dr. Liana Saif is an author, scholar and critical translator of esoteric and occult manuscripts, and is preparing an English translation of the Arabic magic compendium Ghayat Al-Hakim known as the Picatrix, as part of her current project, entitled 'On the Margins of Legitimacy: Magic in Medieval Islam.’…

Josephine McCarthy is an esoteric author, occultist and magical teacher based in the UK. She has been active in magic for more than 35 years. In this episode Josephine shares about how imagination is the cornerstone of magic, how to pay attention to subtle changes around you, the concept of “spiritual righteousness”…