Grimoires & PGM - looking for others

[Asteriskos]

His contention that one should embrace one's childhood religion

If you outgrow or otherwise find that it's basically Bullshit, then why not replace it with something more meaningful to you, if anything?

 

[twiztidstraight]

I hinted at this in my intro, but I’ll be more explicit here.

I’m looking to connect with magicians who work with spirits through the grimoires in a way that stays reasonably close to the textual sources. Most of my background has been in GD and Crowley influenced CM-style work, which was great but I didn’t encounter anything I’d call genuine spirit contact and manifestation until about five years ago (via a non-lodge based magical tradition), which pretty much reshaped how I approach my practice.

Anyone here working the Grimoires or the PGM in a way that might count as “true to the textual tradition”? I use that phrase loosely as I'm aware - at least to my knowledge - that these are not living traditions with intact lineages, so we’re all reconstructing to some degree.

For my own work in recent years, I’ve leaned heavily on Julio Caesar Ody’s Magister Officiorum for Goetia and have been following the Heptameron as closely to the text as possible. I've made some progress, but feel as if there is a still so much I am missing. I've been away from online forums and social media for years so I don't really know where else to start or if there are dedicated forums for this type of work.

If anyone else here works the grimoires or the PGM in a text-faithful way ( especially if you’ve navigated early communication issues) I’d be interested in comparing notes and methods.

I'm just getting started seeking same

 

[umbriel]

Know this is a little older thread, but I have worked through some of the GD (regardies book) and Thelema (duquette regardie and oc crowley+some mathers/Levi)systems as well as chaos magick (psychonaut/liber null were where I sort of got started)..among others.

Posting cause the other night I had a really eye opening experience that was one of the most "real" experiences I can say Ive experienced to date. Not going to go into explicit details here bc I hate things "woo woo", but I will say it was a marked experience of sensation (tactile, visual, auditory) and felt what I experienced as a definitive "presence". It was terrifying, and enthrallingly thrilling.

I think this was said in one of the first responses, but I think Im realizing how important it is to remember the fundamentals. A decade in at this point and NOW 'communicated with spirits' from a (mostly) intuitive based action. Ive been on a major 'authentic' folk magic kick lately so I've been tinkering with a more shamanistic approach to 'sensing' and journeying / doing magick in general. Way more intuitive approach, focused more on intuitively feeling, 'sensing';which after a few days of this type of work I had the contact I mentioned above. Still finding ceremonial tools useful/actively incorporating them, but the lean into an intuitive species of divining styled practice has produced results for me personally. Not sure if that helps. Id love to chat