HOLY DAIMON: Frater Acher Scarlet Imprint Fine Edition

HOLY DAIMON
 
Frater Acher
 
Scarlet Imprint
 
Fine 2nd Edition
 
Limited To 72 Copies - This Being No.35
 
LONG SOLD OUT @ SCARLET
 
Holy Daimon is the result of more than ten years of ritual and theoretical magical research. The book provides a clear path to creating communion with one’s holy daimon. The first in a trilogy of works by Frater Acher blending historical insights with practical ritual work.
 
8vo (240 × 165 mm)
216 pp
Illustrations by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal
Black and white photographs by the author
 
Fine Edition
 
Hand bound in full black goatskin, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribboned, and presented in a marbled slipcase.
 
Contents
 
Preface
Introduction
 
Part I: History
1 Among the Chaldeans
2 Among the Zoroastrians
3 Among the Ancient Greeks
 
Part II: Memory
Communion with my Holy Daimon
 
Part III: Practice
Systasis with your Holy Daimon
1 Trust
2 Joy
3 Darkness
4 Encounter
 
Epilogue
 
Selected resources
 
Description
Holy Daimon is issued in a new edition, with 18 illustrations by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal. This first volume of Frater Acher’s Holy Daimon cycle is the result of more than ten years of ritual and theoretical magical research, and is comprised of three parts: History, Memory and Practice, providing a well-grounded introduction, as well as a practical path to creating communion with one’s holy daimon.
 
Rather than drawing on Abramelin or Crowley’s Liber Samekh, Frater Acher returns to the source, analysing the daimon as it was experienced in three cultures, Chaldean, Zoroastrian and Ancient Greek. These give a necessary overview to contextualise the material that follows, and restores the daimon to its central place in the journey of attainment.
 
Acher then gives a full account of his own personal communion with his holy daimon. As a magical record of a modern practitioner it is an important testimony for those embarking on the path, and a rare account given the secrecy within which most practitioners operate.
 
In the third and final section of the work Acher gives his streamlined exercises for attaining communion with the daimon; culminating in a fully restored rite from the Greek Magical Papyri.
 
Whilst the author’s focus is on enabling hands-on magical work, the book is not a traditional grimoire or grammar of magic; the work is of a deeply mystical nature.