Join David Rankine for a two-day immersive retreat in an idyllic setting in South Gloucestershire, learning crucial techniques with hands-on experience. Read on for the full course syllabus.
This retreat will be held from Friday night to Sunday evening, April 11-13th, and total cost (without accommodation) is only £280.
This exclusive event will be David Rankine's only in-person teaching in the UK for 2025, so book your place soon!
Planetary, Olympic, and Infernal Spirits
The latest publication from Hadean Press
Grimoire conjuration has a mystique resulting from the centuries of grimoires, almost always incomplete and offering pieces of the jigsaw. This workshop pieces together the jigsaw and shows the sequence of steps and actions required for conjuration. Rather than being a complex and tortuous process, it is explored as a series of simple steps which build on each other to achieve successful conjuration.
The emphasis will be on planetary spiritual creatures, include the planetary intelligences, planetary angels, Olympic Spirits, and also the demon bishops for an example of working with the infernals. There is a lot to cover so this will be an intensive weekend!
The topics explored will include:
The lamen and seal
Talismans
Spirit contracts
Fasting, Purification & Confession
The lead-in week
Making sure everything is ready
Dream charms and their use
The conjuration sequence
Signs of contact
Testing your spirit contact
Asking for familiar spirits
Making things easier – checking sigil, timings, offerings etc for future work
If things go wrong
Planning your conjuration – why do conjuration, what do you want to achieve?
Indoors or outdoors
Question lists for spirits – testing spirits
Magical momentum – how to improve your chances of success
Sigil construction
Spirit hierarchies
Timings (planetary hours, astrology, weather concerns)
Consecrations – sequence of perishable and imperishable items
Tools & materia magica
License to Remain
Fragrances
The magic circle – consecration circles, divination circles and conjuration circles
The triangle
David Rankine
David Rankine is an author, esoteric researcher and sorceror who has been practising magic and grimoires for over 40 years. He has been making major contributions to the occult revival since the 1980s, through lectures, workshops, presentations, articles and books. His esoteric expertise covers a wide range of topics, including the Grimoire tradition, Qabalah, Greco-Egyptian magic, Ceremonial magic and British folk magic. His esoteric knowledge and scholarship can be seen in the thirty-four books he has authored, his essays in various anthologies, and hundreds of articles for magazines, journals, international part-works and websites. In recent years he is best known for his work on the grimoires including The Grimoire Encyclopaedia and Claves Intelligentarium.