Evocations for Beginners E-Book

Harry Eilenstein

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Seitenzahl: 81

Beschreibung

Summoning spirits (evocation) does not have the best reputation ... as long as they are not called "apparitions of Mary", "cult of the dead", "invocations of gods", "spiritualism" or "family constellations" ... What is so scary about contact with spirits? In dream journeys one also meets all kinds of spirits - and poltergeists always come quite unasked. The problem is mainly the fear of death, of the spirits of the dead. This has not always been the case - close contact with the dead was first demonized by the Christian missionaries: They put the one God Father in place of the deceased physical father of every human being - and formed the devil from the archetype of the ancestor spirit. There is hardly an early culture in which spirits were not conjured up. Examples of this can be found in the Neolithic Age, in Egypt, Sumer, among the Hittites, the Romans, in Africa, in the Old and New Testaments, among the Germanic peoples, the Celts, in Islam, and so on. There is a great variety in the methods of evocation, in the reasons for them, in their procedure and in their place in the culture - but the basic principle is very simple.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

What is an Evocation?

The Environment of Evocation

Evocation and Dream Journey

Evocation and Vision

Evocation and Medium

Evocation and Otherworld Journey

Evocation and Apparitions of Mary

Evocation and the Cult of the Dead

Evocation and Invocation

Evocation and Poltergeist

Evocation and Exorcism

Evocation and Materialization

Evocation and Spiritus familiaris

Evocation and Black Magic

The Roots of Evocation

Cult of the Dead

Necromancy

Spiritism

Utiseta and necromancy

Family Constellations

Evocation in Christianity

Father and God Father

The Devil

The Devil's Grandmother

Hell

The Hound of Hell

The Demons

The Worship of the Saints

The Last Judgment

Historical Examples

Neolithic Age

Egypt

Sumer

Hittites

Romans

The Witch of Endor

Christ's Mountain Prayer

Lazarus

Teutons

Celts

Islam

Christianity

Faust (Drama by Goethe)

John Dee

Woodoo

Personal Experiences

A Demon

The Second Attempt

The Third Attempt

A Poltergeist

A Spiritistic Session

Magic Group

Io Pan!

Runes

Pan-Calls

Necronomicon

Ghost of a Dead Man

Several Poltergeists

Haunting in the Bergisches Land

Christ and Krishna

Spontaneous Visit of a Dead

The Yugoslavian War

The Laurel Elf of La Palma

Family Constellations

Pan

Aids in an Evocation

The Tomb

The Cross-Roads

Midnight

Circle and Triangle

Magic Signs

Candles

Oils

Incense

Talismans and Amulets

Magic Wand and Divining Rod

Texts

Invocation of Gods

Demon Names

Gestures

Dances

Sacrifices

What is an evocation?

What happens during an Wvocation?

What can an Evocation look like?

When is an Evocation successful?

Why Evocations

The Evocation of the Angantyr

Book List

I What is an Evocation?

Evocations are probably the area of magic that is most creepy for most people – summoning demons at midnight at a crossroads … or even worse: summoning the spirits of the dead from their graves!

Even in commonly known literature such conjurations do not have a good reputation: Thus in "Lord of the Rings" Sauron appears as a necromancer who has conjured the spirits of nine deceased kings to serve him as "Black Riders".

One thing is for sure: This is black magic!

However, it is worthwhile (as with all things) to take a closer look at what such an evocation of a demon or such an evocation of a dead person actually is.

During an evocation a being, which has no own body (any more), becomes physically visible – optimally it has thereby the "consistency of dense vapors", as Frater Thot, my former colleague in the magic research, has described this aptly.

What is wrong with wanting to see a being that has no body of its own? And that one possibly wants to talk to?

Of course, if one assumes that the price for the help one wants to obtain from the demon or the dead is one's own soul, the matter is more than delicate. However, the question arises whether it is even possible to lose one's own soul – isn't it, with its abilities, very likely above anything we humans can do?

In the ideas about demon incantations it is usually the devil himself to whom one sells one's soul – against power, earthly riches and the like. This gives rise to the well-founded initial suspicion that the bad reputation of the incantations has something to do with the Christian church – after all, the devil is part of Christian mythology.

This connection suggests to take a closer look at the evocations of spirits in other cultures as well as at the relation of evocations to other magical-spiritual methods.

II The Environment of Evocation

If one takes a closer look, one can see that evocation has quite a large environment of similar methods, some of which have quite a different reputation than demon evocations.

II 1. Evocation and Dream Journey

What is the essence of an evocation? Why does one perform an evocation? As a rule, in order to meet a spirit, to speak with it and to receive something from it – as a rule, an advice, a help, a shaping of life circumstances and the like.

If we compare a dream journey with an evocation, we can see that both are actually very similar: also in a dream journey we meet various non-material beings from whom we can receive advice and help.

The difference between an evocation and a dream journey is essentially that in the evocation one summons the spirit and it appears in the outer material world, while in the dream journey one goes to the spirit and sees it in the inner world of consciousness.

Both are encounters with a spirit and in both methods the dream traveler in most cases seeks advice and help from the spirit. The difference is only the place where one meets – and the very different reputation of the two methods …

II 2. Evocation and Vision

In an evocation, one invites the spirit to come to one – but it also works the other way around, i.e. the spirit can also decide to come to visit the person. And then there are the cases when both simply meet more or less by chance.

The visit of a spirit unintentionally by oneself would probably be called "vision". Here one sees the spirit as part of the perception of the external world – the image of the spirit is integrated into the optical perception. One then has a combined perception of an external image and an internal image.

A psychologist would probably call such a thing a psychosis and recommend therapy – but it makes a big difference whether one can clearly differentiate between the part of the inner images in the outer images or whether one thinks the whole outer/inner image is the outer reality. Only in the second case there will be problems – in the first case the "additional inner pictures" can be an enrichment throughout.

A vision is consequently a medieval form of "augmented reality" …

Strictly speaking, an evocation can be called an "intentionally induced vision". You see a spirit, you talk to it and you possibly receive advice and help from it – this is exactly the same as with a vision.

Since in a dream journey (only inner images) and in a vision (integration of an inner image into the outer images) one not only sees and hears something, but can also smell, touch, taste and feel temperatures, there is no difference in principle between both types of perception – both can seem equally "real".

Both are actually equally "real" – both have an inner reality, both are real in the realm of consciousness – and can also have an effect on the outside.

II 3. Evocation and Medium

It is not so easy to see an inner image also on the outside – which is also quite good, because thereby the perception of the outer reality remains stable.

However, since there have been repeated attempts to contact spirits, people have been looking for ways to build bridges from the "spirit realm" to the "human realm". One of these methods is the medium.

In some cases, the medium puts himself in a "receptive state" where a spirit can speak through the medium – in other cases, a hypnotist/magician puts the medium in this state. There are mediums who consciously experience everything they say and possibly do during their trance – other mediums are during their trance like a hypnotized person without waking consciousness and consequently without memory, i.e. they do not know afterwards what they have said and possibly done.

The task of the hypnotist/magician in this context is to "switch off" the waking consciousness of the medium.

In the case of a medium, therefore, the called spirit does not manifest itself outside the people involved as images and words in space, but only through the words and deeds of the medium.

II 4. Evocation and Otherworld Journey

If the spirit that is to be called is a deceased person, one can also undertake an afterlife journey and go to visit the spirit at its new "place of residence", so to speak.

Such an afterlife journey can be a simple dream journey, but also an astral journey, in which the one who calls the spirit leaves his body and travels into the afterlife. As a rule, however, it will be a dream journey and not an experience similar to a near-death.

II 5. Evocation and Apparitions of Mary

In Christianity many apparitions of Mary have been reported – much more rarely also apparitions of other saints. Sometimes Mary has been seen by larger groups of people at the same time. Similar phenomena exist in other religions as well.

If one wishes, one can call a Marian apparition a spontaneous evocation of Mary – or a vision.

This kind of phenomenon raises the question of its reality:

Does it take place only in the psyche of the visionary?

The visions that several people have at the same time speak against it. The minimal assumption in this case is that this visionary group is telepathically closely connected – similar to a joint dream journey of several persons.

Does this phenomenon take place only in the telepathically coordinated psyches of the visionary group?