Glitch Bottle Podcast

What is astrological fatalism? Why did the Inquisition burn alive a university lecturer in Italy in 1327? What was the role of the four Kings of the four Cardinal directions and their connection to the cardinal signs of the Zodiac? Mat Hadfield and Brian Johnson discuss their latest tome from Hadean Press -  An Exposition upon The Sphere of the Cosmos: The Astrological Nigromancy of Cecco d’Ascoli...

How are art and magic deeply entwined? What’s the relationship between Retribution Magic and Setting Boundaries? Why is the Lemegeton’s Goetia so misunderstood in some circles? Well our guest today is a great person to ask. Calla Marie Rowan is a folk magic practitioner at Contemporary Mystic. She utilizes her foundation in Catholic mysticism as an esoteric practitioner, and writes about her engag...

What is esoteric cartography? How can this path empower us to change directly with reality? Contemplative mystic, esoteric cartographer and author David Chaim Smith goes deep into ways to unravel the mind and so much more.  ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅David’s website - https://www.davidchaimsmith.com/   ✦🔮🔥 Become a Glitch Bottle supporte r - https://www.patreon.com/glitchbottle   🎵 Music by the artist Crowander...

What was the relationship between the Inquisition, the Clavicula Salomonis, booksellers, and magical texts in early modern Venice? How did male and female practitioners make it (or not make it) to court. Why were punishments surprisingly light? Dr. Federico Barbierato shares about his latest research 'In the Room of the Circles: The Inquisition and Books of Magic in Early Modern Venice'. He’s join...

How can you interrogate a spirit? Should A.I. be used in Solomonic conjure? How can we avoid ‘group-think’ and cults of personality? Frater Ashen Chassan - author, ceremonial magician and martial artist - returns to share about these issues, answers your Patron supporter questions and more! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ✅►Check out Frater Chassan’s Magical Shop: https://www.facebook.com/Frater-Ashen-Chassans-Magical-Imp...

What are the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts from 4,000 years ago? How do they interweave with the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri (or PGM) spells? How can we become vessels through which the conjuratory power of the Gods flows to prevail against the darkness? Jack Grayle - author, ceremonial magician, playwright, practitioner, and devotee of Hekate - shares about the Coffin Texts and how he employs...

400 years ago, a brazenly braggadocious begging ‘bedlamite’ possibly penned a poem so incantatorily-poignant, so wonder-woundedly-written, so symmetrically and cognitively bruising, that it demands to be memorized and chanted aloud. Let's dive into the song of Tom O'Bedlam. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ Tom O'Bedlam's Song I. From the hag and hungry goblin That into rags would rend ye, The spirit that stands by the naked...

Carroll "Poke" Runyon founded the Ordo Templi Astartes in 1970, which is now America’s oldest continually operating ritual magick lodge. Poke is joined by OTA senior member Maximilian Raphael Paul, and film director (and composer) Johnny Royal, to talk about ‘American Magick’ a four-part television miniseries directed by Royal that unveils the OTA and Church of the Hermetic Sciences, following mod...

How is Kabbalah dynamic and fluid? Why should we STOP treating Agrippa’s writings like a pick-and-choose-magical-buffet, and instead as a system of spiritual illumination? What is Merkavah Mysticism? Dr. Justin Sledge - scholar, author, professor and proprietor of the ESOTERICA YouTube channel - shares about his latest research, insights into academic scholarship and answers your Glitch Bottle Pat...

Who is Mithras, and what were the Mythraic Mysteries practiced thousands of years ago? How was the cult organized? What role did Orphic metaphysics and architecture play in communicating its mysteries? Peter Mark Adams - author, poet and essayist specialising in the ethnography and visuality of ritual, sacred landscape, esotericism, consciousness and healing - shares about his latest tome: Ritual...

Why should we challenge the assumption that the Greek magical text, the Hygromanteia, is really the source of the Key of Solomon? Why is Frankenstein’s Monster a better way to look at the collection of ‘Solomonic’ manuscripts? What is a ‘Solomonic network’ with ‘genes’, ‘nodes’ and ‘clusters’? Dr. Gal Sofer - scholar, medical doctor and translator - discusses his first book, Solomonic Magic: Metho...

What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Akin - Catholic theologian, philosopher, author and host of ‘Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World’ - goes deep into magic, theology, testing spirits, near-death-experiences, answers questions from Patrons and more! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ►⚡Support Jimmy’s on Patreon! - https://www.pat...

What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Akin - Catholic theologian, philosopher, author and host of ‘Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World’ - goes deep into magic, theology, testing spirits, near-death-experiences, answers questions from Patrons and more! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ►⚡Support Jimmy’s on Patreon! - https://www.pat...

Why is invoking directional winds vital in ceremonial magic? Who is the Shekinah, and why is calling this powerful feminine presence actually encrypted in the Solomonic tradition? David Rankine - author, esoteric researcher and magician - shares about his upcoming tome from Hadean Press - Claves Spirituum: Expanding the Horizons of Grimoire Conjuration.  ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅Pre-order ‘Claves Spirituum’- htt...

What does the Twelver Shi‘i Hadith tradition say about jinn, astrology, angels and necromancy? Dr. Amina Inloes -  scholar, researcher, educator, public speaker, and translator with a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter - returns on the podcast to go deep into the Shi‘i hadith corpus! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅ Check out Dr. Inloes’ Articles - https://exeter.academia.edu/AminaInloes    ► ✅Get yo...

What is reverse divination? How do minerals, oils, and pigments reflect the deep alchemical process encrypted in painting? Amelia Passer - multidisciplinary artist, astrologer, and practitioner - shares about her creation process and her unique tarot deck composed of talismanic oil paintings called the Astro Magician’s Tarot which is currently live via Kickstarter! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅ Support ‘The Astro Ma...

What is the Dark Man, known by many names throughout the centuries like The Devil, Old Scratch, The Dark Rider, The Old One, The Master, the Father of Witches? Is the Dark Man really pure evil, as many religions say? Is he a catalyst of novelty, transformation and change? What happens when we resist his call? Darragh Mason - writer, researcher, and award-winning travel and documentary photographer...

What is the six-step ‘Solomonic Method’? How can understanding these ritual steps help us navigate almost any grimoire? We go step-by-step and recite the entire Heptameron in Latin from memory to illustrate the method.    ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅Full ‘Heptameron’ text via EsotericArchives.com - https://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/heptamer.htm ► ✅SUPPORT Joseph H. Peterson with a quick donation to Esoteric...

How do you embody a fallen Valkyrie? Why is invoking poetry so similar to calling magical names and summoning spirits? Jack Grayle (magician, author and playwright) and Klara Wolfe (occult writer, professional embalmer and model) go deep into Jack’s new, fantastic verse-play set 1,200 years ago in heathen Norway, entitled Sigrun & The Mist.  ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅ Get your copy of Sigrun & The Mist  -...

How do you track down hidden esoteric manuscripts? What is the Antipalus Maleficiorum? Who were the powerful noble families who owned books of magic throughout the centuries? Daniel Clark - manuscript detective & researcher, editor and collaborator with Dr. Stephen Skinner - goes deep into manuscript searching tips, Victorian Occultism and so much more!  ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅Order the Antipalus Maleficio...

Why did Solomon bind demons in brass vessels? What’s the connection between leather bags, necromancy and the winds? We explore the history of jinn, metals and spirit-containers, and how all these themes flower in the collection of medieval Islamic stories known as the Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, Alf Laylah wa-Laylah), by reading part of ‘The City of Brass’.  ⇓ ⇓ ⇓...

What is contemplative mysticism? How does this differ from modern occultism? Contemplative mystic, esoteric cartographer and author David Chaim Smith goes deep into ways to unravel the mind and so much more.  ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅David’s excellent sharing on his esoteric cartography - https://www.thethirtytwokeys.com/testament   ► ✅ David’s website - https://www.davidchaimsmith.com/   ✦🔮🔥 Become a Glitch...

So, what does Hollywood and media in general get right about its portrayal of magic? Ana Victoria Esquivel is a Hollywood Make-up artist, writer and painter who is credited or involved with dozens of on-screen projects, including Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities and Rings of Power. She gives us a peek behind the veil of how media portrays magic, shares about her devotional practice, ans...

What is ‘Solomonic exceptionalism’? How was  grimoire magic set apart from witchcraft, fairy magic and prophecy in the time of Shakespeare? What grimoires were available when early modern dramatists like William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson and many others were portraying magicians, evocatory procedures and magical implements on stage? Dr. Rebekah King - scholar and award-winning...

What is ‘Solomonic exceptionalism’? How was  grimoire magic set apart from witchcraft, fairy magic and prophecy in the time of Shakespeare? What grimoires were available when early modern dramatists like William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson and many others were portraying magicians, evocatory procedures and magical implements on stage? Dr. Rebekah King - scholar and award-winning...