Holy Daimon
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
Issued in 4 editions –
fine / standard hardback / paperback / digital
Fine edition
– sold out
Limited to 72 copies
Hand bound in full black goatskin, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribboned, and presented in a marbled slipcase.
Standard hardback edition
– £50
Limited to 1200 copies
Bound in grey brown bookcloth stamped in black and gold, black endpapers and black ribbon. Printed on 150 gsm paper.
Paperback
– £22.50
Unlimited
Sewn paperback printed on 120gsm paper, with grey card covers printed in black with gold foil.
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.
