Holy Daimon

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

– £25

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

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.