Conjuring the Intelligences Online Course
This six-week, online course offers a practical step-by-step exploration of the process of grimoire conjuration, providing a template of practice that can be adapted for working with different types of spiritual creatures. Drawing on over forty years of successful conjurations, David Rankine will consider the entire conjuration process, including what is essential and what is not. Using his book Claves Intelligentarium as a manual, the course will explore what to do, and why and how to do it.
Communication with spiritual creatures for acquisitive magic (health, knowledge, love, success, wealth, etc.) and protective magic (health, household, luck, personal safety, etc.) has formed the basis of magic for millennia, and the grimoires are one of the most significant traditions to continue this. Conjuration of spiritual creatures is at the heart of the grimoire tradition.
Different grimoires give variations of the conjuration process, often incomplete or assuming pre-knowledge on the part of the practitioner. This course offers a practical step-by-step exploration of the process of grimoire conjuration, providing a template of practice that can be adapted for working with different types of spiritual creatures including the planetary intelligences, Olympic spirits, angels, and demons. Drawing on over forty years of successful conjurations, David Rankine will consider the entire conjuration process, what is essential and what is not. Using his new book Claves Intelligentarium as a manual, the course will explore what to do, and why and how to do it.
David Rankine is an author, esoteric researcher, and magician who lives in Spain with his wife, artist and tattooist Rosa Laguna, and their daughter, Victoria. He has been making major contributions to the modern occult revival since the 1980s through lectures, workshops, presentations, articles, and books. His esoteric expertise covers a wide range of topics, including the Western Esoteric Traditions, especially the Qabalah, the Grimoire Tradition, Greco-Egyptian magic, and Ceremonial Magic, as well as British folklore and European mythology. His published work in recent years has been characterised by the publication of previously unavailable or inaccessible material on the grimoires and other areas of magic.
This course is limited to to 30 attendees. Each attendee will receive a paperback copy of Claves Intelligentiarum: A Complete Practical Manual of Conjuration of the Planetary Intelligences. Course details, including the schedule below, will be sent to each attendee upon order confirmation.
First session: 27 October - 1 December 2024. This course is full. Please contact us if you would like to be put on the waiting list.
Course Schedule and Outline:
Lesson 1
a.) Planning your conjuration – why do conjuration, what do you want to achieve
b.) Question lists for spirits – testing spirits
c.) Magical momentum – how to improve your chances of success
d.) Sigil construction
e.) Spirit hierarchies
Lesson 2
a.) Timings (planetary hours, astrology, weather concerns)
b.) Consecrations – sequence of perishable and imperishable items
c.) Tools & materia magica
d.) License to Remain
Lesson 3
a.) Fragrances
b.) The magic circle – consecration circles and conjuration circles
c.) The triangle
d.) The lamen and seal
e.) Talismans
f.) Spirit contracts
Lesson 4
a.) Fasting
b.) The lead-in week
c.) Making sure everything is ready
d.) Dream charms and their use
e.) Indoors and outdoors
Lesson 5
a.) The conjuration sequence
b.) Signs of contact
c.) Testing your spirit contact
d.) Asking for familiar spirits
e.) Making things easier – checking sigil, timings, offerings etc for future work
f.) If things go wrong
Lesson 6
Stepping beyond – exploring what else to do/change for working with other types of spiritual creature such as the Olympic Spirits, angels and demons.