Stephen Skinner discusses the evolution of Magic
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Stephen Skinner is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer. He was responsible for introducing real feng shui to the West, and wrote the first 20th century English book on the subject in 1976. His first profession was that of Geography Lecturer, at what is now the University of Technology in Sydney.
During the 1970s and 1980s he was the driving force behind Askin Publishers, producing lovely editions of classic magical works such as Agrippa's Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy and the Archidoxes of Magic by Paracelsus, several titles by Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, Dr Donald Laycock (The Enochian Dictionary) and others, all of which are now collector's items. The first of these was a huge quarter leather edition of the primary source book of Enochian magic, the True & Faithful Relation of what passed between Dr John Dee...and some Spirits. During this period he co-wrote books with Francis King, including the still popular Techniques of High Magic, which has gone through many editions since it was first released. Also with Francis King he wrote Nostradamus, following this with the best selling Millennium Prophecies.
In the late 1990s he published and owned a number of monthly magazines such as Wining and Dining, Healthy Living, Alternatives and XL. Later in the decade he was publisher of a number of client and affinity group publications such as 050, ARP and Goldlife.
In 1998 he was responsible for launching and publishing the first full colour magazine on feng shui, Feng Shui For Modern Living, which was distributed in 41 countries with translated editions in German and even in Chinese. At its peak the English edition sold over 121,000 audited copies per month, and Stephen was nominated at the PPA awards as UK 'Publisher of the Year' (the UK print media equivalent of the Oscars).
In 2004 he began publishing Source Works of Ceremonial Magic with co-author David Rankine. The first title was The Practical Angel Magic of Dr. John Dee's Enochian Tables, opening the doors on real 17th century angel magic in a way never done before. This was followed by The Keys to the Gateway of Magic and then The Goetia of Dr Rudd, a complete 17th century version of the four books of the Lemegeton as used by a practising magician. He then produced a new edition of three versions of the most famous grimoire, the Key of Solomon as The Veritable Key of Solomon. More recently they deciphered and translated the Grimoire of St Cyprian, the Clavis Inferni.
In 2006 he published The Complete Magician's Tables with tables of Magic, Kabbalistic, Angelic, Astrologic, Alchemic, Demonic, Geomantic, Grimoire, Gematria, I Ching, Tarot, Pagan Pantheon, Plant, Perfume and Character Correspondences in more than 835 Tables, four times as many tables as Aleister, Crowley's Liber 777, or any other imitator.
He was educated at Sydney University graduating in English Literature, Geography and Ancient Greek Philosophy. His interests include feng shui, ancient civilisations, geometry, travel, computers, magic and the Middle Ages. He is the author of more than 36 books published worldwide in more than 20 different languages. His books have had introductions by such diverse people as Colin Wilson, HRH Charles Prince of Wales, and Jimmy Choo shoe designer to the stars.
He spends his time writing, teaching and researching feng shui and the Western Hermetic tradition.
Skinner is one of our few bona fide modern scholar-magicians. He knows his stuff.
@mysterychemistry translation: Philosopher. lol
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I like how this guy is calm, cool and collected about all of it. Now i am a lot more relaxed about learning it. A lot of these other magicians try to look all scary and use a scary voice its not needed just comes off as a comical fool. Definitely will be buying this guys books. You can tell hes not just some dumb guy with fangs in his mouth. If anyone knows any other guys similar to him let me know I am just getting into magicians.
+John Doe
Lon Milo DuQuette is calm and cool too. He's an amazing writer and applies humor on his books, besides probably being the most acclaimed author on this subjects.
appreciate it what books of his do you recommend?
+John Doe
To begin with Lon's works i recommend: My Life With the Spirits, The Chicken Qabalah and The Magick of A. Crowley. They're not large books and it is straightforward.
Btw, since we're talking about learning magick through cool magicians, i will recommend to you another book and it's Modern Magick by D.M. Kraig.
It will be a good introduction to the world of magick.
All buy those sounds like a good starting pointing for me. I appreciate that.
+John Doe check these Magicians out = Aaron Leitch, Frater Ashan Chassan
Excellent video. Mr. Skinner is one of the few experts on magick that is worth listening to.
Frater Hircus what about Raymond buckland?
Frater Hircus i get more of the nothing as you do everything
This is one man I would give my left testicle to meet. He is a brilliant magician and he truly knows his stuff. Amazing magician.
Eight years later, have you met him?
Thanks Dr skinner for your great teachings
Thank you, Stephen. Your work is a great gift! Best & cheers
Sean Hallahan
why do you consider this as a gift ? what has he done or any of magic done ? of what use ?
if you know can you please explain in simple terms . of what use ? . why is it necessary ? .
Watkins Books, how could you drop the ball so badly by not shutting off one floor for 20 minutes while he gave this very valuable talk?
The agares story is interesting..I'd love to hear more examples of his "work"
This guy is a god!!!
The work he's done on hermetic and Enochian magic is just incredible! the books and article he's written are absolute gold mines of information.
+Ayon707 Which book of his do you recommend?
Techniques of High Magic, and The Complete Magician's Tables, then Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magick, Techniques of Solomonic Magic, then any way you want to go. Some of the rest will not make much sense til you are familiar with those first ones.
Ayon707
can someone tell me what this magic is all about . is this real .
LokiRudder
so the Harry Potter type is real it's not just a fantasy . magic is real ? . do you think the writer used magic to help her write novel . the Mummies magic spells are true ? but why is it essential ? isn't it wrong to invoke even if they for real exist .
LokiRudder
where should I start . but what if I do something wrong . are there only ' good ' ones . but of what use ? for what purpose ? is there anything simple from where I can start .
Thank you for uploading this interview! Brilliant!
Fascinating!
Such a refreshing minimalist demeanor! Really, really grateful to see this kind of maturity in the Practice.
Thank you, Sir!
I would love to see that new book idea he mentions near the end of the video happen! This is an excellent little video.
Fantastic video! Thank you for sharing. I've never heard him talk before. He really does know his stuff.
0:49 that sounds like a collossally monumental task
Stephen Skinner and dr Joseph Lisiewski are my two favourite occult authors.
This when combined with energy knowledge is dam interesting ...
.. thank you for sharing your findings and conclusons ..
Most excellent. I agree with Frater Hircus and others, Dr Skinner is very much worth listening to, indeed.
Awesome find
Nice to see you here Savanah
I am glad i found him!
Excellent delivery & rich information, how refreshing to see someone who knows the facts. I shall be looking forward to reading your book(s). Correct about Taoist Magic & yes it is passed down many generations.
I completely concur on your remark about sleeping & receiving, as one is a direct conduit & merely a matter of allowing the other mind to access. Spirits will answer in a myriad of ways upon wakefulness & ones answer is evident.
Thank you. :)
Thanks for your work Stephen.
When did Heisenberg become a magician ?
HE always was.
Cooking crystal meth is practically alchemy without its principles.
Jesse, we have to evoke!
@@Gokotti LOL... This comment is gold! (Guess that makes you a cyber alchemist.)
WOW! SO COOL! Im not a big fan of Crowley though so I am confused a bit. I loved geography, and I learned of feng shui at 14 or so and I still care very much for it wow! Thank YOU
To me, it seems that much of what people think is useless magical references should be out there for those who can make it work or understand them.
Religion can be said to be known through magic as a combination of its art and science; which is known through the inner and outer mysteries.
As much as technology advances, it seems that magic devolves in general.
Enochian can be easier for some in how it can be used to categorize the subjects and cosmology the Laws of Attraction and Repulsion work on.
Angel means different things and different beings to different people.
Stephen, when will you publish this Technical manual??🙂🙂
Wonderful! Thank you.
Is there anywhere quieter than that library to shoot a video? Damn
Is watkins bookshop
Crowley rhymes with Holy.
Ironic, considering his public image.
@@andrewjenkins9965 You can't gauge holiness from the public idea of what holy people are like. Think what you will about the guy but he's done and shared the work so we can judge him fairly. Or, you know, not.
@@OMGmyFACE that would be a great sentiment if he himself did not cultivate the whole "The Beast 666" façade specifically to freak people out. It's something he actively wanted, not some shallow judgment on my part.
Fascinating topic and man.
Great suggestions!
very interesting man gonna have to find more about his work
Awesome
If I were to chose to alter the Medical curriculum I would dissolve Psychiatry and replace it with Magick
@z borg Chemical structures were god-given. Literally the building blocks of the world. Remember, alchemists were the original arcanists.
@z borg Our bodies fight other aspects of our own body. That is what the body does. Whether it's foreign or native. The body does what it is designed to do.
Still got my copy of Diaries, a real Keeper.
Heisenberg is a mage now
Did Skinner ever publish his manual?
Background noise is horrible
I wish he would stop writing so many expensive books...Him, Flowers, Peterson...just so thorough :>
Very knowledgeable guy. I'd like to know his take on Bardon's system of Magic.
great question. I was thinking the same. Bardon is taboo everywhere. The reason is quite simple, its contemporary, its not that academic in an anthropology point of view. And the other is, if you mention, you will burned on at the modern stake.
@@julioalmeida4645 I've never been burned at the modern stake for mentioning Bardon. I've been told good luck working with his system because it's difficult, but that's about it. I did find that Dr. Skinner does mention Bardon's Grimoire in the Complete Magician's Tables. He said that aside from incorrect astrological attributions that it's one of the most Complete grimoires of the 20th century which I thought was really interesting.
@@jasonmcclendon8990 Never look at Dr. Skinner material but for sure i will take a look. Sure, try to be an executive and say that you are finishing IIH (its not my case, just emphasizing). The Bardon material is so amazing that if you mention them, the people actually know what you are doing. Goetian and Enochian is already status quo per say, doesnt have the same impact
So did he do it.....did he write a technical manual
Where can those ingredient translation tables be found?
Do the Taoist magicians use magical timing, however? Dr. Skinner identifies that as a critical element for successful evocation, but I wonder if it is used in China.
Their astrology is well developed. My guess is that they're on top of it.
can someone tell me what this magic is all about . is it real . for what use . how does this work .
Crow as in grow, not as in prow.
Who cares? He was a self consumed git.
@@moldvox Obviously, you do.
@@OMGmyFACE y'got me.
binding is very importing i am very unknown but i fing reeds in lochs bound with wax strings and letters to ellemental in water to read the dessires of those who made the or initiated the dessire
When he corrected himself by saying 1600 years of persecutions, I know we are on the same fkin page!
Write the manual.
+Ryan Seddon
I've talked to him about it and he said that he's working on it.
AWESOME -thanks!
magic is alive in scotland and i now see the goetia as the one truth in a world of lies
the moon is the lunar star earth is the hell and the ellite steal the knowledge the earth is hell itself we are the nephalim fallen angels
How do you know?
Dear Mr Skinner one always pronounces Crowley as in holy...
The man 👍
Have you tried just making friends with the weird things and not binding them?
Someone know how the binding is done? Is it the part after conjuration and when you have already telled it what you want?
prepare the ritual, invoke the spirit, bind it, then tell it what to do. banish the spirit at the end. this is from what i understand of it.
do u know about the six rayed pentacle. lesser banishing ritual I read it now I'm hearing voices and can't get them out my head can u please help
+Blink Blink Doing a banishing ritual is not going to make you hear anything, You should go see a psychologist because you probably have some type of mental health issues that have nothing to do with you doing that ritual.
I always hear voices, no rituals here.
Unless you are doing it wrong and drawing attention to yourself.
What is the source you are getting this from? Look up what you are describing and type the title EXACTLY as it is given, because what you typed doesn't make any sense. Please clarify, you just read it or you were performing it, or half assed performing it?
From what I know from what I read, the 6 pointed (rayed) star (pentacle) is the star of the realm of intellegence, mainly of knowledge, to bring about (reveal) knowledge through awareness. So yes it can make you more aware or conscientious through hyper knowing (knowledge) than your normal self.
You may banish the star saying that it is not for you at this time, since the Lesser banishing rite is a banishing ritual for lesser entities, mainly after a ritual ceremony or for cleansing an area for consecration. Or you may read the Greater Banishing Rite since it is for stronger/stubborn entities, a 6 pointed star entity is high up the status pyramid compared to a lesser entity. Or you can ask it to make it less hyper and more bearable at your level.
This may also be a time to ask the 6 pointed entity to deliver your request or desire. And to bring it in a pleasant form. If your request becomes manifested after your request then you must do this after..... (to be known)......
He didn't say what to do if people don't make careful preparations before a work and get into trouble.For instance,what if a whole bunch of rituals are performed without a circle because the person(s) don't realize you need one?.
This is not a lecture on how to perform a ritual. You need to acquire the material and thoroughly study it before you begin doing them. If you're doing a whole bunch of rituals without a circle, you are obviously ignoring the instructions because that is the first part of every ritual in this genre of Magick. You might as well be asking what do I do if I jump out of an airplane without a parachute because I didn't know I needed one. Perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, the official one, not someone's knockoff version, and do it the way it's supposed to be done precisely and methodically. You can do this one over and over again without causing yourself any more damage. Once you get it down correctly it will clear your space. Then you should do it every day, and/or every time you do a ritual. If you can't dedicate to this sort of methodicism then you shouldn't be practicing this sort of Magick, or you should just expect that you are going to get yourself into trouble. Some people should just stick with candle magick and crystals.
Loki Rudder
You are aware who Solomon was the son of?
The LBRP has massive effect! With a properly performed LBRP you do not need to cast a circle which shows how brilliant it is. The LBRP also does not only banish - though it does that perfectly.
Wrong on all counts. The LBRP creates a circle, in fact a sphere - so as I have already clearly stated casting a circle is not entirely necessary. What are you babylon about?
'Neglect not the Performance of the Ritual of the Pentagram and of the Assumption of the Form of Hoor-pa-Kraat'.
'Those who regard this ritual as a mere device to invoke or banish spirits, are unworthy to possess it. Properly understood, it is the Medicine of Metals and the Stone of the Wise'.
'White clothing' - Jewish High Priests wear white linen and bath themselves on special days up to 10 times a day. You contradict your self and reveal your ineptness with your lack of knowledge. Do not think I am appeasing the Jews either but this is a known fact that white linen is a very important part of the High Priest's overall ritual with a new set having to be made each year - this white linen is only for the most important ceremonies and only for the most sacred parts when entering the Holy of Holies and on top of that the High Priest would undertake a ritual bath in between each change of garments and even after putting the new set on.
...do these spells work?
I want to but I think I’d pee myself if I actually summoned something 😂😂❤
seems like a huge learning curve with horrible repercussions to fail.
It does now. I suspect, however, that the missing section of the Mystery Cults filled in alot of gaps there. That really provided the character development that we completely lack now and familiarized the Learner with the rituals. You would have already had the most important defenses set in before you even started.
Why in all that's good would you raise a spirit, any spirit? Leave well enough alone!
Who directed the Christian's to crush the practice of magic, a wisard hierarchy?
entropy itself did
And the reason one would wish to do this is…?
To make their dreams, desires and fortune happen.
@@franchi8601 that’s not all, people want truth, and they want to explore beyond the mind and beyond what we already have in the world
So what really seperates science from magick except superstition and fear?
measurable and repeatable results
I agree with Shulg. If it isn't measurable and repeatable then it is a belief or superstition. If the practice produces measurable and repeatable results, it can be studied and practiced the same as any branch of science.
i mean, if it is true what he is saying then it is "measurable and repeatable", and no i dont think this type of thing would work well with our "modern" 21 centurey scientist/science only a very few people even dare to talk about this in public since magic ( or magick, as some may call it ) is a very taboo subject. beside how exsactly can magic be "measurable" maybe repeatable yes, but i dont see how you can measure it ( unless you use the same system as the ancient people used ) but in the end we cant know if it works or not unless we try it ourself.
I would say faith, imagination and theatre
I say physicality. We exist simultaneously in multiple planes, all the others too fine to perceive with convential senses.
So, the magician is just like a scientist, except that he works and experiments in the high planes to achieve his goals in the lower, where as the conventional scientist is mostly concerned with effecting the material world to get results therein.
A secular scientist is a fairly new concept, though.
So... this guy is the modern Dr. Strange?
I guess you could say so.. but more a person who is very good at translating and describing the techniques used by Dr. Strange, although he uses them himself.
So... hes dr strange translator... hum ok , whos real life Dr Strange and Scarlet Witch?
Hard to say. Aleister Crowley and Helena Blavatsky maybe? But I think the real doctor Strange is the Graeco-Egyptian practitioners who figured out all of this and wrote it down in the first place.
Hummm... They are dead. Not funny.
Hell Caramba Wasn't trying to be funny...?
I keep hearing this shit about the magick circle and the triangle and keep asking on forums etc. What if you never have done magick and a demon presents himself to you?? I even submit the dialog and people act like I'm fucking crazy or made it up would a very experieced mage PLEASE answer me. I'm fucking scared. I don't practice magick and I am not interested in Christianity.
a picture is worth a thousand words cast fireball or shut up
Where is God ? Demons exist and can help you but not God ? This is what I'm hearing...
Why get bread in the bread isle (demons), when you could get bread from the supermarket (God).
One thousand six hundred years of hooey.
Mr Rogers x Satan
He's hard to hear & the environment isn't helping.
A mares nature? WTF is that? A female horse, yes. But what is it’s nature?
He looks like Walter White from Breaking Bad, after a decade or so of conjuring demons
and lots of using his own supply
@@riolu_eth funny meme. Seriously, if you think this is what a guy on meth looks like, I'm happy you live in a nice area.
Mfff thrs no magic no demon force.. Tats just n illusion
Stephen, you're a spiritual rebel. You are not wise at all, but a fool.
This man is a train wreck very close to coming of the track!!! cho chcooooo!!!!