The Horn of Evenwood A Grimoire of Sorcerous Operations, Charms, and Devices of Witchery
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The Horn of Evenwood, Also called ‘The Master’s Book of Conjury’ or ‘The Witchfather’s Bloodless Bones’, is a true book of Art, a Grimoire of sorcerous operations, charms, and devices of Witchery. Based on well-worn patterns and operations of Traditional sorcery and European Witchcraft from the 16th-19th centuries, this manual of magical arts provides a complete working system of Craft-sorcery which taps into the numina of the British Isles folk-tradition, the Luciferian mysteries of the Witchmaster, traditional wortcunning, the Rades of Edric and Godda, and the hidden roads to Faery-Elfhame. Included are incantations, conjurations, instructions in the application of the Ten Pillars of Sorcery, "The Service of Sigils" working, and the operations of ‘Biting the Tongues of Serpents’, ‘Summoning the Witch-Dream by Moth Flight’, ‘Binding the Lovers One to the Other’, ‘The Fruitful Working of the Womb-Seed’, and ‘A Pavis from Foul Imprecations’, all of which are intended to instruct an initiate in the use of this timeless arcane system.
Robin Artisson
Robin Artisson has been studying folklore and supernaturalism and practicing sorcery- in the true historical meaning of the word- for 14 years now, which is far longer than most people said he'd survive. He's from South Louisiana, of Bernician (Anglo-Pictish) heritage, but also of Irish, Cajun and Sicilian descent. He grew up in the shadow of the last home of active and accepted supernaturalism in the United States: New Orleans, and the entire hairy, scary regions far south. Katrina? Fuck Katrina! The Spirit of the Great Sultan of the South has endured many hard blows of Fate before, and will endure forever. Robin is an herbalist, a devoted deep ecologist and animist, and a skilled practitioner of trance-healing and divination. By this, we mean to say that Robin spends a good deal of time inducing altered states of consciousness whereby he may (at times) interact with extra-sensory reality for the purposes of finding guidance for himself or others, or for healing purposes. He performs these works as an Owl-Doctor or healer (some say "witch") of pretty decent folkloric learning, given to a mind of animistic principles. Robin is a learned holistic healer, augurist, reader of omens, and a skilled dream interpreter. He is passionately in love with chess, very dark ale, sushi, religious philosophy and debate, historical re-enactment activities, occult studies, historical books and research, systems theory, the Robin of Sherwood BBC series (that is not the source of his name, however) and writing. He is a father and husband, and a student of life. Robin holds a BA in European History/Anthropology, an MA in Criminal Justice and Policy Science, and an MA in Marriage and Family Therapy. He currently works in the field of Trouble and Pernicious Mischief, all alongside his writing, of course. He has written (currently) four books and countless articles online and in various publications. Chances are, if you've hung around the "pagan" internet, (such that it is) you've heard of him.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is a tidy grimoire and sourcebook for those interested in pursuing a more traditional witchcraft path. It engages the spirit of the writings of Nigel Jackson and Robert Cochrane and is a fascinating elaboration on the themes of their work.Artisson describes his book as a tool kit, rather than a recipe book. He gives techniques designed to help you forge relationships with the spirit world, and although his "exemplary sorcerous workings" can be used as written, they are meant to show one possible method of doing things. This is a teaching grimoire, and to make the most of it, you have to apply what has been written to your own practice, rather than just following along.There is a deeper level to Artisson's writing, an underlying philosophy that holds true throughout his works. All of his further ideas for rites or spells are built up from this foundation of relationships with the spirits, the quest for true knowledge, and the recognition of Old Fate Herself.Some of the most interesting pieces of information in the book are Artisson's thoughts on the Horned Master of witches. While I wouldn't go so far as to call it in the Luciferian current, the ideas are certainly leaning that way. Several meditations on the subject are included, and they (along with the section on arcane flight) are worth the price of the book by themselves. (Also, the appendices of various sorcerous currents, such as Lunar or Mercurial, are more useful than any correspondence table could ever be.)To end the book, the author explores the pagan themes in the folktale, The Nixie of the Millpond, and also gives several rather dark rituals for springtime: "I feel real fear now. I am a blasphemous creature of winter evenings long dead, stalking about in fields of gold and white..." The writing is, as always, evocative of the Unseen landscapes. A fascinating book; it's definitely recommended reading.
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The Horn of Evenwood A Grimoire of Sorcerous Operations, Charms, and Devices of Witchery - Robin Artisson
The Horn of Evenwood
A Grimoire of Sorcerous Operations,
Charms, and Devices of Witchery
By Robin Artisson
First Edition Copyright 2010
SmashWords Edition 2012
By Pendraig Publishing
All rights reserved
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the copyright holder, except brief quotation in a review.
Cover Design & Interior Images, Typeset & Layout by: Jo-Ann Byers-Mierzwicki
Pendraig Publishing
Los Angeles, CA 91040
www.PendraigPublishing.com
ISBN: 978-1-936922-37-6
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Contained Herein
Dedication
Preface
Part One
~Evenwood’s Caverns~
Key Conjurations and Invocations
Invocation to the Turnskin Master, Opener of Doors
Ninefold Conjuration of the Familiar
Incantation for the Scattering of White Dust
The Preparations of the Three Purities:
Conjuration for Aspersing with Ensorcelled Water and Earth
Conjuration for the Circumambulation of the Faultless Fire
Invocation to the Agency of Ineffable Name
Conjuration of the Wind of Releasing
Conjurations to the Four Points of the Compass
Part Two
~Evenwood’s Secret Paths~
The Keys of Sorcery
The Ten Pillars of Witching or Sorcery: The Keys to the Recondite Art
Rudimentary Witchcraft and the Implements of Art
Awareness of the Power that Binds
Part Three
~Evenwood’s Forest~
The Witch-Ring or the Ring of Sorcery, The Service of Sigils,
And Six Exemplary Sorcerous Workings
Formation of the Witch-Ring
The Service of Sigils
Biting the Tongues of Serpents
Summoning the Witch-Dream by Moth Flight
Binding the Lovers One to the Other
The Fruitful Working of the Womb-Seed
A Pavis from Foul Imprecations
The Spell of Oak-Beams
Part Four
~Evenwood’s Protector~
The Mystical Herbology of the Mandrake
The Mandrake
Part Five
~Evenwood’s Master~
The Master of the Craft and the Spell of Flight
Grand Invocation of the Hethite Witchfather and Lord of Light:
The Father Goat, the Master of the Cunning-lodge and the Endless Feast.
The Grand Invocation-Litany of Nineteen Parts
Cloven Hoof-Prints of the Lord of Sorcery: Searching for the Witchfather
A Meditation on the Path of the Turnskin, The Master of the Witches, And His Secret
The Spell of Flight:
Second Stream Transvection or the Witch-Rade into Faery
via Geomantic Bonding, Fire, and Riding-Pole
Part Six
~Evenwood’s Hidden Seasons~
Charms and Gateways in the Earth and Sky
Threefold Charms
The Rites of Spring
The Rite of the Tinley Fire
Gates of Life and Death:
The Nixie and the Moon-Pond
Appendix
Table of Sorcerous Currents and Associations
About the Author
More Magickal Works from Pendraig Publishing
Fiction Novels from Pendraig Publishing
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Dedication
For the Lady Ellhorn-Saturnia
The Fetch-Magistellus Strix
And the Master of Masters
Perfectum est
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Preface
If this be magic, let it be an art.
-William Shakespeare, The Winter~ Tale
This grimoire contains a complete system of Witchery or Sorcery. There have been many books, tomes, and grimoires created throughout the ages on precisely this same subject matter, but this grimoire, this book of Art, is different from most of them in two important respects.
It is different in that it is more like a tool kit
than a recipe book. While I do include the texts of many detailed workings of Witchery between these two covers, full and comprehensive instructions for bringing those pieces of sorcery to life, I only do so to teach the principles of sorcery by demonstration. This book contains all the needed seeds, ingredients, principles, and guidelines for reliably creating your own workings of Art.
The fact is inescapable: real magic
only blooms fully when you bring yourself to it and engage it; you have to be involved on every level, and in every detail. Your imagination and creativity must awaken and your most authentic will has to become your real Magister
or teacher. There are no short cuts
in the world of living sorcery.
This book’s system of Sorcery is also different from most others in that it actually works. For too long, the modern occult world has suffered under a dense cloud of complexity and obscurity that has done more harm than good — authors are either afraid of giving too much away
(in which case one wonders why they took up their pens at all) or they blanket their spiritual understandings and sorcerous techniques under incomprehensible mountains of over-ripe prose. The end result is the same — workings that don’t work, and the suffering of interested, worthy people who can intellectually and intuitively embrace the reality of sorcery, but who cannot get even a simple working off the ground without either losing interest or failing outright to achieve their mystical and worldly goals.
What you are reading now is the precious result of years of information gathering, spiritual awareness, and working experience. I have learned from the old masters — Heinrich Cornelius, Agrippa von Nettesheim, Paracelsus, Wierus, Iamblichus, and their company. I have learned from modern masters, sometimes from their writings, and at other times, from hearing words from their own lips. My greatest sources and teachers are not to be found in any library or house in this world; they are my Familiar-powers, the spirits to whom I owe so much. I have no trouble placing them first in my respect and gratitude; as the poet and occultist Andrew Chumbley once said, If you call upon the Gods and they answer, who is there to oppose or to challenge the integrity of your Path?
Indeed, it was the Master who gave me the blood and bones of this work. I prayed for his guidance and inspiration; I received of him that which I asked for. This book might well be placed on the bookshelf next to Machiavelli, and all of the other works that have been declared inspired by the devil
, for I have no illusions regarding who and what my Magister is. Anyone who thinks that he is some arch-villain from a Christian cosmological drama has long ago missed the point. The devil
is a mask worn by a spirit that is intimately involved in every detail of our daily lives, from our dreams, to our computers, our cars, our languages, our industries, our secret hopes and fears, and countless other things. He lurks there, just out of sight, observing the world he created. He is well known by our deceased friends and relatives, for it is his light that greets them when all other lights have faded. Devil? Only to the extent that we trouble ourselves to fight with him, and with the basic reality of our everyday lives — the Truth about ourselves.
Though this is a book of sorcery, of magic, of making things happen with the help of familiar spirits and channeled occult powers
, I cannot help but include bits of hoary and fiery wisdom regarding the deeper matters of human life. For me, the Art of sorcery is inseparable from the search for Truth. Many will disagree with that, and to them, I can only promise that this work does not attempt to force some philosophical worldview onto anyone — it chiefly concerns itself with sorcery, and sorcery alone. It presents a Witchery that is very much pre-Wiccan, traditional and mildly disturbing in places. The more disturbing the better, I say. The modern mind that reads these pages will often bring a battered, idealistic, white light
notion to matters occult, only to be struck by the gritty reality. What some people call disturbing
, therefore, is really another name for colliding with reality and finally waking up
. It is a sign of power, and as we will see, the magic in these pages works.
This work is the result of a decision I made to share the interior pages of one of my personal grimoires. As I looked through this working tome of mine, I was able to see so many places, places which were the real birth cradles of this work. I saw the rural backwoods of the Southern United States, the grassy banks of Bayou St. John, and even the most rural and deserted places in Ireland and Northern England that I visited not so long ago. I was able to relive many vibrant spiritual and physical communions, talks I had with local people, even some who were sorcerers and witches, and talks I had with the spirits still dwelling in those places, on the sides of dirt lanes, in old trees and barns, and in lakes and ponds. That is where the real wisdom and power resides.
People want wisdom and power, but they can’t bring themselves to believe that it could be closer to us than we imagine. There is so much wisdom and power out there, sitting right before our eyes as we zoom by oblivious in our automobiles and airplanes. People want so much, but few want to give back for it, pay the price, or pay the Piper. One day, I decided to pay the Piper, and I am pleased to report that he gives back much for whatever investment you make on his path.
People want tradition, too. They want to know that they can reach back through the mists of time and join others who came before in similar ideas, ritual actions and customs, all for the purpose of keeping the red thread
going, the chain of minds and bodies that have encapsulated tradition and handed it down. To feel like you are a part of something older and greater than yourself is a good thing, a desirable thing, but it all falls to pieces if the chain of tradition
is allowed to dictate to you who and what you are, and what your purpose is. Tradition is meant to be engaged.
Though it remains the same in many ways, every generation stamps subtle changes on traditions. What you are holding now is a book of tradition, traditions handed to me from others, and from me to you — but this book bears the seal of Robin Artisson, the changes he made for the purposes of making this Witchery his own. Your task, if you accept it, is to do what I have done and find results.
Who are the people who can engage this book of Witchery? They are the people who have found their familiar spirit. When I say familiar
, I mean a spiritual power that you have a strong, resonating connection with, and whose existence you do not doubt for a moment. Witchcraft, from every age of the world and from every place, has operated on the principle of the aid given to a human being by a familiar spirit, whether that familiar was a servitor, a guardian, or those powerful spirits that our ancestors rightly called Gods
. Those powers that you have spiritual allegiance to can and will, help you to achieve your goals and to find what you need in this world. They will help you find safety, peace, health, love, prosperity, and ultimately, the Truth. If they did not, they would not be worth the time it takes to believe in them nor the effort it takes to maintain real bonds of relationship. They have aided human beings from the dawn of time; they still aid them today.
The Unseen world is not silent; it is we who have forgotten how to hear. The powers there are not idle; they are busy every moment trying to reach us, going about their timeless work of realization. If you believe in them, if you have prayed, invoked, asked for help, asked for guidance in dreams, and finally received it, you are ready for the workings and understandings in this book.
Part One of this work, Evenwood’s Caverns: Key Conjurations and Invocations, contains fourteen short pieces of invocatory prose and poetry, true sorcerous lines of power, hiding in the unassuming form of words. They will all be given without explanation; read them without trying to divine anything about them. As you move onto the next sections of this work, you will understand what to do with them. When you have mastered them, you will likely create your own equivalents to them. That is growth and power.
Part Two of this work, Evenwood’s Secret Paths: The Keys of Sorcery, introduces people to the Ten Pillars of Genuine Sorcery, or Witchery. Many will have experience in the world of the occult long before they pick up this work, and will no doubt have utilized many of the sciences discussed in the Pillars. Very few will have brought them all together in such a simple, direct way, and added to them what I call the Awareness of the Power that Binds
. Many will say that they have, but in their own hearts, they will know the truth, that we tend to forget the most simple, essential things. If you have never attempted the formal practice of Sorcery before, these Ten Pillars will allow you to enter into this world with a bang, not a whimper. Such a good early morale boost will propel you onward (Fate permitting) to greater attainments.
Part Three of this work, Evenwood’s Forest: The Witch-Ring or the Ring of Sorcery, the Service of Sigils, and Five Exemplary Sorcerous Workings, are the heart of this grimoire. It chiefly details six entire workings, perfectly demonstrating how the Ten Pillars of sorcery come together and cause real changes in the world. It is important that you read these workings in the order they are given, and only after you have fully read the previous parts of the book.
Part Four of this work, Evenwood’s Protector: The Mystical Herbology of the Mandrake, re-introduces my audience to a woefully neglected aspect of the Western sorcerous world: the proper cultivation and many powerful uses of the Mandrake.
Part Five of this work, Evenwood’s Master: The Master of the Craft and the Spell of Flight, contains not only the Grand Invocation of the WitchMaster, as used by myself and others, but meditations on the mysteries of the Master, and suggestions regarding what He intends, ultimately, for mankind. The Spell of Flight
is the Witch-operation par excellence, a means by which any person who fulfills the letter of the working can force their own mind and awareness to enter directly into the condition of the Underworld, or the Faery-World, and go into that final chamber of initiation which is only found in the Netherworld.
The final part of this work, Evenwood’s Hidden Seasons: Charms and Gateways in the Earth and Sky, contains four important essays regarding the sorcerous art and inspections revealing some of the deepest mystical secrets buried in seasonal and faery-folklore.
I can think of nothing further that I need to say in this preface. If you are brave, dedicated, ready to get your hands dirty in the fields and woods and gardens gathering the herbs you will doubtlessly need, and if you are ready to obey the hidden Laws, then you are ready to begin the greatest of journeys a person can take. I wish you luck and success, but more than that, I wish you wisdom.
In the Master’s Name:
Ule Heth-Bucca (Robin Artisson)
Northern Louisiana
Litha, MMVII A.D.
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Key Conjurations and Invocations
Invocation to the Turnskin Master,
Opener of Doors
Black-clad Master who walks the pathways of the sun:
Staring eye of the Old Man, King at the Crossroads,
Open the doors to the great world unseen:
Swift-tongued Master, split-foot horned and twisted,
Beautiful and radiant amid the terror of darkness,
Open the doors to the great world unseen.