What was the relationship between the Inquisition, the Clavicula Salomonis, booksellers, and magical texts in early modern Venice? How did male and female practitioners make it (or not make it) to court. Why were punishments surprisingly light? Dr. Federico Barbierato shares about his latest research 'In the Room of the Circles: The Inquisition and Books of Magic in Early Modern Venice'. He’s joined by the great esoteric scholar and researcher Joseph H. Peterson. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ✅►Get your copy of Dr. Bar...
Mar 15, 2026•1 hr 15 min
How can you interrogate a spirit? Should A.I. be used in Solomonic conjure? How can we avoid ‘group-think’ and cults of personality? Frater Ashen Chassan - author, ceremonial magician and martial artist - returns to share about these issues, answers your Patron supporter questions and more! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ✅►Check out Frater Chassan’s Magical Shop: https://www.facebook.com/Frater-Ashen-Chassans-Magical-Implements-2183349675258729/ ✅►Contact Frater Chassan for consultations, client requests and upcoming cl...
Mar 08, 2026•2 hr 28 min
What are the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts from 4,000 years ago? How do they interweave with the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri (or PGM) spells? How can we become vessels through which the conjuratory power of the Gods flows to prevail against the darkness? Jack Grayle - author, ceremonial magician, playwright, practitioner, and devotee of Hekate - shares about the Coffin Texts and how he employs them in his latest PGM course, answers listener questions and more! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ►⚡Register for Jack’s PGM ...
Feb 27, 2026•1 hr 1 min
400 years ago, a brazenly braggadocious begging ‘bedlamite’ possibly penned a poem so incantatorily-poignant, so wonder-woundedly-written, so symmetrically and cognitively bruising, that it demands to be memorized and chanted aloud. Let's dive into the song of Tom O'Bedlam. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ Tom O'Bedlam's Song I. From the hag and hungry goblin That into rags would rend ye, The spirit that stands by the naked man In the Book of Moons defend ye, That of your five sound senses You never be forsaken, Nor wande...
Jan 30, 2026•30 min
Carroll "Poke" Runyon founded the Ordo Templi Astartes in 1970, which is now America’s oldest continually operating ritual magick lodge. Poke is joined by OTA senior member Maximilian Raphael Paul, and film director (and composer) Johnny Royal, to talk about ‘American Magick’ a four-part television miniseries directed by Royal that unveils the OTA and Church of the Hermetic Sciences, following modern members through a powerful journey toward enlightenment. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ►⚡Watch ‘American Magick’ on YouT...
Jan 21, 2026•2 hr 46 min
How is Kabbalah dynamic and fluid? Why should we STOP treating Agrippa’s writings like a pick-and-choose-magical-buffet, and instead as a system of spiritual illumination? What is Merkavah Mysticism? Dr. Justin Sledge - scholar, author, professor and proprietor of the ESOTERICA YouTube channel - shares about his latest research, insights into academic scholarship and answers your Glitch Bottle Patreon questions! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ►⚡Support Dr. Sledge on Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel ►✅...
Nov 16, 2025•2 hr 4 min
Who is Mithras, and what were the Mythraic Mysteries practiced thousands of years ago? How was the cult organized? What role did Orphic metaphysics and architecture play in communicating its mysteries? Peter Mark Adams - author, poet and essayist specialising in the ethnography and visuality of ritual, sacred landscape, esotericism, consciousness and healing - shares about his latest tome: Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras. The Secret Cult of Saturn in Imperial Rome, answers your...
Oct 28, 2025•1 hr 37 min
Why should we challenge the assumption that the Greek magical text, the Hygromanteia, is really the source of the Key of Solomon? Why is Frankenstein’s Monster a better way to look at the collection of ‘Solomonic’ manuscripts? What is a ‘Solomonic network’ with ‘genes’, ‘nodes’ and ‘clusters’? Dr. Gal Sofer - scholar, medical doctor and translator - discusses his first book, Solomonic Magic: Methodology, Texts, and Histories (Brill 2025), answers your Patreon supporter questions and more! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ...
Sep 28, 2025•3 hr 8 min
What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Akin - Catholic theologian, philosopher, author and host of ‘Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World’ - goes deep into magic, theology, testing spirits, near-death-experiences, answers questions from Patrons and more! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ►⚡Support Jimmy’s on Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/JimmyAkinPodcast ►✅Jimmy’s website - https://jimmyakin.com/ ►▶️Subscribe to Jimmy’s YouTube ...
Aug 25, 2025•2 hr 9 min
What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Akin - Catholic theologian, philosopher, author and host of ‘Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World’ - goes deep into magic, theology, testing spirits, near-death-experiences, answers questions from Patrons and more! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ►⚡Support Jimmy’s on Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/JimmyAkinPodcast ►✅Jimmy’s website - https://jimmyakin.com/ ►▶️Subscribe to Jimmy’s YouTube ...
Aug 25, 2025•2 hr
Why is invoking directional winds vital in ceremonial magic? Who is the Shekinah, and why is calling this powerful feminine presence actually encrypted in the Solomonic tradition? David Rankine - author, esoteric researcher and magician - shares about his upcoming tome from Hadean Press - Claves Spirituum: Expanding the Horizons of Grimoire Conjuration. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅Pre-order ‘Claves Spirituum’- https://hadean.press/products/claves-spirituum ► ✅David’s website - https://davidrankine.com/ ✦🔮Shhhhhh…...
Jun 26, 2025•3 hr 26 min
What does the Twelver Shi‘i Hadith tradition say about jinn, astrology, angels and necromancy? Dr. Amina Inloes - scholar, researcher, educator, public speaker, and translator with a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter - returns on the podcast to go deep into the Shi‘i hadith corpus! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅ Check out Dr. Inloes’ Articles - https://exeter.academia.edu/AminaInloes ► ✅Get your copy of Shams al-Ma’arif - https://revelore.press/product/shams-al-maarif-the-sun-of-knowledge/ ✦🔮🔥Su...
May 18, 2025•2 hr 6 min
What is reverse divination? How do minerals, oils, and pigments reflect the deep alchemical process encrypted in painting? Amelia Passer - multidisciplinary artist, astrologer, and practitioner - shares about her creation process and her unique tarot deck composed of talismanic oil paintings called the Astro Magician’s Tarot which is currently live via Kickstarter! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅ Support ‘The Astro Magician’s Tarot now!! - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/astromagicianstarot/the-astro-magicians-t...
Apr 23, 2025•1 hr 28 min
What is the Dark Man, known by many names throughout the centuries like The Devil, Old Scratch, The Dark Rider, The Old One, The Master, the Father of Witches? Is the Dark Man really pure evil, as many religions say? Is he a catalyst of novelty, transformation and change? What happens when we resist his call? Darragh Mason - writer, researcher, and award-winning travel and documentary photographer. Mason hosts the award-nominated podcast Spirit Box - goes deep into his excellent tome Song of the...
Apr 01, 2025•2 hr 32 min
What is the six-step ‘Solomonic Method’? How can understanding these ritual steps help us navigate almost any grimoire? We go step-by-step and recite the entire Heptameron in Latin from memory to illustrate the method. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅Full ‘Heptameron’ text via EsotericArchives.com - https://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/heptamer.htm ► ✅SUPPORT Joseph H. Peterson with a quick donation to EsotericArchives.com - https://www.paypal.com/webapps/shoppingcart?flowlogging_id=f9515331d50c8&mfid=16986017...
Mar 14, 2025•1 hr 25 min
How do you embody a fallen Valkyrie? Why is invoking poetry so similar to calling magical names and summoning spirits? Jack Grayle (magician, author and playwright) and Klara Wolfe (occult writer, professional embalmer and model) go deep into Jack’s new, fantastic verse-play set 1,200 years ago in heathen Norway, entitled Sigrun & The Mist. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅ Get your copy of Sigrun & The Mist - https://www.miskatonicbooks.com/product/sigrun-the-mist-by-jack-grayle-with-commentary-by-shani-oates-...
Feb 19, 2025•1 hr 42 min
How do you track down hidden esoteric manuscripts? What is the Antipalus Maleficiorum? Who were the powerful noble families who owned books of magic throughout the centuries? Daniel Clark - manuscript detective & researcher, editor and collaborator with Dr. Stephen Skinner - goes deep into manuscript searching tips, Victorian Occultism and so much more! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅Order the Antipalus Maleficiorum (US) - https://www.amazon.com/Trithemius-Secret-Library-Antipalus-Maleficiorum/dp/0738781223/ ► ✅O...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 50 min
Why did Solomon bind demons in brass vessels? What’s the connection between leather bags, necromancy and the winds? We explore the history of jinn, metals and spirit-containers, and how all these themes flower in the collection of medieval Islamic stories known as the Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, Alf Laylah wa-Laylah), by reading part of ‘The City of Brass’. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ✅► Allegra Iafrate, ‘The Long Life of Magical Objects: A Study in the Solomonic Tradition’ - https://...
Jan 23, 2025•46 min
What is contemplative mysticism? How does this differ from modern occultism? Contemplative mystic, esoteric cartographer and author David Chaim Smith goes deep into ways to unravel the mind and so much more. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅David’s excellent sharing on his esoteric cartography - https://www.thethirtytwokeys.com/testament ► ✅ David’s website - https://www.davidchaimsmith.com/ ✦🔮🔥 Become a Glitch Bottle supporte r - https://www.patreon.com/glitchbottle 🎵 Music by the artist Crowander (track name: “Tor...
Jan 12, 2025•53 min
So, what does Hollywood and media in general get right about its portrayal of magic? Ana Victoria Esquivel is a Hollywood Make-up artist, writer and painter who is credited or involved with dozens of on-screen projects, including Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities and Rings of Power. She gives us a peek behind the veil of how media portrays magic, shares about her devotional practice, answers your Glitch Bottle Patreon listener questions and more! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ✅►Support Ana on her excellent Su...
Nov 25, 2024•1 hr 42 min
What is ‘Solomonic exceptionalism’? How was grimoire magic set apart from witchcraft, fairy magic and prophecy in the time of Shakespeare? What grimoires were available when early modern dramatists like William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson and many others were portraying magicians, evocatory procedures and magical implements on stage? Dr. Rebekah King - scholar and award-winning playwright - takes us behind the curtain to discuss her thesis ‘Solomon on Stage, Representations of ...
Nov 03, 2024•2 hr 17 min
What is ‘Solomonic exceptionalism’? How was grimoire magic set apart from witchcraft, fairy magic and prophecy in the time of Shakespeare? What grimoires were available when early modern dramatists like William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson and many others were portraying magicians, evocatory procedures and magical implements on stage? Dr. Rebekah King - scholar and award-winning playwright - takes us behind the curtain to discuss her thesis ‘Solomon on Stage, Representations of ...
Nov 03, 2024•1 hr 53 min
In today’s world of #hashtags, shortcuts and life hacks, our attention is sliced finer than the vellum folios of a 900-year-old grimoire. It takes will to cultivate consistent, in-depth practice. To illustrate this, I’d like to invoke the hidden devilish drive of determination in two of among the most famous English poems of all time (and a bonus poem), and why I always read and re-read them when preparing for evocatory procedures. ✦🔮🔥This post made possible by my impossibly amazing Patrons. J...
Oct 28, 2024•17 min
Why is the Mysteriorum Libri Quinque (the Five Books of Mysteries), written by John Dee in the 16th century, one of the most important core texts of occult literature? How were these secret writings about angel magic discovered long after John Dee’s death and remarkably spared from destruction? Scholar and author Joseph H. Peterson shares about his updated edition of Dee’s five books, reflecting 20 years of research, including corrections to the text, new translations of the Latin and other fres...
Oct 06, 2024•40 min
Before any magician summons a spirit listed in a grimoire it’s very important to understand ritual timing. Let’s explore how spirits of the hour, day and season all should be invoked before the aforementioned target beings, whether celestial, terrestrial, sublunar, airy, elemental, gnomish or of the more infernal variety. Thank you to my Glitch Bottle Patreon supporters for making posts like this possible! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅Techniques of Solomonic Magic ’- https://www.amazon.com/Techniques-Solomonic-Magi...
Oct 02, 2024•22 min
Holy water is *the* most foundational element in the Solomonic magician’s repertoire: without it, you can’t consecrate any of the ritual implements (or yourself) before or during a ritual. But how do you make it? Here is my own step-by-step method. ______________STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE______________ 1.) Gather water at sunrise on the day and hour of Mercury (Wednesday) or on the day and hour of Sol (Sunday) in a glass or clay vessel (ideally at dawn, as David Rankine recommends in his upcoming tome f...
Sep 25, 2024•28 min
How does an artist confront and transmute the elements of war, death and destruction they encounter in their daily life? How does an artist ‘evoke’ a spiritual entity into their work? Is all art spiritual, or is there a separation? Ukrainian esoteric artist Nightgrowler returns on the podcast from inside Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital city, answers your Patreon listener questions and more! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅ Support Nightgrowler on Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/nightgrowler ► ✅ Support Nightgrowler’s A...
Sep 22, 2024•2 hr 36 min
Are spirits conjured by cock, or rather, sealed by cockish potencies? Let's explore the hard truths of these vital roosterian resplendencies in the grimoires and Shakespeare: are these just charming suppositions, a bundle of poppycock, or a powerful tool in conjuring spirits? ✦🔮Shhhhhh….become a super secret Glitch Bottle supporter! 🔮 ►https://www.patreon.com/glitchbottle ♫ Music by the artist Crowander (track name: “Tornado”) -https://soundcloud.com/crowander -https://crowander.bandcamp.com/ ...
Sep 18, 2024•11 min
How did a silver mining town in Mexico play a vital role in the growth of Santa Muerte veneration? How do Catholics and Luciferians venerate Santa Muerte? Ed Calderon returns on the podcast to share about his exciting historical discoveries and connections surrounding La Santa and answers you Patreon listener questions! Ed has worked in the fields of counter-narcotics, organized crime investigation, and public safety in the northern border region of Mexico for more than a decade. His study into ...
Sep 04, 2024•2 hr 37 min
After nearly 700 years, one of the most important Western magical compendiums in history has been fully translated into English for the first time. The Summa Sacre Magice (SSM) is a 200,000 word Latin manuscript written in 1346 by Catalan magician Berengarii Gannellii, and is considered the most in-depth overview of Latin medieval magic ever. In a stunning achievement, scholar, author and Solomonic practitioner Dr. Stephen Skinner, along with co-author and researcher Daniel Clark, is presenting ...
Aug 31, 2024•1 hr 13 min
