ANDROMALIUS, TAKE TWO: GOETIC STORIES
CAMELIA ELIAS
DEMONOLOGY AND DIVINATION
OCTOBER 2022
HARDBACK EDITION LIMITED TO 144 COPIES | 6×9 | indigo silk cloth | stamped in silver and silver edges | indigo ribbon and silver end papers | printed on Munken Polar Rough 150 gsm paper | hand numbered and signed by the author | 200 pp. Offered as a talisman.
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DESCRIPTION
The focus of this book is Andromalius, the 72nd demon in the Goetia, and how he functions as a mirror of Lucifer himself. In the process of illustrating the Lucifer/Andromalius entanglement, Camelia Elias tells stories about how Andromalius fares when dispatched to perform over and above what the Goetia prescribes. Andromalius doesn't merely deliver the mail, or 'find treasures, catch thieves, and punish the wicked,' but rather functions as a spy, orchestrates dreams, and divines for missing links. Elias also tells stories about how pacts are made and by whom, and what literature, poetry, and Zen have to say about demonic encounters.
These stories are not merely anchored in the set descriptions of how to conjure a demon and put him to work that we find in most grimoires. Rather, they are stories of collaboration that are entirely based on an assessment of skill in relation to style. This book discusses style in magic, and about how the magician, occultist, or fortuneteller as a stylist manipulates with the perception of the received images of spirit personalities in grimoires. What is the grammar of these images and how does it participate in creating a unique signature for the magician in his encounter with demons?
In practical magic that aims at evocation, invocation, and conjuration of spirits and demons, it's one thing to go by the instruction book and match a demon's office and function with what the scope of an operation is, and quite another to think about how authority is established in heaven and hell. Without being ceremonial about working with the grimoires, the author contributes original, scholarly, and penetrating ideas to the philosophy and practice of demonology.
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“Andromalius shows his first results. Yesterday someone booked a reading session with me (I don’t offer that!) and today I also found my first treasure. How cool is that?” – Marcel Schmidt
More goetic magic
Magic works with the spontaneity of chance encounters, such as the ones between word and number, or word and image.
As I was signing Andromalius, when I got to copy 133, just before I closed the book, it opened to page 66. I looked at the last line on that page. It consists of one word only: kinship.
I’ll be damned, I thought to myself. There is kinship, I said to myself and it comes as a bond. ‘I might be thinking of Lucifer,’ I also wrote on that page, right below the word Andromalius, which made me think of the entanglement between these two stars. I nodded, for this innocent bibliomancy here felt like a strengthening of my argument in the book.
Great bonds all of them, including the kinship between the numbers 66 to 133. 133 is 66+66+1. There’s nothing like cool arithmetic associations. As everything is an abstract in performance, we go with this magic.
I had to make a film for it, because why not? Especially since my head was well fumigated and irrigated: Dragon blood and wormwood. The evening dew in a fine crystal glass shimmered in the full moon’s silver light. Magic is magic…
Signing Andromalius and noticing how the last words on various pages participate in enhancing the calligraphic magic.
The paperback edition