Where Do Demons Live?: Everything You Want to Know About Magic

128 Pages·2010·2.21 MB·English

by  Frater U.:D.:

Born in Heliopolis, Egypt, Frater U.•. D.•. has been working within the magical
tradition for decades. He lived in Africa and Asia and trained with yoga and
tantra masters, and studied languages and literature at the universities of Bonn
and Lisbon. He is recognized as the founder of Pragmatic Magic and Ice Magic,
and has written articles for many magazines, including Unicorn, Thelema:
Magazine for Magic and Tantra, Anubis, The Lamp of Thoth, and Chaos
International. His published works include Practical Sigil Magic, High Magic,
and High Magic 77. Among his translations are the books of Peter Carroll and
Ramsey Dukes, and Aleister Crowley's Book of Lies. At present, he lives in
Belgium, where he is the CEO of a software-development company.

FRATER U.. D.-.
TRANSLATED BY MELINDA KUMBALEK
Other Books by Frater U.S. D.•.
High Magic
High Magic II
Practical Sigil Magic
Secrets of Western Sex Magic
At workshops and seminars, and in numerous conversations with fellow
magicians, Frater U% D. is often asked some very interesting questions about
magic and the occult. Since many of these questions can be answered with fairly
short explanations, he decided that a magical question-and-answer format would
be just the right method to respond to these queries.
And who would be more qualified at answering such questions than our
chatty old sorceress Aunt Klara, Frater U.. D...'s humorously fierce alter ego?
She has been sitting at her antique writing desk now for ages, just sipping away
at her coffee and chainsmoking. The desk, with its jet-black, crocheted
tablecloth, was part of the estate of an old archbishop who was guillotined
during the French Revolution. Aunt Klara sits there, answering questions and
giving advice on practical magic and much more, providing both historical and
current information that cannot be found anywhere else.
No wonder, then, that readers of the German magic magazine Anubis kept
Aunt Klara busy with their questions, and her responses in the column `Aunt
Klara's Temple of Solace"-reprinted here in their entiretywere always a favorite
feature of the magazine.
Do I need a master? 1
Should I join a magical order? 5
Does magic always have to be ritualistic? 9
Is the magical path compatible with Eastern philosophies? 13
Are some orders really as old as they claim? 21
What do you think of Franz Bardon? 27
What about karmic repercussions and tapping spirits? 33
Can a magical operation be considered a success if the result has already
occurred? 41
Where do demons live? 45
Is it a good idea to attend magic workshops? 49
How does one write magical music? 55
How does a death spell work? 61
What exactly is information magic? 65
Is witchcraft an ancient European nature religion? 75
Is there a form of Freemasonry that is magically active? 81
How significant was the Golden Dawn? 87
Do "true" Satanists really exist? 95
What is the truth behind sigil magic? 101
What truth is there to all the rumors about the Fraternitas Saturni? 107
How important was the German magic scene in the 1920s? 115
What role does astrology play in magic? 127
What do you think of spiritism and channeling? 135
Eliphas Levi-an "enlightened master" of magic? 141
Did the O.T.O. "invent" sex magic? 149
What purpose does the ritual burning of incense fulfill? 159
Astral travel-how does it work? 163
What role does shamanism play in contemporary magic? 167
Do the Harry Potter novels contain magical inside knowledge? 179