Ritual Offerings, Paperback

Ritual Offerings by Aaron LeitchRitual Offerings unites 12 practicing occultists who share their knowledge and experience with this fascinating and important subject. Traditions from around the world, such as Solomonic magick, Tibetan Buddhism, New Orleans and Hatian Voudou, Western Hermetic Theurgy and more, are discussed in great detail. Whether you prefer to call them religious sacrifices or spiritual offerings, and regardless of your tradition, Ritual Offerings is the perfect ritual book to guide you in feeding your patrons and familiars safely and effectively, contributing to your overall success and growth as a practitioner.Occult Rituals and SacrificesSpirits are not merely an option or tool to be utilized when the magician deems it necessary. Spirits are the very heart and soul of all magick. The incantations we use work because the spirits heard them and act. We are not alone when we cast our spells; our patrons and familiars are always present, casting the spells with us.Throughout history, ritual offerings have been a central pillar of all magick and religion. Very often, a magickal ritual consists of nothing more than the making of a prescribed offering to a particular spirit in a specified time and place. Yet in the West, the making of an offering has been equated with the worship of the spirit receiving it. The act of offering a spirit something as payment for services rendered has a close association with the dreaded "pact with the Devil," by which a magician surely sells his soul to damnation. However, to the rest of the world, an offering is intended to feed and empower a spiritual entity, and to pay it fairly for its aid.The art of making proper offerings to the spirits is a complex one, rife with ceremonial magick tools, strict protocols and warnings; but if you take the time to learn this ancient and powerful art, it will supercharge your magick like nothing you've experienced before.Contributors Include:Aaron Leitch: Introduction: Magickal Offerings in Western OccultismAaron Leitch: Liber Donariorum: The Book of OfferingsZadkiel: The Elements of Making Offerings: The Offering as SacrificeBryan Garner (Frater Ashen Chassan): Whispers From a Skull: Lessons in Spiritual Offerings From a Conjured FamiliarBrother Moloch: Ancestors & OfferingFrater Rufus Opus: The Back Yard Path Toward the Summum BonumDenise M. Alvarado: Ritual Offerings in New Orleans VoudouJason Miller: Severed Head Cakes and Clouds of Dancing Girls: Offerings in Tibetan BuddhismNick Farrell: Offerings in Roman Deity MagicSam Webster, M.Div., Ph.D., founder OSOGD: Offerings in Iamblichan TheurgyChic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero: Ritual for the Declaration of Maa-KheruGilberto Strapazon: Offerings in Ceremonial Magick and African Traditional Religions