/r/Grimoires

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Welcome to /r/Grimoires! A community for the discussion, study and application of grimoires and spell books.

Welcome to /r/Grimoires. A community for the discussion, study and application of grimoires and spell books.

What is a grimoire?

By the most basic definition a grimoire is a spell book, or text book of magic and/or the occult. The word grimoire comes from French, and developed sometime around the mid to late 1700's. For the purposes of this sub a grimoire is any instructional or informational text concerning magic, witchcraft, occultism or mystery religions, magical objects, magical creatures or entities, the performance or creation of rituals, devotions, spells, charms and/or curses.

Though the term grimoire was popularized during the 18th century, texts which may carry that label date back to ancient times, and include some of the first pieces of literature, going back to Egypt and Mesopotamia. Grimoires are often associated with Occult, Paganism and Witchcraft, but there are grimoires from many cultures, both Modern, Classic and Ancient, Western and Eastern, New World and Old World, Christian and Secular (and all are welcome here).

Things to post

  • Discussions, insights, questions about the grimoires you are reading are always welcome.

  • Information about creating grimoires. Videos, blogs and articles about calligraphy, illumination, book binding.

  • You are also welcome to share you personal Grimoire, Book of Shadows, Book of Mirrors (etc.).

  • Resources are always welcome, occult reading lists, links to .pdf copies of known grimoires etc.

...Keep in mind that this is a new sub, so we are relativity relaxed while we find our niche, so feel free to contribute anything that you think might be to be relevant to r/grimoires.

Resources

  • The Hermetically Open Project – in 2016 Dan Brown (author of The Da Vinci Code) made a sizable donation to the Ritman Library to have 4,600 occultist texts and Grimoires digitized and made publicly available. In early 2018 this collection started becoming available through the Ritman Library's portal Embassy of the Free Mind.

  • Sacred Texts is an internet archive of religious, and spiritual texts, the bulk of which are in the public domain. It is a great place to go for modern translations and the more well known or wildly published grimoires.

  • The Cornell University Witchcraft Collection Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections has a collection of over 3'000 texts and manuscripts on witchcraft, open to the public. Over 100 of which is available through digital download.


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Charcoal (ingredient)

2 Comments
2024/03/26
09:16 UTC

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Easiest way to create a spell.

Hello, I am new to occult and all amd still dunno much but I want a create a spell. The issue is, I do not know how. I know sigil magick but are there any other ways to do magick or are there any easy ways to create a spell for a beginner?

3 Comments
2024/03/24
13:42 UTC

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Magic in black&white

0 Comments
2024/03/23
08:22 UTC

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Looking for a Specific Book

So I’m trying to find a specific book which I’ve seen before but regrettably didn’t take a picture of. It’s got a grey cover with simple geometry and it’s no more than 30 pages, softcover in the version I saw,, it’s titled the “Book of” something I think, and the contents are all simple spells associated with a short strip of musical lines which you’re meant to fill in the musical notes of the spell on. There’s a whole theme of the spells being manifest through musical notes, and it’s meant to be interactive as you work through it. The art inside is reminiscent of Tomie DePaolo; Strega Nona style illustrations of hooded figures whistling spells. I want to say it’s the Book of Reeds or the Book of Lays or something similar, but I can’t remember.

If anyone knows this book, please let me know what it’s called? Thanks y’all!

6 Comments
2024/03/08
23:43 UTC

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What’s The Most Powerful Grimoire You Have Ever Practiced?

As the title suggests? What book completely changed your world after you practiced it?

2 Comments
2024/02/09
17:46 UTC

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Need help :(

I'm looking for another grimoire, it's from Eastern Europe and I literally cannot find a PDF for one, please help.

0 Comments
2024/01/18
21:10 UTC

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"The Primordial Language" John Dee song-- Live Rendition!

Hi there,

I am a Phd student studying esotericism and philosophy/singer-musician turning esotericism and philosophy into music. Hear my live rendition of my song about the philosophy of John Dee called "The Primordial Language"! It elucidates John Dee's theory of the universal lyre, his conception of the Monas Hieroglyphica, and explains his motivations for undertaking angelic correspondence with Edward Kelly. Didactic and harmonious, I hope you enjoy my live rendition of this song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNujrVm_VzM

0 Comments
2024/01/18
19:05 UTC

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Help me pretty please

Hi, a few months ago I found a grimoire online. It was just a PDF file without any other websites of links attached and I forgot to write it down. It was Icelandic but it wasn't the Galdrabok I know that for sure. I've been looking for a while and I cannot find it, if anybody knows a link to it please send it to me. The book was filled with more spells than and it had a page full of runes about half way down.

3 Comments
2024/01/17
23:55 UTC

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When writing in your grimoire, do you do your nicest handwriting? Give it extra flair in the script?

I have a journal and BoS that I use for regular writing, but I use my grimoire for more formalized information, e.g. spells, spirit info, etc. I also only hand-write this information. When doing so I've found myself taking extra care to write extra legibly and sometimes have a bit more curl to my lettering. Does anyone else do this either consciously or unconsciously?

6 Comments
2024/01/17
20:09 UTC

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Creative Grimoire Ideas

hey y’all! in need of creative grimoire ideas. share!

5 Comments
2024/01/02
20:23 UTC

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I have a question about my choice of grimoire

I have a issue with my grimoire that I chose, since I don’t have a lot of money to spend on solid grimoires I decided to use a digital one, powered by AI, I’m not sure if this is bad or not but so far it was has been extremely helpful

16 Comments
2023/12/27
06:55 UTC

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Does anyone else use a digital grimoire?

Mapping out a digital grimoire on my Remarkable 2 because writing in a physical notebook always feels limiting to me. I always want to rearrange or replace or move or scrap.

I'm arranging it more like a journal rather than an actual grimoire so I can get everything in one place and then get started on the real thing.

25 Comments
2023/12/12
11:32 UTC

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Athena's Sanctuary

Alright yall. I see you. Your experiences are valid. I have a cheat sheet of definitions and shit is my witchy educational discord server if yall would like to join. Its very beginner friendly

https://discord.gg/G2mNBeXcU2

0 Comments
2023/11/22
05:49 UTC

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First grimore HELP

So I'm going to start my first grimore. Bit I need to be sure what had to be in a grimore to be called so and what it can have that'll make it stop being a grimore. I was thinking on just blurting out all of the basic info like astrology magic basics etc just basics in general, then write my studies on a bunch of stuff about it life symbology, tarot, palmistry and other basics. So in the end is a witchcraft study book. What I don't know is if that is still a grimore and what else can be in it. I just don't want to use therms I don't actually fully understand. Thanks

11 Comments
2023/11/20
14:50 UTC

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A few questions about grimoires

So I have three questions relating to grimoires

  1. How would I go about making my own?

  2. Any suggestions for rare obscure grimoires already out there? I like collecting rare books/ how would I go about finding one

  3. Any suggestions for voodoo books? Once again I like collecting rare/interesting books

0 Comments
2023/11/12
00:06 UTC

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Grimoire help!!! Please!

Hi! I am new to this sub, but not exactly new to making grimoires. Or starting them anyways. I have had this problem for many years, where I get a journal, or bind a book, and then I spend like three weeks just staring at the front page, and then suddenly, I get a burst of inspiration to start the book. Then I race through and do like ten pages, but then it fizzles out and I can't work on it anymore. I get really unmotivated, and lose my flow. Then after about a week, the cycle starts again with a new journal. And another one, and another one!!! IM LITERALLY DROWNING IN BOOKS OVER HERE Y'ALL!!!

Guys, I am on grimoire number 13 now, and I need to stop! Plus, it is quite draining to have a bunch of unfinished projects just laying around. And I really just want to have one grimoire that is nice, pretty, and practical, but mostly just one that is finished!!!

Any help AT ALL would be greatly appreciated.

7 Comments
2023/11/08
17:04 UTC

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Writing a grimoire when you are a fucking perfectionist

hi yeah can someone tell me how the HELL to pick up a pen and actually write in this godforsaken book? i want a grimoire but the thought of messing up in it makes me want to lay on the floor staring at space during an existential crisis. thanks. oh and i’m a virgo rising. tell me how to not be broken!

16 Comments
2023/11/04
02:59 UTC

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I need your knowledge!

I’m not sure if you guys see posts like this very often but what I am dealing with, you might be able to finally help me understand what I have been dealing with for the last 5 years. Please if you know anything about this or know someone who does, please share it with them.

If ANY of you on here could help me with this, it would be life changing. This has caused me extreme distress and I would do anything to finally fix it.

I started meditating about 5 years ago. I had done it before but not as deep as I was going. I don’t know if it was the technique or what but the method I was doing was training me to go longer and longer without a single thought.

It was simply sit down, and feel your body. That was it. If you have a thought, let it go and focus on the feeling of your body.

So longer and longer I would go without a thought over the coming months. I did this for sleep. I’ve always had insomnia since I was in middle school. And it worked! I was finally beginning to get to sleep on my own (I usually had to take an otc sleeping pill).

But something started to happen the longer this would go on. Over time, and I SWEAR this was real and I’m not making this up and it has caused me extreme distress, over time as I would meditate I would start to hear sounds. The TV would start clicking. Almost as if it would if it was cold and then got hot. Same with the knocks in the walls. The knocks would sound like an old house readjusting to different temperatures. That’s what the sounds sounded like.

Ok no big deal. Just a click in the tv or a creek in the walls. But the more I meditated, day after day the more these sounds would pick up in activity and I noticed that I wasn’t hearing them when I wasn’t meditating. Maybe once a day I would hear the sounds. So the sounds seemed to be related to my meditations themselves.

But I kept meditating, it was weird but it wasn’t anything distressing. But as the days went by I would put myself into such a deep state that when I heard a sound, I would jump out of my state real quick like you would if somebody jump scared you. And they seemed to be getting louder.

Around this time a new phenomenon started happening, I started having involuntary movements. Now when I was in that state of no thought I had sound activity picking up to jump scare me and now my arms and legs would randomly jerk. And again it seemed to only happen when I meditated. And at first the involuntary movement was light but as time would go on, my arms, legs and head would jerk more and more violently. And the weird thing was all of this stuff would affect my meditation and immediately take me out of the state I had cultivated.

But I kept meditating daily. The next thing that started happening was I would start to realize the knocks on the wall weren’t the only sounds I was hearing. I was hearing furniture moving in the other room. And now this activity was not only happening when I meditated but all the time when I was alone in my house. It got so bad one day, I was taking a shower and I thought I heard someone break into my house, it sounded like somebody kicked my front door open. And I get out of the shower to look and nothing. It got to the point where I was hearing all these noises all the time that I couldn’t tell if someone else was in the house or not.

Worst of all, the scariest part was it would also pick up its activity when I would read. It would make a noise the exact time when I would “get into the book” effectively preventing me from being able to read. It felt extremely creepy like there was a ghost deliberately tormenting me that was able to tell when my mind would get into any sort of state. It felt like a conscious entity that was sent to torment me and prevent me from going any further or any deeper into a meditative state. It also seemed to purposefully try to make me feel like somebody was in the house when I was alone.

There was an incident where I heard this super strange noise in the middle of my living room and my cat jumped almost out of her skin she got so spooked.

This activity never happened when I had someone else in the house with me.

This caused me so much despair and distress that I began to drink as alcohol was the only thing that made it stop.

It’s been 5 years since all of that and I am now sober for a month. First time being sober since this happened. When I started drinking because of all of this, I began to drink every night so I could sleep and at least have a couple hours every day to be free from the torment.

But I am ready to start practicing spirituality again and meditating, but I HAVE to know what all of that activity and torment was all about. What it was. What caused it. And how to prevent it.

PLEASE this is real, the scariest part about it that most people think it’s not real. I experienced something that should be impossible. So I had no clue who to talk to about it or how to solve it. I was very alone and trapped with this thing that shouldn’t exist.

4 Comments
2023/09/29
03:51 UTC

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Enochian magic, John Dee and the Primordial Language

Want to learn about the concept of the primordial language that inspired John Dee to work with Edward Kelly and the development of Enochian magic? This presentation delves into John Dee’s philosophy, delving into Dee’s theory of the universal lyre, the Monas Hieroglyphica, his ideas concerning the originary language, and the underlying motivations for why he turned to angelic beings. If you are interested in Dee, you are sure to learn something or enjoy the creative format of knowledge dissemination. If you enjoy this song, I have many more didactic songs about esotericism and philosophy on the same channel!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNKbwGSDXjc

0 Comments
2023/09/28
21:25 UTC

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Dream communication spells

Do you have any good spells for dream communication?

0 Comments
2023/09/05
23:53 UTC

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Is it okay to do a Saturn ritual while Saturn is descending?

The moon is ascending in Aries which is a good time for positive work but does it matter if Saturn is descending?

0 Comments
2023/09/03
08:52 UTC

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