Miller - The Elements of Spellcasting: 21 Keys to Successful Sorcery

Praise for The Elements of Spellcrafting:

The Elements of Spellcrafting is a no-nonsense guide to practical sorcery, blending tradition and innovation without extraneous blather or hyperbole. With humour and much-needed down-to-earth advice, Jason Miller guides the reader through the key elements of effective magical practice.

Phil Hine, author of Condensed Chaos, Prime Chaos, and Pseudonomicon

In this practical, results-oriented manual, Jason Miller delivers more good advice per page than some entire books. The style is engaging, the writing clear and the lack of dogma refreshing. Highly recommended.

Jake Stratton-Kent, author of the Encyclopedia Goetica

This is one of those books of magic, far too rare, that make me want to stand up and applaud. Miller is not one for airy theorization. He's a practical magician and he keeps his sorcerous tires firmly on the pavement, as he lays out the common misconceptions and errors that magicians make, and best of all, the beneficial techniques that magicians often have to stumble onto themselves. Those new to magical practice will find this book a handy inoculation against nonsense and a guide through thickets of time-wasting foolishness. Those old hands at magic will find themselves thinking oh, so that's why that didn't workof course! It's a time saver and a breath of fresh air, clearing away the clouds of incense, all with humour, humility, and frank clarity. This is a book that makes you want to do magic.

Patrick Dunn, author of Magic, Power, Language, Symbol and The Practical Art of Divine Magic

Poignant and precise, well-articulated and presented with steady pace; Jason Miller once again delivers a magical manual for modern practitioners who want to go deeper and get more out of their witchcraft. Full of newly developed material, wit, and a confident tone, The Elements of Spellcrafting is a new take on advanced witchcraft and spellcraft that will expand your practice and point you in the direction of power and success. This is not a book I would lend out, you will never see it again!

Devin Hunter, author of Witch's Book of Power and Witch's Book of Spirit

Sage, salt of the earth instruction for witches and occultists at all levels. Don't be afraid to ask for more than you deserve and now with this book, you'll have a plan rooted in witchcraft as well as practicality to achieve it!

Deborah Castellano, author of Glamour Magic

This edition first published in 2017 by or New Page Books,

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ISBN: 978-1-63265-120-4

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Miller, Jason, 1972- author.

Title: The elements of spellcrafting : 21 keys to successful sorcery / by Jason Miller.

Description: Wayne, NJ : New Page Books, a division of The Career Press, Inc., [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017048730 (print) | LCCN 2017050645 (ebook) | ISBN 9781632658869 (ebook) | ISBN 9781632651204 (pbk.)

Subjects: LCSH: Incantations. | Occultism. | Witchcraft. | Magic.

Classification: LCC BF1558 (ebook) | LCC BF1558 .M55 2018 (print) | DDC 133.4/4--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017048730

Cover photograph Matthew Brownlee

Background cover image by agsandrew/shutterstock

Interior photos/images by Matthew Brownlee

Interior by Lauren Manoy

Typeset in Adobe Garamond Pro and Koch Antiqua

Printed in Canada

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Seneca once said, While we teach, we learn.

This book is dedicated to the students of Strategic Sorcery.

Without you, this book would not have been possible.

F irst and foremost, I wish to thank my wife and children for their patience and encouragement during the writing of this book. A very special thanks to my best friend and first student, Artist and Sorcerer Mathew Brownlee for providing the art for this book. It was a great time sitting at the bar, coming up with the comics for all the keys.

Thanks to all my initiators, mentors, teachers, friends, and informants who have revealed to me the secrets of their craft. Special thanks for this go to John Myrdhin Reynolds, Namkhai Norbu, Lopon Tenzin Namdak, Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche, Cliff and Misha Pollick, catherine yronwood, Tau Nemesius, Dr Jim, Paul Hume, and Blanch Krubner. You all opened yourselves up as mentors for me as a young man, and I would not be anywhere close to where I am today without your guidance.

Thanks to Joseph Peterson for allowing use of his images from his Noblet Tarot Reproduction.

Perhaps more than anyone, I need to thank the students of the Strategic Sorcery course, Sorcery of Hekate course, and all the other programs that I run. Your stories and field reports impacted this book a lot, and I continue to learn every day through teaching. I would not be able to lead the life I do without you, so thank you.

All of my books are guided by spirits, with one standing out as the patron of the book. This book owes much to St Cyprian of Antioch, Sorcerer and Saint, Martyr and Mage, Bishop and Witch and Magus all. Please continue to bless my writings, and the work of those who read them.

Lastly, I want to thank all at New Page Press that worked on this book, specifically Laurie Kelly-Pye, who suggested I start writing books, and her husband, Michael, who was extremely generous with deadline extensions.

S ome Witches and Magicians think spells are something to be left behind, a phase that you pass through at the beginning of your path, eventually to be cast aside for more spiritual pursuits. Ideas of using Magic to find money or love, win against a rival, heal an ailment, secure the home, and turn the wheel of fate in your favor get abandoned as a youthful endeavor, or perhaps something that you stoop to as a last resort in an emergency. For these folks, Spellcrafting is certainly not something that you spend time on as an adult. Call me childish then, because I am not one of these folks.

I love Spellcrafting.

I have been practicing Magic and Witchcraft for nearly 30 years. I have dedicated the last of those three decades to teaching what I call Strategic Sorcery, and made a nice career of it too. I have seen remarkable results and flabbergasting failures. I have been party to rituals that saved lives, and others that blew them up. I have learned something from each spell about what works and what doesn't. I am not claiming to be the smartest, the most powerful, or the wisest Sorcerer on the blockin fact, I know that this is not the case. But I have seen some shit, dear reader, and have learned a lot from it.

I think most people who try spells know that they work. A little extra money comes in, a person they are attracted to shows interest back, a health condition improves. Spells work enough to convince the caster that Magic is real, but it is rare that the result is anything that would actually change one's life for the better in a significant way. This is what this book is about.