CEREMONIAL MAGIC
&
THE POWER OF EVOCATION
by
Joseph C. Lisiewski, Ph.D.
The Original Falcon Press
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
Copyright 2004 by Joseph C. Lisiewski, Ph.D.
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International Standard Book Number: 978-1-935150-86-2
International Standard Book Number: 978-1-61869-860-5 (Amazon Kindle)
International Standard Book Number: 978-1-61869-861-2 (ePub)
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2004108844
First Edition 2004
First eBook Edition 2012
This story is based on true events. Names and locations have been changed when necessary to protect the identity of the participants.
Cover design and illustration Linda Joyce Franks
(illustration of the "Devil" from the artist's Tarot in progress)
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D. as a token of my respect and gratitude for the friendship and personal instruction he has unselfishly given me throughout so many years; and to my first mentor in Magic, Dr. Francis Israel Regardie, who guided me in the Secret Work throughout the last fourteen years of his life. In the end, his greatest gift to me was his friendship.
Table of Contents
WARNING!
PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY! This warning is given in earnest. It is not like other gimmicks meant to sell a book. You now stand at the opening of a portal that will lead to personal power! If you decide to undertake what is written herein, you begin an incredible journey that can lead you to material fulfillment and magical power. It is a book that describes the evocation of long forgotten spirits; beings who have as much objective reality as you do. But it contains much more than that. It will enable you to design your own occult system of personal development which is the only kind that can truly work for the individual. You are warned that by following these instructions you will produce the magical phenomena described, and can most certainly succeed in obtaining your hearts desire. In short, you, dear reader, may very well have your wishes fulfilled. But there is an old admonition concerning wishes which you will do well to heed as you read and work from this strange text: Be careful what you wish for, because you just may get it! Mark this charge well!
Introduction
Dr. Joseph C. Lisiewski first met with Dr. Francis Israel Regardie during the week of October 813, 1973. Joe flew from his home in Selinsgrove, PA to Studio City, CA to meet the world famous Occultist; this, the result of a two-year correspondence that had passed between them. They spent those days at Regardies home at 7332 Coldwater Canyon Avenue. Among the many subjects discussed, Francis had confided in Joe (and in myself) that in all of his years in the occult, he never knew of anyone who had attempted the Abramelin Operation as it is given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage . Regardie went on to say that those who did attempt the operation always modified it in one way or another, causing him to be extremely suspicious of their results. This idea of altering the magical operation left a marked impression on Joe, who told me years later that it was this one statement of Regardies which later formed the basis of his beliefand later experimental verificationthat systems of magic must never be altered or mixed. Put quite simply, this is the basis of this wonderful book: full and completely unaltered Magic.
Although Joe and I began corresponding in April 1985, a month after Regardies death, our first face-to-face meeting did not occur until April of 1986, approximately 13 months after Francis demise. He flew to Phoenix from the East coast. I picked him up, took him to my home in Sedona, AZ, and our intense magical times began.
During our early correspondence, Joe stated to me that he was one of Regardies students as well as his alchemical consultant. While I normally would have been cautious of such claims from most peopleeven likely to reject them outright)I knew of Joe through Francis before he knew of me, as Regardie had talked to me about him a number of times. Indeed, I was present at Dr. Regardies home during several of their marathon telephone discussions.
Privately, Francis told me that Joe was one of the few students of the occult who he respected. He knows his stuff! he said, particularly in the areas of alchemy and evocation. He also confided in me that Joseph Lisiewski had attended Frater Albertus school of alchemy, and was one of the few students Frater Albertus respected greatly. In fact, Joe had completed the entire seven year cycle of alchemical instruction in six years (19751980).
Thus, Joe became part of the inner alchemical circle which included some of the Dallas people (such as Hans Nitzel), along with Dr. Regardie, and of course, Frater Albertus himself. All of them communicated regularly with each other, sharing the results of their secret alchemical experiments.
