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Glitch Bottle Podcast
by Glitch Bottle (Alexander Eth)
The Glitch Bottle Podcast is a Western magic and grimoire-focused show that uncorks the uncommon with magic, mysticism and the generally misunderstood.
Episodes
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📚#179 - The Canterbury Pentacles with David Rankine | Glitch Bottle
What is the oldest known grimoire pentacle manuscript from 800-years-ago? How do these Christian-infused protective devices blossom our understanding of pentacles found hundreds of years later in grimoires like the Key of Solomon? David Rankine - author, esoteric researcher and practicing…
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🧙♀️#178 - Sealing Cracks as Priest-Magician with Josephine McCarthy | Glitch Bottle
How can magicians embrace the destructive tides of change? What is true magical service to others? How can we seal the cracks, the fissures in our own selves and embody the role of priest-magician? Josephine McCarthy - author, occultist, magical teacher, and director of the Quareia magical…
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#177 - Astrological Nigromancy of Cecco d’Ascoli with Mat Hadfield & Brian Johnson
What is astrological fatalism? Why did the Inquisition burn alive a university lecturer in Italy in 1327? What was the role of the four Kings of the four Cardinal directions and their connection to the cardinal signs of the Zodiac? Mat Hadfield and Brian Johnson discuss their latest tome from...
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#176 - Retribution Magic, Art & Boundaries with Calla Marie Rowan | Glitch Bottle
How are art and magic deeply entwined? What’s the relationship between Retribution Magic and Setting Boundaries? Why is the Lemegeton’s Goetia so misunderstood in some circles? Well our guest today is a great person to ask. Calla Marie Rowan is a folk magic practitioner at Contemporary Mystic.…
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#175 - What Is Esoteric Cartography with David Chaim Smith | Glitch Bottle
What is esoteric cartography? How can this path empower us to change directly with reality? Contemplative mystic, esoteric cartographer and author David Chaim Smith goes deep into ways to unravel the mind and so much more. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅David’s website - https://www.davidchaimsmith.com/ ✦🔮🔥Become a...
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#174 - Venetian Inquisition & Books of Magic with Dr. Federico Barbierato and Joseph H. Peterson
What was the relationship between the Inquisition, the Clavicula Salomonis, booksellers, and magical texts in early modern Venice? How did male and female practitioners make it (or not make it) to court. Why were punishments surprisingly light? Dr. Federico Barbierato shares about his latest...
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#173 - Protecting Your Power & Spiritual Discernment with Frater Ashen Chassan | Glitch Bottle
How can you interrogate a spirit? Should A.I. be used in Solomonic conjure? How can we avoid ‘group-think’ and cults of personality? Frater Ashen Chassan - author, ceremonial magician and martial artist - returns to share about these issues, answers your Patron supporter questions and more! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓...
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#172 - Magic Older Than The Gods & Egyptian Coffin Texts with Jack Grayle | Glitch Bottle
What are the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts from 4,000 years ago? How do they interweave with the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri (or PGM) spells? How can we become vessels through which the conjuratory power of the Gods flows to prevail against the darkness? Jack Grayle - author, ceremonial...
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The Best (Anonymous) Poem in English, Ever.
400 years ago, a brazenly braggadocious begging ‘bedlamite’ possibly penned a poem so incantatorily-poignant, so wonder-woundedly-written, so symmetrically and cognitively bruising, that it demands to be memorized and chanted aloud. Let's dive into the song of Tom O'Bedlam. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ Tom O'Bedlam's...
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#171 - The Ordo Templi Astartes & American Magick with Poke Runyon, Max Paul, & Johnny Royal
Carroll "Poke" Runyon founded the Ordo Templi Astartes in 1970, which is now America’s oldest continually operating ritual magick lodge. Poke is joined by OTA senior member Maximilian Raphael Paul, and film director (and composer) Johnny Royal, to talk about ‘American Magick’ a four-part…
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#170 - Shattering Fossils & Humanizing Agrippa with Dr. Justin Sledge
How is Kabbalah dynamic and fluid? Why should we STOP treating Agrippa’s writings like a pick-and-choose-magical-buffet, and instead as a system of spiritual illumination? What is Merkavah Mysticism? Dr. Justin Sledge - scholar, author, professor and proprietor of the ESOTERICA YouTube channel -...
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#169 - Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras with Peter Mark Adams
Who is Mithras, and what were the Mythraic Mysteries practiced thousands of years ago? How was the cult organized? What role did Orphic metaphysics and architecture play in communicating its mysteries? Peter Mark Adams - author, poet and essayist specialising in the ethnography and visuality of...
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#168 - Hygromanteia, Liber Bileth, & Solomonic Networks with Dr. Gal Sofer
Why should we challenge the assumption that the Greek magical text, the Hygromanteia, is really the source of the Key of Solomon? Why is Frankenstein’s Monster a better way to look at the collection of ‘Solomonic’ manuscripts? What is a ‘Solomonic network’ with ‘genes’, ‘nodes’ and ‘clusters’?…
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[Part 2] #167 - Grimoires, Demons & Catholic Theology with Jimmy Akin
What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Akin - Catholic theologian, philosopher, author and host of ‘Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World’ - goes deep into magic, theology, testing spirits,...
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[Part 1] #167 - Grimoires, Demons & Catholic Theology with Jimmy Akin
What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Akin - Catholic theologian, philosopher, author and host of ‘Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World’ - goes deep into magic, theology, testing spirits,...
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#166 - Shekinah, Winds & Claves Spirituum with David Rankine | Glitch Bottle
Why is invoking directional winds vital in ceremonial magic? Who is the Shekinah, and why is calling this powerful feminine presence actually encrypted in the Solomonic tradition? David Rankine - author, esoteric researcher and magician - shares about his upcoming tome from Hadean Press - Claves...
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#165 - Occultism, Astrology & Shi‘i Hadiths with Dr. Amina Inloes | Glitch Bottle
What does the Twelver Shi‘i Hadith tradition say about jinn, astrology, angels and necromancy? Dr. Amina Inloes - scholar, researcher, educator, public speaker, and translator with a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter - returns on the podcast to go deep into the Shi‘i hadith...
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#164 - Tarot, Art & Reverse Divination with Amelia Passer | Glitch Bottle
What is reverse divination? How do minerals, oils, and pigments reflect the deep alchemical process encrypted in painting? Amelia Passer - multidisciplinary artist, astrologer, and practitioner - shares about her creation process and her unique tarot deck composed of talismanic oil paintings…
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#163 - Song of the Dark Man with Darragh Mason | Glitch Bottle
What is the Dark Man, known by many names throughout the centuries like The Devil, Old Scratch, The Dark Rider, The Old One, The Master, the Father of Witches? Is the Dark Man really pure evil, as many religions say? Is he a catalyst of novelty, transformation and change? What happens when we...
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Step-By-Step Ritual Process & Full Heptameron in Latin | Glitch Bottle
What is the six-step ‘Solomonic Method’? How can understanding these ritual steps help us navigate almost any grimoire? We go step-by-step and recite the entire Heptameron in Latin from memory to illustrate the method. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅Full ‘Heptameron’ text via EsotericArchives.com -...
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#162 - Summoning Verse in Sigrun & The Mist with Jack Grayle & Klara Wolfe
How do you embody a fallen Valkyrie? Why is invoking poetry so similar to calling magical names and summoning spirits? Jack Grayle (magician, author and playwright) and Klara Wolfe (occult writer, professional embalmer and model) go deep into Jack’s new, fantastic verse-play set 1,200 years ago…
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#161 - Manuscript Hunting & Victorian Occultism with Daniel Clark
How do you track down hidden esoteric manuscripts? What is the Antipalus Maleficiorum? Who were the powerful noble families who owned books of magic throughout the centuries? Daniel Clark - manuscript detective & researcher, editor and collaborator with Dr. Stephen Skinner - goes deep into...
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The City of Brass & Solomon’s Vessels | Glitch Bottle
Why did Solomon bind demons in brass vessels? What’s the connection between leather bags, necromancy and the winds? We explore the history of jinn, metals and spirit-containers, and how all these themes flower in the collection of medieval Islamic stories known as the Thousand and One Nights...
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#160 - Devotional Fire Of Contemplative Mysticism with David Chaim Smith | Glitch Bottle
What is contemplative mysticism? How does this differ from modern occultism? Contemplative mystic, esoteric cartographer and author David Chaim Smith goes deep into ways to unravel the mind and so much more. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅David’s excellent sharing on his esoteric cartography -...
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#159 - Hollywood, Magic & Devotional Art with Ana Victoria Esquivel | Glitch Bottle
So, what does Hollywood and media in general get right about its portrayal of magic? Ana Victoria Esquivel is a Hollywood Make-up artist, writer and painter who is credited or involved with dozens of on-screen projects, including Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities and Rings of Power. She...
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#158 - Solomon, Shakespeare and Evocatory Drama with Dr. Rebekah King (Part 2)
What is ‘Solomonic exceptionalism’? How was grimoire magic set apart from witchcraft, fairy magic and prophecy in the time of Shakespeare? What grimoires were available when early modern dramatists like William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson and many others were portraying…
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#158 - Solomon, Shakespeare and Evocatory Drama with Dr. Rebekah King (Part 1)
What is ‘Solomonic exceptionalism’? How was grimoire magic set apart from witchcraft, fairy magic and prophecy in the time of Shakespeare? What grimoires were available when early modern dramatists like William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson and many others were portraying…
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Sailing Off the Edge of Your World with Ulysses and the Devil | Glitch Bottle
In today’s world of #hashtags, shortcuts and life hacks, our attention is sliced finer than the vellum folios of a 900-year-old grimoire. It takes will to cultivate consistent, in-depth practice. To illustrate this, I’d like to invoke the hidden devilish drive of determination in two of among the...
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#157 - John Dee’s Mysteriorum Libri Quinque with Joseph H. Peterson | Glitch Bottle
Why is the Mysteriorum Libri Quinque (the Five Books of Mysteries), written by John Dee in the 16th century, one of the most important core texts of occult literature? How were these secret writings about angel magic discovered long after John Dee’s death and remarkably spared from destruction?...
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A Formula for Calling Seasonal Spirits | Glitch Bottle
Before any magician summons a spirit listed in a grimoire it’s very important to understand ritual timing. Let’s explore how spirits of the hour, day and season all should be invoked before the aforementioned target beings, whether celestial, terrestrial, sublunar, airy, elemental, gnomish or of...
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Making Solomonic Holy Water: My Step-By-Step Guide
Holy water is *the* most foundational element in the Solomonic magician’s repertoire: without it, you can’t consecrate any of the ritual implements (or yourself) before or during a ritual. But how do you make it? Here is my own step-by-step method. ______________STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE______________…
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#156 - The Evocation of Art & War with Nightgrowler | Glitch Bottle
How does an artist confront and transmute the elements of war, death and destruction they encounter in their daily life? How does an artist ‘evoke’ a spiritual entity into their work? Is all art spiritual, or is there a separation? Ukrainian esoteric artist Nightgrowler returns on the podcast…
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Of Cock & Conjure: The Durancing Resplendencies of Roaring Roosters | Glitch Bottle
Are spirits conjured by cock, or rather, sealed by cockish potencies? Let's explore the hard truths of these vital roosterian resplendencies in the grimoires and Shakespeare: are these just charming suppositions, a bundle of poppycock, or a powerful tool in conjuring spirits? ✦🔮Shhhhhh….become a...
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#155 - Santa Muerte Evolution & Radical Acceptance with Ed Calderon | Glitch Bottle
How did a silver mining town in Mexico play a vital role in the growth of Santa Muerte veneration? How do Catholics and Luciferians venerate Santa Muerte? Ed Calderon returns on the podcast to share about his exciting historical discoveries and connections surrounding La Santa and answers you...
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#154 – The Summa Sacre Magice with Dr. Stephen Skinner | Glitch Bottle
After nearly 700 years, one of the most important Western magical compendiums in history has been fully translated into English for the first time. The Summa Sacre Magice (SSM) is a 200,000 word Latin manuscript written in 1346 by Catalan magician Berengarii Gannellii, and is considered the most...
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#153 - Planetary Intelligences & Destroying Hesitation with David Rankine | Glitch Bottle
You’ve heard of the License to Depart in ritual magic. What about the License to Remain? How do you conjure the Planetary Intelligences? Do you need permission to do a conjuration? David Rankine - author, esoteric researcher and magician - shares about his upcoming from Hadean Press - Claves...
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#152 - Conjuring Astaroth, The Latin Mass & Popes with Fr. Robert Nixon
How was the Traditional Latin Mass a focal point of a grimoire (attributed to a Pope) to summon the demon Astaroth? Why did another Pope from the 1200s write a fascinating collection of ‘home remedies’ and secret cures for a wide variety of physical ailments? Fr. Robert Nixon, OSB, is a monk of…
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Not Just Magicians: Catholic Exorcists Called On Demons, Too
Roman Catholic exorcists in the Middle Ages called on the authority of Lucifer, Beelzebub and Satan to remove lower demons from the body of a possessed person. Magicians also call on these demons, but for very different reasons. This deep dive explores what modern exorcists say about demonic...
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#151 - Jinn Doppelgangers & Akbarian Sufism with Dr. Dunja Rašić | Glitch Bottle
What are Jinn in the Islamic tradition? What is a Jinnic doppelganger, those much-feared beings who were believed to be assigned to each human being throughout their lives? How did one of the greatest minds in Islamic thought from the 12th and 13th centuries, Ibn Arabi, conceptualize about Jinn?...
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#150 - Scrying, Science & Radical Listening with Harper Feist | Glitch Bottle
What *actually* is scrying in magic and divination? What are the pitfalls and key tips to interact with spirits? What *is* a spirit? Harper Feist - scryer, esotericist, a scientist, author and historian- goes deep into the relationship between magic and science, shares her vast scrying wisdom,...
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#149 - Decrypting the Steganographia with Dr. Stephen Skinner | Glitch Bottle
What is the Steganographia, the most notorious work of German Benedictine abbot and polymath Johannes Trithemius? Written in the year 1500, Is the Steganographia a text about the evocation of spirits, a system of cryptography where information is secretly encoded, or both? Internationally…
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#148 - Turning Guns into Ink & Slime Alchemy with Thomas Little | Glitch Bottle
What is the magic behind ink making? What does it mean to alchemically dissolve and transmute guns into a liquid solution used by magicians and artists to make marks on parchment and paper? How are slime amoeba and the intricate patterns they produce a living ink in-and-of themselves? Artist,...
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#147 - Hidden Paths, Foolish Fish & The Vast Mind with Denis Poisson | Glitch Bottle
Why is magic a relationship instead of only repetitive formulas found in a book? Why should we engage with spirits in our actual, physical areas where we live? Why is magic about encouraging the unlikely, not conjuring the impossible? Denis Poisson - practitioner, author and host of the esoteric...
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#146 - IMBOLC & Founding a Magical Institute with Mstr. Agrippa & Frater Acher
What does it take to found a magical institute? Why is in-depth learning so important, especially in an age of short attention spans? In a first-ever interview, the founder of IMBOLC (the independent Western magic distance learning training institute) Mstr. Agrippa, stops by the podcast. He’s...
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#145 - Breaking Misconceptions of Santa Muerte with Ed Calderon | Glitch Bottle
How is the veneration of Santa Muerte evolving? In Mexico City’s Tepito barrio, what wisdom does the first public altar dedicated to Santa Muerte reveal to us? Ed Calderon shares the latest trends and deep lessons learned in going public with his veneration of La Santa. Ed has worked in the…
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#144 - The Egyptian Mystery Tradition with Peter Mark Adams | Glitch Bottle
What are mystery cults and what do they do? What are the Egyptian Mysteries and how were they practiced? How do Western esoteric conceptions of the Egyptian mysteries map onto their history? Author, esoteric researcher and healer Peter Mark Adams unravels the mystery of mystery cults, shares…
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#143 - Cutting Into The Grimorium Verum with Joseph H. Peterson | Glitch Bottle
What is the Grimorium Verum, also known as The True Grimoire? Why is it considered one of the most notorious handbooks of black magic -- dealing openly with spirits of darkness? Scholar and author Joseph H. Peterson shares about his updated edition of this grimoire, reflecting 15 years of...
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#142 - Smuggling Arabic Hermetica in Medieval Lapidaries with Vajra Regan
How did medieval lapidaries smuggle Arabic esoteric knowledge into Europe? What was the Arabic Hermetica corpus found in Europe 100 years before the Picatrix (Ghayat al-Hakim)? Vajra Regan - medieval scholar, author and researcher - shares about his latest research and new article published in…
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#141 - Witch Bottles: History, Culture, Magic with Dan Harms | Glitch Bottle
Why is a Witch Bottle a powerful magical counter-offensive against maleficent magic? What’s in a Witch Bottle, and how do you use it? Dan Harms is an author, scholar and a true master of library science. He stops by and uncorks the mystery in his latest tome “Witch Bottles: History, Culture,...
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Deep Dive: Planetary Conjurations of the Day (Patreon Request)
Podcast supporters on Patreon voted to go deep into the Heptameron Conjurations for each day of the week. Who are the powerful “Overseers” in each conjuration? We cover history, practical tips, and Solomonic magicians Aaron Leitch, Frater Ashen Chassan and Adley Nichols also stop by to also share...
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The Glitch Bottle Podcast is a Western magic and grimoire-focused show that uncorks the uncommon with magic, mysticism and the generally misunderstood.
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