You are now able to purchase my new book, Abramelin and Lockdown – a paper presented to the Welsh Occult Conference 2025 in both Paperback and Kindle ebook from Amazon. This is short precis of my experiences during 2020, which formed the basis of my longer work Conjuring Demons for Pleasure and Profit: an Abramelin memoir. I decided to publish this paper in response to people who expressed interest in my talk at the Welsh Occult Conference, but were not able to attend in person on the day.
From the back cover:
Novelist and writer on the occult ALEX SUMNER undertook the Abramelin Operation from April to October 2020, and subsequently wrote a book describing his experiences in detail: “Conjuring Demons for Pleasure and Profit: an Abramelin Memoir” (2022).
In this paper, which he presented to the Welsh Occult Conference at Gregynog Hall, 16th May 2025, he presents an overview of his experiences, including five years’ worth of insights, and a survey of popular misconceptions about Abramelin.
Because this is a short publication, it is not priced as highly as my other works. To purchase, please follow one of the following links:
Following on from my previous post, Abramelin and Lockdown: a paper presented to the Welsh Occult Conference 2025 will also be available as a Kindle ebook from Amazon, from 6th June 2025.
You can pre-order it now: to do so, please click on one of the following links:
You have the opportunity from 6th June 2025 to read the paper I delivered to the Welsh Occult Conference held in May, when I release it as slim (77 page) pamphlet via Amazon: Abramelin and Lockdown, by Alex Sumner.
From the back cover:
Novelist and writer on the occult ALEX SUMNER undertook the Abramelin Operation from April to October 2020, and subsequently wrote a book describing his experiences in detail: “Conjuring Demons for Pleasure and Profit: an Abramelin Memoir” (2022).
In this paper, which he presented to the Welsh Occult Conference at Gregynog Hall, 16th May 2025, he presents an overview of his experiences, including five years’ worth of insights, and a survey of popular misconceptions about Abramelin.
This contains all of the text of the original paper, as well as around twenty pages of previously unreleased material. NB you may think I chose to release it on the sixth day of the sixth month for dark Satanic reasons … but you would be wrong. I did an electional horoscope and found the stars and planets to be particularly auspicious that day. Besides which, Amazon wouldn’t let me release it at 6am even if I had wanted to!
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You are now able to enjoy my 2018 novel Eternal Witch with updated cover artwork (see above). From the back cover:
ZARIA ROSE has it all: a successful career as a pop star, fame, fortune, adulation – and a Magickal way of getting absolutely anything she wants.
However, when one day she tries to discover her past-life memories, her seemingly perfect life begins to fall apart – with nightmarish and violent consequences…
A Visionary Fiction novel, set in contemporary Britain, by Alex Sumner, author of The Magus and Taromancer.
Eternal Witch is available from Amazon and other good booksellers in both Paperback and Kindle format. For an autographed copy, please message me privately via the Contact Me link, or you can come and see me at the Welsh Occult Conference next month!
“Conjuring Demons for Pleasure and Profit: an Abramelin Memoir,” by Alex Sumner, is now available in a de-luxe Hardback format. This is my account of how I performed the Abramelin Operation in 2020, whilst the world was in lockdown over the Covid-19 pandemic – and what happened as a result thereof.
“DURING THE YEAR 2020, the COVID-19 Pandemic affected people across the world in a number of different ways . . . I personally chose to use the time to carry out a lengthy Magical Ritual to invoke an Angel and subsequently summon and bind all the Demons of Hell.”
In 1996 as a young man, Alex Sumner brought a copy of Mathers’ The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, made most famous by the occultist Aleister Crowley. Alex left it lying on his bookshelf for almost a quarter of a century . . . until the pandemic lockdown caused him to work from home on full-pay – and enabled him to complete the Abramelin Operation.
IN THIS BOOK YOU WILL DISCOVER:
The magical diary of a magician who performed the Abramelin Operation for six months, right through to its exciting end;
What the Operation is, how it is performed and what to expect from “Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel”;
Why most books about Abramelin are full of mistakes and how you can work out the truth for yourself.
Worked examples of how to make use of the Word Squares to attain fantastic magical effects; And…
Why the Abramelin Operation is actually easier than many people seem to think.
This is available from Amazon in the USA and the UK (and elsewhere) … however, I also have a limited number of copies in stock myself: so if you would like a signed copy from me, message me using the contact form on this website. Thanks!
What are your thoughts on doing the Abramelin operation just to the point of contact and conversation with your HGA and stopping there. I’m not sure I particularly want to do the rest from there on. Would it just be unfinished as completing it is the goal, or could that be the operation in itself?
Besides which, I rather think that the Bravery required to stand up to all the demons of Hell and command their obedience is the final test. KCHGA gives you that bravery, but you still have to go through with it otherwise you can’t actually use the Abramelin system thereafter.
In any event, just about every system of spiritual development I know – Abramelin, the Golden Dawn itself, Elus Cohens, and even the Individuation process in Jung’s analytical psychology – involving facing up to the “dark forces” and not banishing them but integrating them to play nicely with “higher authority” – whether that be the HGA, the Higher Self, the Repairer, or “the Self.” You can’t get away from it.
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Alex’ answer:
Hi, I actually did the Abramelin Operation during the lockdown in 2020, and subsequently wrote a book about it.
I know that all experiences are subjective to the practitioner, but I still think hearing about others experiences will still be very informative.
How did you prepare to do the ritual?
The superficial answer was that I didn’t. The lockdown began in March 2020, and Abramelin Season began a couple of weeks later on Easter Monday, 10th April. As I found myself obliged to work from home on full pay for the then foreseeable future, I decided pretty quickly “Fuck it, it’s now or never.” However, the more fuller answer is that when I did start Abramelin, I found that having practiced ceremonial magick and meditation in general for over twenty-five years before starting the operation proper proved invaluable to me. In that sense, I had been preparing for it for over a quarter of a century.
What did you experience when you summoned the demonic powers?
It felt nerve-wracking at the time. However, the Demons are conjured on the last three days of the Ritual: the HGA is invoked on the three days prior to that. It helped enormously that on the evening of the Third Day of Convocation of the Good Spirits I believe I actually experienced my Holy Guardian Angel manifesting, which meant I went into the subsequent demonic conjurations with confidence. Ultimately, the biggest demon which I conquered was my own fear of completing the ritual.
What was it like to summon the holy guardian angel?
Satisfying – not unlike deep, intense, meditation. Incidentally, I found that KCHGA doesn’t just happen suddenly at the very end of the operation, but starts to manifest during the course of the operation itself. The final Convocations of the Good Spirits is just the culmination of the thing.
Do you have any advice for those that are looking to perform the ritual themselves?
Yes, it’s actually a lot easier than you probably think. For the most part it consists of performing a simple ritual twice or three times a day every day for six months. What’s more, nowadays we live in an age when it is easier than ever to perform Abramelin: delicious vegetarian food is available from every supermarket, and technology, especially the internet, means that an Operand has more support for his/her efforts than at any time in the past.
The only really difficult part is in the final third, when you have to do the ritual three times a day – morning, noon, and night – the noon-day ritual really gets in the way of holding down a proper job, so ideally one ought to find a way to go on sabbatical for that time. The final seven days I booked off completely.
Here in the United Kingdom, the government is conducting an inquiry into what were everyone’s experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, entitled Every Story Matters. As per the blurb on the front page:
Every Story Matters is your opportunity to help the UK Covid-19 Inquiry understand your experience of the pandemic.
The pandemic affected every single person in the UK and, in many cases, continues to have a lasting impact on lives. Every one of our experiences is unique and this is your opportunity to share the impact it had on you, and your life, with the Inquiry.
Every story shared with us will be used to shape the Inquiry’s investigations and help us to learn lessons for the future. Stories will be collated, analysed and turned into themed reports, which will be submitted into each relevant investigation as evidence. The reports will be anonymised.
It therefore occurs to the Sumner Family Brain Cell that I have an important story to tell, and not just because I’ve written a book about it. I have therefore decided to tell the British Government about my experiences attempting the Abramelin Operation in 2020. At worst, it will provide whichever low-paid civil service employee is employed to read all these entries half-an-hour of amusement in between the monotony of the same-old same-old “I was stuck in my house, watching Netflix, deteriorating, etc tec ect.”
At best, it will cause the Government to pay more attention to the importance of a spiritual practice in maintaining self-esteem and mental health in a time of practice. I cannot conceal that I was motivated by plugging my book in all of this.
Anywho, if you live in the UK, I recommend you take a look at this survey yourself as you may find you want to contribute your own story.
For quite a while I have thought about doing the Abramelin ritual, but been hesitating because of the dreadful things I’ve read about the consequences of the ritual going wrong. Crowley wasn’t the same after he tried the ritual, some of his disciples, so I’ve read, even killed themselves after trying the ritual and failing. And then there’s that really spooky description in Dion Fortune’s Psychic Self Defense… Obviously this ritual is really powerful, done right or done wrong even.
How dangerous is it really? Any firsthand experiences?
I did not experience any of the horror stories, but then again, that is probably because I researched everything Crowley did, saw where he went wrong, and made a deliberate effort not to make his mistakes myself. For example, by only dealing with the word-squares within sacred space, so that the demons didn’t turn before time and cause havoc, as they apparently did with Crowley’s local butcher.
On the whole, my experience of Abramelin was overwhelmingly positive. Not only was I pleased with the way it ended, but I found the discipline of doing what is essentially a simple ritual two (or later, three) times a day every day for two hundred days rewarding in itself.
The final seven days was nerve-wracking, but it made me realise that the real key to success was overcoming my own fear.
Because I enjoyed Abramelin so much, I would encourage more people to give it a go, by saying it is worthwhile and is probably easier that you think.
BTW – you better hurry up if you want to do it, as the start of Abramelin season is coming up in just ten days time – MONDAY 10TH APRIL 2023 (Easter Monday).
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From Reddit:
I wouldn’t know – I completed the whole thing, KCHGA, demons, and all.
Besides which, I rather think that the Bravery required to stand up to all the demons of Hell and command their obedience is the final test. KCHGA gives you that bravery, but you still have to go through with it otherwise you can’t actually use the Abramelin system thereafter.
In any event, just about every system of spiritual development I know – Abramelin, the Golden Dawn itself, Elus Cohens, and even the Individuation process in Jung’s analytical psychology – involving facing up to the “dark forces” and not banishing them but integrating them to play nicely with “higher authority” – whether that be the HGA, the Higher Self, the Repairer, or “the Self.” You can’t get away from it.
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