How does one utilize the occult in an effort to help other people? (Reddit)

Robert Dene, Warlock magazine vol 1 no 4 (1985)

A correspondent on Reddit asks:

I believe in wanting to help people using the methods and teachings of this stuff but I’d like to know the ways in which I can utilize it for others

My answer:

I don’t like to lay down dogmatic rules and stuff, but there is one which I always live by:

Don’t attempt to help others without their consent.

Even if you’re not attempting to harm someone deliberately, if they experience energies they don’t understand you may spook them so much you end up harming them accidentally. Besides which, if they themselves are not co-operating in the magick, they are likely to sabotage any useful effect of the spell you are trying to cast for them.

Perhaps even worse than performing magick on someone without their consent is performing magick on them to which they would definitely not consent if they did know about it. Even if you think it’s for their own good and you think you have their best intentions at heart, this sort of magick is actually the classic definition of a Curse: it will either end in harming the person, or in failure.

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Do you actually believe demons you summon are real? (Reddit)

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A correspondent on Reddit asks:

Do you actually believe demons you summon are real?
I’m asking because i see a lot of people that are into occult, that they don’t actually believe they summon entities, but rather its just a coping mechanism for them to find a actual guide what to do in their life. So do you actually believe in what you summon, or are ya all atheists just doing it to find a kind of “lifestyle” or what? Sorry for my bad English, its not my first language.

My answer:

If you treat demons as real, the universe behaves as if they are real – which is a philosophically valid justification for positing (nb: not believing), that they are in fact actually real. I have done enough sorcery in my life to have proved this for myself.

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I Am He Whom The Winds Fear

“I Am He Whom The Winds Fear” – original on NightCafé

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The Welsh Occult Conference 2025: Tickets Now On Sale

“Thin bald wizard with brown goatee beard casts fearsome enchantments at a spooky house in Wales, magical painting, intricately detailed, perfect composition.”

Following my most recent post, I can now let you know that tickets for The Welsh Occult Conference 2025 – at which I will be one of the speakers – are now on sale via EventBrite.

The event is £60 at Gregynog Hall in Montgomeryshire Wales. There is accommodation available there but you would have to book this separately. The speakers are:

Dr Stephen Skinner ~ the Grimoires, and how to use them.

Sue Ward ~ William Lilly and his 17th Century Astrology

Alex Sumner ~ Lockdown and the Abramelin rite (this will be the fifth anniversary of me performing the Operation, so I shall probably include that perspective in my talk as well).

Elaine Bailey ~ Anna Kingsford; Mother of the Golden Dawn.

Anne Pyatt ~ The History and Legacy of the Order of the Cubic Stone

Geraldine Beskin ~ Annie Horniman and the Golden Dawn.

Plus a load of book stalls and herb / plant stalls as well.

For full details and to book, please follow this link. Thanks!

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Current Work

Happy Equinox to you all. I’ve had some exciting new developments in my career recently, so I thought I’d better update you all.

First of all, save this date: SATURDAY 27TH MAY 2025. I shall be appearing at the Welsh Occult Conference 2025, alongside other illustrious speakers such as Stephen Skinner, Sue Ward, Geraldine Beskin, and more. Hell, when I saw the list of speakers, I thought I would have paid to go myself even if I hadn’t been invited!

Third on the bill! Not too shabby. 😉

This will take place at Gregynog Hall, near Newtown, in Montgomeryshire, Wales (nearest airport: Birmingham International). More details will be available from the organisers’ Facebook page, although obviously I will be posting all relevant updates on this website as well.

Secondly, I have been busy writing new material. Over the summer I had enough time off from other work to be able to write a whole screenplay, which will be a futuristic paranormal thriller set in a world where astral projection is regarded as cutting-edge science. Literary agents, commissioning editors etc please message me via the Contact Alex page on this website!

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Conjuring Demons … In Hardback!

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!


Sumner, A (2022), Conjuring Demons for Pleasure and Profit: an Abramelin Memoir, Thoth Publications, Leicester, UK.

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1870450744
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1870450744

(Paperback and Kindle versions also available).

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Recent work: Friendship

Created with a combination of Photoshop and NightCafe

Inspired by some magickal work I did recently, this is square 12 of Book IV, chapter 19 of the Book of Abramelin, “To Acquire Friendship.”

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Angelic Astral Projection

Experimenting with AI. The visuals came from a picture I created on NightCafe, whilst the music was created with Stable Audio.

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May 14, 2024 · 9:03 am

The Astrology of Earth Day

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What is a Godform?

The Assumption of the Godform of Osiris

A “Godform” is an idea that comes supposedly from ancient Egypt, although it was first described by the NeoPlatonist Iamblichus slightly less that 2000 years ago. The basic idea was that when a priest attempted to speak and act and imagine themselves as a god of the Egyptian pantheon, this served to invoke that god. Iamblichus’ idea was that the repeated “Assuming of a Godform” gradually transmuted the priest so that when he did so he became more and more godlike in real-life.

The Golden Dawn took this idea and made it the rationale as to why its grade ceremonies work on a magical level, i.e. because all the officers are assuming godforms whilst they perform their roles. The GD goes further by turning the assumption of godforms into an actual magical technique which adepts learn both to better work the grade ceremonies, and to do their own meditation and compose and perform their own rituals.

The actual GD technique is an unpublished teaching, but a simplified version of it can be found in the Ciceros’ Self Initiation book.


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