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June 6, 2025 · 6:00 am

“Abramelin and Lockdown” by Alex Sumner – now out

Front cover artwork to "Abramelin and Lockdown" by Alex Sumner, showing a wizard in his oratory. — “Abramelin and Lockdown : cover artwork © 2025 Alex Sumner

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:

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“Abramelin and Lockdown” – now available for pre-order on Kindle

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 6^th June 2025.

You can pre-order it now: to do so, please click on one of the following links:

New release: “Abramelin and Lockdown” by Alex Sumner – coming 6th June 2025

Front cover artwork to “Abramelin and Lockdown” by Alex Sumner. © Alex Sumner 2025

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!

Check back here for more information about how to purchase this – and don’t forget to like this post and subscribe to my blog.

Thankyou 😊

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November 16, 2022 · 1:04 pm

Out now – CONJURING DEMONS FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT: An Abramelin Memoir, by Alex Sumner

Announcing the new book by Alex Sumner:

Conjuring Demons for Pleasure and Profit: An Abramelin Memoir is published by Thoth Publications and is available worldwide from Amazon and all good bookstores. To quote from the back cover:

“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.

Alex Sumner is a novelist and writer on the occult. In 2009 he wrote his first novel The Magus and has gone on to write six novels in total, several short-stories, and numerous non-fiction articles. This is his first full length, non-fiction book. Alex lives with his fiancée in Essex, England.

“Conjuring Demons for Pleasure and Profit: An Abramelin Memoir” by Alex Sumner.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thoth Publications (October 29, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 582 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1913660370
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1913660376
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.86 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.3 x 9 inches

Available from Amazon:

USA	Paperback	Kindle
United Kingdom	Paperback	Kindle
Australia	Paperback	Kindle
Deutschland	Taschenbuch	Kindle
France	Broché	Format Kindle
España	Tapa blanda	Versión Kindle
Italia	Copertina flessibile	Formato Kindle
Nederlands	Paperback	Kindle-editie
Poland	Miękka oprawa	–
Sverige	Pocketbok	–
日本	–	版
Brasil	–	Kindle
Canada	–	Kindle
México	–	Versión Kindle
भारत	–	किंडल संस्करण

Current work: update

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.

The first draft of my next book is now completed. Now comes the inevitable proof-reading, so I expect it to be ready some time in 2022, or when I decide by electional astrology when is the best time to launch it.

I have titled it “Conjuring Demons for Pleasure and Profit: an Abramelin Memoir,” and details my adventures while undertaking the Abramelin Operation in 2020. I kept a diary throughout my operation, and then spent a year afterwards editing and annotating it. The result is by far the longest book I have yet written, 175K words or 561 pages, so it will be one chunky paperback.

It is hence the latest addition to a genre – Abramelin Memoirs – comprising just three other books of which I know: The Sacred Magician by William Bloom, After the Angel by Marcus Katz, and The Abramelin Diaries: The Nice Man Cometh by Ramsey Dukes. I shall post more news as it arises.

Incidentally, literary agents and publishers who fancy taking it on: please message me via the Contact page on this very website: thanks.

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