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A Luxryne course

Historical Demonology

The grimoires as history and psychology

How scholars study the demonological tradition: Weyer, Scot and the Lemegeton, the 72 spirits as a historical catalogue, and a Jungian reading of the infernal hierarchy. No summoning and no harm, ever.

Begin: Demonology as History and Psychology →Demonology hall and catalogue

By the end of this course you will

  • Place the grimoires in their historical setting
  • Read the Goetic catalogue as a historical document
  • Understand demons as images of the shadow

Curriculum

  1. Module I

    Approach

    How and why we study this.

  2. Module II

    The Books

    Weyer, Scot and the Ars Goetia.

  3. Module III

    The Inner Reading

    Shadow complexes and protection.

Course reading list

  • Richard Kieckhefer, Magic in the Middle Ages (1989)
  • Owen Davies, Grimoires: A History of Magic Books (2009)
  • Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons (1997)
  • Johann Weyer, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (appendix to De praestigiis daemonum, 1577)
  • Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584)
  • S. L. MacGregor Mathers (tr.) & Aleister Crowley (ed.), The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King (1904)
  • Joseph H. Peterson (ed.), The Lesser Key of Solomon (2001)
  • C. G. Jung, Aion (Collected Works 9ii, 1951)
  • Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow (1991)