Ritual Offerings by Aaron Leitch
Ritual Offerings unites 12 practicing occultists who share their knowledge and experience with this fascinating and important subject. Traditions from around the world, such as Solomonic magick, Tibetan Buddhism, New Orleans and Hatian Voudou, Western Hermetic Theurgy and more, are discussed in great detail. Whether you prefer to call them religious sacrifices or spiritual offerings, and regardless of your tradition, Ritual Offerings is the perfect ritual book to guide you in feeding your patrons and familiars safely and effectively, contributing to your overall success and growth as a practitioner.
Occult Rituals and Sacrifices
Spirits are not merely an option or tool to be utilized when the magician deems it necessary. Spirits are the very heart and soul of all magick. The incantations we use work because the spirits heard them and act. We are not alone when we cast our spells; our patrons and familiars are always present, casting the spells with us.
Throughout history, ritual offerings have been a central pillar of all magick and religion. Very often, a magickal ritual consists of nothing more than the making of a prescribed offering to a particular spirit in a specified time and place. Yet in the West, the making of an offering has been equated with the worship of the spirit receiving it. The act of offering a spirit something as payment for services rendered has a close association with the dreaded "pact with the Devil," by which a magician surely sells his soul to damnation. However, to the rest of the world, an offering is intended to feed and empower a spiritual entity, and to pay it fairly for its aid.
The art of making proper offerings to the spirits is a complex one, rife with ceremonial magick tools, strict protocols and warnings; but if you take the time to learn this ancient and powerful art, it will supercharge your magick like nothing you've experienced before.
Contributors Include:
Aaron Leitch: Introduction: Magickal Offerings in Western Occultism
Aaron Leitch: Liber Donariorum: The Book of Offerings
Zadkiel: The Elements of Making Offerings: The Offering as Sacrifice
Bryan Garner (Frater Ashen Chassan): Whispers From a Skull: Lessons in Spiritual Offerings From a Conjured Familiar
Brother Moloch: Ancestors & Offering
Frater Rufus Opus: The Back Yard Path Toward the Summum Bonum
Denise M. Alvarado: Ritual Offerings in New Orleans Voudou
Jason Miller: Severed Head Cakes and Clouds of Dancing Girls: Offerings in Tibetan Buddhism
Nick Farrell: Offerings in Roman Deity Magic
Sam Webster, M.Div., Ph.D., founder OSOGD: Offerings in Iamblichan Theurgy
Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero: Ritual for the Declaration of Maa-Kheru
Gilberto Strapazon: Offerings in Ceremonial Magick and African Traditional Religions
“I have read this book over, and over, and over, and I must say, it is incredible as well as indispensable. Every serious practitioner has a copy of it in their library as it is absolutely essential for those practicing magicians that are working directly with spirits. From the moment I started to understand the knowledge and incorporate the techniques explained in Ritual Offerings, my ritual work has been effective and I have been able to confirm more powerful and positive results. I now understand the how and why aspect of what I was doing to a far greater degree and that knowledge alone has allowed me to break through the common barriers and limitations of the mechanics ritual magick in more direct ways.”
“The simple incense recipes Aaron Leitch puts in the section Liber Donararium are excellent for all planetary magick in my experience. The breakdowns of how to give proper offerings to your spirits based off of their planetary, Zodiacal and elemental correspondences is such a huge help for anyone who wants to know a simple way to know how much, what and how to give offerings. The section on binding a familiar in a skull by Frater Ashen Chassan is also incredible, due to the examples of offerings that are appropriate to give to spirits. The essay by Frater Rufus Opus is invaluable if you wish to work with genii locii and such.”
