Contents Dedication and Acknowledgments xv Foreword xvii Introduction 1 Part One: The Familiar Craft 5 Chapter One: Witches, Spirits, and the Familiar Craft 9 Mediumship 10 Flying 11 Conjuration 11 The World Tree and the Realms of Spirit 12 The Witch''s Tree 17 The Planes and Their People 19 Chapter Two: Staying on Top 21 How to Be in Control of the Spirit Worlds 22 Setting Contracts 25 Keeping Yourself Safe 26 Holy Flame Protection Exercise 29 The Fire Blessing of Hecate 30 Chapter Three: The Art of Mediumship 33 Being the Medium 38 Main Objectives of a Medium 41 Discernment 43 Practice and Procedure 45 Opening the Gates of Heka 47 First Contact 48 Profiling Spirits as a Medium 51 Tools to Aid Mediumship 52 Chapter Four: Spirit Guides and Familiars 61 The Symbiotic Relationship 63 Preparing to Meet Your Spirit Guide 70 Meeting Spirit Guides 73 The Spirit Guide Profiler 75 Chapter Five: Preparing for Takeoff 81 It''s All in Your Head 83 Preparing for Flight 85 The Cleansing Rite for the Home 87 The White Bath 89 Preparing the Room 91 Enhancing the Flight 92 Chapter Six: The Art of Flying 101 Activating the Etheric Body 102 The Flight Deck 106 The White Room 108 Flying to Another Plane 109 The Etheric and Subetheric Planes 111 The Spiritual Plane 112 The Plutonian Plane 113 The Angelic Plane 116 The Unhallowed Plane 118 The Divine and Chaos Planes 121 The Void and Omega Planes 121 Faery 122 Sabbat 125 Chapter Seven: Conjuration at a Glance 127 The Tools of Conjuration 130 Other Tools We Might Work With for Conjuration 136 Correspondences 138 Preparing for Conjuration 139 The Compass and the Witch''s Tree 141 Chapter Eight: Conjuration in Three Parts 145 The Three Stages of Conjuration 148 Summoning 149 Possession 151 Exorcism 154 Putting Them Together 159 Chapter Nine: The Keys of Hecate 161 The First Key: The Trident of Hecate 163 The Second Key: The Path of Hecate 165 The Third Key: The Helm of Hecate 167 The Fourth Key: The Pillars of Hecate 170 The Fifth Key: The Pentacle of Hecate 173 The Sixth Key: The Seal of Hecate 177 The Seventh Key: The Gate of Hecate 179 The Eighth Key: The Forge of Hecate 181 The Ninth Key: The Throne of Hecate 183 Part Two: The Spirits of the Familiar Craft 187 Chapter Ten: Angels 189 What Are Angels? 191 Why Work with Angels? 194 Where Are Angels Most Likely to Be Found? 195 The Angels of Enoch 196 A More Natural Form of Angelic Magic 199 Angelic Correspondences 200 Chapter Eleven: The Dead 201 The Afterlife 202 Ghosts and Hauntings 203 The Three Most Common Types of Preternatural Phenomenon 204 Other Types of Spirit Activity 208 Ancestors (The Not-So-Spooky Dead People) 210 Why Work With the Dead? 212 Working With the Dead 213 Correspondences of the Dead 215 Chapter Twelve: Faeries 217 What Exactly Are Faeries? 219 The Goddess of Faeries 223 Classifications of Faeries 224 Fae Correspondences 231 Chapter Thirteen: Demons 233 What Are Demons? 235 Why Work With Demons? 240 Where Are Demons Most Likely to Be Found? 241 How Do Demons Communicate? 242 Demonic Order 243 Solomon''s Demons 244 A Different Type of Demonic Magic 247 Demonic Correspondences 248 Part Three: The Grimoire of 33 Spirits, or the Book of the VEXNA-KARI 249 Chapter Fourteen: The VEXNA-KARI 253 VEXNA-KARA 255 VEXNA-KARO 256 VEXNA-KARU 257 The Nephilim Fire 258 The Rite of Treatise 260 Chapter Fifteen: The Others 263 The Spirits Above 264 The Spirits Around 276 The Spirits Below 285 Conclusion 295 Appendix a: additional sigils of the art 297 Bibliography and recommended reading 299 Index 303.