The Sacred Alignments and Dark Side of Sigils

by Robert Podgurski

Genres: Magic, Occult

222 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2012

About the author

I have been doing poetry for well over 20 years. I emphasize the term "doing" as writing is only one dimension of poetry, the root from the Greek poeia, meaning "to make." I consider magick to fall under that same rubric in terms of an Orphic tradition wherein magick is considered a chanted / intoned form of poetry that makes things happen. My recent book The Sacred Alignments and Dark Side of Sigils is enveloped in this tradition literally and figuratively. In fact, the book starts off with Robert Duncan's "Where it appears."

Sacred Alignments is a work of visionary magick, however, the book is somewhat of a hybrid grimoire / scholarly study of sigils, Enochian magick, geomagnetism, etc.. And even though Enochian magick figures largely into this picture it is but one component. And it is important to bear this in mind as practitioners interested in dowsing, ley-lines, power zones and the like stand to benefit from this study even if they are not drawn to Enochian magick per se.

To reiterate, I view magick, poetry, yoga, as all part and parcel of a consanguineous process. I view the visionary experience, stripped of its outer trappings and external components as just that, a vision devoid of a verbal overlay. The challenge therein is finding an adequate means, through language, ie turning the process on its head, to elaborate upon the sublime aspects of the visionary experience, bringing Kether in view of Malkuth, etc.. Whether or not I have achieved this end result will be solely up to the reader to discern.

Reviews

[Pēteris Cedriņš · Rating 5 out of 5]

Available from Mandrake Press in the UK or through JD Holmes in the US, this book is a visually and physically stunning public unveiling of magic(k)al work Podgurski undertook 20 years ago. I first received an earlier (and quite different) manuscript in 1993. It had a profound effect on my perception then and now, in its current incarnation, providing a fresh approach to Enochian and chthonic magick. The extremely high quality of the printing (including visual work by Linda Falorio and other radically creative, cutting edge occultists) is perfect, and perfectly necessary, to the work.

[Taylor Ellwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an intriguing example of a personalized sigil system, which also draws on a number of traditions and specific practices that are relevant to sigil work in general. I found this book to be relevant to my work and would recommend it if you are interested in developing a more nuanced approach to sigil magic.