Making Talismans: Creating Living Magical Tools for Change and Transformation

by Nick Farrell

Discover the secret keys and practical techniques to turn mundane objects into "living entities of power," bringing real change in your life. By pooling magical practices from shamanism, paganism, the Order of the Golden Dawn, and Dion Fortune, Making Talismans offers training and techniques for performing advanced magical talismanic operations. For many years this occult classic has been "out of print" and now has been reworked by the author to reveal more detailed and advanced magical work. This book is nearly entirely practical and tells the reader how to create talismans which work and how this specialist form of magical work can be part of a spiritual path. Nick Farrell is the author is the Chief Adept of the Magical Order of the Aurora Aurea which is a modern Golden Dawn dedicated to magical experimentation and development.

Genres: Occult, Magic, Magick, Paganism

284 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2001

Reviews

[Onur · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pheww. I couldn't guess making a talisman could be this hard. This book also teaches how to manage talismans. For me the book was easy from the point of practicality till chapter 3, then procedures and requirements got really complicated. I loved the part about the devising a gauge to measure whether a talisman works or not. The book taught me to stay away from making a talisman or even avoid asking someone who is supposedly a talisman expert to make a talisman for you. It is not because of scary, but seriously handling these staff swiftly among a user and his divine self is not easy at all (requires balls)

[Matias Selzer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was not expecting that much Kabalistic stuff, so it was hard to process sometimes.
On the other hand, this book gave me some ideas about Talisman creation.

[Constantinos Nterziotis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This a book about creating talismans. It is written by adept Nick Farrell. The target group are the beginners and especially those who practice Hermetic Kabbalah within the Golden Dawn tradition, but all Witches can use this book to enhance their talismans as it provides all the Agrippa-Barret-Heydon lineage of creating talismans with the use of:

-Magickal planetary squares and their improved seals, which I found very useful.
-Use of archangelic, angelic, intelligence sigils (Kabbalah magick) with the God-names of power (Golden Dawn Hermetic Kabbalah).
-Geomantic sigils and their use in talismans within the Golden Dawn 3x3 square (there is a mistake in pg.208 with Albus and the square should be explained better).
-Use of geometric polygons that are attributed to each sephira (very good addition).
-Golden Dawn colour theory to invoke the sephirotic energies from the four worlds.
-Golden Dawn ritual and a pagan ritual (easy) with the assumption of Godforms (Golden Dawn technique)
-Pendulum chart to explore the energy of your talisman.
Lastly, there are advices, personal experiences from the writer and a ritual for destroying the talisman after it has done the work.

There are things that you won't find anywhere else. Highly recommended for Wiccans and western ceremonial magickian. I would like to see a chapter on ancient talismans, but it is ok.

[Layo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I made several planetary talismans based on the ideas and methods in this book, and love the result.

[Nikki Ashendorf]

I really like this book. I reference to it often. I taught a workshop at a Pagan gathering and we where making sculpy talismans to wear at jewelry. This book came in very handy.