My Life With The Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician

169 Pages·1999·1.81 MB·English

by  Lon Milo DuQuette

My Life
With the Spirits
A MAGICAL AUTOBIOGRAHY
Lon Milo DuQuette
First published in 1999 by
Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC
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Copyright © 1999 Lon Milo DuQuette
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
DuQuette, Lon Milo.
My life with the spirits : a magical autobiography /
Lon Milo DuQuette.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-57863-120-3 (pbk: alk. paper)
1. DuQuette, Lon Milo. 2. Magicians—United States—Biography. I. Title.
BF1598.D86A3 1999
133.4'092—dc21
[B] 99-20559
CIP
Typeset in 11/13 Minion
Cover design by Jody Dark Eagle Breedlove copyright © 1999
Printed in Canada
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To my son, Jean-Paul Lafayette DuQuette.
Author's note: I have changed the names of many of the individuals who appear
in My Life with the Spirits in order to respect and maintain their privacy. I have
not, however, attempted to invent or consolidate characters for the sake of
literary convenience.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Prologue: Sons Of The Desert
1 I Am Born
2 My Vision of Christ
3 I Die
4 I Descend Into Hell
5 Altar Boy
6 Holy Communion
7 California Dreamin'
8 Samadhi on Waldo Road
9 Wizard of Takilma
10 Rock-n-Roll Rosicrucian
11 My Father's Ghost
12 Initiation.
13 Nedura and the Procession of Elves
14 My Magick Wand
15 My Magick Wand—A Postscript
16 Evocation of Orobas
17 Evocation of Orobas—A Postscript
18 Israel Regadie and the Exorcism of Garkon
19 The Exorcism of Garkon—A Postscript
20 Enochian Spirits—First Worshipper, Friendly Visit
21 Enochian Spirits—ACMBICU
22 Enochian Spirits—EHNB
23 Enochian Spirits—A Postscript
24 The Curse of Belial
(Never Share a Fiend with a Friend)
25 Andromalius
26 Attack of Aunt Gladys’ Ghost
27 How to End an Autobiography Without Dying
Epilogue: Holy Man?
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
List of Illustrations
1. Diary Madness
2. Goetic Spirit Orobas
3. Sigil of Goetic Spirit Orobas
4. Mars Senior and Mercury Senior of the Elemental Tablet of Earth
5. The Enochian Tablet of Union
6. The thirty heavens or Aethyrs
7. Sigil of Goetic Spirit Belial
8. Sigil of Goetic Spirit Andromalius