My favorite copy of the Goetia of Solomon has seen better days. So I
recently decided to compile my own and have a copy printed through lulu.
I drew up the outline and started making font choices.
I slept about
three hours that night and dreamed of two warriors with spears. The
dream was narrated. The narrator explained these two warriors were
demons trying to scare me.
The next night I was
visited in dream by a giant bird. The flapping of its wings made a hot
wind that knocked me down. I tried to look directly at the bird, but had
to shield my eyes from the light which was on it or maybe behind it.
On the third night I dreamed of green butterflies. I have a friend among the green butterflies now.
Then,
a few days later, on Wednesday, March 14, 2014, I went for a walk. In a
tree right outside my door there was sitting a large crow. I stopped
and looked up at him. He looked down at me. He studied my face. I
smiled. He said "hello". My rational mind tells me it was just a low
warbling sound, but the rest of me knows it was "hello".
The next night I
drank hundred-proof moonshine for the first time in my life and right as
my vision began to get blurry, I saw the pentagram of Solomon from the
Goetia and tried to force my eyes to focus and read the words. In this
state I read:
BALLATON (BILETH)
BEL-LVN
ELI
ELIJAH
OBEDIAH
SOLOMON
It
is now nearly 11pm and two crows have sounded an alarm outside my
window. My roommate says she has never heard a crow at night. She just
said, "I don't know how, but you summoned them here." She has no idea
what I am working on. But she may be right.
