Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Aaron Leitch, author of several books, including Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires, The Angelical Language Volume I and Volume II, and Essential Enochian Grimoire.
It never fails! If you pose a question about a ritual instruction to a group of occultists—hoping academia has discovered the likely origin and/or intent of such an instruction—you're always going to get multiple responses of, "Why don't you just conjure the spirits and ask them?" Let me give you a brief example: just go into any occult group and ask them what "butterfly blood ink" is supposed to be. This ink is called for in the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses where it is