00:00As Halloween approaches, concert author Simon the Kilted Occultist Robson has unveiled what he proclaims to be the world's largest compendium of occult knowledge, the Long Grimoire.
00:11A staggering 7.19 million word collection of spells, rituals and esoteric wisdom drawn from traditions around the globe.
00:19Writing under the pen name S. Robb, he calls the book His Life's Work, a single volume synthesis of magical practice and law.
00:26Robson builds it the Bible of the occult, saying anyone who reads and works through its contents could emerge a master of the magical arts.
00:35It was just one of those things. As you write, you end up with a loose end and you tie that loose end off and there's another one.
00:44So it just sort of grew and the amount I'd written got longer and longer and longer until I realised I need to put together something and it became the Long Grimoire.
00:52It's core purpose is to teach people occultism, teach them real magic and I feel if you go through it, some will become a master of occultist by going through that book without any instruction, just going through the book on their own.
01:05They'll become a master of occultist and it's instruction in all that bunch of the occult of magic.
01:10Like not just the dark things that people imagine, but things like witchcraft and paganism, Celtic magic and Roman and, you know, all sorts, Egyptian, also things like voodoo, all sorts of things.
01:25It covers everything, you know, angelic magic is all in there and that's really, I feel what it's about.
01:32It gives you a breadth of everything, which doesn't just help you understand magic, it helps you understand all the different peoples that work magic as well, because it gives you an instinctive look at their perspective on things through what they do and how they do it.
01:47A lot of it came just in time because things happen in your life and you've got to fix a problem.
01:51So you don't just write about the magic, you write about the problem as well and you do research because it's, people ask you to write things for the other books I was writing and you learn things there because you've got to learn them to write the books and so you get feedback from publishers and things like this and it helps, it grows over the time, over time it goes along and it's just because of the amount of writing that I've done of different books, you have to learn so much.
02:17The effect I hope it has on readers is I hope it helps them understand magic and what else I hope it does is that it helps to unify people as well, because it's got aspects of things from different places, I think it can unify people together.
02:32This isn't the book of one peoples, it's everybody's book.
02:36I wrote it but the book itself in terms of readership is for everybody everywhere, so I hope it unifies people as well, I hope.
02:43As interest in the occult and magical arts continue to grow, it's no longer a niche pastime, it's a cultural trend with a measurable footprint.
02:53Surveys show tens of thousands in the UK now identify with modern pagan or witchcraft traditions.
Comments