Product Details

• Actors: Poke Runyon
• Directors: Gregory Jednack
• Format: Color, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: The Church of the Hermetic Sciences, Inc.
• DVD Release Date: October 15, 2003
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0965488187
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,011 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Magical Blend Magazine, whole number 53

"...effective in re-stretching my beliefs on what magic can accomplish...Inspirational and empowering." Michael Peter Langevin, editor/publisher. (VHS version)

Product Description

THE MAGICK OF SOLOMON, 2nd Edition is a 85 minute DVD video documentary written and narrated by anthropologist and ceremonial magician, Carroll "Poke" Runyon, Magister of America's oldest continually operating Magical Lodge, the Ordo Templi Astartes (O.T.A.). The first part of the video offers a history of Western Magick, illustrated with graphics and displays, setting forth the author's theory, based on his own research and experiments, that visions of spirits obtained by magicians in medieval times were subjective and hypnotic rather than hysterical hallucinations. Runyon holds that the practical technique for achieving this was the visual distortion which occurs when a person stares at his or her reflection in a dark mirror. This technique is demonstrated and visions are simulated. The relationship of the "72 Rebellious Spirits" contained in King Solomon's legendary "Brass Vessel" to the Holy Angels who control them is explained and a hypnotic method for invoking these Angels into a Crystal Ball is demonstrated. According to the narrator, these two systems should be integrated for a proper spiritual balance. The video climaxes with the presentation of a complete Goetia Evocation Operation, in full ceremonial regalia, summoning the spirit Astaroth (actually the Canaanite Goddess, Astarte) to visual appearance in the dark mirror on the Triangle of Art. The Magick of Solomon was originally released on VHS in 1996 and is still available in that format. This new DVD version has been digitally re-mastered and visually enhanced. Ten extra minutes of new material has been added, including a flim clip of O.T.A. temple operations aired on national television in 1974 showing the use of the mirror in the triangle as described in the original 1996 VHS version.

C. R. Runyon, M.A. Producer

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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Video Gives Understanding But Keeps the Mystery, February 3, 2002

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Dana A. Jordan, M.A. (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Magick of Solomon [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Watching this video is tantamount to stumbling over a brass lamp and rubbing it. Runyon, a trained cultural anthropologist, willingly shares with us the tools and techniques he spent decades of intense research and experimentation rediscovering so that we, too, can summon gods and goddesses of ancient times to guide and assist us. He demonstrates the methods. He gives historical background. And he explains why, how, and where he looked for ancient secrets of the great King Solomon's magickal art of conjuring spirits-secrets lost until a life-threatening illness inspired Runyon to make this his life's work.

What Ceremonial Magick has in common with voodoo, Jungian psychology, and "the Watchers"-the archangels from the lost Biblical book of Enoch... What Aleister Crowley said about summoning the 72 spirits that Solomon trapped in the brass vessel... The difference between invocation and evocation... How to perform an almadel using the crystal shewstone... How these methods mesh with astrology... Learn about all this and more in this down-to-business video.

This is the real deal-not some high-ticket Hollywood silver-screen excuse to terrify and titillate. This is definitely not sensationalism. But don't mistake serious Ceremonial Magick for pointless prancing around. Perform these techniques correctly and your attention and imagination will be engaged-with results that will enlighten and often surprise you. Forget a crucial step-like properly banishing the summoned entity back to its realm-and you may be called back to attention when you least expect it, as Runyon describes from his own dramatic experience.

If you're serious about learning and practicing this rediscovered ancient art, you'll want to watch this video-and follow the instructions in the more detailed book-again and again. Just like me. My graduate training in Jungian psychology has helped me understand and appreciate the depth of Runyon's contribution. I love this video and the book-both well written and well done.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the "Real Thing.", October 7, 2002

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This review is from: The Magick of Solomon [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The Magick of Solomon is a one-of-a-kind video documentary. Not only is it exciting, dramatic, informative and fun to watch, it is also intelligent and believable. The narrator is both a ceremonial magician and an anthropolgist. He does not insult anyone's intelligence, or make any wild claims to supernatural powers--but the technique of facial reflection-distortion in a dark mirror that he uses to evoke the traditional spirits of the Lemegeton is ingenious, startling and effective. The fact that it is also admittedly hypnotic and subjective adds to its credibility, but does not detract from its power or its authenticity. This documentary may be a dissapointment to those credulous miracle-seekers Crowley called "the fools" among the students of magick, but for those of us who agree with Maestro Lon DuQuette that: "It's all in your head, but you have no idea how BIG your head is!" The Magick of Solomon, and The Book of Solomon's Magick are pure gold.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dark Mirror II -- Vassago Prophecy up-dated., November 2, 2003

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This review is from: The Magick of Solomon, 2nd Edition (DVD)

Those who have the original 2001 VHS version of this amazing video documentary should be the first to get the new 2003 DVD "Second Edition." The DVD has 12 minutes of completely new footage; mostly current interviews with Frater Solomon and Frater Thabion dealing with the remarkable results of the spirit Vassago's "Millenium Prophecy." --But there is also a new follow-up from Vassago himself!....All this and for five dollars less than the earlier VHS version.

For those who don't have the VHS version yet, this Second Edition should be their first choice. Dark Mirror of Magick is the only complete, fully documented visual and sound recording of a Solomonic Goetia evocation operation. No rehearsals, no retakes. You see and hear it all. It was video-recorded by a professional t.v. news crew in January of 2001. 13 days after the Spirit Vassago predicted "The Slaying of a Son of Africa," the president of Congo was assassinated! Vassago went on to predict the present War on Terror in the Middle East and even hinted at the coming 911 disaster.

This was all videoed inside the impressive magical temple of the O.T.A. in Southern California. Director/narrator Wayne Darwen interviews the magus and the seer before and after the operation. Their unrehearsed answers to his penetrating questions give the viewer an insider's perspective on modern magick that is invaluable.

The producers of this DVD version have also up-dated, enhanced,extended and digitally re-mastered their companion video doumentary The Magick of Solomon. This production gives detailed instructions, with full-dress in-temple demonstrations, on how to perform the kind of operations seen in Dark Mirror of Magick.