Glitch Bottle Podcast

Jan 30 2025 176 ep. 96 mins 2k
Glitch Bottle Podcast artwork

The Glitch Bottle Podcast is a Western magic and grimoire-focused show that uncorks the uncommon with magic, mysticism and the generally misunderstood.

  Education
RSS feed Share
Copy RSS


Subscribe on Podcast Addict


#161 - Manuscript Hunting & Victorian Occultism with Daniel Clark

Jan 30 2025 110 mins  
How do you track down hidden esoteric manuscripts? What is the Antipalus Maleficiorum? Who were the powerful noble families who owned books of magic throughout the centuries? Daniel Clark - manuscript detective & researcher, editor and collaborator with Dr. Stephen Skinner - goes deep into manuscript searching tips, Victorian Occultism and so much more! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓► ✅Order

The City of Brass & Solomon’s Vessels | Glitch Bottle

Jan 23 2025 45 mins  
Why did Solomon bind demons in brass vessels? What’s the connection between leather bags, necromancy and the winds? We explore the history of jinn, metals and spirit-containers, and how all these themes flower in the collection of medieval Islamic stories known as the Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, Alf Laylah wa-Laylah), by re

#160 - Devotional Fire Of Contemplative Mysticism with David Chaim Smith | Glitch Bottle 

Jan 12 2025 52 mins  
What is contemplative mysticism? How does this differ from modern occultism? Contemplative mystic, esoteric cartographer and author David Chaim Smith goes deep into ways to unravel the mind and so much more. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓► ✅David’s excellent sharing on his esoteric cartography - https://www.thethirtytwokeys.com/testament ► ✅ David’s website - https://www.davidchaimsmith.c

#159 - Hollywood, Magic & Devotional Art with Ana Victoria Esquivel | Glitch Bottle

Nov 25 2024 101 mins  
So, what does Hollywood and media in general get right about its portrayal of magic? Ana Victoria Esquivel is a Hollywood Make-up artist, writer and painter who is credited or involved with dozens of on-screen projects, including Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities and Rings of Power. She gives us a peek behind the veil of how media portrays magic, shares about her devotion

#158 - Solomon, Shakespeare and Evocatory Drama with Dr. Rebekah King (Part 2)

Nov 03 2024 137 mins  
What is ‘Solomonic exceptionalism’? How was grimoire magic set apart from witchcraft, fairy magic and prophecy in the time of Shakespeare? What grimoires were available when early modern dramatists like William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson and many others were portraying magicians, evocatory procedures and magical implements on stage? Dr. Rebekah King - scholar

#158 - Solomon, Shakespeare and Evocatory Drama with Dr. Rebekah King (Part 1)

Nov 03 2024 112 mins  
What is ‘Solomonic exceptionalism’? How was grimoire magic set apart from witchcraft, fairy magic and prophecy in the time of Shakespeare? What grimoires were available when early modern dramatists like William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson and many others were portraying magicians, evocatory procedures and magical implements on stage? Dr. Rebekah King - scholar

Sailing Off the Edge of Your World with Ulysses and the Devil | Glitch Bottle

Oct 28 2024 17 mins  
In today’s world of #hashtags, shortcuts and life hacks, our attention is sliced finer than the vellum folios of a 900-year-old grimoire. It takes will to cultivate consistent, in-depth practice. To illustrate this, I’d like to invoke the hidden devilish drive of determination in two of among the most famous English poems of all time (and a bonus poem), and why I always read an

#157 - John Dee’s Mysteriorum Libri Quinque with Joseph H. Peterson | Glitch Bottle

Oct 06 2024 39 mins  
Why is the Mysteriorum Libri Quinque (the Five Books of Mysteries), written by John Dee in the 16th century, one of the most important core texts of occult literature? How were these secret writings about angel magic discovered long after John Dee’s death and remarkably spared from destruction? Scholar and author Joseph H. Peterson shares about his updated edition of Dee’s five

A Formula for Calling Seasonal Spirits | Glitch Bottle

Oct 02 2024 22 mins  
Before any magician summons a spirit listed in a grimoire it’s very important to understand ritual timing. Let’s explore how spirits of the hour, day and season all should be invoked before the aforementioned target beings, whether celestial, terrestrial, sublunar, airy, elemental, gnomish or of the more infernal variety. Thank you to my Glitch Bottle Patreon supporters for mak

Making Solomonic Holy Water: My Step-By-Step Guide

Sep 25 2024 27 mins  
Holy water is *the* most foundational element in the Solomonic magician’s repertoire: without it, you can’t consecrate any of the ritual implements (or yourself) before or during a ritual. But how do you make it? Here is my own step-by-step method.______________STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE______________ 1.) Gather water at sunrise on the day and hour of Mercury (Wednesday) or on the day