BLACK MAGIC EVOCATION BOOK REVIEW BY A.

JONES

Black Magic Evocation of the Shem ha Mephorash by G. de Laval is published by Aeon Sophia Press and
limited to 200 hand-numbered exemplars of the standard edition, in quarter leather bound and dark
grey moiré silk, 264 pages, 120g paper. The Deluxe Edition has full black leather and marbled end-
papers. Both Editions have silver stamp and lettering displaying the Conjuration Circle of the Three
Witches of the Crossroads, by the author.

The author of this his book combined his research and personal practice, developing a new method of
work with the Shem Ha Mephorash Angels. He has constructed a Qliphoth of Baphomet which collects,
corrects and updates commonly circulating data to streamline its function as a graphical transmitter of
energy from a larger system of witchcraft which will be treated more extensively in a future publication.

The Shem ha Mephorash or Explicit Name is a 216 character secret name of the creation consisting of
list of 72 angels, whose names are derived from the from the Hebrew letters in Exodus 14:19-21
(Chapter 14, verses 19 to 21), The Book of Exodus is part of the Hebrew Tanakh (Christian Old
Testament). The verses 19 to 21 in the original Hebrew have 72 letters each.

Each Shem Ha Mephorash angel has a three Hebrew letter name, which is ending with the suffix El or
IAH.

Each Shem Ha Mephorash angel has a Sephirotic form with connection with the Tree of Life and also has
a shell/ Qliphothic forms with links it to the Tree of Death.

The author also proposes a change concerning some Qliphoths denominations, his thesis is that the
“Qliphoth are imbalanced bastardised shadow emanations from the Sephitoth” and that they are not
what they seem, as per their constant distorted movement.

The author provides three methods of accessing these Angels, one example case, and the description of
the Tools that are useful, which the reader might want to use during the Rituals. On the appendices
there are many tables of correspondences resultant from his research of various calendars from the
mystical schools of cultures around the world, the information presented was decrypted and mined
from dozens of ancient Grimoires and books of astrology in the Western occult tradition.
To facilitate the understanding of the ideas conveyed in his book, the author provides definitions for
most of the words and terms he uses throughout this volume, inclusive for the Shem Ha Mephorash
Angel pages.

This should be an interesting book, in a way of promoting more thirst for Knowledge, inciting people
who study or practice Goetic magick, Vampiric Sorcery, Necromancy, Black Magick, Conjuration,
Traditional witchcraft, Luciferianism and Satanism, to go deeper in their research for the understanding
of the energy currents and how they relate to each other. For more information, see his upcoming
Grimoire Liber Sethur.

Review by A. Jones.

Black Magic Evocation of the Shem ha Mephorash by G. de Laval book review by The Infidel Network
blog

G. D. Laval's "Black Magick Evocation of the Shem Ha Mephorash" is quite the exquisite modern
Grimoire, which packs a complete system of Goetic magick which can be used to summon the fractured
disembodied intelligences that make up the greater Shem Ha Mephorash system. The Shem Ha
Mephorash itself is the supposed sacred name of god embodied within a particular passage of the Bible.
Derived from the text using advanced Gematria (a Hebrew practice of using numerology to find esoteric
correspondences between different words and concepts, as well as used to sharpen the mind and create
complicated ciphers and hidden text such as this name itself), this name is broken into 72 three letter
seals, which can be used to either invoke an angelic entity or evoke a Qliphothic one. These entities are
metaphorical representations of different energetic currents which run parallel across both The Tree of
Life and Tree of Death, also described in greater detail in the study of Kaballah, and have governance
over particular traits or faculties of the ruling forces of the universe. This book, hence the name Black
Magick Evocation, focuses predominantly on Qliphothic evocation, though it is said that the information
provided within could theoretically be used to do Angelic Invocations as well with creative reworking.
However, the greater symbolical meanings provided for each individual potential seal of
invocation/evocation, which can often go on for several pages per individual seal, is almost exclusively
pertaining to uses of Left Hand Path evocation.
G. D. Laval is probably one of the most hard working, innovative, and creative Left Hand Path writers of
the modern era. Not bothering to water his material down with dark fluff, unnecessary reinterpreted
mythology, or spooky aggressive language you see in much of the modern LHP material, this is a book of
no-nonsense, practical, workable Goetic magick. Just measuring over 500 pages, you'd think this book
would be filled with long essays, and verbose material on the nature and history of Shem Ha
Mephorash. Instead you are found with a huge tome of sigils, relations, charts, and and descriptions all
relating to the core workable system of Evocation which is central to the text. Leaving the historical and
magickal primer research up to the reader, which the reader should have no problem doing considering
the extensively provided bibliography to this wonderful text, the core of the book's contained content is
descriptions of the various entities summonable, a collection of charts and references to help aid the
caster in use of the system provided and of course, the usual table of contents/preface/introduction
package.

A Grimoire of the truest nature, this text gives you the most basic of elements on how to actually use
the text, and focuses almost entirely on the meat. A vast majority of the book is left to detailing the
Shem Ha Mephorash entities. For each of the 72 names there is provided a beautifully crafted sigil which
can be used as a primary focus of of meditation, or as a seal in an actual act of ritual summoning itself.
These seals follow a relatively uniform fashion, with two sets of double lined circles, in between them
being the English translation of the name, and resting inside the smallest circle being the sigil itself
composed of a series of dots and predominantly curved lines and squiggles. All extremely aesthetically
pleasing to look at, and most likely conjured out of some sort of automatic state, having personally
meditated upon many of these I know they work as perfectly self-contained passageways to the
aethereal realms the authors wishes you to be able to traverse. Above the sigil is provided a three letter
Hebrew name, the English translation, and the planetary and elemental correspondences for the entity.
Below the sigil is a breakdown of symbolically corresponding information derived through the authors
research into Gematria correspondence, starting with a basic list, followed by the entities Qliphothic
name, then fleshed out with a deeper breakdown of some of the more important or relevant
correspondences in further detail, or information on the evoked entities particular place in a infernal
hierarchy. The text on the individual seal is always finished with an example chant which the author has
found useful in ritual.

The back end of the book, which starts at about 370 pages in, is filled with wonderfully laid out tables
and charts which present quite concretely the many different references which can aid a magician in
ritual preparation, including a complete breakdown of the Sethurian calendar, many different versions
of Gematria ciphers, planetary and elemental correspondences, infernal hierarchies (which tie into his
other books), and much much more. Information that could be found out by the reader himself if he
read through the immense and well cataloged bibliography provided by the author at the very end of
the book (following the extensive list of charts), but is instead all in one neat and tidy place, and
including various specifications and corrections as discovered by the author through his thorough
research. It's rather handy, making this tome of work not only useful in application for working with the
system presented in this book itself, but useful in the practice of left hand path magick in general.

The book itself is bound well. I've had it for almost a year now, and it's been moved around a fair
amount through reading and storage, and if done properly and carefully (as I have done so myself) the
book looks as good as when I got it. The cover is ordained with a large gold printed seal, centralized
around a 9 pointed star, with many different shards of light emanating from it. Inside the different
elements of the star, and in between the shards of light are various Hebrew symbols, which I believe to
be the various three letter names of the Shem Ha Mephorash itself. It's all plated gold, and the book
itself is in a solid red cloth binding. It's pleasing to the touch, and the paper inside the book is
appropriately thick. The paper's background is a very solid white, with printing done in very dark and
traditional black text, all leading to a very concrete sense of legibility. Fine printing, aesthetically
pleasing all around if you ask me, though I'm not a "book specialist" by any means.

Overall, this book is a fine presentation of the system that the author is looking to demonstrate, and acts
as the first in a series which make up a greater esoteric system he has devised/discovered. The other
books he has in personal bibliography, and which make up the currently printed aspects of system I
reference, are The Explicit Name Of Lucifer, which includes a Lucifarian English Gematria, Sacerdotivm
Vmbrae Mortis, a Sethurian Vampiric system of necromantic pathworking, and lastly Sefer Yeroch
Ruachot, a book similiar in format to Black Magick Evocation, except it covers Satanic Lunar energies. All
of these books are interlinked into a larger system, working individually, but best as a whole (providing
greater context and functionality). All of said books are of a similar excellent quality in thoroughness,
providing efficient presentation that gets to the point clearly, has detailed connectivity and reference to
his other works and the works that which he has referenced to build his own system, and lastly but not
least of all importantly, there is a high quality of book printing and formatting consistently across all of
his releases. I would highly recommend any of the books in the series, starting with of course the one
covered in this review.