Who is Dantalion?
Dantalion is listed as one of the ancient djinn in certain of the European magical grimoires. Many of the spirits Dantalion is linked to have appeared in various occult texts from the 14th centuries on; these texts gradually uncovered the spirits and their abilities.
Unlike some of the other spirits, Dantalion remained rather hidden at first. Johann Weyer (occult apprentice to Hienrich Cornelius Agrippa) did not include Dantalion in the list of 69 spirits he printed in his Pseudomonarchia Daemonum. Nor did it appear in any of the earlier European magical texts such as the Liber Juratus. All of that changed when another grimoire known as the Ars Goetia was published in 16th century Europe as part of a collection collectively known as Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis (the Lesser Key of Solomon). This collection is one of the more well-known magical works in western occultism and it revealed Dantalion to the magical public of its day, quite possibly for the first time.
The Shemhamphorash section of the Ars Goetia described Dantalion as being the 71st djinn in the order. That description is as follows:
"The Seventy-first Spirit is Dantalion. He is a Duke Great and Mighty, appearing in the Form of a Man with many Countenances, all Men's and Women's Faces; and he hath a Book in his right hand. His Office is to teach all Arts and Sciences unto any; and to declare the Secret Counsel of any one; for he knoweth the Thoughts of all Men and Women, and can change them at his Will. He can cause Love, and show the Similitude of any person, and show the same by a Vision, let them be in what part of the World they Will. He governeth 36 Legions of Spirits; and this is his Seal, which wear thou, etc."
From this description, a few things are easily understood:
a. Dantalion appears as a morph:
b. Dantalion carries a magical grimoire in its right hand, which is the Book of Dantalion i would like to conjure. This grimoire has been described by one mage who evoked Dantalion as a covenant or contract between the Goetic forces and humanity
that Dantalion is compelled to follow through on.
c. Dantalion is a personal tutor to polymaths and polyhistors who also do magical experiments; eminent examples of polymaths from the time of the Goetia's formation include Abu Ali Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Nahmanides (the Ramban), or Copernicus. Later examples would include John Dee and Benjamin Franklin; both are notable in this regard because they did not hide the fact that they studied the occult.
d. Dantalion shows secrets and can teach you mindreading and mental influence, as well as different branches of PK (psychokinesis).
e. Dantalion can teach seduction and other forms of mental persuasion. A perfect example of someone who has learned this aspect of Dantalion's knowledge would be Igor Ledochowski. Ledochowski also happens to be a direct descendent of Włodzimierz Ledóchowski, S.J., the former Black Pope (Superior General) of the Jesuits, which offers up a clue to his magical genealogy.
f. Dantalion teaches ways of having out of body experiences, including remote viewing, etheric projection, astral projection, mental projection, and other methods.
Dantalion also does many, many other things not mentioned in the grimoire, but in order to find out what they are you would have had to evoke Dantalion and ask it to tell you those things. I hope to do exactly that in the near future and i also hope to catalogue many of the things Dantalion can do in greater detail.
Dantalion has been evoked in many times in the past and there have been journals of Dantalion evocations. A rather strange but telling case of Dantalion's appearance is described by James Donahue on his website. It would seem to me that Dantalion can reveal the kind of cryptic information found in the Voynich Manuscript, but can just as easily lead a careless evoker into mental insanity due to information overload. These kinds of workings are not always safe. A mage should exercise intelligence and caution in working with forces more powerful than themselves in order to avoid personal disaster.
There is another issue to be aware of. Soluzen also posted another accounting of a Dantalion evocation on Sacred-Magick.com, which has good general advice by Soluzen as well as a strong warning, which i will restate in my own words below:
WARNING: The forces you conjure do not like to be taken advantage of. If you refuse to keep the promises you made to them, you will surely regret it.
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