1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Hidden Gin, a production of I Heart 2 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Minky. You might 3 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: recall the story I shared much earlier in the season 4 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: about family friends that had a number of young sons 5 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: who used to scare the daylights out of me and 6 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 1: my siblings with gin tails from their village back home 7 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:46,160 Speaker 1: in Pakistan. Frankly, I was pretty disappointed that our own 8 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: relatives never shared any gin stories, but I talked it 9 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: up to the fact that we were city folk. Maybe 10 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: it wasn't the villages that the real gin action took place, 11 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: and unfortunately we didn't have a village. In my preteen years, 12 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: I got more interested in the occult, and because my 13 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 1: own family had pretty much nothing to contribute, I sought 14 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,639 Speaker 1: out every book on the subject in the tiny local 15 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 1: library where we lived in Western Maryland. Demonic possession haunted 16 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:16,119 Speaker 1: houses of vampires and zombies UFOs, well, they were all 17 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: gin to me. I was always walking the line between 18 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: fear and fascination, but I couldn't get enough, and it 19 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 1: was in those books that I learned that people didn't 20 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: have to be hapless by standards in supernatural encounters. We 21 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: could actually control those encounters communicate with these forces, even 22 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:38,639 Speaker 1: summoned them, and I wanted to try. So I saved 23 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 1: up to fourteen dollars needed to buy a Wigia board 24 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 1: from Kmart, no small feat for a kid in the 25 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, and I fearfully gave it a try alone 26 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: in my bedroom one night. My little sister refused to 27 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: join me, and my little brother well he was too little, 28 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: so it was just me and that board. I admit 29 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: that my attempt was half hearted. I both wanted but 30 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: didn't want to conjure up spirits. The first and only 31 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: question I asked when I positioned that tear shaped, clear 32 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: plastic pointer on the board, was HI, Is anyone there? 33 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,679 Speaker 1: Then suddenly I thought, what if I end up inviting 34 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: things into our house I couldn't get rid of. My 35 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: parents would kill me. So I quickly folded up the 36 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: board and shoved it back into the box. Not waiting 37 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: for an answer to my question, I blew out the 38 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: candle that was melting on my dresser, and the next 39 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: day I gave the board to a girl at school, 40 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: and I never asked her if it worked or not. 41 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: I wasn't sure I really wanted to know. The next 42 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 1: time we met those family friends. Though I told the 43 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: boys what I had tried, and they laughed at me. 44 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: That wasn't the way to do it. A cheap board 45 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: from Kmart. I really thought that would be enough. No, 46 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: If you wanted to summon the gin with all their 47 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,519 Speaker 1: powers and make sure that you're able to control the powers, 48 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: it takes a test of your own fortitude and courage. 49 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: Back in their village, a few brave souls had taken 50 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: the test, some had passed, but most had failed. The 51 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: summoning required a person to first spend thirty days in 52 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: prayer and fasting to purify and prepare their bodies and 53 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: souls for the ordeal. At the end of thirty days, 54 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: you had to spend the night in a cemetery, seated 55 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 1: inside a tight circle drawn in the dirt. Throughout the night, 56 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,919 Speaker 1: demons would terrorize you, trying to get you to flee 57 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: in fear from that circle. But you can't leave the circle. 58 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: You can't sleep, you can't eat or drink, you can't 59 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: stretch an arm or a leg. You must spend the 60 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: entire night from the time the sun sets to when 61 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: dawn breaks, keeping still and reciting prayers. If your prayers 62 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: ever falter, or you doze off, or even so much 63 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: as your foot slides across the boundary of that circle, 64 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: you fail the test. And failing the test didn't mean 65 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: you got a do over. Failing the test meant you'd 66 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: be killed by the same gin you were trying to summon. 67 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: So this was not an undertaking for the faint of 68 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: heart or the wishy. She like me. It was high risk, 69 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: but also high reward, because if you pass that test 70 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: and made it through the night, you now controlled the 71 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 1: gin that you summoned, and all of their powers were 72 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: now your powers. I'm rad and I'll be your guide 73 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: into the ancient world of the hidden gin. Welcome. If 74 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: you've been waiting for a female ginny that is one 75 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,359 Speaker 1: of the most efficient at making your wishes come true, 76 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 1: and who will protect you and love you and bring 77 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 1: you all the good things in life. It does not 78 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: get better than this. She has had some fantastically beautiful 79 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 1: times with her previous masters and mistresses and will always 80 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: love and care for you. She has no morals, and 81 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 1: her specialty is to make you feel loved and cherished 82 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: and protect you from all harm. She is extremely good 83 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: at what she does and is desperate to please you 84 00:04:58,279 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 1: and is willing to be shared if that's what her 85 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: master desires. All she wants is to pleasure you. You 86 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 1: can expect to be romanced, flirted with, massaged, and tied 87 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: down the way jin do without anything at all, and 88 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 1: then pleasured until you demand her to stop. She is 89 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 1: absolutely stunning, with a body to die for and golden hair. 90 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: She also has a beautiful nature. You will never be 91 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 1: lonely with her at your side. You will never be 92 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 1: sad or have bad luck ever again. Even when you 93 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: come out of this page, you will be able to 94 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: close your eyes and see her face. You will feel 95 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: warm inside, and you're to have her in your life, 96 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 1: touching your heart and protecting you against all earthly troubles. 97 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 1: All this and more can be yours for just That 98 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: might sound like the most ridiculous made up infomercial ever, 99 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,599 Speaker 1: but what I just read to you is one of hundreds, 100 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 1: if not thousands, of actual listings on eBay for an 101 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: item of jewelry that comes with its very own gin. 102 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: There are rings, amulets, all kinds of items, and you 103 00:05:57,600 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 1: can take your pick of the litter, not just with 104 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: the physical eye um spot with a kind of gin 105 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: that you're looking for, and eBay isn't the only place 106 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: you can find such items. A South African company called 107 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 1: Paranormal Spirits has a wide array of gin summoning items 108 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: for sale on I have to admit, a pretty modern 109 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: and convincing looking website. You can take your pick of 110 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: the gin litter. What do you want that gin to 111 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: do for you? Be your lover, bring you wealth, destroy 112 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: your enemies. Paranormal Spirits has it all. Five thousand year 113 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: old Norse gin and three thousand year old Egyptian gin. 114 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: Terrifying if free gin and seductive hair em gin all 115 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: come neatly packaged, presumably into the rings that you can 116 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 1: buy from them. If you're not a ring person, well 117 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: try a spell bound oil, perfume or an incense that 118 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: will draw them to you. And if that doesn't work, 119 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: no worries. You can buy for a sweet price a 120 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: vial of red mercury from the store. The gin apparently 121 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: covet red mercury because it helps increase their lifespan. So 122 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: if you've got yourself a vial, well, it's a perfect 123 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 1: bargaining tool to get what you want from them. How 124 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: exactly you'll get in touch with them to enter negotiations 125 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: isn't clear, but maybe it comes with an instruction manual. Now, look, 126 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: if you think a pretty bottle of oil or a 127 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: cheap ring from eBay will bring you the power to 128 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: lord over the gin, well, I've got a fourteen dollar 129 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: Wigia board I'd like to sell you. If only summoning 130 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: the gin was so easy, which is why the eBay 131 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: listings come with buy or beware warnings like this law 132 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: state I must add that my readings are for entertainment 133 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: purposes only. You must be at least eighteen years old 134 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: to make this purchase. You agree that any items purchased 135 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: our subject to your own interpretation. My services are not 136 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: substitute for legal, medical, financial, psychiatric, or any other kind 137 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: of professional service or care. I am not responsible for 138 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: the outcome of any situation that may occur as a 139 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: result of any product or service you may purchase from me, 140 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: or of your participation in any way. By purchasing my services, 141 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: you are stating that you are aware of and agree 142 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: to these terms. So it seems that will not exactly 143 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: get you the ring of King Solomon. Now, the reliability 144 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: of online purchases aside, there's no question that throughout all 145 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: of human history we have been trying to make contact 146 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: with the unknown, and we've left behind extensive literature and 147 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: text on how to do it. Even though invoking the 148 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: Gin is forbidden by most traditions, but forbidding something, as 149 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: we all know, just makes the temptation even sweeter. There 150 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: are those who believe even whispering the known names of 151 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: the Gin is enough to call them to you, but 152 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: usually it takes a lot more than that. Nearly a 153 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: millennia ago, in the early eleventh century, the Persian Sufi 154 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 1: scholar an aesthetic Mohammad alta Basi what a treatise called 155 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: the Comprehensive Compendium to the entire See a rather misleading 156 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: title if you ask me. That's because this treatise is 157 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: perhaps one of the best known and most widely used, 158 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: not to understand sea creatures, but to subject a gate 159 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:04,440 Speaker 1: occult forces. Tobasi warns that there are two ways to 160 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: conjure the Gin, an illicit way and a permissible way. 161 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: The illicit way is by calling on dark forces and 162 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 1: committing heinous and degrading acts like blood sacrifices or sexual deviation, 163 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: but the legitimate way, according to Tobasi is by invoking 164 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: what is pure and sacred. To that end, he cites 165 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: a range of sacred scriptures such as the Torah, the Gospel, 166 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: and the Qur'an. That's also how he gets around the 167 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: prohibition against conjuring Jin, rationalizing that his spells are in 168 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 1: accordance with Islamic law as long as they are performed 169 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: through virtue and not through sin. The collection of incantations, charms, 170 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: and the combination of written and recited spells claimed to 171 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: be effective in commanding both angels and gin and to 172 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: obtain supernatural powers through their aid, both for good and 173 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 1: nefarious purposes. For the super committed, reciting all the spells 174 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: will give you command over the entire range of demons 175 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,560 Speaker 1: that he lists, including the Lady Queen, one of the 176 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,439 Speaker 1: daughters of the Devil, or the Indian demon King Mahakal. 177 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: Tabasi himself was famous for his alleged own ability to 178 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: subjugate the Gin, and that ability drew his contemporaries to 179 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 1: him to ask for his help. One well known story 180 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: tells of the time the famous Muslim scholar Rosali asked 181 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 1: to Bassi to show him what the Jin look like. 182 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: Tabasi did so, and Rozali saw them as shadows on 183 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: a wall. Then Rosali asked to Bassi if he could 184 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 1: speak with them, but Tobassi basically responded, maybe another time. 185 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: Tabasi's book offers precise and specific instructions on how to 186 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,959 Speaker 1: subjugate the jin to do your bidding, and in many 187 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: cases the spells involved the preparation of charms and talisman. 188 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: Each spell is different depending on what you're trying to achieve. 189 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 1: Do you want to make someone fall in love with you? 190 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: Are you trying to destroy an enemy? Do you need 191 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 1: help from a gin to ward off evil? Are you 192 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: searching for the location of something precious, something or someone 193 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: you've Maybe your charm might require objects made out of paper, leather, parchment, 194 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 1: metal disks and tablets, or jewelry like signet rings, but 195 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 1: no worries Tobasi has you coverned. Throughout the book, Tibassi 196 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: draws out the various magical symbols necessary for the spells, 197 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: and divulges the numerological configurations and incantations needed for success. 198 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 1: Some spells require you to invoke the forces of good 199 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: angels and prophets and saints and of course God, but 200 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: in others Tobasi says, you'll have to go to the 201 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: dark side and invoke the Gin directly, often the most 202 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: powerful of them, like the seven Gin Kings and their 203 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: king Satan himself. While Tabasi's work made rereak of heresy 204 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:50,319 Speaker 1: to the Orthodox, he was fairly well accepted as part 205 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 1: of a long standing tradition of what were known as 206 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: gin binders, those people who possess the power and knowledge 207 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: to bend the Gin to their will. Another one of 208 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:05,319 Speaker 1: the most famous such gin binders was Ahmed Albuni, a 209 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: thirteenth century North African mystic who is said to have 210 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: mastered the esoteric and occult sciences. While there's not much 211 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 1: known about him, he left behind more than forty writings 212 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: in which he referenced Plato, Aristotle, Hermez, and various Chaldean 213 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 1: magicians that he was influenced by. Even today, Albuni's body 214 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:28,559 Speaker 1: of work is among the main sources of occultism, magic, 215 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: and secret knowledge in Muslim societies. One of those books 216 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: contains a set of twenty four names from the Arabic 217 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 1: alphabet used for summoning our conjuration, and they are said 218 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: to date all the way back to the Biblical prophet 219 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: Enoch even before being used by King Solomon. So clearly 220 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:51,559 Speaker 1: the pedigree of these invocations is ancient and very well preserved. 221 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: While it's not hard to get a hold of either 222 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: Albuni or Tabasi's texts because they're both easily available online, 223 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: albeit in their original Arabic, they were never meant for 224 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:05,079 Speaker 1: the masses. All Mooney specifically warned that his books were 225 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: meant for the select few, those with the wisdom and 226 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 1: knowledge to do good by them. Using them for evil 227 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: would return evil, using them for good would return good. 228 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: And beyond that, you also had to have a certain 229 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 1: level of spiritual insight and fortitude to get results, because 230 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 1: these metaphysical practices only opened portals of power for those 231 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: who had demonstrated years, if not decades, of spiritual and 232 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: intellectual discipline. After all, as haff As, a thirteenth century 233 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: Persian Sufi master and poet, said, quote, a man must 234 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: be a Solomon before this magical seal will work. Now, 235 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that a lay person wouldn't get anything 236 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: out of these spells. It's just while folks like you 237 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 1: and I might not be able to control whatever we 238 00:13:51,760 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: inadvertently unleash, there are many reasons some one may want 239 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: to reach out to the Gin, communicate with them, or 240 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: even command them to their bidding. One very common one 241 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: that may not have occurred to you is this the 242 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: Gin can help tell the future. Not to be clear, 243 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: the Gin on their own have no power to predict 244 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: the future, none at all. In fact, while the Gin 245 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: are physically strong, they're believed to be pretty basic and 246 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: their cognitive abilities Scholars have said one reason human kind 247 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: is considered a superior creation to the Gin is because 248 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: of our ability to imagine. Human beings can conceive of ideas, technologies, possibilities, 249 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: worlds they've never seen and have never existed, and turned 250 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: that imagination into reality, whereas the Gin have no such ability. 251 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 1: They just know what they know. But they are faster 252 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: than humans could ever hope to be, and they can 253 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: flit through different dimensions in the blink of an eye, 254 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: which is why they're able to help humans that call 255 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: upon them predict the future in two ways. First, it's 256 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: said that legions of gin and are connected to one 257 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 1: another in a vast cosmic grape vine, and they're able 258 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: to carry news from one place to another instantly. What 259 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: happens in one part of the world can immediately be 260 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 1: conveyed on the other end of the globe if you're 261 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: plugged into that grape vine. Now this might not seem 262 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: like a big deal in the age of the Internet 263 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: and social media, but imagine being able to do this 264 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 1: party trick a hundred years ago. But what about the 265 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: things that haven't happened yet in any part of the world. 266 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: After all, there have been many people throughout history who 267 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:34,080 Speaker 1: have successfully predicted events well into the future. Nostronomous is 268 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: well known in our part of the world, but hundreds 269 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: of years before him, there was all budger Baki, a 270 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 1: famous Syrian esoteric seer who predicted dozens of major events 271 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: through what was called mystical unveiling. People like all Budger 272 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: Baky weren't very well regarded by the powers that be. However, 273 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: this is what the famous Orthodox scholar I Been Kuldoon 274 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: had to say about the fortune teller. In the towns, 275 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 1: we find a group of people who strive to make 276 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: a living out of predicting the future because they know 277 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: that the people are most eager to know it. Therefore, 278 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 1: they set themselves up in the streets and in shops 279 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: and all day long, the women and children of the town, 280 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: and indeed many weak minded men as well come and 281 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 1: ask them to foretell the future for them, how it 282 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: will affect their business, their rank, their friendships, their enmities, 283 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: and similar things. There are those who make their predictions 284 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 1: from sandwriting, geomancy. Others make their predictions by casting pebbles 285 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: and grains of wheat. Still others make their predictions by 286 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 1: looking into mirrors and into water. These are reprehensible things 287 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: because their reprehensible character is established by religious law, and 288 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: because supernatural knowledge is veiled and hidden from human beings. 289 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: But all Budjerbaki wasn't any old corner store fortune teller 290 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 1: divining someone's romantic prospects. He was a seer of the 291 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: highest order, sometimes predicting global events with incredible specificity, like 292 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: a prediction about the emergence of a lame Turkic warlord 293 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: that would take over a vast region to the east. 294 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: Many of all Butcherbaki's predictions were cryptic, though, like this poem. 295 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:15,439 Speaker 1: Listen and comprehend letters and their numerical values and the 296 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 1: description and be understanding like a clever and intelligent person. 297 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:22,639 Speaker 1: The Lord of the heavens will tell concerning Egypt and 298 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,199 Speaker 1: what is to be in Syria of good things and 299 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: of tribulations, alas Damascus, what descended upon its territory and 300 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,919 Speaker 1: then burn of young men and old existence is dark 301 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:38,400 Speaker 1: and the land is blacked out. Even the pigeons, they're 302 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: moren on the branches, Oh, poor creatures. Is there no 303 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: helper for the religion? Get up, all of you and 304 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 1: go to Syria. From the plains and the rugged hills. 305 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 1: The Arabs of the Iraq and lower and Upper Egypt 306 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 1: are coming. The firm resolution is to bring death to 307 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: unbelief in Damascus. Being cryptic was one of the numerous 308 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,719 Speaker 1: reasons that he was announced by the Orthodox clergy at 309 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,359 Speaker 1: the time. They thought he was just a complete fraud, 310 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 1: someone who made vague predictions that people could read into, 311 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: which is a common fortune telling trick for sure, But 312 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,159 Speaker 1: more seriously, he was also labeled a heretic, accused of 313 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,160 Speaker 1: summoning not just the Gin, but entering into a pack 314 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,199 Speaker 1: with Satan himself, a pack that would give him access 315 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,959 Speaker 1: to the unseen world of the Gin and to the future, 316 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:25,639 Speaker 1: which takes us to the second way that Gin are 317 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 1: able to help humans predict the future by interfering with 318 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: divine communications. According to the tradition, wicked gin will fly 319 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 1: as close as they can to the seventh heaven where 320 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 1: the angels are receiving divine commands from God, and essentially 321 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,120 Speaker 1: they'll eavesdrop. They aren't able to hear everything clearly, though, 322 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: because oftentimes they're chased away by the angels. And you 323 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 1: may have witnesses happening yourself. Actually because shooting stars, well 324 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 1: it said those stars are being flung by angels at 325 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 1: nosy Gin. When the gin returns to report what they've 326 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,640 Speaker 1: overheard to the human fortune teller that commission their service, 327 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 1: they'll make up things to add to their report because remember, 328 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: they don't always hear everything accurately. They may only have 329 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:10,120 Speaker 1: bits and pieces of the whole picture. And that's why 330 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:13,720 Speaker 1: when fortunes are told, there are often truths mixed with lies. 331 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: So again, the gin on their own are not able 332 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,639 Speaker 1: to see the future. They have to steal the information 333 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 1: from upon high, which they do by breaking the rules. 334 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: And the person who sent them there is also breaking 335 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: the rules, which is why Orthodox religious leaders weren't having 336 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 1: it so for this and other religious crimes, all budger 337 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 1: Baki was condemned to death. Of course, he probably also 338 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: saw that coming, so he fled to safety from Damascus 339 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 1: to Egypt. Al Buker Baji later returned to Damascus, though, 340 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 1: where he died in the year thirteen twenty four. Oh And, 341 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 1: by the way, fifty years after all Bukar Baji's death, 342 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 1: and undefeated Turkic Mongoldian conqueror emerged, taking over southwest and 343 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:02,439 Speaker 1: Central Asia as the most powerful ruler the vast Muslim 344 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: world had ever seen. His name was tim or Lane, 345 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 1: also known as Tim Moore the Lame. Back in the day, 346 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,439 Speaker 1: it was pretty well understood that summoning the Gin was 347 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: the province of the expert, disciplined mystic. But maybe this 348 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: was just a gatekeeping device to keep a certain class 349 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 1: of people uninformed and controllable and another class of people 350 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 1: well employed and powerful. Well. We no longer live in 351 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: those times. The Internet has democratized the tools necessary to 352 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 1: communicate with the Gin, and you don't need an esteemed 353 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: scholarly intermediary to get right down to it. Spells needed 354 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 1: to conjure the Gin are easy to find online. Entire books, 355 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: including both ancient and more contemporary collections, are yours to 356 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,640 Speaker 1: have at the click of a button, and there are 357 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: nearly a dozen pages on a Gin fandom wiki site 358 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,719 Speaker 1: that provides specific and occations and how many times you're 359 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 1: supposed to say them for different gin. I even found 360 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: a post on Reddit that tells you exactly how to 361 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: summon the seven Gin King, and on the website white 362 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:13,199 Speaker 1: Magic Mastery dot com you can get a book and 363 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: a webinar for the low lo fee of s on 364 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,159 Speaker 1: what is claimed to be the most powerful invocation of 365 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:25,639 Speaker 1: them all, the Berta. While I can't vouch for the website, 366 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: the Bertha invocation heralds back to the time of the 367 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 1: biblical prophet Enoch and was passed through King Solomon and 368 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: is considered the mother of all summonings. There is almost 369 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: no classical summoning grimoire that doesn't contain it, and one 370 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 1: of the reasons it's most powerful is because it calls 371 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,360 Speaker 1: upon an ancient covenant taken not with a single Gin, 372 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 1: but with all the Gin as well as the rest 373 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,199 Speaker 1: of the supernatural world. It's said that the covenant was 374 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: taken at the Gate of Ishtar, one of the eight 375 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 1: gates leading to the innermost part of ancient Babylon, the 376 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:06,439 Speaker 1: city whose name literally means the doorway to God. The 377 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: magnificent Gait, one of the seven Wonders of the ancient world, 378 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 1: was constructed by the powerful Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar the second 379 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: and five seventy five BC, and it was the starting 380 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: point to the procession to the temple of the Mesopotamian 381 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: deity Marduk, a deity associated with, among other things, magic. 382 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 1: So yeah, this covenant goes back a long long way. 383 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 1: It's unbreakable, and it will exist until the end of time. 384 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 1: When you use the bird invocation, all supernatural creations are 385 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: subject to the pact, including not just the jin, the 386 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: good and the bad, with the demons too and the 387 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:51,680 Speaker 1: angels as well, and they must all respond. The conjuration 388 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: itself is often written in a circular vortex with the 389 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 1: words swirling to the center, ending in a three by 390 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,399 Speaker 1: three cube with letters arranged crip to leon it, but 391 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 1: many have written extensively and at length about the conjuration, 392 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,360 Speaker 1: including Ahmed Albouni, thirteen century Gin master we talked about earlier, 393 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,639 Speaker 1: whose book shar albert Ata is seminal in the education 394 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:18,440 Speaker 1: of any aspiring gin binder or sorcerer. While the origins 395 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: of the spell aren't exactly clear, Alboni attributes it to 396 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: King Solomon, and before him a Jewish mystic by the 397 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: name of ASoft ben Bakaya, and before him an unnamed 398 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 1: Greek sage. Alboni prefaces his book by noting that the 399 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 1: spell is obeyed by all spiritual forces, good or bad, 400 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: and the conjuring itself is fairly uncomplicated. It's a series 401 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 1: of twenty eight Hebrew Syriac names that Alboni transliterates to Arabic. 402 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,879 Speaker 1: But before you get to the actual names, you must 403 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:54,399 Speaker 1: proceed the invocation by a charge to protective powers by 404 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,200 Speaker 1: the greatest and mightiest name, which came to be in 405 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,919 Speaker 1: the atoms were formed from nothingness, and the light of 406 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: all lights burst with such power as to create multitudes 407 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: and multitudes of stars within the womb of the ever 408 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: expanding universe. I call you almighty and blindingly luminous Master Angels, Gabriel, Michael, Raphil, 409 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: and Israel. I call you almighty and blindingly luminous master Angels, 410 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 1: the Hamlaiel Metatron, and Chaanthiel, who reside over the armies 411 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: of spiritual spirits and nations of the Gin to facilitate 412 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: for me servants from under your domain who are bound 413 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 1: by the covenant of the Barhatia to assist me in 414 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 1: my spiritual and material pursuits and requests. This takes us 415 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: to the actual invocation itself, because you may be wondering, well, 416 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:49,439 Speaker 1: what are those twenty eight names so powerful that every angel, demon, 417 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: and supernatural entity in between can't resist. Well, there none 418 00:24:55,520 --> 00:25:00,200 Speaker 1: other than some of the most powerful names of God. Oh, 419 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: oh Holy, oh everlasting, Oh self subsisting, Oh the adored One, 420 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: OH Peace, Oh Victorious, Oh Powerful, oh praised One, Oh merciful, 421 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 1: Oh the one for whom is all the glory. You 422 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,880 Speaker 1: may not be familiar with the concept of God having 423 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 1: many names, and really the names are just descriptors or 424 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 1: titles for his attributes and powers, But there's a rich 425 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: Semitic tradition of calling upon God by using these names. Now, 426 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,640 Speaker 1: I admit being surprised when I realized that the most 427 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: powerful conjuring formula in all of history, the one that 428 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 1: no jin could refuse to respond to, was in fact 429 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: just the names of God. But then again, it makes sense. 430 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:44,200 Speaker 1: If you believe in gin, you believe that God created 431 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: them and if he created them, then only he really 432 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: has the power to compel them, and the way for 433 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 1: jin conjurors to tap into that power is through the names. 434 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: In the Jewish tradition, God has seven most holy names that, 435 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: once written, cannot be erased. Beyond these seven, there are 436 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: dozens of other names ascribed to God. Jewish mystics, the 437 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: Cabbalists believe in a powerful formula containing seventy two names 438 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 1: of God, and then there is one name, the one 439 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 1: so powerful and holy that no one is allowed to 440 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:19,159 Speaker 1: utter it. The cryptic four letter tetra grammaton, represented by 441 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:23,439 Speaker 1: the letters y H W H, rumored to have been 442 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: engraved on the ring that gave King Solomon the power 443 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 1: to control all the gin now. In the Muslim tradition, 444 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: there are nine commonly known names of God, which are 445 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: often invoked depending on what you're trying to achieve. But 446 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 1: they say there is also one name which is the greatest. 447 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: No one exactly knows what it is. Some say that 448 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: it's contained somewhere in the ninety nine names. Some say 449 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,159 Speaker 1: it's the name a law itself. Others say it's a 450 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 1: hundredth name known only to the prophets, and maybe maybe 451 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,479 Speaker 1: to a few y sages who guard it with their lives. 452 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: To me, the mystery behind this name, this most great 453 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,199 Speaker 1: and powerful name, sounds very much like what is believed 454 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: about the Tetragrammaton. In the nineteen twenties, British traveler and 455 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: writer Rosita Forbes spent much time in remote parts of 456 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: the Muslim world, and her writings often feature stories about 457 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: jin and magic, and her encounters with mystics who were 458 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:21,879 Speaker 1: well versed in both. One of them, a Moroccan sage, 459 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: told her that with the ninety nine names of God 460 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 1: he could raise a gin, and with the use of 461 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,679 Speaker 1: the hundredth name, they would grant every wish and prayer. 462 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,879 Speaker 1: She might have been skeptical if she had not witnessed 463 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 1: on numerous occasions a summoning herself. In one instance, while 464 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 1: in Yemen, she sat with a mystic in the middle 465 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,639 Speaker 1: of a courtyard next to the tomb of a saint 466 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 1: and asked him to summon a gin. The man drew 467 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 1: a large pentagram in the dirt floor, marked it with symbols, 468 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 1: and began meditating and silently invoking the names of God. 469 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 1: All at once, a man appeared out of nowhere, sitting 470 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,679 Speaker 1: inside the pentagram. He was pale and dressed like a local, 471 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 1: and looked to be sweating profusely. The two men began 472 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,879 Speaker 1: to talk, but while Forbes could only understand the holy Man, 473 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 1: the newcomer's language was incomprehensible. She could make out grunts 474 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: but understood nothing he was saying to the mystic who 475 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: had summoned him, and then just as he appeared, he disappeared. 476 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: Poof Forbes wasn't sure what happened during these gin summonings 477 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: and admitted maybe she was just getting bamboozled, But she wrote, quote, 478 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: it would be an unprecedented insult to the name of 479 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: God that they invoked. Summoning a gin is just the 480 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 1: beginning of the relationship. However, I know it's not exactly 481 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 1: the easy part, but still consider what you'd face if 482 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: you managed to conjure them and then didn't know how 483 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 1: to control them. According to the Encyclopedia of Spirit Keeping, 484 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 1: Paranormal Collecting, and Magic, there's a simple invocation you need 485 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,160 Speaker 1: to present to your gin once with you, which goes 486 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: like this, last the night, break the day, wake the sun, 487 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 1: wake the moon, all bindings through the cosmos. You are 488 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: unto me a spirit of my own. Keeping a master 489 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 1: to servant, so it is a friend to a friend, 490 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: and just like that, your gin will be bound to 491 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,880 Speaker 1: you forever. Some other handy tips to keep things good 492 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: with your gin are these. Keep your gin or the 493 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 1: object that it's attached to within five ft of you 494 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: at all times. Keep lavender or are your scented candles 495 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 1: or insects burning as often as possible, because the gin 496 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: love those particular aromas. Meditate with your gin. Getting some 497 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,959 Speaker 1: quiet time while it's just the two of you strengthens 498 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 1: the bonds. Preferably, you want to do this during the 499 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,959 Speaker 1: hours of the day that the veil between the scene 500 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 1: and the unseen is the thinnest. They recommend between twelve 501 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 1: am and one am, three pm and four pm, or 502 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 1: seven pm to eight pm. But also chat with your gin, 503 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: especially around the early morning hours, just as dawn breaks. 504 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: That's when they're the most receptive to creating a rapport. Finally, 505 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 1: keep the gin in your thoughts because they can actually 506 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 1: hear them. Open up your life, your worries, your needs, 507 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 1: and your wants, all of it to your gin companion. 508 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: They're there for you. They want to hear it all 509 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 1: and be involved. Once you've conjured and bound your gin, 510 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 1: it's pretty much all yours and won't serve another master. 511 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 1: You might think this is too good to be true, 512 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: after all, don't the gin want something in return? Well, 513 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 1: some gin just like the attention, affirmation, and companionship. But 514 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 1: there is one gin in particular who demands the ultimate 515 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: price for making your wishes come true, your mortal soul. 516 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 1: And that jin, of course, is Satan. Now, there are 517 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: thousands of people who will willingly concede their souls to 518 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: Satan for lots of different reasons, and apparently it's not 519 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: even that tough to do. The Church of Satan, for example, 520 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: charges just two dollars for a lifetime membership, or rather, 521 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 1: I guess a lifetime plus afterlife membership. The ritual isn't 522 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: that complicated either, as one young man explained in a 523 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen Slate article titled The Men who 524 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 1: Love to Worship Satan and Summon Demons. All you have 525 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 1: to do is write a letter, sign it in blood, 526 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: perform some kind of ritual, and then some physical marks 527 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: shows up on your body, like a scratch or a 528 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: burn or a welt, and that's it. Your wishes come true. Supposedly, 529 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: this particular young man, who the author decided to call Greg, 530 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 1: reported that during the ritual, a crack in the form 531 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,360 Speaker 1: of an upside down cross showed up on the candle 532 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 1: that he was using, and he mysteriously ended up with 533 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 1: three scratches on his thigh. Then, after finishing the ritual, 534 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 1: Gregg laughed in a voice that wasn't his own. He had, 535 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 1: he said, given up his soul to the devil three 536 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 1: years earlier in the hopes for success in his career 537 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 1: with relationships and making money. The article goes on to 538 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:56,719 Speaker 1: explore why young men turn to the occult. Maybe theorizes 539 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: the author as it's become more common for young women 540 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 1: to use crystals and paganism. Men are finding empowerment in 541 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 1: a more masculine, darker expression of the occult, like satanism 542 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 1: and summoning demons. But the article says what happens once 543 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,480 Speaker 1: a demon is summoned is unclear. These men are often 544 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 1: seeking a connection they can draw strength and gain insight from, 545 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 1: but they do so taking the risk that once you're 546 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 1: summon a demon, you cannot close the connection. Some things 547 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 1: might be worth the risk, though the author of this 548 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:28,960 Speaker 1: piece was prompted to write it when she got a 549 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 1: d M on a dating app from Gregg that read quote, 550 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 1: I've been thinking about summoning Satan to impress you. Yeah, 551 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 1: that same Gregg who had said he had sold his 552 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,080 Speaker 1: soul to Satan for better luck with women, was still 553 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,000 Speaker 1: three years later trying his luck on a dating app. 554 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,680 Speaker 1: I can't help but think he might want to ask 555 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 1: for a refund. But look, we all have our priorities 556 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 1: and needs and wants. Many people who want to connect 557 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,800 Speaker 1: with the supernatural, who are willing to summon gin no 558 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 1: matter the cost, are just kind of curious. Others are desperate. 559 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 1: Some are pregnant addict. Not long ago, Newsweek box On 560 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 1: reported the scientists employed at a research foundation proposed seriously 561 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 1: that summoning and subjectating jins could solve the country's energy 562 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:15,200 Speaker 1: related problems because the creatures are made of fire. So yeah, 563 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,400 Speaker 1: we all have our reasons, and I admit I actually 564 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 1: hope that they give this a shot. Whether or not 565 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,400 Speaker 1: they do, or whether or not you do, the jin 566 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 1: may still come around unsummoned, because they say when you 567 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: speak about the gin, they come to hear what is said. 568 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe they're even listening to this podcast. Thanks 569 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: for joining us this week. Next week we'll be back 570 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,760 Speaker 1: to take you another step into the world of the 571 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 1: Hidden Gin. Until then, remember we are not alone. If 572 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,680 Speaker 1: you loved today's episode, I'm going to ask you a 573 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: big favor. 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