WEBVTT - The Summoning 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.800 Welcome to the Hidden Gin, a production of I Heart 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:31.000 Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Minky. You might 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.680 recall the story I shared much earlier in the season 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:36.720 about family friends that had a number of young sons 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:38.839 who used to scare the daylights out of me and 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.880 my siblings with gin tails from their village back home 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:46.160 in Pakistan. Frankly, I was pretty disappointed that our own 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.280 relatives never shared any gin stories, but I talked it 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.120 up to the fact that we were city folk. Maybe 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.840 it wasn't the villages that the real gin action took place, 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.480 and unfortunately we didn't have a village. In my preteen years, 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:01.880 I got more interested in the occult, and because my 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:05.039 own family had pretty much nothing to contribute, I sought 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.639 out every book on the subject in the tiny local 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:12.120 library where we lived in Western Maryland. Demonic possession haunted 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:16.119 houses of vampires and zombies UFOs, well, they were all 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.280 gin to me. I was always walking the line between 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:23.200 fear and fascination, but I couldn't get enough, and it 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.600 was in those books that I learned that people didn't 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.520 have to be hapless by standards in supernatural encounters. We 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:34.200 could actually control those encounters communicate with these forces, even 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:38.639 summoned them, and I wanted to try. So I saved 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.039 up to fourteen dollars needed to buy a Wigia board 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.680 from Kmart, no small feat for a kid in the 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:47.480 nineteen eighties, and I fearfully gave it a try alone 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.400 in my bedroom one night. My little sister refused to 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:52.760 join me, and my little brother well he was too little, 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.040 so it was just me and that board. I admit 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.400 that my attempt was half hearted. I both wanted but 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.640 didn't want to conjure up spirits. The first and only 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.920 question I asked when I positioned that tear shaped, clear 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:11.160 plastic pointer on the board, was HI, Is anyone there? 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.679 Then suddenly I thought, what if I end up inviting 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.360 things into our house I couldn't get rid of. My 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.400 parents would kill me. So I quickly folded up the 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.560 board and shoved it back into the box. Not waiting 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.840 for an answer to my question, I blew out the 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.000 candle that was melting on my dresser, and the next 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.320 day I gave the board to a girl at school, 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:31.720 and I never asked her if it worked or not. 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.320 I wasn't sure I really wanted to know. The next 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.640 time we met those family friends. Though I told the 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.600 boys what I had tried, and they laughed at me. 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.560 That wasn't the way to do it. A cheap board 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:46.040 from Kmart. I really thought that would be enough. No, 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.560 If you wanted to summon the gin with all their 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.519 powers and make sure that you're able to control the powers, 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.880 it takes a test of your own fortitude and courage. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.160 Back in their village, a few brave souls had taken 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:02.560 the test, some had passed, but most had failed. The 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.560 summoning required a person to first spend thirty days in 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.840 prayer and fasting to purify and prepare their bodies and 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.800 souls for the ordeal. At the end of thirty days, 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.440 you had to spend the night in a cemetery, seated 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:18.079 inside a tight circle drawn in the dirt. Throughout the night, 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.919 demons would terrorize you, trying to get you to flee 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.000 in fear from that circle. But you can't leave the circle. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.240 You can't sleep, you can't eat or drink, you can't 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.280 stretch an arm or a leg. You must spend the 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.120 entire night from the time the sun sets to when 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:37.800 dawn breaks, keeping still and reciting prayers. If your prayers 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.680 ever falter, or you doze off, or even so much 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.760 as your foot slides across the boundary of that circle, 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:48.480 you fail the test. And failing the test didn't mean 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.240 you got a do over. Failing the test meant you'd 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.080 be killed by the same gin you were trying to summon. 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.720 So this was not an undertaking for the faint of 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:02.280 heart or the wishy. She like me. It was high risk, 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.560 but also high reward, because if you pass that test 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.600 and made it through the night, you now controlled the 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.000 gin that you summoned, and all of their powers were 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:18.800 now your powers. I'm rad and I'll be your guide 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:31.920 into the ancient world of the hidden gin. Welcome. If 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:33.920 you've been waiting for a female ginny that is one 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:36.359 of the most efficient at making your wishes come true, 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.479 and who will protect you and love you and bring 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.680 you all the good things in life. It does not 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.320 get better than this. She has had some fantastically beautiful 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.719 times with her previous masters and mistresses and will always 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.160 love and care for you. She has no morals, and 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.920 her specialty is to make you feel loved and cherished 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.880 and protect you from all harm. She is extremely good 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.080 at what she does and is desperate to please you 0:04:58.279 --> 0:04:59.920 and is willing to be shared if that's what her 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.800 master desires. All she wants is to pleasure you. You 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.159 can expect to be romanced, flirted with, massaged, and tied 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.120 down the way jin do without anything at all, and 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.280 then pleasured until you demand her to stop. She is 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.479 absolutely stunning, with a body to die for and golden hair. 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.760 She also has a beautiful nature. You will never be 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.039 lonely with her at your side. You will never be 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.719 sad or have bad luck ever again. Even when you 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.400 come out of this page, you will be able to 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.120 close your eyes and see her face. You will feel 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.440 warm inside, and you're to have her in your life, 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.360 touching your heart and protecting you against all earthly troubles. 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:40.840 All this and more can be yours for just That 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:44.640 might sound like the most ridiculous made up infomercial ever, 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.599 but what I just read to you is one of hundreds, 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.160 if not thousands, of actual listings on eBay for an 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.880 item of jewelry that comes with its very own gin. 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.560 There are rings, amulets, all kinds of items, and you 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.359 can take your pick of the litter, not just with 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.520 the physical eye um spot with a kind of gin 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.560 that you're looking for, and eBay isn't the only place 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.560 you can find such items. A South African company called 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.720 Paranormal Spirits has a wide array of gin summoning items 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.040 for sale on I have to admit, a pretty modern 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.320 and convincing looking website. You can take your pick of 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.560 the gin litter. What do you want that gin to 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.560 do for you? Be your lover, bring you wealth, destroy 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:27.080 your enemies. Paranormal Spirits has it all. Five thousand year 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.080 old Norse gin and three thousand year old Egyptian gin. 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.240 Terrifying if free gin and seductive hair em gin all 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.200 come neatly packaged, presumably into the rings that you can 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.599 buy from them. If you're not a ring person, well 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.760 try a spell bound oil, perfume or an incense that 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.120 will draw them to you. And if that doesn't work, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.240 no worries. You can buy for a sweet price a 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.120 vial of red mercury from the store. The gin apparently 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:56.080 covet red mercury because it helps increase their lifespan. So 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.560 if you've got yourself a vial, well, it's a perfect 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.920 bargaining tool to get what you want from them. How 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.600 exactly you'll get in touch with them to enter negotiations 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:08.920 isn't clear, but maybe it comes with an instruction manual. Now, look, 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.840 if you think a pretty bottle of oil or a 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.200 cheap ring from eBay will bring you the power to 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.280 lord over the gin, well, I've got a fourteen dollar 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.600 Wigia board I'd like to sell you. If only summoning 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.200 the gin was so easy, which is why the eBay 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:26.520 listings come with buy or beware warnings like this law 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.560 state I must add that my readings are for entertainment 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.680 purposes only. You must be at least eighteen years old 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.000 to make this purchase. You agree that any items purchased 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.600 our subject to your own interpretation. My services are not 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.360 substitute for legal, medical, financial, psychiatric, or any other kind 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.720 of professional service or care. I am not responsible for 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.560 the outcome of any situation that may occur as a 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.000 result of any product or service you may purchase from me, 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.200 or of your participation in any way. By purchasing my services, 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:49.960 you are stating that you are aware of and agree 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:55.040 to these terms. So it seems that will not exactly 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:59.280 get you the ring of King Solomon. Now, the reliability 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.920 of online purchases aside, there's no question that throughout all 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.960 of human history we have been trying to make contact 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.320 with the unknown, and we've left behind extensive literature and 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.000 text on how to do it. Even though invoking the 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:16.280 Gin is forbidden by most traditions, but forbidding something, as 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:29.160 we all know, just makes the temptation even sweeter. There 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.080 are those who believe even whispering the known names of 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.920 the Gin is enough to call them to you, but 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.040 usually it takes a lot more than that. Nearly a 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.520 millennia ago, in the early eleventh century, the Persian Sufi 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.439 scholar an aesthetic Mohammad alta Basi what a treatise called 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:50.400 the Comprehensive Compendium to the entire See a rather misleading 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.720 title if you ask me. That's because this treatise is 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.720 perhaps one of the best known and most widely used, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.320 not to understand sea creatures, but to subject a gate 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:04.440 occult forces. Tobasi warns that there are two ways to 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.120 conjure the Gin, an illicit way and a permissible way. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.440 The illicit way is by calling on dark forces and 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:16.079 committing heinous and degrading acts like blood sacrifices or sexual deviation, 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.920 but the legitimate way, according to Tobasi is by invoking 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.040 what is pure and sacred. To that end, he cites 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.320 a range of sacred scriptures such as the Torah, the Gospel, 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.160 and the Qur'an. That's also how he gets around the 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:33.160 prohibition against conjuring Jin, rationalizing that his spells are in 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.679 accordance with Islamic law as long as they are performed 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:41.480 through virtue and not through sin. The collection of incantations, charms, 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.880 and the combination of written and recited spells claimed to 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:48.760 be effective in commanding both angels and gin and to 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.280 obtain supernatural powers through their aid, both for good and 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:56.320 nefarious purposes. For the super committed, reciting all the spells 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.240 will give you command over the entire range of demons 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.560 that he lists, including the Lady Queen, one of the 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:06.439 daughters of the Devil, or the Indian demon King Mahakal. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.920 Tabasi himself was famous for his alleged own ability to 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.760 subjugate the Gin, and that ability drew his contemporaries to 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.720 him to ask for his help. One well known story 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.640 tells of the time the famous Muslim scholar Rosali asked 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.160 to Bassi to show him what the Jin look like. 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.240 Tabasi did so, and Rozali saw them as shadows on 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.480 a wall. Then Rosali asked to Bassi if he could 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.680 speak with them, but Tobassi basically responded, maybe another time. 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:39.280 Tabasi's book offers precise and specific instructions on how to 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.959 subjugate the jin to do your bidding, and in many 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:45.280 cases the spells involved the preparation of charms and talisman. 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.320 Each spell is different depending on what you're trying to achieve. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.560 Do you want to make someone fall in love with you? 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.120 Are you trying to destroy an enemy? Do you need 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.680 help from a gin to ward off evil? Are you 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.480 searching for the location of something precious, something or someone 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:05.280 you've Maybe your charm might require objects made out of paper, leather, parchment, 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.440 metal disks and tablets, or jewelry like signet rings, but 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:13.480 no worries Tobasi has you coverned. Throughout the book, Tibassi 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:17.280 draws out the various magical symbols necessary for the spells, 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:22.240 and divulges the numerological configurations and incantations needed for success. 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.040 Some spells require you to invoke the forces of good 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:31.040 angels and prophets and saints and of course God, but 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.760 in others Tobasi says, you'll have to go to the 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:37.760 dark side and invoke the Gin directly, often the most 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.520 powerful of them, like the seven Gin Kings and their 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:47.240 king Satan himself. While Tabasi's work made rereak of heresy 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.319 to the Orthodox, he was fairly well accepted as part 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.560 of a long standing tradition of what were known as 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:57.720 gin binders, those people who possess the power and knowledge 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.120 to bend the Gin to their will. Another one of 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:05.319 the most famous such gin binders was Ahmed Albuni, a 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.720 thirteenth century North African mystic who is said to have 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.880 mastered the esoteric and occult sciences. While there's not much 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.440 known about him, he left behind more than forty writings 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:21.000 in which he referenced Plato, Aristotle, Hermez, and various Chaldean 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:25.560 magicians that he was influenced by. Even today, Albuni's body 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.559 of work is among the main sources of occultism, magic, 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:33.520 and secret knowledge in Muslim societies. One of those books 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.120 contains a set of twenty four names from the Arabic 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:40.560 alphabet used for summoning our conjuration, and they are said 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.920 to date all the way back to the Biblical prophet 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:47.520 Enoch even before being used by King Solomon. So clearly 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:51.559 the pedigree of these invocations is ancient and very well preserved. 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.000 While it's not hard to get a hold of either 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:58.000 Albuni or Tabasi's texts because they're both easily available online, 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:01.360 albeit in their original Arabic, they were never meant for 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:05.079 the masses. All Mooney specifically warned that his books were 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:08.040 meant for the select few, those with the wisdom and 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.280 knowledge to do good by them. Using them for evil 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:15.280 would return evil, using them for good would return good. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.040 And beyond that, you also had to have a certain 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:22.120 level of spiritual insight and fortitude to get results, because 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:26.720 these metaphysical practices only opened portals of power for those 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.000 who had demonstrated years, if not decades, of spiritual and 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:34.600 intellectual discipline. After all, as haff As, a thirteenth century 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:38.760 Persian Sufi master and poet, said, quote, a man must 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.880 be a Solomon before this magical seal will work. Now, 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.120 I'm not saying that a lay person wouldn't get anything 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.480 out of these spells. It's just while folks like you 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.680 and I might not be able to control whatever we 0:13:51.760 --> 0:14:02.400 inadvertently unleash, there are many reasons some one may want 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.760 to reach out to the Gin, communicate with them, or 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:08.000 even command them to their bidding. One very common one 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.640 that may not have occurred to you is this the 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:14.120 Gin can help tell the future. Not to be clear, 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.160 the Gin on their own have no power to predict 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.240 the future, none at all. In fact, while the Gin 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.040 are physically strong, they're believed to be pretty basic and 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:26.240 their cognitive abilities Scholars have said one reason human kind 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.960 is considered a superior creation to the Gin is because 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:35.760 of our ability to imagine. Human beings can conceive of ideas, technologies, possibilities, 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.880 worlds they've never seen and have never existed, and turned 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:44.080 that imagination into reality, whereas the Gin have no such ability. 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.920 They just know what they know. But they are faster 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.880 than humans could ever hope to be, and they can 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.200 flit through different dimensions in the blink of an eye, 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.640 which is why they're able to help humans that call 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.720 upon them predict the future in two ways. First, it's 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.920 said that legions of gin and are connected to one 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.480 another in a vast cosmic grape vine, and they're able 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:08.000 to carry news from one place to another instantly. What 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.240 happens in one part of the world can immediately be 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.520 conveyed on the other end of the globe if you're 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.560 plugged into that grape vine. Now this might not seem 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.080 like a big deal in the age of the Internet 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.960 and social media, but imagine being able to do this 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:23.880 party trick a hundred years ago. But what about the 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.640 things that haven't happened yet in any part of the world. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.400 After all, there have been many people throughout history who 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:34.080 have successfully predicted events well into the future. Nostronomous is 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.400 well known in our part of the world, but hundreds 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:40.000 of years before him, there was all budger Baki, a 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:44.160 famous Syrian esoteric seer who predicted dozens of major events 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:48.520 through what was called mystical unveiling. People like all Budger 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.640 Baky weren't very well regarded by the powers that be. However, 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.080 this is what the famous Orthodox scholar I Been Kuldoon 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.680 had to say about the fortune teller. In the towns, 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:00.600 we find a group of people who strive to make 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.280 a living out of predicting the future because they know 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.240 that the people are most eager to know it. Therefore, 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.480 they set themselves up in the streets and in shops 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.760 and all day long, the women and children of the town, 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.200 and indeed many weak minded men as well come and 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.720 ask them to foretell the future for them, how it 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.200 will affect their business, their rank, their friendships, their enmities, 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.560 and similar things. There are those who make their predictions 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:28.120 from sandwriting, geomancy. Others make their predictions by casting pebbles 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.160 and grains of wheat. Still others make their predictions by 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:35.280 looking into mirrors and into water. These are reprehensible things 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.800 because their reprehensible character is established by religious law, and 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.920 because supernatural knowledge is veiled and hidden from human beings. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.240 But all Budjerbaki wasn't any old corner store fortune teller 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:53.720 divining someone's romantic prospects. He was a seer of the 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:59.200 highest order, sometimes predicting global events with incredible specificity, like 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.760 a prediction about the emergence of a lame Turkic warlord 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.480 that would take over a vast region to the east. 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:11.760 Many of all Butcherbaki's predictions were cryptic, though, like this poem. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:15.439 Listen and comprehend letters and their numerical values and the 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:19.240 description and be understanding like a clever and intelligent person. 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.639 The Lord of the heavens will tell concerning Egypt and 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.199 what is to be in Syria of good things and 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:31.320 of tribulations, alas Damascus, what descended upon its territory and 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.919 then burn of young men and old existence is dark 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.400 and the land is blacked out. Even the pigeons, they're 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.760 moren on the branches, Oh, poor creatures. Is there no 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.520 helper for the religion? Get up, all of you and 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.159 go to Syria. From the plains and the rugged hills. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.320 The Arabs of the Iraq and lower and Upper Egypt 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.760 are coming. The firm resolution is to bring death to 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:59.040 unbelief in Damascus. Being cryptic was one of the numerous 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.719 reasons that he was announced by the Orthodox clergy at 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.359 the time. They thought he was just a complete fraud, 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.639 someone who made vague predictions that people could read into, 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.760 which is a common fortune telling trick for sure, But 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.159 more seriously, he was also labeled a heretic, accused of 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.160 summoning not just the Gin, but entering into a pack 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.199 with Satan himself, a pack that would give him access 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.959 to the unseen world of the Gin and to the future, 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:25.639 which takes us to the second way that Gin are 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.680 able to help humans predict the future by interfering with 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:34.040 divine communications. According to the tradition, wicked gin will fly 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.960 as close as they can to the seventh heaven where 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.520 the angels are receiving divine commands from God, and essentially 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.120 they'll eavesdrop. They aren't able to hear everything clearly, though, 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:46.960 because oftentimes they're chased away by the angels. And you 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:51.320 may have witnesses happening yourself. Actually because shooting stars, well 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.879 it said those stars are being flung by angels at 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:57.680 nosy Gin. When the gin returns to report what they've 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.640 overheard to the human fortune teller that commission their service, 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:03.640 they'll make up things to add to their report because remember, 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:07.000 they don't always hear everything accurately. They may only have 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.120 bits and pieces of the whole picture. And that's why 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.720 when fortunes are told, there are often truths mixed with lies. 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:16.840 So again, the gin on their own are not able 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.639 to see the future. They have to steal the information 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.960 from upon high, which they do by breaking the rules. 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.040 And the person who sent them there is also breaking 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:30.080 the rules, which is why Orthodox religious leaders weren't having 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.760 it so for this and other religious crimes, all budger 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:37.720 Baki was condemned to death. Of course, he probably also 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.560 saw that coming, so he fled to safety from Damascus 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:44.359 to Egypt. Al Buker Baji later returned to Damascus, though, 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:48.760 where he died in the year thirteen twenty four. Oh And, 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:52.240 by the way, fifty years after all Bukar Baji's death, 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:58.480 and undefeated Turkic Mongoldian conqueror emerged, taking over southwest and 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:02.439 Central Asia as the most powerful ruler the vast Muslim 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:06.240 world had ever seen. His name was tim or Lane, 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:18.920 also known as Tim Moore the Lame. Back in the day, 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.439 it was pretty well understood that summoning the Gin was 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:25.320 the province of the expert, disciplined mystic. But maybe this 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:27.840 was just a gatekeeping device to keep a certain class 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:31.560 of people uninformed and controllable and another class of people 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:35.159 well employed and powerful. Well. We no longer live in 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:39.280 those times. The Internet has democratized the tools necessary to 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.400 communicate with the Gin, and you don't need an esteemed 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:46.320 scholarly intermediary to get right down to it. Spells needed 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:49.359 to conjure the Gin are easy to find online. Entire books, 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:53.240 including both ancient and more contemporary collections, are yours to 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:55.640 have at the click of a button, and there are 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.520 nearly a dozen pages on a Gin fandom wiki site 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:01.719 that provides specific and occations and how many times you're 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:04.960 supposed to say them for different gin. I even found 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:07.000 a post on Reddit that tells you exactly how to 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:10.520 summon the seven Gin King, and on the website white 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:13.199 Magic Mastery dot com you can get a book and 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:17.320 a webinar for the low lo fee of s on 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:20.159 what is claimed to be the most powerful invocation of 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:25.639 them all, the Berta. While I can't vouch for the website, 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:29.080 the Bertha invocation heralds back to the time of the 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:33.080 biblical prophet Enoch and was passed through King Solomon and 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:38.480 is considered the mother of all summonings. There is almost 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:42.320 no classical summoning grimoire that doesn't contain it, and one 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:44.879 of the reasons it's most powerful is because it calls 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:48.360 upon an ancient covenant taken not with a single Gin, 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:51.480 but with all the Gin as well as the rest 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:55.199 of the supernatural world. It's said that the covenant was 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:57.920 taken at the Gate of Ishtar, one of the eight 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:01.280 gates leading to the innermost part of ancient Babylon, the 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:06.439 city whose name literally means the doorway to God. The 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:10.080 magnificent Gait, one of the seven Wonders of the ancient world, 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:15.119 was constructed by the powerful Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar the second 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.520 and five seventy five BC, and it was the starting 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:21.560 point to the procession to the temple of the Mesopotamian 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:26.520 deity Marduk, a deity associated with, among other things, magic. 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:30.639 So yeah, this covenant goes back a long long way. 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:34.240 It's unbreakable, and it will exist until the end of time. 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:39.640 When you use the bird invocation, all supernatural creations are 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:43.080 subject to the pact, including not just the jin, the 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:46.000 good and the bad, with the demons too and the 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:51.680 angels as well, and they must all respond. The conjuration 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:54.760 itself is often written in a circular vortex with the 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:58.120 words swirling to the center, ending in a three by 0:22:58.160 --> 0:23:01.399 three cube with letters arranged crip to leon it, but 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:04.440 many have written extensively and at length about the conjuration, 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:09.360 including Ahmed Albouni, thirteen century Gin master we talked about earlier, 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:13.639 whose book shar albert Ata is seminal in the education 0:23:13.680 --> 0:23:18.440 of any aspiring gin binder or sorcerer. While the origins 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:22.000 of the spell aren't exactly clear, Alboni attributes it to 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:25.720 King Solomon, and before him a Jewish mystic by the 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:30.240 name of ASoft ben Bakaya, and before him an unnamed 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:33.960 Greek sage. Alboni prefaces his book by noting that the 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:36.919 spell is obeyed by all spiritual forces, good or bad, 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:41.240 and the conjuring itself is fairly uncomplicated. It's a series 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:46.520