Speaker 1: Welcome to the Hidden Gin, a production of I Heart
Speaker 1: Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Minky. You might
Speaker 1: recall the story I shared much earlier in the season
Speaker 1: about family friends that had a number of young sons
Speaker 1: who used to scare the daylights out of me and
Speaker 1: my siblings with gin tails from their village back home
Speaker 1: in Pakistan. Frankly, I was pretty disappointed that our own
Speaker 1: relatives never shared any gin stories, but I talked it
Speaker 1: up to the fact that we were city folk. Maybe
Speaker 1: it wasn't the villages that the real gin action took place,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately we didn't have a village. In my preteen years,
Speaker 1: I got more interested in the occult, and because my
Speaker 1: own family had pretty much nothing to contribute, I sought
Speaker 1: out every book on the subject in the tiny local
Speaker 1: library where we lived in Western Maryland. Demonic possession haunted
Speaker 1: houses of vampires and zombies UFOs, well, they were all
Speaker 1: gin to me. I was always walking the line between
Speaker 1: fear and fascination, but I couldn't get enough, and it
Speaker 1: was in those books that I learned that people didn't
Speaker 1: have to be hapless by standards in supernatural encounters. We
Speaker 1: could actually control those encounters communicate with these forces, even
Speaker 1: summoned them, and I wanted to try. So I saved
Speaker 1: up to fourteen dollars needed to buy a Wigia board
Speaker 1: from Kmart, no small feat for a kid in the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, and I fearfully gave it a try alone
Speaker 1: in my bedroom one night. My little sister refused to
Speaker 1: join me, and my little brother well he was too little,
Speaker 1: so it was just me and that board. I admit
Speaker 1: that my attempt was half hearted. I both wanted but
Speaker 1: didn't want to conjure up spirits. The first and only
Speaker 1: question I asked when I positioned that tear shaped, clear
Speaker 1: plastic pointer on the board, was HI, Is anyone there?
Speaker 1: Then suddenly I thought, what if I end up inviting
Speaker 1: things into our house I couldn't get rid of. My
Speaker 1: parents would kill me. So I quickly folded up the
Speaker 1: board and shoved it back into the box. Not waiting
Speaker 1: for an answer to my question, I blew out the
Speaker 1: candle that was melting on my dresser, and the next
Speaker 1: day I gave the board to a girl at school,
Speaker 1: and I never asked her if it worked or not.
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure I really wanted to know. The next
Speaker 1: time we met those family friends. Though I told the
Speaker 1: boys what I had tried, and they laughed at me.
Speaker 1: That wasn't the way to do it. A cheap board
Speaker 1: from Kmart. I really thought that would be enough. No,
Speaker 1: If you wanted to summon the gin with all their
Speaker 1: powers and make sure that you're able to control the powers,
Speaker 1: it takes a test of your own fortitude and courage.
Speaker 1: Back in their village, a few brave souls had taken
Speaker 1: the test, some had passed, but most had failed. The
Speaker 1: summoning required a person to first spend thirty days in
Speaker 1: prayer and fasting to purify and prepare their bodies and
Speaker 1: souls for the ordeal. At the end of thirty days,
Speaker 1: you had to spend the night in a cemetery, seated
Speaker 1: inside a tight circle drawn in the dirt. Throughout the night,
Speaker 1: demons would terrorize you, trying to get you to flee
Speaker 1: in fear from that circle. But you can't leave the circle.
Speaker 1: You can't sleep, you can't eat or drink, you can't
Speaker 1: stretch an arm or a leg. You must spend the
Speaker 1: entire night from the time the sun sets to when
Speaker 1: dawn breaks, keeping still and reciting prayers. If your prayers
Speaker 1: ever falter, or you doze off, or even so much
Speaker 1: as your foot slides across the boundary of that circle,
Speaker 1: you fail the test. And failing the test didn't mean
Speaker 1: you got a do over. Failing the test meant you'd
Speaker 1: be killed by the same gin you were trying to summon.
Speaker 1: So this was not an undertaking for the faint of
Speaker 1: heart or the wishy. She like me. It was high risk,
Speaker 1: but also high reward, because if you pass that test
Speaker 1: and made it through the night, you now controlled the
Speaker 1: gin that you summoned, and all of their powers were
Speaker 1: now your powers. I'm rad and I'll be your guide
Speaker 1: into the ancient world of the hidden gin. Welcome. If
Speaker 1: you've been waiting for a female ginny that is one
Speaker 1: of the most efficient at making your wishes come true,
Speaker 1: and who will protect you and love you and bring
Speaker 1: you all the good things in life. It does not
Speaker 1: get better than this. She has had some fantastically beautiful
Speaker 1: times with her previous masters and mistresses and will always
Speaker 1: love and care for you. She has no morals, and
Speaker 1: her specialty is to make you feel loved and cherished
Speaker 1: and protect you from all harm. She is extremely good
Speaker 1: at what she does and is desperate to please you
Speaker 1: and is willing to be shared if that's what her
Speaker 1: master desires. All she wants is to pleasure you. You
Speaker 1: can expect to be romanced, flirted with, massaged, and tied
Speaker 1: down the way jin do without anything at all, and
Speaker 1: then pleasured until you demand her to stop. She is
Speaker 1: absolutely stunning, with a body to die for and golden hair.
Speaker 1: She also has a beautiful nature. You will never be
Speaker 1: lonely with her at your side. You will never be
Speaker 1: sad or have bad luck ever again. Even when you
Speaker 1: come out of this page, you will be able to
Speaker 1: close your eyes and see her face. You will feel
Speaker 1: warm inside, and you're to have her in your life,
Speaker 1: touching your heart and protecting you against all earthly troubles.
Speaker 1: All this and more can be yours for just That
Speaker 1: might sound like the most ridiculous made up infomercial ever,
Speaker 1: but what I just read to you is one of hundreds,
Speaker 1: if not thousands, of actual listings on eBay for an
Speaker 1: item of jewelry that comes with its very own gin.
Speaker 1: There are rings, amulets, all kinds of items, and you
Speaker 1: can take your pick of the litter, not just with
Speaker 1: the physical eye um spot with a kind of gin
Speaker 1: that you're looking for, and eBay isn't the only place
Speaker 1: you can find such items. A South African company called
Speaker 1: Paranormal Spirits has a wide array of gin summoning items
Speaker 1: for sale on I have to admit, a pretty modern
Speaker 1: and convincing looking website. You can take your pick of
Speaker 1: the gin litter. What do you want that gin to
Speaker 1: do for you? Be your lover, bring you wealth, destroy
Speaker 1: your enemies. Paranormal Spirits has it all. Five thousand year
Speaker 1: old Norse gin and three thousand year old Egyptian gin.
Speaker 1: Terrifying if free gin and seductive hair em gin all
Speaker 1: come neatly packaged, presumably into the rings that you can
Speaker 1: buy from them. If you're not a ring person, well
Speaker 1: try a spell bound oil, perfume or an incense that
Speaker 1: will draw them to you. And if that doesn't work,
Speaker 1: no worries. You can buy for a sweet price a
Speaker 1: vial of red mercury from the store. The gin apparently
Speaker 1: covet red mercury because it helps increase their lifespan. So
Speaker 1: if you've got yourself a vial, well, it's a perfect
Speaker 1: bargaining tool to get what you want from them. How
Speaker 1: exactly you'll get in touch with them to enter negotiations
Speaker 1: isn't clear, but maybe it comes with an instruction manual. Now, look,
Speaker 1: if you think a pretty bottle of oil or a
Speaker 1: cheap ring from eBay will bring you the power to
Speaker 1: lord over the gin, well, I've got a fourteen dollar
Speaker 1: Wigia board I'd like to sell you. If only summoning
Speaker 1: the gin was so easy, which is why the eBay
Speaker 1: listings come with buy or beware warnings like this law
Speaker 1: state I must add that my readings are for entertainment
Speaker 1: purposes only. You must be at least eighteen years old
Speaker 1: to make this purchase. You agree that any items purchased
Speaker 1: our subject to your own interpretation. My services are not
Speaker 1: substitute for legal, medical, financial, psychiatric, or any other kind
Speaker 1: of professional service or care. I am not responsible for
Speaker 1: the outcome of any situation that may occur as a
Speaker 1: result of any product or service you may purchase from me,
Speaker 1: or of your participation in any way. By purchasing my services,
Speaker 1: you are stating that you are aware of and agree
Speaker 1: to these terms. So it seems that will not exactly
Speaker 1: get you the ring of King Solomon. Now, the reliability
Speaker 1: of online purchases aside, there's no question that throughout all
Speaker 1: of human history we have been trying to make contact
Speaker 1: with the unknown, and we've left behind extensive literature and
Speaker 1: text on how to do it. Even though invoking the
Speaker 1: Gin is forbidden by most traditions, but forbidding something, as
Speaker 1: we all know, just makes the temptation even sweeter. There
Speaker 1: are those who believe even whispering the known names of
Speaker 1: the Gin is enough to call them to you, but
Speaker 1: usually it takes a lot more than that. Nearly a
Speaker 1: millennia ago, in the early eleventh century, the Persian Sufi
Speaker 1: scholar an aesthetic Mohammad alta Basi what a treatise called
Speaker 1: the Comprehensive Compendium to the entire See a rather misleading
Speaker 1: title if you ask me. That's because this treatise is
Speaker 1: perhaps one of the best known and most widely used,
Speaker 1: not to understand sea creatures, but to subject a gate
Speaker 1: occult forces. Tobasi warns that there are two ways to
Speaker 1: conjure the Gin, an illicit way and a permissible way.
Speaker 1: The illicit way is by calling on dark forces and
Speaker 1: committing heinous and degrading acts like blood sacrifices or sexual deviation,
Speaker 1: but the legitimate way, according to Tobasi is by invoking
Speaker 1: what is pure and sacred. To that end, he cites
Speaker 1: a range of sacred scriptures such as the Torah, the Gospel,
Speaker 1: and the Qur'an. That's also how he gets around the
Speaker 1: prohibition against conjuring Jin, rationalizing that his spells are in
Speaker 1: accordance with Islamic law as long as they are performed
Speaker 1: through virtue and not through sin. The collection of incantations, charms,
Speaker 1: and the combination of written and recited spells claimed to
Speaker 1: be effective in commanding both angels and gin and to
Speaker 1: obtain supernatural powers through their aid, both for good and
Speaker 1: nefarious purposes. For the super committed, reciting all the spells
Speaker 1: will give you command over the entire range of demons
Speaker 1: that he lists, including the Lady Queen, one of the
Speaker 1: daughters of the Devil, or the Indian demon King Mahakal.
Speaker 1: Tabasi himself was famous for his alleged own ability to
Speaker 1: subjugate the Gin, and that ability drew his contemporaries to
Speaker 1: him to ask for his help. One well known story
Speaker 1: tells of the time the famous Muslim scholar Rosali asked
Speaker 1: to Bassi to show him what the Jin look like.
Speaker 1: Tabasi did so, and Rozali saw them as shadows on
Speaker 1: a wall. Then Rosali asked to Bassi if he could
Speaker 1: speak with them, but Tobassi basically responded, maybe another time.
Speaker 1: Tabasi's book offers precise and specific instructions on how to
Speaker 1: subjugate the jin to do your bidding, and in many
Speaker 1: cases the spells involved the preparation of charms and talisman.
Speaker 1: Each spell is different depending on what you're trying to achieve.
Speaker 1: Do you want to make someone fall in love with you?
Speaker 1: Are you trying to destroy an enemy? Do you need
Speaker 1: help from a gin to ward off evil? Are you
Speaker 1: searching for the location of something precious, something or someone
Speaker 1: you've Maybe your charm might require objects made out of paper, leather, parchment,
Speaker 1: metal disks and tablets, or jewelry like signet rings, but
Speaker 1: no worries Tobasi has you coverned. Throughout the book, Tibassi
Speaker 1: draws out the various magical symbols necessary for the spells,
Speaker 1: and divulges the numerological configurations and incantations needed for success.
Speaker 1: Some spells require you to invoke the forces of good
Speaker 1: angels and prophets and saints and of course God, but
Speaker 1: in others Tobasi says, you'll have to go to the
Speaker 1: dark side and invoke the Gin directly, often the most
Speaker 1: powerful of them, like the seven Gin Kings and their
Speaker 1: king Satan himself. While Tabasi's work made rereak of heresy
Speaker 1: to the Orthodox, he was fairly well accepted as part
Speaker 1: of a long standing tradition of what were known as
Speaker 1: gin binders, those people who possess the power and knowledge
Speaker 1: to bend the Gin to their will. Another one of
Speaker 1: the most famous such gin binders was Ahmed Albuni, a
Speaker 1: thirteenth century North African mystic who is said to have
Speaker 1: mastered the esoteric and occult sciences. While there's not much
Speaker 1: known about him, he left behind more than forty writings
Speaker 1: in which he referenced Plato, Aristotle, Hermez, and various Chaldean
Speaker 1: magicians that he was influenced by. Even today, Albuni's body
Speaker 1: of work is among the main sources of occultism, magic,
Speaker 1: and secret knowledge in Muslim societies. One of those books
Speaker 1: contains a set of twenty four names from the Arabic
Speaker 1: alphabet used for summoning our conjuration, and they are said
Speaker 1: to date all the way back to the Biblical prophet
Speaker 1: Enoch even before being used by King Solomon. So clearly
Speaker 1: the pedigree of these invocations is ancient and very well preserved.
Speaker 1: While it's not hard to get a hold of either
Speaker 1: Albuni or Tabasi's texts because they're both easily available online,
Speaker 1: albeit in their original Arabic, they were never meant for
Speaker 1: the masses. All Mooney specifically warned that his books were
Speaker 1: meant for the select few, those with the wisdom and
Speaker 1: knowledge to do good by them. Using them for evil
Speaker 1: would return evil, using them for good would return good.
Speaker 1: And beyond that, you also had to have a certain
Speaker 1: level of spiritual insight and fortitude to get results, because
Speaker 1: these metaphysical practices only opened portals of power for those
Speaker 1: who had demonstrated years, if not decades, of spiritual and
Speaker 1: intellectual discipline. After all, as haff As, a thirteenth century
Speaker 1: Persian Sufi master and poet, said, quote, a man must
Speaker 1: be a Solomon before this magical seal will work. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that a lay person wouldn't get anything
Speaker 1: out of these spells. It's just while folks like you
Speaker 1: and I might not be able to control whatever we
Speaker 1: inadvertently unleash, there are many reasons some one may want
Speaker 1: to reach out to the Gin, communicate with them, or
Speaker 1: even command them to their bidding. One very common one
Speaker 1: that may not have occurred to you is this the
Speaker 1: Gin can help tell the future. Not to be clear,
Speaker 1: the Gin on their own have no power to predict
Speaker 1: the future, none at all. In fact, while the Gin
Speaker 1: are physically strong, they're believed to be pretty basic and
Speaker 1: their cognitive abilities Scholars have said one reason human kind
Speaker 1: is considered a superior creation to the Gin is because
Speaker 1: of our ability to imagine. Human beings can conceive of ideas, technologies, possibilities,
Speaker 1: worlds they've never seen and have never existed, and turned
Speaker 1: that imagination into reality, whereas the Gin have no such ability.
Speaker 1: They just know what they know. But they are faster
Speaker 1: than humans could ever hope to be, and they can
Speaker 1: flit through different dimensions in the blink of an eye,
Speaker 1: which is why they're able to help humans that call
Speaker 1: upon them predict the future in two ways. First, it's
Speaker 1: said that legions of gin and are connected to one
Speaker 1: another in a vast cosmic grape vine, and they're able
Speaker 1: to carry news from one place to another instantly. What
Speaker 1: happens in one part of the world can immediately be
Speaker 1: conveyed on the other end of the globe if you're
Speaker 1: plugged into that grape vine. Now this might not seem
Speaker 1: like a big deal in the age of the Internet
Speaker 1: and social media, but imagine being able to do this
Speaker 1: party trick a hundred years ago. But what about the
Speaker 1: things that haven't happened yet in any part of the world.
Speaker 1: After all, there have been many people throughout history who
Speaker 1: have successfully predicted events well into the future. Nostronomous is
Speaker 1: well known in our part of the world, but hundreds
Speaker 1: of years before him, there was all budger Baki, a
Speaker 1: famous Syrian esoteric seer who predicted dozens of major events
Speaker 1: through what was called mystical unveiling. People like all Budger
Speaker 1: Baky weren't very well regarded by the powers that be. However,
Speaker 1: this is what the famous Orthodox scholar I Been Kuldoon
Speaker 1: had to say about the fortune teller. In the towns,
Speaker 1: we find a group of people who strive to make
Speaker 1: a living out of predicting the future because they know
Speaker 1: that the people are most eager to know it. Therefore,
Speaker 1: they set themselves up in the streets and in shops
Speaker 1: and all day long, the women and children of the town,
Speaker 1: and indeed many weak minded men as well come and
Speaker 1: ask them to foretell the future for them, how it
Speaker 1: will affect their business, their rank, their friendships, their enmities,
Speaker 1: and similar things. There are those who make their predictions
Speaker 1: from sandwriting, geomancy. Others make their predictions by casting pebbles
Speaker 1: and grains of wheat. Still others make their predictions by
Speaker 1: looking into mirrors and into water. These are reprehensible things
Speaker 1: because their reprehensible character is established by religious law, and
Speaker 1: because supernatural knowledge is veiled and hidden from human beings.
Speaker 1: But all Budjerbaki wasn't any old corner store fortune teller
Speaker 1: divining someone's romantic prospects. He was a seer of the
Speaker 1: highest order, sometimes predicting global events with incredible specificity, like
Speaker 1: a prediction about the emergence of a lame Turkic warlord
Speaker 1: that would take over a vast region to the east.
Speaker 1: Many of all Butcherbaki's predictions were cryptic, though, like this poem.
Speaker 1: Listen and comprehend letters and their numerical values and the
Speaker 1: description and be understanding like a clever and intelligent person.
Speaker 1: The Lord of the heavens will tell concerning Egypt and
Speaker 1: what is to be in Syria of good things and
Speaker 1: of tribulations, alas Damascus, what descended upon its territory and
Speaker 1: then burn of young men and old existence is dark
Speaker 1: and the land is blacked out. Even the pigeons, they're
Speaker 1: moren on the branches, Oh, poor creatures. Is there no
Speaker 1: helper for the religion? Get up, all of you and
Speaker 1: go to Syria. From the plains and the rugged hills.
Speaker 1: The Arabs of the Iraq and lower and Upper Egypt
Speaker 1: are coming. The firm resolution is to bring death to
Speaker 1: unbelief in Damascus. Being cryptic was one of the numerous
Speaker 1: reasons that he was announced by the Orthodox clergy at
Speaker 1: the time. They thought he was just a complete fraud,
Speaker 1: someone who made vague predictions that people could read into,
Speaker 1: which is a common fortune telling trick for sure, But
Speaker 1: more seriously, he was also labeled a heretic, accused of
Speaker 1: summoning not just the Gin, but entering into a pack
Speaker 1: with Satan himself, a pack that would give him access
Speaker 1: to the unseen world of the Gin and to the future,
Speaker 1: which takes us to the second way that Gin are
Speaker 1: able to help humans predict the future by interfering with
Speaker 1: divine communications. According to the tradition, wicked gin will fly
Speaker 1: as close as they can to the seventh heaven where
Speaker 1: the angels are receiving divine commands from God, and essentially
Speaker 1: they'll eavesdrop. They aren't able to hear everything clearly, though,
Speaker 1: because oftentimes they're chased away by the angels. And you
Speaker 1: may have witnesses happening yourself. Actually because shooting stars, well
Speaker 1: it said those stars are being flung by angels at
Speaker 1: nosy Gin. When the gin returns to report what they've
Speaker 1: overheard to the human fortune teller that commission their service,
Speaker 1: they'll make up things to add to their report because remember,
Speaker 1: they don't always hear everything accurately. They may only have
Speaker 1: bits and pieces of the whole picture. And that's why
Speaker 1: when fortunes are told, there are often truths mixed with lies.
Speaker 1: So again, the gin on their own are not able
Speaker 1: to see the future. They have to steal the information
Speaker 1: from upon high, which they do by breaking the rules.
Speaker 1: And the person who sent them there is also breaking
Speaker 1: the rules, which is why Orthodox religious leaders weren't having
Speaker 1: it so for this and other religious crimes, all budger
Speaker 1: Baki was condemned to death. Of course, he probably also
Speaker 1: saw that coming, so he fled to safety from Damascus
Speaker 1: to Egypt. Al Buker Baji later returned to Damascus, though,
Speaker 1: where he died in the year thirteen twenty four. Oh And,
Speaker 1: by the way, fifty years after all Bukar Baji's death,
Speaker 1: and undefeated Turkic Mongoldian conqueror emerged, taking over southwest and
Speaker 1: Central Asia as the most powerful ruler the vast Muslim
Speaker 1: world had ever seen. His name was tim or Lane,
Speaker 1: also known as Tim Moore the Lame. Back in the day,
Speaker 1: it was pretty well understood that summoning the Gin was
Speaker 1: the province of the expert, disciplined mystic. But maybe this
Speaker 1: was just a gatekeeping device to keep a certain class
Speaker 1: of people uninformed and controllable and another class of people
Speaker 1: well employed and powerful. Well. We no longer live in
Speaker 1: those times. The Internet has democratized the tools necessary to
Speaker 1: communicate with the Gin, and you don't need an esteemed
Speaker 1: scholarly intermediary to get right down to it. Spells needed
Speaker 1: to conjure the Gin are easy to find online. Entire books,
Speaker 1: including both ancient and more contemporary collections, are yours to
Speaker 1: have at the click of a button, and there are
Speaker 1: nearly a dozen pages on a Gin fandom wiki site
Speaker 1: that provides specific and occations and how many times you're
Speaker 1: supposed to say them for different gin. I even found
Speaker 1: a post on Reddit that tells you exactly how to
Speaker 1: summon the seven Gin King, and on the website white
Speaker 1: Magic Mastery dot com you can get a book and
Speaker 1: a webinar for the low lo fee of s on
Speaker 1: what is claimed to be the most powerful invocation of
Speaker 1: them all, the Berta. While I can't vouch for the website,
Speaker 1: the Bertha invocation heralds back to the time of the
Speaker 1: biblical prophet Enoch and was passed through King Solomon and
Speaker 1: is considered the mother of all summonings. There is almost
Speaker 1: no classical summoning grimoire that doesn't contain it, and one
Speaker 1: of the reasons it's most powerful is because it calls
Speaker 1: upon an ancient covenant taken not with a single Gin,
Speaker 1: but with all the Gin as well as the rest
Speaker 1: of the supernatural world. It's said that the covenant was
Speaker 1: taken at the Gate of Ishtar, one of the eight
Speaker 1: gates leading to the innermost part of ancient Babylon, the
Speaker 1: city whose name literally means the doorway to God. The
Speaker 1: magnificent Gait, one of the seven Wonders of the ancient world,
Speaker 1: was constructed by the powerful Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar the second
Speaker 1: and five seventy five BC, and it was the starting
Speaker 1: point to the procession to the temple of the Mesopotamian
Speaker 1: deity Marduk, a deity associated with, among other things, magic.
Speaker 1: So yeah, this covenant goes back a long long way.
Speaker 1: It's unbreakable, and it will exist until the end of time.
Speaker 1: When you use the bird invocation, all supernatural creations are
Speaker 1: subject to the pact, including not just the jin, the
Speaker 1: good and the bad, with the demons too and the
Speaker 1: angels as well, and they must all respond. The conjuration
Speaker 1: itself is often written in a circular vortex with the
Speaker 1: words swirling to the center, ending in a three by
Speaker 1: three cube with letters arranged crip to leon it, but
Speaker 1: many have written extensively and at length about the conjuration,
Speaker 1: including Ahmed Albouni, thirteen century Gin master we talked about earlier,
Speaker 1: whose book shar albert Ata is seminal in the education
Speaker 1: of any aspiring gin binder or sorcerer. While the origins
Speaker 1: of the spell aren't exactly clear, Alboni attributes it to
Speaker 1: King Solomon, and before him a Jewish mystic by the
Speaker 1: name of ASoft ben Bakaya, and before him an unnamed
Speaker 1: Greek sage. Alboni prefaces his book by noting that the
Speaker 1: spell is obeyed by all spiritual forces, good or bad,
Speaker 1: and the conjuring itself is fairly uncomplicated. It's a series
Speaker 1: of twenty eight Hebrew Syriac names that Alboni transliterates to Arabic.
Speaker 1: But before you get to the actual names, you must
Speaker 1: proceed the invocation by a charge to protective powers by
Speaker 1: the greatest and mightiest name, which came to be in
Speaker 1: the atoms were formed from nothingness, and the light of
Speaker 1: all lights burst with such power as to create multitudes
Speaker 1: and multitudes of stars within the womb of the ever
Speaker 1: expanding universe. I call you almighty and blindingly luminous Master Angels, Gabriel, Michael, Raphil,
Speaker 1: and Israel. I call you almighty and blindingly luminous master Angels,
Speaker 1: the Hamlaiel Metatron, and Chaanthiel, who reside over the armies
Speaker 1: of spiritual spirits and nations of the Gin to facilitate
Speaker 1: for me servants from under your domain who are bound
Speaker 1: by the covenant of the Barhatia to assist me in
Speaker 1: my spiritual and material pursuits and requests. This takes us
Speaker 1: to the actual invocation itself, because you may be wondering, well,
Speaker 1: what are those twenty eight names so powerful that every angel, demon,
Speaker 1: and supernatural entity in between can't resist. Well, there none
Speaker 1: other than some of the most powerful names of God. Oh,
Speaker 1: oh Holy, oh everlasting, Oh self subsisting, Oh the adored One,
Speaker 1: OH Peace, Oh Victorious, Oh Powerful, oh praised One, Oh merciful,
Speaker 1: Oh the one for whom is all the glory. You
Speaker 1: may not be familiar with the concept of God having
Speaker 1: many names, and really the names are just descriptors or
Speaker 1: titles for his attributes and powers, But there's a rich
Speaker 1: Semitic tradition of calling upon God by using these names. Now,
Speaker 1: I admit being surprised when I realized that the most
Speaker 1: powerful conjuring formula in all of history, the one that
Speaker 1: no jin could refuse to respond to, was in fact
Speaker 1: just the names of God. But then again, it makes sense.
Speaker 1: If you believe in gin, you believe that God created
Speaker 1: them and if he created them, then only he really
Speaker 1: has the power to compel them, and the way for
Speaker 1: jin conjurors to tap into that power is through the names.
Speaker 1: In the Jewish tradition, God has seven most holy names that,
Speaker 1: once written, cannot be erased. Beyond these seven, there are
Speaker 1: dozens of other names ascribed to God. Jewish mystics, the
Speaker 1: Cabbalists believe in a powerful formula containing seventy two names
Speaker 1: of God, and then there is one name, the one
Speaker 1: so powerful and holy that no one is allowed to
Speaker 1: utter it. The cryptic four letter tetra grammaton, represented by
Speaker 1: the letters y H W H, rumored to have been
Speaker 1: engraved on the ring that gave King Solomon the power
Speaker 1: to control all the gin now. In the Muslim tradition,
Speaker 1: there are nine commonly known names of God, which are
Speaker 1: often invoked depending on what you're trying to achieve. But
Speaker 1: they say there is also one name which is the greatest.
Speaker 1: No one exactly knows what it is. Some say that
Speaker 1: it's contained somewhere in the ninety nine names. Some say
Speaker 1: it's the name a law itself. Others say it's a
Speaker 1: hundredth name known only to the prophets, and maybe maybe
Speaker 1: to a few y sages who guard it with their lives.
Speaker 1: To me, the mystery behind this name, this most great
Speaker 1: and powerful name, sounds very much like what is believed
Speaker 1: about the Tetragrammaton. In the nineteen twenties, British traveler and
Speaker 1: writer Rosita Forbes spent much time in remote parts of
Speaker 1: the Muslim world, and her writings often feature stories about
Speaker 1: jin and magic, and her encounters with mystics who were
Speaker 1: well versed in both. One of them, a Moroccan sage,
Speaker 1: told her that with the ninety nine names of God
Speaker 1: he could raise a gin, and with the use of
Speaker 1: the hundredth name, they would grant every wish and prayer.
Speaker 1: She might have been skeptical if she had not witnessed
Speaker 1: on numerous occasions a summoning herself. In one instance, while
Speaker 1: in Yemen, she sat with a mystic in the middle
Speaker 1: of a courtyard next to the tomb of a saint
Speaker 1: and asked him to summon a gin. The man drew
Speaker 1: a large pentagram in the dirt floor, marked it with symbols,
Speaker 1: and began meditating and silently invoking the names of God.
Speaker 1: All at once, a man appeared out of nowhere, sitting
Speaker 1: inside the pentagram. He was pale and dressed like a local,
Speaker 1: and looked to be sweating profusely. The two men began
Speaker 1: to talk, but while Forbes could only understand the holy Man,
Speaker 1: the newcomer's language was incomprehensible. She could make out grunts
Speaker 1: but understood nothing he was saying to the mystic who
Speaker 1: had summoned him, and then just as he appeared, he disappeared.
Speaker 1: Poof Forbes wasn't sure what happened during these gin summonings
Speaker 1: and admitted maybe she was just getting bamboozled, But she wrote, quote,
Speaker 1: it would be an unprecedented insult to the name of
Speaker 1: God that they invoked. Summoning a gin is just the
Speaker 1: beginning of the relationship. However, I know it's not exactly
Speaker 1: the easy part, but still consider what you'd face if
Speaker 1: you managed to conjure them and then didn't know how
Speaker 1: to control them. According to the Encyclopedia of Spirit Keeping,
Speaker 1: Paranormal Collecting, and Magic, there's a simple invocation you need
Speaker 1: to present to your gin once with you, which goes
Speaker 1: like this, last the night, break the day, wake the sun,
Speaker 1: wake the moon, all bindings through the cosmos. You are
Speaker 1: unto me a spirit of my own. Keeping a master
Speaker 1: to servant, so it is a friend to a friend,
Speaker 1: and just like that, your gin will be bound to
Speaker 1: you forever. Some other handy tips to keep things good
Speaker 1: with your gin are these. Keep your gin or the
Speaker 1: object that it's attached to within five ft of you
Speaker 1: at all times. Keep lavender or are your scented candles
Speaker 1: or insects burning as often as possible, because the gin
Speaker 1: love those particular aromas. Meditate with your gin. Getting some
Speaker 1: quiet time while it's just the two of you strengthens
Speaker 1: the bonds. Preferably, you want to do this during the
Speaker 1: hours of the day that the veil between the scene
Speaker 1: and the unseen is the thinnest. They recommend between twelve
Speaker 1: am and one am, three pm and four pm, or
Speaker 1: seven pm to eight pm. But also chat with your gin,
Speaker 1: especially around the early morning hours, just as dawn breaks.
Speaker 1: That's when they're the most receptive to creating a rapport. Finally,
Speaker 1: keep the gin in your thoughts because they can actually
Speaker 1: hear them. Open up your life, your worries, your needs,
Speaker 1: and your wants, all of it to your gin companion.
Speaker 1: They're there for you. They want to hear it all
Speaker 1: and be involved. Once you've conjured and bound your gin,
Speaker 1: it's pretty much all yours and won't serve another master.
Speaker 1: You might think this is too good to be true,
Speaker 1: after all, don't the gin want something in return? Well,
Speaker 1: some gin just like the attention, affirmation, and companionship. But
Speaker 1: there is one gin in particular who demands the ultimate
Speaker 1: price for making your wishes come true, your mortal soul.
Speaker 1: And that jin, of course, is Satan. Now, there are
Speaker 1: thousands of people who will willingly concede their souls to
Speaker 1: Satan for lots of different reasons, and apparently it's not
Speaker 1: even that tough to do. The Church of Satan, for example,
Speaker 1: charges just two dollars for a lifetime membership, or rather,
Speaker 1: I guess a lifetime plus afterlife membership. The ritual isn't
Speaker 1: that complicated either, as one young man explained in a
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen Slate article titled The Men who
Speaker 1: Love to Worship Satan and Summon Demons. All you have
Speaker 1: to do is write a letter, sign it in blood,
Speaker 1: perform some kind of ritual, and then some physical marks
Speaker 1: shows up on your body, like a scratch or a
Speaker 1: burn or a welt, and that's it. Your wishes come true. Supposedly,
Speaker 1: this particular young man, who the author decided to call Greg,
Speaker 1: reported that during the ritual, a crack in the form
Speaker 1: of an upside down cross showed up on the candle
Speaker 1: that he was using, and he mysteriously ended up with
Speaker 1: three scratches on his thigh. Then, after finishing the ritual,
Speaker 1: Gregg laughed in a voice that wasn't his own. He had,
Speaker 1: he said, given up his soul to the devil three
Speaker 1: years earlier in the hopes for success in his career
Speaker 1: with relationships and making money. The article goes on to
Speaker 1: explore why young men turn to the occult. Maybe theorizes
Speaker 1: the author as it's become more common for young women
Speaker 1: to use crystals and paganism. Men are finding empowerment in
Speaker 1: a more masculine, darker expression of the occult, like satanism
Speaker 1: and summoning demons. But the article says what happens once
Speaker 1: a demon is summoned is unclear. These men are often
Speaker 1: seeking a connection they can draw strength and gain insight from,
Speaker 1: but they do so taking the risk that once you're
Speaker 1: summon a demon, you cannot close the connection. Some things
Speaker 1: might be worth the risk, though the author of this
Speaker 1: piece was prompted to write it when she got a
Speaker 1: d M on a dating app from Gregg that read quote,
Speaker 1: I've been thinking about summoning Satan to impress you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that same Gregg who had said he had sold his
Speaker 1: soul to Satan for better luck with women, was still
Speaker 1: three years later trying his luck on a dating app.
Speaker 1: I can't help but think he might want to ask
Speaker 1: for a refund. But look, we all have our priorities
Speaker 1: and needs and wants. Many people who want to connect
Speaker 1: with the supernatural, who are willing to summon gin no
Speaker 1: matter the cost, are just kind of curious. Others are desperate.
Speaker 1: Some are pregnant addict. Not long ago, Newsweek box On
Speaker 1: reported the scientists employed at a research foundation proposed seriously
Speaker 1: that summoning and subjectating jins could solve the country's energy
Speaker 1: related problems because the creatures are made of fire. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we all have our reasons, and I admit I actually
Speaker 1: hope that they give this a shot. Whether or not
Speaker 1: they do, or whether or not you do, the jin
Speaker 1: may still come around unsummoned, because they say when you
Speaker 1: speak about the gin, they come to hear what is said.
Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe they're even listening to this podcast. Thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us this week. Next week we'll be back
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