Glitch Bottle Podcast

Glitch Bottle (Alexander Eth)

The Glitch Bottle Podcast is a Western magic and grimoire-focused show that uncorks the uncommon with magic, mysticism and the generally misunderstood.

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August 14 · 1 hr 17 min
📚#179 - The Canterbury Pentacles with David Rankine | Glitch Bottle
What is the oldest known grimoire pentacle manuscript from 800-years-ago? How do these Christian-infused protective devices blossom our understanding of pentacles found hundreds of years later in grimoires like the Key of Solomon? David Rankine -...
July 19 · 3 hr 6 min
🧙‍♀️#178 - Sealing Cracks as Priest-Magician with Josephine McCarthy | Glitch Bottle
How can magicians embrace the destructive tides of change? What is true magical service to others? How can we seal the cracks, the fissures in our own selves and embody the role of priest-magician? Josephine McCarthy - author, occultist, magical...
July 8 · 1 hr 46 min
#177 - Astrological Nigromancy of Cecco d’Ascoli with Mat Hadfield & Brian Johnson
What is astrological fatalism? Why did the Inquisition burn alive a university lecturer in Italy in 1327? What was the role of the four Kings of the four Cardinal directions and their connection to the cardinal signs of the Zodiac? Mat Hadfield and...
June 29 · 2 hr 37 min
#176 - Retribution Magic, Art & Boundaries with Calla Marie Rowan | Glitch Bottle
How are art and magic deeply entwined? What’s the relationship between Retribution Magic and Setting Boundaries? Why is the Lemegeton’s Goetia so misunderstood in some circles? Well our guest today is a great person to ask. Calla Marie Rowan is a folk...
June 24 · 2 hr 37 min
#175 - What Is Esoteric Cartography with David Chaim Smith | Glitch Bottle
What is esoteric cartography? How can this path empower us to change directly with reality? Contemplative mystic, esoteric cartographer and author David Chaim Smith goes deep into ways to unravel the mind and so much more. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅David’s website -...
March 15 · 1 hr 15 min
#174 - Venetian Inquisition & Books of Magic with Dr. Federico Barbierato and Joseph H. Peterson
What was the relationship between the Inquisition, the Clavicula Salomonis, booksellers, and magical texts in early modern Venice? How did male and female practitioners make it (or not make it) to court. Why were punishments surprisingly light? Dr....
March 8 · 2 hr 28 min
#173 - Protecting Your Power & Spiritual Discernment with Frater Ashen Chassan | Glitch Bottle
How can you interrogate a spirit? Should A.I. be used in Solomonic conjure? How can we avoid ‘group-think’ and cults of personality? Frater Ashen Chassan - author, ceremonial magician and martial artist - returns to share about these issues, answers...
February 27 · 1 hr 1 min
#172 - Magic Older Than The Gods & Egyptian Coffin Texts with Jack Grayle | Glitch Bottle
What are the ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts from 4,000 years ago? How do they interweave with the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri (or PGM) spells? How can we become vessels through which the conjuratory power of the Gods flows to prevail against the...
January 30 · 29 min
The Best (Anonymous) Poem in English, Ever.
400 years ago, a brazenly braggadocious begging ‘bedlamite’ possibly penned a poem so incantatorily-poignant, so wonder-woundedly-written, so symmetrically and cognitively bruising, that it demands to be memorized and chanted aloud. Let's dive into...
January 21 · 2 hr 46 min
#171 - The Ordo Templi Astartes & American Magick with Poke Runyon, Max Paul, & Johnny Royal
Carroll "Poke" Runyon founded the Ordo Templi Astartes in 1970, which is now America’s oldest continually operating ritual magick lodge. Poke is joined by OTA senior member Maximilian Raphael Paul, and film director (and composer) Johnny Royal, to...
Nov 16, 2025 · 2 hr 4 min
#170 - Shattering Fossils & Humanizing Agrippa with Dr. Justin Sledge
How is Kabbalah dynamic and fluid? Why should we STOP treating Agrippa’s writings like a pick-and-choose-magical-buffet, and instead as a system of spiritual illumination? What is Merkavah Mysticism? Dr. Justin Sledge - scholar, author, professor and...
Oct 28, 2025 · 1 hr 37 min
#169 - Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras with Peter Mark Adams
Who is Mithras, and what were the Mythraic Mysteries practiced thousands of years ago? How was the cult organized? What role did Orphic metaphysics and architecture play in communicating its mysteries? Peter Mark Adams - author, poet and essayist...
Sep 28, 2025 · 3 hr 7 min
#168 - Hygromanteia, Liber Bileth, & Solomonic Networks with Dr. Gal Sofer
Why should we challenge the assumption that the Greek magical text, the Hygromanteia, is really the source of the Key of Solomon? Why is Frankenstein’s Monster a better way to look at the collection of ‘Solomonic’ manuscripts? What is a ‘Solomonic...
Aug 25, 2025 · 2 hr 8 min
[Part 2] #167 - Grimoires, Demons & Catholic Theology with Jimmy Akin
What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Akin - Catholic theologian, philosopher, author and host of ‘Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World’ - goes deep into...
Aug 25, 2025 · 2 hr
[Part 1] #167 - Grimoires, Demons & Catholic Theology with Jimmy Akin
What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Akin - Catholic theologian, philosopher, author and host of ‘Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World’ - goes deep into...
Jun 26, 2025 · 3 hr 25 min
#166 - Shekinah, Winds & Claves Spirituum with David Rankine | Glitch Bottle
Why is invoking directional winds vital in ceremonial magic? Who is the Shekinah, and why is calling this powerful feminine presence actually encrypted in the Solomonic tradition? David Rankine - author, esoteric researcher and magician - shares about...
May 18, 2025 · 2 hr 6 min
#165 - Occultism, Astrology & Shi‘i Hadiths with Dr. Amina Inloes | Glitch Bottle
What does the Twelver Shi‘i Hadith tradition say about jinn, astrology, angels and necromancy? Dr. Amina Inloes - scholar, researcher, educator, public speaker, and translator with a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter - returns on...
Apr 23, 2025 · 1 hr 27 min
#164 - Tarot, Art & Reverse Divination with Amelia Passer | Glitch Bottle
What is reverse divination? How do minerals, oils, and pigments reflect the deep alchemical process encrypted in painting? Amelia Passer - multidisciplinary artist, astrologer, and practitioner - shares about her creation process and her unique tarot...
Apr 1, 2025 · 2 hr 31 min
#163 - Song of the Dark Man with Darragh Mason | Glitch Bottle
What is the Dark Man, known by many names throughout the centuries like The Devil, Old Scratch, The Dark Rider, The Old One, The Master, the Father of Witches? Is the Dark Man really pure evil, as many religions say? Is he a catalyst of novelty,...
Mar 14, 2025 · 1 hr 25 min
Step-By-Step Ritual Process & Full Heptameron in Latin | Glitch Bottle
What is the six-step ‘Solomonic Method’? How can understanding these ritual steps help us navigate almost any grimoire? We go step-by-step and recite the entire Heptameron in Latin from memory to illustrate the method. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ► ✅Full ‘Heptameron’...

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