This was my thirteenth book project, which I started and finished writing last year. It was the largest book that I had ever written so far, being in excess of 217K words. My publisher decided to break this book into two volumes, and since there are two different systems of magic associated with the term and concept of Archaeomancy, I felt that this was a good idea. When this book is released, it will be in two volumes, even though they won’t be released simultaneously. Still, they will be part of Cross Crow Books adjoining catalogues of new releases, and this will happen in 2026. Editing on the first volume wont start until December of this year, and this pause in my publishing regimen has given me time to relocate to a new home and endure all of the disruption that has entailed. I will also have plenty of time to finish my latest book project, titled “The Gnostic Tetrasacramentary,” which would have been my fourteenth book project, but it is now my fifteenth.
I have written a previous article on Archaeomancy, and you can find it here.
Archaeomancy is a system of magic that I started developing in the 1980's, but continued to develop through the 2010's. I have been working with this system of magic for forty years, refining and perfecting it until it has become a comprehensive system of magic for invoking all classes of angels and attributes of the Deity, and traveling into the Qabalistic Dimensions. This system of magic relies heavily on the modern Qabalah, using the structures of the Four Qabalistic Worlds and the Tree of Life to define two modes of magic. The first one is a regimen of invocation using the ritual mechanism of the Archetypal Gate, with the implication that the magician enters into the various predefined forty domains where the angelic hosts reside. I call this the Archaeomancy of the Forty Worlds, since it is ordered by the domains of Atziluth, Briah, Yetzirah and Assiah through the ten Sephiroth, dividing each world into forty distinct cells.
The second system of Archaeomancy is the methodology of entering into the Qabalistic domains of the Tree of Life which I call the Dimensions using the artifice of the Transdimensional Vortex Gate. These eighteen domains are the prismatic triangular shapes established by the combined attributes of Sephiroth, Pathways, and the angular vectors associated with the Paths. This system of magic was given to me through my discourse with the Nephilim. They also gave me a rudimentary system of the Enochian Qabalah, since the structure of this system of magic required a more nuanced and complicated structure of the Tree of Life. I have named this system of magic Spiritual Archaeomancy, since it requires the magician to become a psychonaut and to travel into the fabric of the Dimension itself and join with the core of the spiritual Tree of Life, there to briefly experience the enlightenment gained through assumption and personification of the Godhead Avatar of that specific Dimension.
These two ritualized mechanisms, the Archetypal Gate and the Transdimensional Vortex Gate, represent elegant ritual solutions to complex operations. The Archetypal Gate ritual is a modular ritual structure that is meant to be used with little modification to invoke any of the four major classes of angelic spirits associated with the Four Qabalistic Worlds and the ten Sephiroth of the Tree of Life. While the Transdimensional Vortex Gate ritual is a highly customized rite that is used to enter into one of the eighteen Qabalistic Dimensions, it also uses a modular ritual structure so that magicians can use it to enter any of the dimensions, using only some custom attributes but maintaining the same overall ritual structure.
An overview of the ritual pattern for the Archetypal gate reveals that the staff, acting as a pylon between the base magic circle and the zenith of the heavens, allows for the inner eastern gateway to open itself into the domain of the Qabalistic World and allow the mind and soul of the magician to enter therein and commune with the target angelic entity within its own place of residence. Here is a quote that I used to describe the ritual structure of the Archetypal Gate magical working in my book.
“[T]he basic ritual pattern is to establish a powerful invoking vortex, and upon that foundation, erect an archetypal gateway aligned to the East. The staff is used as a pylon lintel tool to establish the archetypal hierarchy once the gateway is entered, and through the conduit of the charged and empowered staff, to invoke the target angel through that gateway using a specially written Enochian invocation.”
Similarly, the Transdimensional Vortex Gate ritual uses the power of the trapezoid to establish an entrance into the Qabalistic Dimension. The foundation for this work is the prior invocations of the Sephiroth and Pathways that border the Dimension. The three Aethyrs, positioned at the angular vectors of the Pathways, are each summoned in sequence, from lowest to highest, in association with the Dimension, and their unified expression and character becomes the symbolic key that is used to open that domain to the mind and spirit of the magician. Yet it is the four Emissaries who ward the Dimension who must be summed in that trapezoidal gateway structure, and through them, the magician meets and assumes the persona of the empowered Avatar of that Dimension. It is through this assumption that the magician gains the enlightened visionary wisdom of that domain, and momentarily touches the absolute spirit of the One, gaining the illumination of all eighteen Dimensions in a single moment of realization. Here is a quote that I used to describe the ritual structure of the Transdimensional Vortex Gate working in my second book in the Archaeomancy system of magic.
“To emulate the attributes of the dimension, the operator will erect a trapezoidal ritual structure that will use the three angles of the Northeast, Southeast, Southwest angles and the Western watchtower. At each of these four points the operator will draw a trapezoidal cross, intone a formula letter, verbalize a short invocation using a verba ignota from Liber Juratus, and invoke one of the four emissaries that make up the spirit of the Avatar of the Dimension. Once the invocation is done, the operator draws an invoking spiral to summon the spirit of the emissary. These four trapezoidal points are then drawn up to the Ultrapoint in a deosil circuit, beginning in the northeast and ending in the west. What this ritual pattern represents is a grand trapezohedron structure, which formulates the transdimensional vortex and generates a non-Euclidean space-time continuum completely separate from our own.”
These are the tools that I have developed and placed into these two ritual systems of Archaeomancy, which is the Archetypal Gate and the Transdimensional Vortex Gate, and they are, in their uniqueness, revelatory of my approach to working these kinds of magic. Whether the magician seeks to invoke any of the attributes of the Elemental Godhead, or the various classes of Archangels and Angels, or to enter into the very fabric of the Tree of Life to gain the wisdom of the Avatar of the Dimension, these two books thoroughly outline and discuss the process as well as providing the actual rituals to perform these operations. Thus, these two books are part of my legacy to the practicing ritual magicians who aspire, through the Qabalah of the 40 Worlds and the Dimensional Tree of Life, to seek to achieve enlightenment through the successful completion of the ordeals outlined therein.
Here is the advertisement for the first book.
“Archaeomancy of the Four Qabalistic Worlds is a complete system of magic that can be used to invoke angels of all classes and types. Archaeomancy is an obscure term that represents a new perspective in the practice of angelic invocation magic. It is defined as the primordial magic, or the magic of the source. It is also a methodology for traveling into the forty worlds that are revealed as the combination of the ten Sephiroth of the Tree of Life and the four Qabalistic Worlds, which is one of the definitions of the Inner Planes. Archaeomancy is the magical technology that is used to not only invoke angelic beings, but also to generate the domain in which they reside, where the magician enters into their world to meet the them face to face. Frater Barrabbas has defined this system of magic as the principal mechanism for an immersion within the Inner Planes, thus promoting the ritual magician as a spirit traveler entering into the World of Spirit to achieve a perfect dialogue with the spirits in that place.
This is a comprehensive work that will assist the intermediate ritual magician in being able to invoke and engage with the entire collective of angels as defined in the Western Mystery Tradition. While there are many books on the topic of angel magic, there has never been a book that addressed the invocation of all classes of angels. Whether a magician seeks to invoke the archangels, the Seraphim and Cherubim, the angels of the Shemhemphorash, or the ruling angles of the decans, or even the lesser servitors or messenger angels, this book, titled “Liber Artis Archaeomancy – Mastering the Angels of the Four Worlds” contains the rituals used to invoke them. Through the methodology of immersion that Frater Barrabbas has expounded on within this new book, there is far more to a magical invocation than just summoning a spirit.
Archaeomancy is an exciting and compelling system of magic, and Frater Barrabbas, in this his 13th book, explains thoroughly how to completely master this new system of magic.”
And, to complete this essay, here is the advertisement for the second book.
“This is Frater Barrabbas’ second book in the series on Archaeomancy, titled “Liber Artis Archaeomancy – Mastering the Qabalistic Dimensions.” It is devoted to revealing the Qabalah of the 18 Dimensions, which are those triangular shapes within the Tree of Life that are delimited by Sephiroth, Pathways, and the angular pathways, revealed as the ubiquitous Enochian Aethyrs. Frater Barrabbas has developed a system of magic that enables the spiritual traveler or “psychonaut” to pass through the structure of the Tree of Life to enter into one of those powerful domains, called the Qabalistic Dimensions.
Since the dawn of human consciousness, people have sought to enter into the inner domains of the Spirit World to engage and commune directly with their ancestors, spirit guides, avatars and deities. Premier amongst these travelers of the domain of spirit were the shamans, those spiritual healers and cultural revealers representing their tribes and nations. Every religion since has emulated the shamans and advocated singular individuals who had made the passage from the world of the living and the reality of light into the domain of the dead and darkness to merge with the very core of spirituality itself, that which is known as the One. Whether it was Orpheus, Odysseus, Heracles, Theseus, or Psyche for the Greeks, or Aeneas of the Romans, or Enoch, Ezekiel, Jonah or Isiah of the Jews, or Dante for the Medieval Italians, all sought to enter into the underworld and to return, renewed and enlightened. Now, in the modern world, Frater Barrabbas has assembled a system of magic using the structure of the Qabalistic Tree of Life to enter into the dimensional inner worlds of the Spiritual Qabalah to achieve temporary glimpses of the glory of the Deity and to obtain enlightenment and spiritual renewal.
Through the use of rituals that invoke the Qabalistic Sephiroth, the Pathways between them, and the Aethyrs at the angles, and through the artifice of the Transdimensional Vortex Gate, a magician, using the rites in this book, will enter into a domain of wonder and profound truth.”
While the schedule for the publishing of these two books has not been officially established, the first one should be available around June 2026. The second book will likely be available after that time, perhaps six months later, or December 2026. When these dates are fully established, I will happily let you know. I believe that these two books will add considerably to the knowledge base of the practicing ritual magician.
Frater Barrabbas
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