Collectanea Goetica (forthcoming)
Frater Acher’s Collectanea Goêtica represents the evolution of a contemporary goêteia, that builds upon the groundbreaking work of Jake Stratton-Kent while charting its own uncompromising path.
Across these two volumes, Frater Acher develops a deeply personal, non-anthropocentric practice: a goêteia rooted in chthonic intimacy, embodied encounter, and the patient cultivation of reciprocal micro-cultures with daimones and the radically Other. Moving beyond historical reconstruction, grimoiric orthodoxy, and anthropocentric control, these works invite practitioners to engage magic as a relational, phenomenological, and atavistic art forged in the flesh, the wilderness, and unmediated spirit contact.
The Collectanea Goêtica is the definitive edition of Frater Acher’s goêtic writings from 2020 to 2025, five years of intense magical work, monastic focus, and profound spirit contact.
This two-volume set represents the evolution of a living, contemporary goêteia. Building directly upon the groundbreaking work of Jake Stratton-Kent while charting its own uncompromising path, it distils decades of study, visionary experience, and experimental practice into a major statement, a challenge and invitation to practitioners.
Frater Acher offers a deeply personal, non-anthropocentric approach to spirit-work that stands apart from traditional grimoires, historical reconstruction, and codified ritual systems. Instead, he reclaims goêteia as a radical, rhizomatic practice: the cultivation of micro-cultures with daimones and the radically Other. The work is both a grammar of ritual contact and a poetics of lived encounter, an ontological art for navigating the more-than-human world through affordances and reciprocity.
Rather than imposing human-centric rituals, Acher guides practitioners toward being taught directly by the spirits themselves. The collection emphasises chthonic intimacy, embodied encounter, reciprocal relationships forged in the seclusion of nature, and deep reverence for the dead as connective tissue between realms. It calls us back to the immanent, incarnate world, where flesh becomes the nexus of interspecies communion and atavistic resurgence.
8vo (245 × 165 mm)
256 pp (vol.1) & 280 pp (vol.2)
Illustrations by José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal, David Herrerías and Rafael Pascuale Zamora
Paperback Edition - £60
Standard Hardback Edition - £115
Deluxe Edition - £800
Issued in 4 editions –
fine / standard hardback / paperback / digital
