

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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Mar 15, 2026 • 1h 15min
#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. Federico Barbierato shares about his latest research 'In the Room of the Circles: The Inquisition and Books of Magic in Early Modern Venice'. He’s joined by the great esoteric scholar and researcher Joseph H. Peterson.⇓ ⇓ ⇓✅►Get your copy of Dr. Barbierato’s ‘In The Room of Circles’ - https://www.routledge.com/In-the-Room-of-the-Circles-The-Inquisition-and-Books-of-Magic-in-Early-Modern-Venice/Barbierato/p/book/9781041092711 ✅►Get your copy of ‘The Inquisitor in the Hat Shop’ - https://www.routledge.com/The-Inquisitor-in-the-Hat-Shop-Inquisition-Forbidden-Books-and-Unbelief-in-Early-Modern-Venice/Barbierato/p/book/9781138117211 ✅►SUPPORT Joseph Peterson with a quick donation to EsotericArchives.com - https://www.paypal.com/webapps/shoppingcart?flowlogging_id=f9515331d50c8&mfid=1698601779045_f9515331d50c8#/checkout/openButton✅►Get Joe’s books and publications - http://www.esotericarchives.com/books.htm✅►Check out CHiMere! - https://www.chimereresearch.net/ ✅►Other ways to support Joe - https://www.esotericarchives.com/support.htm ✦🔮🔥Support Glitch Bottle with exclusive perks - https://www.patreon.com/glitchbottle 🎵 Music by the artist Crowander (track name: “Tornado”)-https://soundcloud.com/crowander -https://crowander.bandcamp.com/-https://soundcloud.com/crowander/tornado

Mar 8, 2026 • 2h 28min
#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 your Patron supporter questions and more!⇓ ⇓ ⇓✅►Check out Frater Chassan’s Magical Shop: https://www.facebook.com/Frater-Ashen-Chassans-Magical-Implements-2183349675258729/✅►Contact Frater Chassan for consultations, client requests and upcoming classes or pentacle requests: BryanAshen@yahoo.com✅►Frater Chassan’s Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/frater.ashenchassan ✦🔮🔥Become a Glitch Bottle supporter - https://www.patreon.com/glitchbottle 🎵 Music by the artist Crowander (track name: “Tornado”)-https://soundcloud.com/crowander -https://crowander.bandcamp.com/-https://soundcloud.com/crowander/tornado

Feb 27, 2026 • 1h 1min
#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 darkness? Jack Grayle - author, ceremonial magician, playwright, practitioner, and devotee of Hekate - shares about the Coffin Texts and how he employs them in his latest PGM course, answers listener questions and more!⇓ ⇓ ⇓►⚡Register for Jack’s PGM course - https://jackgrayle.com/courses/pgm-praxis-3-the-darkness/ ►✅Jack’s NEW Hekateon update (Trade Hardcover) - https://www.miskatonicbooks.com/product/the-hekataeon-by-jack-grayle-trade-hardcover/ —---------✦🔮Support Glitch Bottle directly with exclusive benefits and posts! 🔮►https://www.patreon.com/glitchbottle ♫ Music by the artist Crowander (track name: “Tornado”)-https://soundcloud.com/crowander -https://crowander.bandcamp.com/-https://soundcloud.com/crowander/tornado

Jan 30, 2026 • 30min
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 the song of Tom O'Bedlam. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓Tom O'Bedlam's SongI. From the hag and hungry goblinThat into rags would rend ye,The spirit that stands by the naked manIn the Book of Moons defend ye,That of your five sound sensesYou never be forsaken,Nor wander from your selves with Tom Abroad to beg your bacon,While I do sing, Any food, any feeding,Feeding, drink, or clothing;Come dame or maid, be not afraid,Poor Tom will injure nothing.II.Of thirty bare years have ITwice twenty been enragèd,And of forty been three times fifteenIn durance soundly cagèdOn the lordly lofts of Bedlam,With stubble soft and dainty,Brave bracelets strong, sweet whips ding-dong,With wholesome hunger plenty,And now I sing, Any food, any feeding,Feeding, drink, or clothing;Come dame or maid, be not afraid,Poor Tom will injure nothing.III.With a thought I took for MaudlinAnd a cruse of cockle pottage,With a thing thus tall, sky bless you all,I befell into this dotage.I slept not since the Conquest,Till then I never wakèd,Till the roguish boy of love where I layMe found and stript me nakèd.And now I sing, Any food, any feeding,Feeding, drink, or clothing;Come dame or maid, be not afraid,Poor Tom will injure nothing.IV.When I short have shorn my sow's faceAnd swigged my horny barrel,In an oaken inn I pound my skinAs a suit of gilt apparel;The moon's my constant mistress,And the lowly owl my marrow;The flaming drake and the night crow makeMe music to my sorrow.While I do sing, Any food, any feeding,Feeding, drink, or clothing; Come dame or maid, be not afraid,Poor Tom will injure nothing.V.The palsy plagues my pulsesWhen I prig your pigs or pullen,Your culvers take, or matchless makeYour Chanticleer or Sullen.When I want provant with HumphreyI sup, and when benighted,I repose in Paul's with waking soulsYet never am affrighted.But I do sing, Any food, any feeding,Feeding, drink, or clothing;Come dame or maid, be not afraid,Poor Tom will injure nothing.VI. I know more than Apollo,For oft, when he lies sleepingI see the stars at bloody warsIn the wounded welkin weeping;The moon embrace her shepherd,And the Queen of Love her warrior,While the first doth horn the star of morn,And the next the heavenly Farrier.While I do sing, Any food, any feeding,Feeding, drink, or clothing;Come dame or maid, be not afraid,Poor Tom will injure nothing.VII. The gypsies, Snap and Pedro,Are none of Tom's comradoes,The punk I scorn and the cutpurse sworn,And the roaring boy's bravadoes.The meek, the white, the gentleMe handle, touch, and spare not;But those that cross Tom RynosserosDo what the panther dare not.Although I sing, Any food, any feeding,Feeding, drink, or clothing; Come dame or maid, be not afraid,Poor Tom will injure nothing.VIII.With a host of furious fanciesWhereof I am commander,With a burning spear and a horse of air,To the wilderness I wander.By a knight of ghosts and shadowsI summoned am to tourneyTen leagues beyond the wide world's end:Methinks it is no journey.Yet will I sing, Any food, any feeding,Feeding, drink, or clothing;Come dame or maid, be not afraid,Poor Tom will injure nothing.---------------------------------------Original Harold Bloom interview: https://youtu.be/EVWiwd0P0c0?si=WkhOdDTNrPwp14WS✦🔮Become a super secret Glitch Bottle supporter! 🔮►https://www.patreon.com/glitchbottle♫ Music by the artist Crowander (track name: “Tornado”) -https://soundcloud.com/crowander -https://crowander.bandcamp.com/ -https://soundcloud.com/crowander/tornado00:00 Intro05:17 Verse I.08:18 Verse II.11:04 Verse III.12:31 Verse IV.14:48 verse V.17:00 Verse VI.19:23 Verse VII.22:38 Verse VII.25:29 Concluding Thoughts

Jan 21, 2026 • 2h 46min
#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 talk about ‘American Magick’ a four-part television miniseries directed by Royal that unveils the OTA and Church of the Hermetic Sciences, following modern members through a powerful journey toward enlightenment. ⇓ ⇓ ⇓►⚡Watch ‘American Magick’ on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/show/SC6WUMl-fpVsT1vz-xmD1Knw?season=1&sbp=CgEx►⚡Watch ‘American Magick’ on Apple TV - https://tv.apple.com/us/show/american-magick/umc.cmc.v9tc6yrvc48losngtqfs66k7 ►✅Poke’s Website - https://www.pokerunyon.com/►✅Johnny Royal - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3198724/ ✦🔮Support my work with exclusive benefits and posts! 🔮►https://www.patreon.com/glitchbottle ♫ Music by the artist Crowander (track name: “Tornado”)-https://soundcloud.com/crowander -https://crowander.bandcamp.com/-https://soundcloud.com/crowander/tornado

Nov 16, 2025 • 2h 4min
#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 proprietor of the ESOTERICA YouTube channel - shares about his latest research, insights into academic scholarship and answers your Glitch Bottle Patreon questions! ⇓ ⇓ ⇓►⚡Support Dr. Sledge on Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/esotericachannel ►✅Dr. Sledge Website - https://www.justinsledge.com/ ►▶️ESOTERICA YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@TheEsotericaChannel ►📚Get your copy of ‘Invisibilia Dei: A Collection of Hermetic, Mystical, and Anti-Magical Works by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’ https://www.amazon.com/Invisibilia-Dei-Collection-Anti-Magical-Cornelius/dp/B0DKSGRN8R ___Episodes referenced from ‘ESOTERICA’___ *Introduction to Merkavah Mysticism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaQt5fIjKGw *Seminar on the Occult Philosophy of Agrippa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsu7HW0ouVA&list=PLZ__PGORcBKxTXb5m5WBu4rAppTmvPVwe&index=16 ____________________________________✦🔮Become a super secret Glitch Bottle supporter! 🔮►https://www.patreon.com/glitchbottle ♫ Music by the artist Crowander (track name: “Tornado”)-https://soundcloud.com/crowander -https://crowander.bandcamp.com/-https://soundcloud.com/crowander/tornado 00:00 Intro4:23 Early interest in Occult studies15:31 Letting texts speak for themselves!20:36 Destroying the “Fossils are Safe” mentality29:22 Kabbalistic ‘Tree of Life’49:29 Hermetic view of afterlife59:40 Amulet protection in Judaism1:08:31 Top book recommendations1:14:47 Dr. Dan Attrell collab: Invisibilia Dei by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa1:21:07 Breaking Agrippa Misconceptions1:32:04 Merkavah Mysticism1:38:21 Being Famous1:46:18 Bridging the ‘gap’: scholars vs. practitioners1:57:13 Upcoming work & projects

Oct 28, 2025 • 1h 37min
#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 specialising in the ethnography and visuality of ritual, sacred landscape, esotericism, consciousness and healing - shares about his latest tome: Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras. The Secret Cult of Saturn in Imperial Rome, answers your Patreon supporter questions and more!⇓ ⇓ ⇓►⚡Get ‘Ritual & Epiphany’ now: https://theionpublishing.com/shop/pma-ritualepiphany/ ►✅Peter’s website: - https://petermarkadams.com/ ✦🔮Become a super secret Glitch Bottle supporter! 🔮►https://www.patreon.com/glitchbottle ♫ Music by the artist Crowander (track name: “Tornado”)-https://soundcloud.com/crowander -https://crowander.bandcamp.com/-https://soundcloud.com/crowander/tornado

Sep 28, 2025 • 3h 8min
#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 network’ with ‘genes’, ‘nodes’ and ‘clusters’? Dr. Gal Sofer - scholar, medical doctor and translator - discusses his first book, Solomonic Magic: Methodology, Texts, and Histories (Brill 2025), answers your Patreon supporter questions and more!⇓ ⇓ ⇓►⚡Dr. Sofer’s ‘Solomonic Magic’ tome - https://brill.com/display/title/64906►✅Dr. Sofer’s Academia page: - https://bgu.academia.edu/GalSofer ►▶️Dr. Sofer Lecture: Wisdom and Command | The Magical Seals of Solomon - https://youtu.be/iu5lPccZLyw?si=XdTw7iZwA2bUV9UP ►▶️Dr. Sofer Lecture: From Seals to Pentacles| The Magical Seals of Solomon - https://youtu.be/zgjeysr5OK0?si=SLSiY04YxDt5U2mm ►Email Dr. Sofer - gal.sofer1@gmail.com ✦🔮Become a super secret Glitch Bottle supporter! 🔮►https://www.patreon.com/glitchbottle ♫ Music by the artist Crowander (track name: “Tornado”)-https://soundcloud.com/crowander -https://crowander.bandcamp.com/-https://soundcloud.com/crowander/tornado 00:00 Intro2:52 Esoteric + Medical interests8:52 Deep Manuscript Interest12:23 Genes, Nodes and Clusters27:46 SSM and Manuscript Evolution35:36 Role of Scribes in Narrative!46:54 Liber Bileth Analysis1:13:44 Key of Solomon Analysis1:40:36 Ḥover Ḥaver and Babylonian Talmud2:06:15 Hygromanteia Analysis2:58:59 Future Work and Projects

Aug 25, 2025 • 2h 9min
[Part 2] #167 - Grimoires, Demons & Catholic Theology with Jimmy Akin
In this intriguing discussion, Jimmy Akin, a Catholic theologian and philosopher, delves into the nature of exorcisms and the Church's views on demons, magic, and spirit summoning. He clarifies misconceptions around demonic possession and shares insights on how exorcism practices have evolved. The conversation also explores near-death experiences and the philosophical questions of divine hiddenness and evil. Akin encourages listeners to navigate these complex topics with critical thinking while celebrating faith's enigmatic nature.

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Aug 25, 2025 • 2h
[Part 1] #167 - Grimoires, Demons & Catholic Theology with Jimmy Akin
Join Jimmy Akin, a Catholic theologian and author, as he dives into the intriguing world of demons and exorcisms. Discover what truly makes exorcisms effective and unravel theological insights on possession. Akin explores the complex relationship between magic and Catholicism, including historical distinctions and ritual practices. He also brings light to how astrology and theology interact in modern society. Delve into the nature of spirits and the significance of curiosity in understanding supernatural elements within the faith.


