A Reader’s Guide to the Collectanea Goêtica
As Samhain draws near, so does the release of my Collectanea Goêtica. This double volume brings together five earlier works, first published between 2020 and 2025, and two new ones. They range from short essays to full-length books and fill two beauti-fully designed and bound volumes of about five hundred pages.
To honor this moment, I want to offer a brief introduction, as well as a free, more in-depth, ten-page Reader’s Guide — exclusively written for this upcoming massive release.
The Collectanea don’t follow any man-made occult tradition or magical system. Instead, they are a practical invitation to apprentice yourself to the spirits directly. Their ethos is quintessentially Paracelsian, following his lifelong motto: Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest, Let no one belong to another who can belong to themselves.
For many years, I spent a lot of time in caves, forests and temples, as well as at airports, in coffee shops, hotels and other seemingly mundane interzones. All these loca magica proved essential to refining the approach of this work. Also, I had to distinguish what the spirits gave me for my own apprenticeship from what was sufficiently objective to share as points of entry, orientation and warning with you. The Collectanea Goêtica are the fruits of that labor.
The two new works, Goêtic Grammarye and Goêtic Deviance, add around a hundred pages of the most advanced material I have written so far. They needed to emerge to round out this body of work, as foundation stones for a craft I am still beginning to understand myself.
As always, everything is footnoted and referenced where necessary. Across these five hundred pages, we finally have the space to move from the ancient Greeks to the Greek Magical Papyri, to medieval necromancers, to Paracelsus (of course), to Austin Osman Spare, Conan and Cthulhu, and all the way to the magic of tattoos…
Perhaps the seven works can also be read as seven stages: stance, threshold, flesh, gate, culture, return and courage. Yet, I have no intention of offering rungs on a ladder of degrees or rank insignia. You can begin or end anywhere in this material. It is an invitation to stray, to descend deep, and to learn to stand alone, so that we can finally find the others.
Given the depth of the material presented, I thought a quick introduction might be welcome. A Reader’s Guide, so to speak, on what to expect, how this material emerged over a short span of years, and how to connect the dots across its chapters. So you can find exactly that here: a free Reader’s Guide to the Collectanea Goêtica.
Consider my seriously excited about this upcoming release. It's fair to say there is no Acher without these works. More importantly, these five hundred pages were never meant to end with me — they're meant to be whatever you carry out of them, and whoever that makes you..
As the 16th century white goês Johannes Beer said: Read, understand, and reach for the work.
LVX,
Frater Acher
