Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold

Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold graduated in psychology, anthropology/science of religion and cinema studies at the University of Oslo and NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. He is the owner of Sacred Alchemy Store and the retreat center The Monastery of St. Uriel, Archangel.

Besides a long academic career, he has also traveled extensively in pursuit of wisdom and knowledge, which led to a wide array of initiations in several African and Afro-derived cults and forms of spirituality. He has been living in Brazil since 2003 where he has dedicated much of his time studying, both as a practitioner and as an ethnographer, the varieties of Brazilian spirituality and sorcery.

Frisvold is the author of numerous acclaimed publications, such as Invisible Fire: Inner Dimensions of Western Gnostic & Theurgic Tradition (Capall Bann, 2010), Palo Mayombe (Scarlet Imprint, 2010) Pomba Gira (Scarlet Imprint, 2011) Exu (Scarlet Imprint, 2012), Obeah: A Sorcerous Ossuary (Hadean Press, 2013), Ifá: A Forest of Mystery (Scarlet Imprint, 2016), Trollrun (Hadean Press, 2021), The Canticles of Lilith (Troy Books, 2021), Seven Crossroads of Night (Hadean Press, 2023) and The Untamed Craft (Atramentous Press, 2023)