Alchemy
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This may date me a bit, but do you remember those “What If?” comic books? “What if Superman was evil?” “What if the Fantastic Four were cavemen?” “What if Dr.Doom was a particularly vicious poodle?” There’s too much of that thinking in magical theory, and has been for quite a while.
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“Matter is a coadunation of the elements ordered for the reception of form.” –Picatrix Rubeus, page 56
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Animal, vegetable, and mineral. The threefold circuit is what completes magic. This is true in the science of ymages, and appears in Hoodoo as well in the construction of mojo bags. I wonder how many magical traditions use this secret to greater power.
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Another epiphany of the evening: The reason why silk cloth is used so frequently in magic is not primarily that it is a sign of respect to spiritual powers by dint of its expense and pleasantness– it is because it comes from a manner of animal which undergoes metamorphosis, and the power of metamorphosis is lent to…
