Classical Medicine – The Sorcerer's Blog

2023-01-08

Astrological Magic Conference Announcement #1

Astrological Magic Conference On Labor Day weekend, September 2nd & 3rd, I will be hosting the world’s first astrological magic conference, at a luxury hotel in New York City. Many of the greatest thinkers and practitioners alive will share with you new discoveries and marvels, along with much conversation and merriment with new and old…

2019-09-29

Magical Medicine @ ConVocation 2019

Magical Medicine at ConVocation 2019 Since prehistoric times, magic has been used to heal the sick and revive the dying. The historical line between enchantment and medicine is elusive at best. A mind-boggling array of methods and theories have been employed throughout the ages. Grimoires which banish the demons of disease, enchanted poultices, wound…

2019-08-19

Magical Medicine @ Morbid Anatomy’s Festival of Arcane Knowledge

Magical Medicine at Morbid Anatomy’s Festival of Arcane Knowledge 2019 Magic has been used to heal the sick and revive the dying since prehistoric times. The line between enchantment and medicine has always been blurred, with a kaleidoscopic array of methods and theories employed throughout the ages. Grimoires that banish the demons of disease,…

2018-05-13

Secret Powers of the Sun in Astrological Magic

Solar Sapphires, Planetary Antipathies, and Substitutions Introduction The Picatrix, De Radiis Stellarum, and Three Books of Occult Philosophy are closest to broad textbooks of this tradition of astrological magic, but they are not meant to be used entirely by themselves. Both canonical texts of astrological magic and their partners, the manuals of traditional astrology, repeatedly…

2018-04-30

Aries Medical Talismans

Sun in Aries Talismans for Healing the Infirmities of the Head Scholastic Image Magic Talismans in Medicine Contemporary research into the distribution of texts on magic in medieval and Renaissance England suggests that theurgical and necromantic texts were concentrated in monasteries, but texts on Scholastic Image Magic were concentrated in the libraries of physicians. This…

2017-03-16

About Time: Introduction To The Horoscope Chart @ ConVocation 2017

Clifford Hartleigh Low’s lecture on “About Time: Introduction To The Horoscope Chart” at ConVocation 2017. This lecture is a 101 introduction to core concepts in astrology, with a particular focus on the function of the horoscope chart, how to do basic calculation using a website or software, the meaning of the different parts of…

2015-10-09

Planetary Herb Table

Now, this could come in handy! http://www.medievalastrologyguide.com/table-of-herbs.html

2015-08-06

Restoring the Old Literary Canon for Magic

In order for us to understand the medieval and renaissance mindset, we have to understand what they were reading. Trying to rebuild the assumptions and cultural context of the authors of books of magic is essential, and thus becoming well versed in the literary and scientific canon of those eras is helpful and perhaps mandatory. At the…

2015-03-07

The Nature and Function of Matter

“Matter is a coadunation of the elements ordered for the reception of form.” –Picatrix Rubeus, page 56

2014-09-19

The Threefold Circuit

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.