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2014-12-12

The Rulership of Lodestones

I am coming of the opinion that lodestone is co-ruled by the Sun. It commands iron to move from a distance.

2014-12-07

When addressing stellar entities, aim to get the gender right. Many will withhold their full effects if one addresses them incorrectly. The gender of planetary entities follows that of the planet, unless the ymage is contrary that one is using. The gender of Face spirits appear to be all male, so far as I can…

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.

2014-07-18

The Critical Importance of Al Kindi

Why is Al Kindi important? His De Radiis Stellarum was so influential in the medieval era that it was used as a primary justification for the creation of talismans as natural phenomena and science, rather than prohibited demonic magic in the Christian West.

2014-05-26

The Power of a SIM Practitioner Grows

Picatrix Rubeus page 248: “The spirit of the magician furthers the effects of the heavens just as the harvests of nature– that is, in the way that harvests are furthered by plowing and cultivating the earth.” A magician will be able to achieve greater effects from magic increasingly over time, as skill and personal attunement develop.

2014-02-22

Introduction To Traditional Astrology @ ConVocation

Clifford Hartleigh Low’s lecture on “Introduction To Tradtional Astrology” at ConVocation 2014. This lecture covers the core metaphors of Astrology, the metaphysical cosmology of Western Traditional Astrology, the differences between Modern and Traditional Astrology, the structure of the Horoscope chart, the basics of Traditional Horary Astrology, and much much more…

2014-02-15

Introduction To Traditional Astrology @ PantheaCon

Clifford Hartleigh Low’s lecture on “Introduction To Tradtional Astrology” at PantheaCon 2014. This lecture covers the core metaphors of Astrology, the metaphysical cosmology of Western Traditional Astrology, the differences between Modern and Traditional Astrology, the structure of the Horoscope chart, the basics of Traditional Horary Astrology, and much much more…

2014-02-01

Perfect Nature and Dreamwalking

“They then asked of him, ‘What is Perfect Nature?’ He answered, ‘Perfect Nature is the spirit of the philosopher or sage linked to the planet that governs him. This is that which opens the closed places of knowledge, and by which is understood that which cannot otherwise be understood at all, and from which workings…

2013-12-30

Grand Unified Theory of Magic

The key to a unifying theory of all magic may well be Picatrix’s concept of Reception.

2013-04-13

Sorry, the Djinn are Islamic demons. Period.

Djinn = demon. In the Jewish folkloric tradition, King Solomon (Shlomo ha-Melekh) imprisoned demons in a vessel of brass. In the Muslim tradition, King Suleiman imprisoned djinn in a vessel of brass. They’re the same exact thing, seen through the filter of each religion’s cosmology. The main differences between the Big Three on malefic entities…