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2016-12-27

February 2017 Convention Schedule

I will be lecturing at both PantheaCon in California and ConVocation in Michigan this February, along with many other esteemed colleagues and friends. Please consider attending either or both. PantheaCon 2017 On Saturday, February 18th at 1:30pm– Eat Me: Magical Recipes in Medieval Astrological Magic Though better known for the creation of talismans, medieval and Renaissance astrological…

2016-12-15

Sriracha Sorcery

I have entered this decade at last and finally tried sriracha sauce this morning, and liked it. But this being me, I quickly came up with four potential magical uses for sriracha. Let’s start off with ingredients of normal sriracha: Jalapeño Peppers, Sugar, Salt, Garlic, Vinegar, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Bisulfite, Xanthan Gum. #1 Hot Footing Into Hot Mouthing: Now, to lay…

2016-12-15

Hoodoo Spell For Study, Insight And Understanding

This was originally posted to Facebook on December 15th 2011. Take a small grit sized lodestone and add it to a white candle dressed with Spirit Guide Oil, and sprinkle the stone with iron filings. Ask the stone to draw to you a powerful benevolent teaching spirit. Dress a yellow candle with Master Oil or…

2016-12-14

Black Magic And Dark Paganism @ ConVocation 2009

A lecture and reading covering the ethos and practices of black magic, a survey of curse methods, and dark paganism– a term which he coined in the early 1990s. (It is a fusion of elements from the PantheaCon lecture of the same name from 2008, the Secret Sequel lecture from 2009, and some unique material.)…

2016-12-08

Black Magic Part Two (Partial) @ ConVocation 2010

Part of Clifford Hartleigh Low’s lecture about the deeper ethics, strategy, and practice of curses, black magic and dark paganism. The omitted portion of the lecture was recorded without audio due to technical issues.

2016-12-05

The Secret Purpose of Magic

I’m going to spare you the labor of kneeling before a mystic guru for decades, joining secret societies and putting up with their drama, and quite possibly reincarnating a few thousand times in order to learn this nugget of wisdom. I’m cheating slightly by letting you in on the secret, but I’ve been known to…

2016-12-01

The Age of Black Magic: Step Seven

The Magic Bullet (Variant) Take (at a minimum) four rifle cartridges and anoint them away from you from base to tip with a destructive Hoodoo oil, such as Destruction Oil, Devil Oil, Damnation Oil etc. Take a similar number of powerful neodymium magnets and anoint them with Inflammatory Confusion Oil. Baptize the magnets and give…

2016-11-01

The Dying Book

This is a relic of the Black Sun Project era. A Dying Book was a riff off the Jewish notion that God writes the names of all who are to survive the coming year during the high holidays. The idea that an inversion of this might be turned into a magical object comes from a…

2016-11-01

Red Hand/Black Hand Method

This is another relic of the Black Sun Project era. Though the colors aren’t appropriate, I called this the Red Hand/Black Hand method. It keyed powers to each finger of the right and left hand, the positive finger of onehand pairing with a method of harm on the oppositional finger. Thumb: Inspiration, Suicide. Forefinger: Wisdom, Contagion. Middle: Prowess, Violence. Ringfinger: Fitness,…

2016-08-17

Ye Olde Hell Tree

Anybody wondering what my Hell Tree looked like, here it is. Rest in peace, old friend, and take the people I used you to trouble back to hell with you.