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2023-12-25

“Crown and Scepter: Magic of Fascination & Mind Control” @ ConVocation 2023

Clifford Hartleigh Low’s lecture “Crown and Scepter: Magic of Fascination & Mind Control” at ConVocation 2023 Merry Christmas! It’s been said that 70% of magic is mental influence, but only a small portion of it is directed at making people follow you and obey. Spells of compulsion, glamour, fascination, command, domination, and mind control are fearsome…

2018-03-01

No Trespassing: The Magic of Wards

No Trespassing: The Magic of Wards @ ConVocation 2018 Wards are magical defenses that prevent a designated space such as a room, home, or property from injury or trespass by inimical forces, spirits, or persons. Typically focused upon enchanting liminal spaces such as thresholds, property boundaries, chimneys, weathervanes and foundations, wardings take the primal…

2017-03-13

Rumination On Fashion

Fashion and other alterations of the appearance are mind-altering substances, for both the wearer and the witness. This is magnified in the context of magic, and magic itself is amplified through these.

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…

2016-12-14

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…

2015-07-17

If at first you don’t succeed…

2014-03-23

Purple Magic

Maybe the world needs a little more purple magic.

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…