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2015-11-24

SIM Petitions

When you make a petition, it mimics the medieval feudal practices of approaching a prince and begging a boon in exchange for fealty and a service. It’s quite clear from the structure of the petition incantations that this is what’s going on. That would be vaguely like being dubbed a knight in the court of…

2015-10-04

Picatrix as a Kabbalistic Talisman

Page 57 Picatrix Rubeus: “All that we have said in this context we say only to sharpen the intellect and illuminate awareness, because the aforesaid words and reasons that we have stated are spiritual images and the word that Adam received form the Lord God. They cannot be understood except by the sages who have labored…

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…

2015-03-05

The Picatrix Code: Progressions

Picatrix Book 3 Chapter 4 “Why the secrets of this science may not be understood except a little at a time” The ancient sages who have spoken of the occult sciences and magic in their books wrote them as obscurely as they could, so that no one would be able to gain any benefit from them, except…

2014-09-19

Usage of Silk in Magic

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…

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.

2013-07-17

Raphael’s Interpretation of Hockley

Image of magic and Gothic decay from the third part of Raphael’s The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century.Most of the more interesting material here, such as the conjuration of Oberon/Oberion, seems to have been ‘borrowed’ from the manuscripts of Frederick Hockley.

2013-05-29