Hybrids
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Scholastic Image Magic or SIM was one of two main branches of magical practice in the Medieval Era and the Renaissance. It was heavily influenced by the science of the Arabic world, and incorporated astrology, optics, mathematics, and the philosophy of antiquity. The European version was an outgrowth of Medieval Scholasticism; a movement which attempted to reconcile Christianity…
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Jewish numerology is different from those developed in other ethno-religious cultures, and it does have some key magical connotations which should be paid attention to. Keter: Crown. The Sphere of the Primum Mobile. “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall…
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Hoodoo Tarot magic against Trump Incorporated. First, you see the flash… Cursing President-Elect Donald Trump with death is counterproductive. He is 70 years old and doesn’t look terribly healthy, and if he were to die Mike Pence would replace him. We need to be smarter than that. We need to shatter what he values and…
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DEFIXIOS OF BURNING HATRED: Moon in 5th Mansion, combust, besieged, Cancer ascending. Fifth Mansion effects include “to destroy the friendship between two people” in Picatrix, when the principal planets are afflicted. Some contend that combustion and/or besiegement are limited by Sign boundaries; I disagree. This election has both, a fairly toxic combo. Cancer is also…
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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.
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The key to a unifying theory of all magic may well be Picatrix’s concept of Reception.
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One of these days I’m going to have to tell people about the The Three Year Project, which wrapped up around my last birthday. People really have no idea what magic can achieve if it is pursued diligently. I’m not really a patient person, but I am a determined one. This was one of my greatest triumphs…
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This is how I prefer to vote.
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