Scholastic Image Magic
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The Invocation of the Abomination in Crimson: This project of mine was © January 5th 2010, along with several “lighter” versions. It’s a malefic petition invoking the stellar hierarchy of Algol, with a viable talisman of Algol used as an initiatory token to call upon forces of wrath and punishment upon an enemy. I wrote…
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Intersections of Scholastic Image Magic and Hoodoo There are only the most circumstantial and speculative historical connections between Scholastic Image Magic and African-American Conjure, or Hoodoo, yet I have seldom seen two very different traditions create such amazing synergy when properly combined. The most frequent implementations of this synergy I have used are the…
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Saturn Retrograde Picatrix says that Saturn is especially malevolent in curses when Essentially Dignified and Retrograde. Saturn will be in this state until August 25. Your Saturn-based curses will be quite ferocious during this period. Happy hunting!
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The Power of Three “When the Moon is rising in this mansion by night, fashion a lamina of gold and inscribe in it the figures of two maidens embracing and the figure of a man before them and over the heads of the two maidens, a crown… and pray by the name [of the lord…
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I say to you further that, if the quantity of stone of which an image is composed is large (that is, between an ounce and a pound), the virtue and power of it will be able to reach from the place where it is for a hundred leagues. If it contains a combination of things…
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It occurs to me that it’s very hard to take the first steps in orienting yourself around SIM because outside of Chris Warnock’s courses there is nothing really like a 101 book. I’ve attempted to do some of that with my lectures, but there’s only so much you can do in a narrow window of…
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