Spirit Evocation
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https://www.coursera.org/learn/magic-middle-ages A friend pointed this out to me some weeks ago, and on a whim I signed up. It’s actually pretty great in a lot of areas. I could pick nits on some minor matters, but I have to admit even I learned some stuff (mostly in the section on alchemy.)
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The prediction of the death of a female I (or my mother) was connected to at 10am has been verified as fact, though my interpretation was slightly off. The prognostication was based on a very vivid dream involving my mother taking a friend of hers on a women-only resort retreat via taxi “up the mountain”…
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Soapbox: Once a week I pay homage to the ancestors, but I have a pretty loose definition of these. I don’t just include relatives, but also pets, friends who have passed beyond, and even a few inspirational figures. Of the friends who are dancing jigs amongst the stars or in Valhalla or whatnot, a lot…
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When addressing stellar entities, aim to get the gender right. Many will withhold their full effects if one addresses them incorrectly. The gender of planetary entities follows that of the planet, unless the ymage is contrary that one is using. The gender of Face spirits appear to be all male, so far as I can…
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“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…
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The key to a unifying theory of all magic may well be Picatrix’s concept of Reception.