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A fraternal society of Traditional Astrological Magicians. Now it has a name.
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When I pay homage to the ancestors, I add the names of practitioners of magic whom I have known but are no longer among the living. Most of them got that way because they did some inadvisable magic— in my estimation, at least. One of the debts we owe to the dead is not to make their mistakes.…
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Psst! A reminder. If your money magic isn’t working, stop playing video games where you accumulate treasure or even points. The spiritual powers which you have called upon rarely can distinguish between the virtual cash in a game and the virtual cash in your bank account, and they will almost invariably work on whatever is easier to…
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Picatrix Rubeus page 248: “The spirit of the magician furthers the effects of the heavens just as the harvests of nature– that is, in the way that harvests are furthered by plowing and cultivating the earth.” A magician will be able to achieve greater effects from magic increasingly over time, as skill and personal attunement develop.
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I think it’s high time to acknowledge that there is a substantial subgenre of magical literature; baroque excuses for why the author’s magic hardly ever works. Some of those may well be good excuses, but they do not frequently illuminate the narrow path to success.
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THE RINGS OF FEVER’S ECLIPSE: Moon conjoined to Arcturus [I include this post for historical reasons only; the talismans were highly malefic and extremely dangerous. They could not even be stored safely but required complex deconsecrations.] This one is one of the riskier elections I’ve done recently, to the point it almost falls out of Tradition.…
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Someone need to write a book about the struggles to define magic (magia) between various monotheistic religious sects; particularly between Catholicism and Protestantism, but also between Catholicism and Islam, and Judaism and everybody else. There’s tons of history in there that hardly anybody has put into a coherent narrative. It’s really interesting stuff, and relevant to anybody…
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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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