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A flaw in most forms of magical theory is that they seldom fully account for why magic fails.
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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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Details on the recovery of the meaning of this symbol can be found in: Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain This is the symbol used to ward off demons in the darker places of the home and church, which I mentioned recently. Recent experiments suggest it is at least somewhat…
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That sigil-making app going around? Did it occur to anyone that the labor involved in creating said sigil was the fuel for the ritual? And that said labor is fairly modest? Sheesh. Programs which calculate planetary hours and assorted astrological things are reasonable, but this is not. Why not replace the magician entirely and have…
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Now, this could come in handy! http://www.medievalastrologyguide.com/table-of-herbs.html
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Picatrix Rubeus pages 54-55: “The concealment and profundity of words is the subtlety of the wise in their reasonings, so that they cannot be understood without much contemplation. Their meaning lies hidden therein until intelligence extracts it from its concealments, and then it is extracted from a different meaning that is understood by the intellect…
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Highly creative persons are no more magicians than they can levitate or raise the dead at will. Occasionally there will be overlap; a practitioner of magic will also be a highly creative professional in another unrelated realm. This is the exception rather than the rule. Yet when you think about it, is it really a big…
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True wizards begin their careers when everyone else’s are winding down with retirement in sight. This is because magic is about wisdom as much as it is about power, and all the discernment in the world cannot compensate for the lack of experience of youth. There are no “boy wizards”, nor ever were. I would…
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