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One of the things we actually don’t have a lot of knowledge regarding is the cumulative effect of wearing many different types of talismans at once. My contention is that it is safer to use a talisman whose principal star is on the MC but those ASC is afflicted, if this is just one of…
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“Matter is a coadunation of the elements ordered for the reception of form.” –Picatrix Rubeus, page 56
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Picatrix Book 3 Chapter 4 “Why the secrets of this science may not be understood except a little at a time” The ancient sages who have spoken of the occult sciences and magic in their books wrote them as obscurely as they could, so that no one would be able to gain any benefit from them, except…
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I am coming of the opinion that lodestone is co-ruled by the Sun. It commands iron to move from a distance.
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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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I really don’t care which form of magic came first. I don’t care which form better fits modern notions of how the universe is constructed. I don’t even care how it fits in with subjective notions of politics. I am only interested in magic that works best, and works as magic, and endows useful and rare…
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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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One of the problems with defining magic is that at various points in history, and in many cultures, magic has not only overlapped the contemporary notions of religion, science and art, but even completely encapsulated them. Greek medicine and magic were virtually the same phenomenon, and medieval optics were profoundly occultic– as examples. Our solution is not to merely understand the…
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Picatrix Rubeus pages 90-91. On conjunctions and the role of similarities. “According to the opinion which deals with the disposition of the primum mobile to the sphere of the fixed stars, a planet swifter in motion will have a stronger effect, and one slower in motion will have a weaker effect, because it is a…
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