Victorian Magic
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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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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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Hoodoo and related folk magics are good for fast results. Talismanic magic is good for strong, enduring results. Wiccan magic is good for seeing what people look like naked, whether you want to or not. Thelemic magic is good for coming off as a hipster pseudo-intellectual. Chaos magic is good for coming across as creepy and vaguely insane. This delphic wisdom has been…
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Image of magic and Gothic decay from the third part of Raphael’s The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century.Most of the more interesting material here, such as the conjuration of Oberon/Oberion, seems to have been ‘borrowed’ from the manuscripts of Frederick Hockley.
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Picatrix Rubeus page 243: “The Chaldeans, indeed, were those magi who made themselves preeminent in this science and these workings; and they are held to have been entirely perfect in this science. They themselves assert that Hermes first constructed a certain house of images, from which he used to measure of the flow of the…
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