Witchcraft
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Now, this could come in handy! http://www.medievalastrologyguide.com/table-of-herbs.html
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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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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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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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Maybe the world needs a little more purple magic.
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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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My first edition copy of the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses is absolutely gorgeous. Pity I can’t read German.
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