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GEMS OF BEDAZZLING ARDOR: The Talismans of the Twenty-Sixth Mansion. PICATRIX RUBEUS page 292: “When the Moon is passing through it, take white wax and mastic and melt them together; from these fashion the image of a woman with her hair unbound and before her a vessel placed as if to receive her hair. Suffumigate it…
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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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THE RINGS OF THE KISS OF DARKNESS: Venus in Zero Scorpio, Cazimi. [I am only including this post, unedited, for historical purposes. This was one of the dumbest, riskiest, and most malefic talismans I’ve ever created. It did not work as intended, but was a magnet for terrible misfortune. Awful.] This is the first set…
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THE RINGS OF THE DRAGONFIRE KISS: The talisman of Venus in Libra, embraced by the Sun and conjoined with the Dragon’s Head. This was one hell of an experimental election. It’s one of the potentially strongest Venus elections possible masquerading as one of the worst. Let’s start with the basics. Venus Day but not Hour,…
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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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Another epiphany of the evening: The reason why silk cloth is used so frequently in magic is not primarily that it is a sign of respect to spiritual powers by dint of its expense and pleasantness– it is because it comes from a manner of animal which undergoes metamorphosis, and the power of metamorphosis is lent to…
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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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TALISMANS OF UNION: The Talismans of Nedeyrahe, Lord of the Sixth Mansion of the Moon. Picatrix says in the Pseudo-Pliny Mansions: “The sixth Mansion is Achaya and it is for putting love between two people. When the Moon is passing through this Mansion, make two images from white wax, make them embrace each other, and…
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