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The Illuminati, Illuminism, & Conspiratorial Bastards
Many years ago, I annoyed another magician. He felt, for reasons I cannot blame him for, that I was going out of my way to mess with his life. And so he took action.So one day I woke up and found a...
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“I call upon you who created earth and bones and all flesh and all spirit and who established the sea and suspended the Heavens, who separated the light from the darkness, the Supreme Intelligence who...
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From: The Masque of Queens
“Sisters, stay, we want our Dame;Call upon her by her Name,And the Charm we use to say;That she quickly anoint, and come away.First Charm:Dame, Dame, the Watch is set:Quickly come, we all are met.From...
View ArticleNew Year, New Goals.
The greenhouse is almost completed. The Black Nightshade is doing so well that I'm prepared to grow some Atropa Belladonna, or Enchanter's Nightshade... Without some of the plaguing fears I once had....
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Henbane: From Dioscorides' De Materia Medica
Hyoscyamus is a shrub that sends out thick stalks. The leaves are broad, somewhat long, jagged, black, and rough. At the stalk flowers come out in sequence, like the flowers of the pomegranate, hedged...
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Mandragoras: From Dioscorides' De Materia Medica (Book Four)
Mandagoras has a root that seems to be a maker of love medicines. There is one sort that is female, black, called thridacias, with narrower, longer leaves than lettuce, with a poisonous, heavy scent,...
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I've been holding off on sampling Dioscorides entry on Enchanter's Nightshadeuntil I can find a few more interesting annotations to append to it. I should have done it with the Mandragoraentry, but I...
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Protection Against Evil People by Austin Spare [NSFW]
Encountered on the Book of Faces and, again, here.Strange images of myself did I create,As I gazed into the seeming pit of others,Losing myself in the thoughtfulnessOf my unreal self, as humanity saw...
View ArticleThe Dishonest and Dishonorable
“Power isn’t just an abstraction: It has possessors, supplicants, and hand servants. It can bought and sold with money, integrity, favors and sacrificial blood — usually not one’s own...For those who...
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“Spell for a Divine Revelation: Invoke the great name in a time of great stress, in major and pressing crises. If not, you will blame yourself. In addition say three times the “IAŌ,” then the great...
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Hic Svnt Liones
“But what a hunt that is! Killing is dismemberment, and with it, at the height of the frenzy, comes the devouring of raw flesh. “Dressed in the holy deer-skin, he hunts the blood of dying goats with a...
View ArticleLike a Plague of Locusts
Black.Iron.Prison.It isn't the Christians you should be so concerned about, little bird. Other spectres are revivifying themselves as we speak. Everywhere. Pay attention.
View ArticleFundamentalists
I don't really know how to address this topic without being... honestabout my past. At the same time, I wish to be careful because the current dialogue about Pagan Fundamentalismhas very little – aside...
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Hekate & Raisins (& Dogs)
On my Cakes & Dread Goddesses & The Dead, Anon writes: “In January though, the offering I left for Hecate using the same bowl was still there even the [day] after..I was kind of [disappointed]...
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Volantia
Zeus, wielding the thunderbolt.“Every student, who wishes to penetrate the mysteries of Eulis and the Ansairetic mysteries must, from the beginning and in all circumstances, learn from his master in...
View ArticleSaturn/Mercury
About eight days ago, Saturn went retrograde. (How was your day of Phasis?) A few days later, Mercury went retrograde.If you're dealing with insecurities, etc, then this is the time to sort them. Not...
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Savage and Most Beautiful
When I was 22 years of age, I was busy having wild sex (which, of course, evolved into sex magick) and busy enjoying my new freedom to become inebriated. After one of those drinking/sex sessions, I...
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Mars in Aries [Edited.]
“‘Few men realise,’ wrote Joseph Conrad in 1896, ‘that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of...
View ArticleAustin Osman Spare & Burroughs
I was reading Valentine's “Chasing Pidgins” entry and reflecting on it earlier in the week and trying to figure out how to respond. He brings up a number of interesting critisms of Austin Spare, while...
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Three Posts. One Day.
“It is, it seems, our civilisation’s turn to experience the inrush of the savage and the unseen; our turn to be brought up short by contact with untamed reality. There is a fall coming. We live in an...
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