Prices, Magick & Pop Culture
In response to my complaints about the Rumpelstiltskin meme from Once Upon A Time and such, Taylor Elwood has added a few additional comments that I quite liked:“But I think that Jack, and others miss...
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A Follow-Up
Following up on the Supper left at the park...“It smells like a dump and sewage,” said Alfred Lobatos Jr., a nearby resident who was out biking with his son, Alfred Lobatos III, on Monday.Both were...
View ArticleLate Night Viewings. [EDIT]
Many thanks to the excellent fellow that linked this earlier.[EDIT]: Even if I disagree with elements, this is DELIGHTFUL.
View ArticleAmong the Cannibal Christians
Mr. Earl Lee, who wrote From the Bodies of the Gods, dropped by and linked me to his blog for additional resources regarding the material in his book. The entries are freaking awesome. ... Which means...
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Images from Dominus Flevit and Kefr Kilkis [EDITED]
I first came across mentions of Kefr Kilkis – one of the places where the earliest Christians settled and artifacts have been discovered that predate the Gospels – in Peter Lamborn Wilson's Shower of...
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Mournful Songs
“The second phenomenon with which goetes regularly were connected was singing and more broadly music of all kinds. The Suda and Cosmas defined goeteia as an act of “calling upon” (epiklesis) the dead;...
View ArticleThe Inverted Mirror
Given some of the recent events in Europe; particularly Spain, France, Greece, and the UK, and the fact that America is inundated with a similar movement in our own culture, I thought it was time to...
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A Few Stray Comments.
I suffered from depression for years. For about a decade, I'd oscillate between deep and long-lasting depression and being okay. I described it once, to a friend of mine, as “the Cycle of Complete and...
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Socrates on Madness, the Divine, & The Soul.
The Super-Moon Over Greece.“Socrates: Know then, fair youth, that the former discourse was the word of Phaedrus, the son of Vain Man, who dwells in the city of Myrrhina (Myrrhinusius). And this which I...
View Article... Goddamn it, Harold. You're Awesome.
I... I've actually read about this before, but never seen it blatantly stated, just referred to in a way that discussed veiling 'the mysteries' of magick.So I was pleased to see Harold Roth's link on...
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Tannhauser and Venus
“For in the year 1544, Martin Crusius, in his Annales Svevici, cites a curious tale, borrowed from an older chronicle. Wandering about the Swabian countryside were certain clerici vagantes who wore...
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Traveling Scholars, Necromancers, Fairies, and Goddesses.
Antoine de la Sale, Depiction of Monte Sibilla. [From La Salade.]“Harff comes fully prepared to find that for which he is looking.“Here at Noxea [Norcea] we heard tell of Dame Venus' Mount,” he begins,...
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Book Review: Advanced Planetary Magic by Jason Miller
Mr. Miller's new Lunar Seal. Gorgeous, no?[Day of the Moon + Hour of Jupiter] Both receiving, and then finding the time to read, for this tiny book occurred at a rather amusing time for me, which...
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Since I've Been Super-Quiet [EDITED]
Eroclis, from 2010. Art by VVF. Sigil produced by me. After the last Venusberg post, I was asked by a friend and compatriot in crazy shit if I would be willing to co-write a few posts for his blog at...
View ArticleThe Wisdom of Abraxas: Divination Dice
I'm reading Mike C.'s The Wisdom of Abraxas at the moment, and really loving the form of Dice divination he's revealed. It is... remarkably similar to how I divine with the Tarot already, and...
View ArticleThe Century of Self
Last night, after getting incredibly irritated while watching the first Gasland (I'm looking forward, in a way, to the second; at the same time, I dread watching it come Monday), I decided to show VVF...
View ArticleThe Precipice of Belief
“Did you sleep well?Did you sleep fine? Did you sleep much at all? All night I heard two voices from out here in the hall;The first one was ancient but the second was a gun,The first one was laughin’...
View ArticleThey Choose to be Poor, Redux
A few Mercury Retrograde cycles back, I foolishly picked a fight with a certain publisher regarding poverty, how crappy their books were, and why they had utterly failed to anticipate technological...
View ArticleDCOTE: “Black Crime.” [EDITED x3]
In the weeks since the verdict surrounding Trayvon Martin, I've heard a lot about so-called “black crime.” Now, given that I flagrantly write about populist themes and occasionally even bring up...
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DCOTE: “Dirty Wars:” Part One. [EDITED]
“While the declared purposes of these programs were to protect the “national security” or prevent violence, Bureau witnesses admit that many of the targets were nonviolent and most had no connections...
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