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DCOTE: “Dirty Wars” Part Two.
“There is nothing mysterious about interrogation. It consists of no more than obtaining needed information through responses to questions... But sound interrogation nevertheless rests upon a knowledge...
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Further Experiments with the Deipnon
“There was also a “supper” (deipnon or dais) of various foods; the dead who partook of these sometimes were described as eudeipnoi, which we best can translate, perhaps, as “those who are content with...
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DCOTE: “Dirty Wars” Part Three.
Part One– Part Two– Part Three – Part Four– Part Five. An Aging Barbie.“Spook: as spectre, ghost, revenant, remnant of death, the madness lingering after the corpse is sloughed off. Slang for...
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DCOTE: “Dirty Wars” Part Four. [EDITED]
Part One– Part Two– Part Three– Part Four – Part Five. “Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?” “The three greatest fools of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote — and I!”“The...
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DCOTE: “Dirty Wars” Part Five [EDITED]
Part One– Part Two– Part Three– Part Four– Part Five. “There exists in our nation today a powerful and dangerous secret cult – the cult of intelligence. Its holy men are the clandestine professionals...
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Goetia
Recently, Jake Stratton-Kent got downright punk rock on the topic of secrecy, Masonry-styled “Secret Societies” and bogus history. He followed it up with an “Open Letter to the Golden Dawn”. Aaron...
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Moar Hekate
The last post had some folks ask me to write more on a few subjects. I am, unfortunately, too sleep deprived to try and hash out a post on the Stele of Jeu and the voces mageia therein (and the way...
View ArticleA Question
Some time ago, Mr. VI began brow-beating me about trying to put together a book. Truthfully, I've been working on it off and on since my sister left. It's going to just be about the size of a chapbook,...
View ArticleA Few Words of Caution.
I apparently have to say this every five posts, but the best place to begin is with this: I am not a “scholar,” “expert,” or “teacher.” I do not claim to be an all-powerful “Adept,” nor shall I do so....
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Because I Can't Sleep: Thoughts on Sigils
Created by me; re-drawn by the amazing VVF because my art skillz = suck.“There is a self-revelation by a simple cryptic symbol: the meaning of all meanings. Think well before you drain this Cup of...
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Moar Sigils & Experimental Procedures
Gordon's comment on my last post got me thinking... And I decided I'd follow up the last post with another describing other ways I've used the technique, and encouraging folks to be more experimental...
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“Agrippa Was a Chaos Magician!” Redux
“There is yet another fashion of Characters, common to almost all letters, and tongues, and very easie, which is by the gathering together of letters; as if the name of the Angel Michaelbe given, the...
View ArticleGinandJack is Correct!
“Anyway, what I was going to type before so rudely interrupted, was, for those of you interested in flying ointments: it’s not all Anglo-Saxon or Scots stuff! There’s sources for such things in various...
View ArticleA Few Items
1. VI recently pointed out to me that the The Obeah Bible appears to have been republished and is up on Amazon.If you don't know much about the the book I just referenced, or the rather shady...
View ArticleI made a Tumblr.
Given that I read a lot and don't want to spam people elsewhere with all those links: I have made a Tumblr blog.You can expect a ton of links relating to different things on it.You can expect me to...
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The Balancing Act
Some of the discussions about certain practices over the last year have raised alarm bells for my fellow compatriots and occultists. In particular, I have seen – again and again – complaints that...
View ArticleA Brief Response to Freeman Presson
I caught that I'd beenrelinked on a blog, where Mr. Presson appears and mentions his blog post the traditional definition of Sigils.Now, Mr. Presson, I have no idea who you are... Except that we share...
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Reflections on the Daimons of Space
I've been writing something else, which may appear elsewhere, on the subject of the Genius Loci or “spirits of [the] place.” I think I first tried to write an essay on the subject four years ago, but I...
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A few links.
I consider all of the links to follow inspiring for different reasons. A couple of them are making me itch to write about the concept of the Black Dog in European witchcraft and ghost stories.I'm...
View ArticleSannion, Galina, and I...
... Will be discussing ghosts, necromancy, the cult(s) of the dead, and probably Goetia (we'll see how deep we get into that subject) on September 18th on Wyrd Ways Radio (Ms. Krasskova's podcast).I...
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