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Memo from the Black Brotherhood #4
“The unjustly injured are not benefited if the same injury is inflicted on the aggressor: punishment should not only be corrective but compensatory to the victim. This does not preclude other kinds of...
View ArticleBeans & The Dead.
A recent discussion with the Thiasos of the Starry Bull briefly involved prohibitions regarding beans by certain cults (some Orphic sects, and more importantly, the Pythagoreans). I seemed to recall...
View ArticleBeans & the Dead: Part II
“Whether the souls of men after death are or are not in the world below, is a question which may be argued in this manner: The ancient doctrine of which I have been speaking affirms that they go from...
View ArticleDivine Intoxication, Inspiration, and Offerings. [EDITED]
Come, blessed Dionysius [Dionysos], various nam'd, bull-fac'd, begot from Thunder, Bacchus [Bakkhos] fam'd. Bassarian God, of universal might, whom swords, and blood, and sacred rage delight: In heav'n...
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The Light in the Underworld
Venus and Tannhauser by Laurence Koe.Opening RemarksI began working on this entry a while ago and paused. But I just witnessed a discussion on the entire “Right Hand Path” versus “Left Hand Path”...
View ArticleOrpheus, I Choose You!
“Moreover, so much of music as is adapted to the sound of the voice and to the sense of hearing is granted to us for the sake of harmony; and harmony, which has motions akin to the revolutions of our...
View ArticleThese dialogues are riddled with hostility, and generally divisive overall....
"What happens if Dionysus’ ecstasy is not balanced by the tempering influence of Apollo’s cool rationality?"- John Halstead.What happens when we ignore the purificatory functions of ecstasy? What...
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Half-mad field report, from 2013 - 2014.
"I had been randomly wandering around, and found myself thinking on Crowley (in particular, John St. John) and looked down… To see what you see here. It was so shocking I stopped, took a photo, and...
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A Feast For Dead Kings
And Those Who Might Have Been...While Sannion was discussing the Feast of Dionysian Kings, and how to proceed with it, he brought up medieval fairies and the notion that (some of) the Good...
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Making a Dionysos altar as a poor-ass motherfucker.*
“From the earliest times man has experienced in the face with the penetrating eyes the truest manifestation of anthropomorphic or theriomorphic beings. This manifestation is sustained by the mask,...
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In a few hours...
I'm pretty sure it'll be good times. Here's hopin' I don't make an ass out of myself!Jack.
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Treasures of the Earth (Part One.)
If we're to make heads or tails of the practice of Treasure Magic (and the many intersections it has with other topics, which range from pacts with fairies to Katabasis practices) then we ought to...
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The Treasure Hunt
“What’s that he holds?” “A scrying mirror.”“A what? His what?”“An occult tool. A means for telling the past, present, perhaps even the future. He must have utilised some diabolical method to conceal...
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Mournful Cries: Of Sorcerers & Spirits
Author's Note: This was originally a post up at the Starry Bull blog. I'm pretty sure the old blog has been pulled down since the group was reformatted (I wish you all the best!), and I'm posting it...
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Goeteia is for Suckers: Magic Lamps & Underworld Descents.
Jack's Note:While attempting to write an article on distinctions between ancient magic and religion, I've decided to blog about the areas where the two subjects coincide to illustrate that the line...
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The Devil You Know.
Image taken from Legend of the Witches. (1969)“The Man in Black sometimes plays on a Pipe or Cittern and the Company dance. At last the Devil vanisheth, and all are carried to their several homes in a...
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May 9th: Lemuria & Lemuralia
Mosaic featuring Romulus and Remus.“It is an equal crime to eat beans and the heads of one’s parents.”- Horace.“Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans!”- Empedocles. I believe that at the...
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Images, Amulets and Votives of the Danubian or Thracian Rider and the Great...
Thracian cavalry on a Greek vase.WARNING: The author of this article is NOTa scholar of any kind. Any and all opinions expressed within are his own, and should not be mistaken for being authoritative...
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