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Grimoiric Textual Authenticity and Legitimacy
I was looking over some of the threads in /r/occult on Reddit recently and came across a perplexing, bemusing thread that…not gonna lie, it made me too angry to reply to it. Like, not enraged Tea...
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Review: Martin Coleman’s “Communing with the Spirits”
Compared to most of my friends (but not you, Kalagni), I have a pretty extensive Amazon wishlist filled mostly with books. Every year in early autumn, I start prioritizing the things I want for my...
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De Geomanteia: Acquisitio (I got a 15 million dollar contract coming my way)
Since one of my most favorite topics in occultism and magic is divination, specifically the divinatory art of geomancy, why not talk about that? I know a lot about it, and not many do, so let’s go with...
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Geomantic Superfigures (Emblems) Revisited
A while back, I mentioned something about geomantic superfigures, which has recently become another focus of mine. The De Geomanteia posts I’m doing are awesome for getting me to revisit old topics in...
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The Geomantic Emblems and their Rulerships
Last time I brought up the geomantic emblems (previously called geomantic superfigures, 256 16-line “figures” that each contain all 16 geomantic figures within themselves), I described a few bits about...
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De Geomanteia: Carcer (on the inside of this marble house I grow)
Since one of my most favorite topics in occultism and magic is divination, specifically the divinatory art of geomancy, why not talk about that? I know a lot about it, and not many do, so let’s go with...
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Understanding and Employing the Geomantic Emblems
Alright, so now that we’ve gone over what the geomantic emblems are, how we can analyze them elementally, and how we can assign cycles of the emblems to the sixteen figures of geomancy, I wanted to...
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Quick Empowerment Ritual
Want a short and fast empowerment ritual? How fortuitous, because here’s one for you to try out! I got the idea after talking with Fr. Rufus Opus and getting a short Hermes contemplative ritual from...
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What it's Like to Have Your Future go to Court
Reblogged from CJR: I’m writing this down for three reasons. First, I been asked dozens of times ‘how this feels’ by friends and family over the past few weeks. Second, I think this might be...
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De Geomanteia: Tristitia (give up on this don’t give up on us)
Since one of my most favorite topics in occultism and magic is divination, specifically the divinatory art of geomancy, why not talk about that? I know a lot about it, and not many do, so let’s go with...
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Genius, Skill, Talent, Technique
Between the sufferings of both modern public school education and psychological neuroses, a lot of people fall into one of two camps of belief: I can be anything I want and be good at everything I do....
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Divination as Intel
One of my favorite webcomics (which is ending this year at 10+ years old, alas!) is Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire. In addition to being a painfully/punfully witty and action-packed high-fantasy...
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De Geomanteia: Geomantic Magic (let this spell last forever)
Since one of my most favorite topics in occultism and magic is divination, specifically the divinatory art of geomancy, why not talk about that? I know a lot about it, and not many do, so let’s go with...
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De Geomanteia Recap, and a Huge Thank You
As I mentioned last time, I completed the small little journey I set out on about five months ago to describe each of the geomantic figures and a bit about geomantic technique on my blog at the rate of...
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Ancient Words of Power for the Directions
After all this time, I’m finally getting around to reading Michael Cecchetelli’s excellent text the Book of Abrasax, however slowly that might be. I’m still just getting into the material, but it’s...
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Questions from Me to You, Dear Reader
Being an active blogger, apparently, and who gets a decent amount of daily traffic (who recently passed the 100K hit count, thank you guys so much!), I like to amuse and confuse myself at what you guys...
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Grammatomancy: Divination by Letters
While idly browsing around Reddit and the rest of the vasty deep of the Internet, I encountered an absolutely fantastic website for people working in Greco-Roman or Hellenic pagan paths, the Biblioteca...
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Humility versus Modesty
One of the areas where I catch flak as a ceremonial magician is that people constantly assume I’m some kind of spiritual control-freak. It’s true, lots of Solomonic literature makes use of perilous...
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Proper Ritual Terminology
Recently, someone asked me about the differences between invoking, evoking, summoning, banishing, and all that jazz. As a ceremonial magician, there’s a lot of different ritual I use depending on the...
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Fictional Magic
I’ve sometimes remarked on this blog that I feel like I live in a video game or role playing game of some sort, what with my magic rings and enchanted swords and whatnot. Largely, this is due to my...
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