Stolen from ashabeth for obvious reasons.

( Which form of magical protection? )

When the building is on fire, you don't stand by the door and point to the exit hoping that the people who are asleep will choose that moment to rouse themselves and look your way. You wake them up, screaming in their face if necessary, so they can escape; if that fails, you do your best to bodily remove them from the scene. You interfere without ( Read more... )

A short but very interesting interview with Deepak Chopra.

Who, incidentally, is going to be in town this Wednesday at the Wayzata Community Church talking about his latest book, The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore. Anyone interested in checking that out?

Today's Engineering Problem: The dowels supporting the tall tombstones were neither strong enough nor flexible enough to deal with the 40-mph winds we had last night, so most of them snapped in half (cf. the Tao). Tombstones scattered all over the yard. Emergency graveyard repair tonight, and if the wind keeps up we won't have any fog. Feh. ( Read more... )

Finished Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling (1891). I highly recommend the entirety of Chapter XI as it relates to the Knowledge & Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel and sets the stage for the practices in Book Four.

When we think of what we might be if we could master ourselves, and call on the vast sea of knowledge which is in the brain of ( Read more... )

Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, Chapter VIII, Roumanian and Transylvanian Sorceries and Superstitions, Connected with Those of the Gypsies:

The legends of Donidaniel and the College of Sorcery in Salamanca appear in the gypsy Roumanian Scholomance, or school which exists somewhere far away deep in the heart of the mountains, "where the secrets ( Read more... )

As I was just reminded by otter93, my friend Ananael Qaa is brilliant.

From Promoting Magick with a K:

There has been a lot of discussion in the esoteric community over Aleister Crowley's spelling of "Magick" with a K. Some find reverting to the Elizabethan spelling of the word pretentious, while others contend that it draws a useful distinction between ( Read more... )

Hmm. I've always wondered about that line.

Enochian Calls, the Second Key: "Arrise, sayth the First: Move therfore vnto his Servants: Shew your selues in powre: And make me a strong Seething: for I am of him that liueth for euer."

Seiðr Magic: "Seiðr literally means 'seething' or 'boiling' and has much in common with shamanism and other forms of ( Read more... )

Montague Summers, one of the best regarded authorities of vampire lore of the early 20th century, had some interesting connections, and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that his occasional trips to France and Italy were for purposes other than getting a bit of fresh air in the country ( Read more... )

Assume for the moment the existence of individualized noncorporeal entities - call them spirits, or demons, or stable patterns in the greater mind, or aeons, or what have you. The essence of the idea is they have identity and volition but no physical form, and they're not just a construct of a person's vivid imagination.

( Yes? And? )