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Post by Admin on Sept 11, 2020 23:24:44 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 11, 2020 23:57:19 GMT
The LBRP: Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram is worth looking into -
A Foundation of Ceremonial Magic. The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram—the LBRP for short—is a well-known, effective technique used for ridding yourself and surroundings of unwanted and negative energies.
The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram by Michael Benjamin is a good book on the subject
Lesser Banishing ritual of the pentagram by Ox Tyuriam is good as well
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Post by Admin on Sept 12, 2020 19:36:19 GMT
A Treatise on White Magic by Alice A. Bailey
Magic: A Treatise on Natural Occultism by Manly P. Hall
White Magic: A Holistic Guide to Self Initiation by Elana Muriels
The White-Magic Book by John Le Breton
The Tree of Life: An Illustrated Study in Magic by Israel Regardie
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2020 15:58:05 GMT
The Magical Knowledge Trilogy by Josephine McCarthy "The Magical Knowledge trilogy is a collection of work by Josephine McCarthy written between 2009 and 2011, originally presented in three paperback volumes as Magical Knowledge I Foundations, Magical Knowledge II The Initiate, and Magical Knowledge III Contacts of the Adepts. It is now presented as a complete hardback collection for the first time. The three individual volumes are still available in their second edition paperback form published by TaDehent Books. The Magical Knowledge Trilogy is a series that takes the reader through the twists and turns of serious magical study and practice. Written by Josephine McCarthy, one of the world's leading magical adepts, The Magical Knowledge Trilogy covers the necessary skills, contacts, and practices for lone magical practitioners studying and working within Western magic. It is a sampling of the teaching and magical work undertaken by the author over a twenty-year period, reaching from the early stages of magical practice right up to the adept level of work, and is designed for the lone practitioner. The writing of this collection signalled a turning point in McCarthy's work, as it began to develop more towards the in-depth training of magicians, which eventually manifested in the form of Quareia: an open source magical training course of unparalleled depth and scope. The trilogy covers magical advice, techniques for ritual, visionary work, utterance, divination, and sigil-making, and includes essays on the history of magic and a look at the mythic storytelling tradition. Josephine McCarthy is a Western magical adept living in the Southwest of England. An esoteric practitioner, teacher, and author, she has written over thirty books on magical theory and practice, including The Exorcist's Handbook, Magic of the North Gate, The Book of Gates - a Magical Translation, and Tarot Skills for the 21st Century. Josephine has taught extensively in the USA and UK since the early 1990s, and has lectured at various occult, esoteric, and hermetic conferences in the UK and USA. She is the designer and book author for the LXXXI Quareia Magician's Deck (2014 Quareia Publishing UK), produced with artists Stuart Littlejohn and Cassandra Beanland. McCarthy is also the author of Quareia, an extensive, in-depth, open source online training course in the theory, practice, and history of Western magic, which seeks to move Western magical practice into a deeper, more cooperative relationship with nature and the environment." Quote from Amazon Josephine McCarthy josephinemccarthy.com/josephinemccarthy.com/about/www.quareia.com/josephine-mccarthyTaDehent Books www.quareiapublishing.com/tadehent-books
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2020 17:04:41 GMT
‘Black Abbot · White Magic’ by Frater Acher www.paralibrum.com/reviews/black-abbot-white-magicAs a 20-year-old recent graduate of the liberal arts from Heidelberg, Hans Heidenberger of Trittenheim (Johannes Trithemius) and a friend took shelter from a snowstorm at the Benedictine Abbey of Sponheim, which, if not decrepit or in ruins, was certainly impoverished and understaffed. A few decades before, its community had diminished to the point of having only two abbots and one other monk. Even then in 1482, the monastery must have been most eager for talent, as he took final monastic vows within ten months, and eight months after that was elected abbot. The new abbot had all the obsessions and interests that characterize our particular subculture. The first thing he did was go on a book copying spree, bulking the library up from fifty books to two thousand, most of which had to be in manuscript: printing is fine for some things, but don’t we all want the talismanic, artisanal editions with the custom leather binding? In addition to the bibliophilia edging into bibliomania, his other interests included cryptography, talking to angels, rummaging through grimoires, reforming the church and education, and social climbing. Like many of the Humanists and magi before and after him, he “desired to know all that could be known.” Posthumously, Trithemius, together with his student Cornelius Agrippa, acquired a literally Faustian reputation. During his life, there were, shall we say, a number of reversals. He had to do some fast talking after he showed his Steganography, book of ciphers disguised as a book of magic, to alchemist and mathematicus Charles de Bouelles. The prudent things to do in the 15th century when such a thing occurs are to 1) write a polemic and guide against witchcraft, in which you use your vast reference library as a source for the rituals of black magic, as well as the appropriate countermeasures, so your library has an approved use, and you have the approval of the Church to keep studying illicit material, which Trithemius did in his book Antipalus Malificorum (not dealt with in the present book) and 2) find and write your magical works, now of the whitest, holiest and most licit magic, under the pseudonym of a saint or fictitious author. Black Abbot, White Magic contains new translations of several works purported to have been transmitted to Trithemius from the hermit Pelagius through a messenger, Libanius Gallus. The particulars of Pelagius’s life seem to line up suspiciously well with those of Trithemius himself, though mixed with the biography of 13th/14th century Majorcan mystic Ramon Llull. • Whatever the case, Acher selected these writings as examplars of Trithemius’s search for a divine magic, which Acher identifies as a set of methods leading to the self-improvement of the practitioner into an angelic or Godly state through communion with their Holy Guardian Angel. (See also Holy Daimon, Acher’s first book in this trilogy, for his own methods for communion with the angel and intelligence of Saturn.) The Pelagian/Trithemian methods described here are more tranquil, beginning with leading a simple, private, Christian life appropriate to a holy hermit or the abbot of a large monastery. Some of the required materia for the Tablet of Truth raise questions about the spiritual economy of 15th century Germany—blessed Paschal wax and herbs for incense or exorcistic powder might be readily obtainable, but how difficult would it be to find a fragment of the True Cross or Agnus Dei, or to engage a sympathetic priest willing to perform a custom mass for you with your Tablet hidden under the altar stone? (Unless, like Trithemius, you have an abbey at your disposal.) Acher provides well-written, knowledgeable commentary and supplementary tables. His hybrid approach as part academic and part practitioner manages to avoid the excesses of both. The result is very readable, clear and smart. While I understand the rationale behind his selections, I found myself wanting to access Trithemius’s longer works, few of which have been brought over into English.[1] Klaus Arnold’s compact biographical essay provides an excellent and useful introduction. It might have been better to place it at the beginning of the book to provide more context around the texts in translation. Like all of Scarlet Imprint’s publications, the hardback edition of Black Abbot is deliciously luxurious and elegantly designed, encased in a soft, velvety leatherette and typeset on paper so heavy that it is nearly cardstock, in crisp fonts that appear to be printed by letterpress, even though they are not. Jose Gabriel Alegria Sabogal contributes illustrations of the key figures in the manuscripts’ tradition that fit well with the longstanding tradition of evocative engravings in occult texts. While Black Abbot, White Magic may not appeal to some readers because it is explicitly white (in the sense of beneficent), explicitly Christian magic, I found it to be an important and useful book precisely for these reasons. It also draws welcome attention to Trithemius, who was once considered to be one of the foremost German humanists of his time, but who later fell out of style. Perhaps it’s time for a revival. [1] Disclosure: I have just started working on an English translation of Steganographia.
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Post by Admin on Sept 14, 2020 16:30:57 GMT
"If you are ever in doubt of your importance on this Earth plane; touch someone’s hand while they are speaking, hug someone who is releasing grief, smile at someone who appears to be hurting. The fact that you are a human, sharing a human moment with another is #magic."
~ Creator
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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2020 13:21:53 GMT
Ultraculture Journal: Essays on Magick, Tantra and the Deconditioning of Consciousness: Volume 1ultraculture.org/blog/2014/06/03/ultraculture-journal-magick/ultraculture.org/blog/category/books/"Ultraculture Journal collects under one cover some of the most volatile and direct tantric and magickal writing currently available in the English language. It will change you at the cellular level. You have been forewarned. This issue includes: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on the holographic Garden of Eden Brion Gysin’s travelogue of his journey to Alamut, the citadel of the Assassins Lalitanath and Shivanath on the Magick Path of Tantra Jason Louv’s essential guide to Western magick Beat legend Ira Cohen on John Dee and the Kumbh Mela, the biggest religious festival in the world Dave Lowe and Hans Plomp travel across India’s mountains and rivers without end The psychedelic rantings of Ganesh Baba, the world’s most tripped-out guru Johnny Templar broadcasts live from the tomb of Christian Rosenkreutz Joel Biroco on the “War on Terror” Prince Charming interviews Tibetan Tantric Adept Monica Dechen Gyalmo New lyrics from the late Jhonn Balance of Coil and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Treasure chests full of rituals, reviews and wish-granting genies! Ultraculture Journal promises to catalyze a twenty-first century actually worth living in. Welcome to the psychedelic make-out party at the beginning of history. Jason Louv is the editor of Generation Hex (2005) and Thee Psychick Bible (2009)." Quote from Amazon.
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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2020 15:23:18 GMT
A very interesting book / resource - The Complete Magician's Tables by Stephen Skinner "These 840+ magical tables are the most complete set of tabular correspondences covering magic, astrology, divination, Tarot, I Ching, Kabbalah, gematria, angels, demons, Graeco-Egyptian magic, pagan pantheons, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Taoist and mystical correspondences ever printed. It is over five times larger and more wide ranging than Crowleys Liber 777. New columns include the spirits from Fausts Hoellenzwang and Trithemius Steganographia. Types of magic and their Greek identification headwords; the meanings of a wide range of nomina magica; planetary incenses; and the secret names for ingredients, all from the Greek magical papyri. Also the names of the gods of the hours and the months which must be used for successful evocation. The source of the data in these tables ranges over 2000 years, from the Graeco-Egyptian papyri, Byzantine Solomonike, unpublished manuscript mediaeval grimoires and Kabbalistic works, Peter de Abano, Abbott Trithemius, Albertus Magnus, Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Dr John Dee, Dr Thomas Rudd, Tycho Brahe, MacGregor Mathers (and the editors of Mathers work, Aleister Crowley and Israel Regardie), to the mage of classical geometric shapes, modern theories of prime numbers and atomic weights. The sources include many key grimoires such the Sworn Book, Liber Juratus, the Lemegeton (Goetia, Theurgia-Goetia, Almadel, Pauline Art), Abramelin, and in the 20th century the grimoire of Franz Bardon. All this material has been grouped and presented in a consistent and logical way covering the whole Western Mystery tradition and some relevant parts of the Eastern tradition. This is the final update of this volume." Quote from Amazon www.youtube.com/watch?v=_63X9jaOeCg
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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2020 15:28:57 GMT
MYSTERY TRADITION “And surely, as nature createth brotherhood in families, and arts mechanical contract brotherhoods in commonalities, and the anointment of God superinduceth a brotherhood in kings and bishops; so in like manner there cannot but be a fraternity in learning and illumination, relating to that paternity which is attributed to God, who is called the Father of illuminations or lights.” Francis Bacon: Advancement of Learning, Bk 2 – 1605 Bacon’s mention of a “fraternity in learning and illumination” has sometimes been taken to refer simply to a body of organised science, such as that which was begun by the Royal Society, which acknowledged Bacon as its “Instaurator”. It has also been taken to refer to Speculative Freemasonry, founded as a non-operative body in its own right 1 in England sometime during the early 17th century but launched publicly with the re-founding of the London Grand Lodge as the supreme Grand Lodge of England in 1717. 2 James Anderson’s Constitutions of the Free-masons (1723) refers to English Freemasonry as having been refounded (i.e. instaurated) by the Romano-British Saint Alban, 3 but provides various strange anomalies and hints pointing to a later “Saint Alban” as the instaurator of English Speculative Freemasonry, such as the hint that the Emperor appointed St Alban as Steward of his household and chief ruler, after himself, of the realm. This later St Alban was Francis Bacon, Viscount Saint Alban, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Lord High Chancellor to King James I of England and VI of Scotland, “Emperor” of Great Britain. But there is far more to Bacon than even this. His main esoteric link is to a fraternity that at one time named itself the Society or Fraternity of the Gold and Rosy Cross. Michael Maier, who came across the Rosicrucians when he was in England and later wrote about them, is alleged to have stated that the fraternity was formed c.1570 by followers of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, who founded a secret society in London in 1510 similar to the one in Paris, with secret signs of recognition; and that this society gave rise to the Brethren of the Gold and Rosy Cross in 1570 who founded corresponding chapters of their society throughout Europe. 4 From this and other evidence, it would appear that the original 16th/17th century English Rosicrucian fraternity grew out of a particular branch of a European-wide society of Renaissance philosophers established in England under the patronage of Sir Thomas More in the time of Henry VIII, but whose headquarters was at that time in Paris, France, and before that in Milan and Florence, Italy. This can be traced in various ways, but a primary key to this particular stream of the European Mystery Tradition is the use of the ‘AA’ symbol as both a teaching and a signature. There are many hints and allusions, symbolic and otherwise, which indicate that at some point Francis Bacon became the “Father” or “President” of this fraternity, as also its renovator (like Orpheus, who renovated the Dionysian Mysteries as the Orphic Mysteries), and that as such he was the “Apollo” of the Rosicrucian fraternity and overlighting “Light” of Speculative Freemasonry. These mysteries, including the ‘AA’ symbol, go right back to the Classical and Ancient Egyptian-Mesopotamian times. In fact, the tradition traces its origins back to the time of Atlantis, and in particular to the renowned king of Atlantis, known as Atlas or Enoch. After the fall of Atlantis, the mysteries took root and blossomed in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Thracia. From Egypt came the Hermetic Mysteries; from Mesopotamia (Persia) came the Magian Mysteries; from Thracia came the Dionysian and Greek Mysteries. Various fusions of these produced the Hebraic Mysteries, the Orphic Mysteries and the Christian Mysteries. All mysteries have their philosophical counterpart, or belong to a philosophical stream of thought, the mysteries being the theatrical drama by means of which the motivations, psychology, laws of life and initiatory process of human beings are taught to men and women in an experiential way as a complement or aid to philosophical development. The theatre serves psychology just as the laboratory serves natural science. It is primarily from the Classical mysteries that Renaissance and modern drama and theatre has developed. Accompanying the Classical mysteries was the Pythagorean-Platonic-Neoplatonic philosophical stream of thought, from which the main philosophical thrust of the European Renaissance was derived, together with input from Christian theology and mysticism, Jewish Kabbalah and Hermeticism (a branch of which was known as Alchemy). The primary founders of Renaissance Neoplatonism were Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, both members of the brilliant circle of scholars, writers and artists associated with the Medici court in Florence in the 15th century, under the patronage of the great Cosimo de’ Medici and his successors. It was Cosimo who arranged for a collection of Greek manuscripts that recorded the works of Plato and various Neoplatonic philosophers, and which included the Corpus Hermeticum, to be brought to Florence from Constantinople. From these, Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), a scholar, physician and priest, was commissioned by Cosimo to translate into Latin the Hermetic writings and the dialogues of Plato, together with the Neoplatonic writings of Porphyry, Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysus the Areopagite and Plotinus. 5 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), who eventually joined Ficino at his “Platonic Academy” in Florence and was the first Christian scholar to use Kabbalistic doctrine in support of Christian theology, introduced Christian Cabala into the new-born Neoplatonic-Hermetic-Christian philosophical and mystery tradition. Ficino’s understanding, as that of others including St. Augustine, was that a divine theology or wisdom tradition, based on love, began simultaneously with Zoroaster among the Persians and with Hermes Trismegistus among the Egyptians, and that this wisdom tradition led in an unbroken chain to Plato via Orpheus and Pythagoras. It is this wisdom which is reputed to underlie the Hebrew, Orphic and Christian teachings, all of which developed from the blended Hermetic and Magian origin. Demonstrating that this wisdom tradition was associated with Christianity, with links via Moses and the Zoroastrian Magi, Ficino was able to reconcile Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy with Christian theology. He regarded both philosophy and religion as being manifestations of a spiritual life, each needing the other in order to attain the summum bonum, or greatest good. According to the Neoplatonic philosophy which he founded, based upon the Hermetic wisdom, love is the sustaining principle of the universe, and the attainment of the highest good is dependant not upon the Church but upon an impulse universal to mankind. The soul is not only immortal, but all souls by an inner urge naturally seek truth and goodness (i.e. God, the All-Good). This, in effect, was the same belief or philosophy that Francis Bacon held. It is not for nothing that Ficino was known as the second Plato and Francis Bacon as the third Plato. In this whole mystery tradition we should not omit that of the Celts or Druids. The Tudors had a strong connection with the Welsh or Celtic royal bloodline and Bardic tradition, and so the birth of the Rosicrucian impulse in England (which at that time embraced Wales in its definition) included an interest in and knowledge of the Ancient British Mysteries and Philosophy, including geocosmological knowledge of the landscape. The myth of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is thus of prime importance, with the Christian St George being assimilated as representative of a Knight of the Round Table—the Red Cross Knight of Holiness, as he is called in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. The Red Cross, which is the same as the Gold Cross (red being the colour and gold the equivalent metal in heraldic terms), symbolises divine Light and is the traditional emblem of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Later it was used in the Christian Mysteries and became the emblem of the Archangel Michael and of St George, the Red Cross Knight, as well as representing the Universal or Cosmic Christ, the Light or “Sun” of the Universe—the Light of Love. Besides having a cosmic meaning, the Round Table is associated with Merlin, Arthur’s teacher, and with the land of Britain, which is the ‘round table’ or ‘theatre’ on which or in which we play our parts in the Great Mystery. Knowledge of this provides one of the keys to the Shakespeare Mystery. © Peter Dawkins, FBRT (1) i.e. as distinct from Craft Masonry, or Craft Freemasonry with a speculative aspect. (2) The other Grand Lodge of England was the York Grand Lodge, which was the original Grand Lodge of England (set up in Saxon times) and which set up the London Grand Lodge as a subsidiary when membership in London and southern England became greatly enlarged. The York Grand Lodge, and the London Grand Lodge when first established, was for operative purposes, although including a speculative aspect. The speculative, philosophical role of Freemasonry grew rapidly in London during the latter half of the 16th century, mainly due to influence and input from ‘Rosicrucians’, such as John Dee and later Francis Bacon, and their high-ranking Freemasonic friends. (3) England did not exist at the time of the Romano-British Saint Alban. The country then was named Britannia or Britain and so Anderson's reference should have been to British Freemasonry, rather than English Freemasonry; but he associated English Freemasonry with Saint Alban for a purpose. (4) Maier is alleged to have stated this information in a manuscript that was once in the possession of the University of Leiden (or Leipzig). (5) The translation of the Corpus Hermeticum was ready in 1464 and published in 1471 under the title of Pimander. The translations of Plato’s dialogues, completed c.1468 were published as the Platonic Theology in 1474. www.fbrt.org.uk/mysteries/mystery-tradition/
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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2020 15:55:59 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2020 16:09:25 GMT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQoKZCpgXkIMy review of the Golden Dawn 7th Edition by Israel Regardie, Edited and corrected by John Michael Greer. The Golden Dawn were a Hermetic, magical order that thrived during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. When the order disbanded, Israel Regardie published all the order's secret initiations and practices in the form of this book, breaking his oaths and attracting the anger of many powerful people! Today you can buy these secret papers on Amazon and in all good esoteric book-shops.
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Post by Admin on Sept 24, 2020 14:27:16 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 28, 2020 1:40:16 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 28, 2020 11:10:19 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 28, 2020 14:50:50 GMT
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