Magick Matters – ☠Cella Librorum Prohibitorum📚

28.01.2022

“Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Tarot: A Comprehensive Guide” by Anthony Louis

"Llewellyn's Complete Book of Tarot: A Comprehensive Guide" by Anthony Louis

"Comprehensive and easy to use, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Tarot contains everything you ever wanted to know about tarot. Join Anthony Louis as he explores tarot history, shares card meanings and spreads, and provides detailed guidance that educates and inspires, whether you're a beginner or an advanced reader. Discover basic reading techniques for a wide variety of systems, including Marseilles, Rider-Waite, and Thoth. Identify the meaning of associations, correspondences, reversals, and dignities, and experience the ways that tarot interacts with astrology and personal spirituality. Combine tarot reading with Kabbalah, numerology, Jungian psychology, journaling, and storytelling while exploring card selection, creativity, tarot ethics, and specialized spreads. Focusing on the use of tarot for insight, empowerment, self-understanding,...>>

28.01.2022

“Taking Sacred Back: The Complete Guide to Designing and Sharing Group Ritual” by Nels Linde and Judy Linde

"Taking Sacred Back: The Complete Guide to Designing and Sharing Group Ritual" by Nels Linde and Judy Linde

"Whether you’re designing a group ritual for five people or five hundred, Taking Sacred Back will help you make it moving and memorable. Join authors Nels Linde and Judy Olson-Linde as they explore creative ideas for all the stages of ritual―making the space sacred, entering into the liminal, engaging the subconscious of all attendees, creating awe and wonder, raising and directing energy, and ending the ritual. Discover advice on hardware and prop-making (and tips on using props effectively) and ideas for scaling up or scaling down for larger or smaller groups. Complete with photos and diagrams, examples of rituals the authors have conducted, and wise problem-solving advice, Taking Sacred Back is an indispensable guide...>>

28.01.2022

“Scotland’s Merlin: A Medieval Legend and its Dark Age Origins” by Tim Clarkson

"Scotland's Merlin: A Medieval Legend and its Dark Age Origins" by Tim Clarkson

"Who was Merlin? Is the famous wizard of Arthurian legend based on a real person? In this book, Merlin's origins are traced back to the story of Lailoken, a mysterious 'wild man' who is said to have lived in the Scottish Lowlands in the sixth century AD. The book considers the question of whether Lailoken belongs to myth or reality. It looks at the historical background of his story and discusses key characters such as Saint Kentigern of Glasgow and King Rhydderch of Dumbarton, as well as important events such as the Battle of Arfderydd. Lailoken's reappearance in medieval Welsh literature as the fabled prophet Myrddin is also examined. Myrddin himself was eventually transformed into...>>

28.01.2022

“Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture: The Devil in the Latrine” by Martha Bayless

"Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture: The Devil in the Latrine" by Martha Bayless

"This important new contribution to the history of the body analyzes the role of filth as the material counterpart of sin in medieval thought. Using a wide range of texts, including theology, historical documents, and literature from Augustine to Chaucer, the book shows how filth was regarded as fundamental to an understanding of human history. This theological significance explains the prominence of filth and dung in all genres of medieval writing: there is more dung in theology than there is in Chaucer. The author also demonstrates the ways in which the religious understanding of filth and sin influenced the secular world, from town planning to the execution of traitors. As part of this investigation...>>

28.01.2022

“Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture” by Robert Mills

"Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture" by Robert Mills

"Hanging, flaying, beating, anti-Semitic violence and the torture of sodomites: the darker side of life in medieval Europe has fuelled the imagery of many books and films. We know exactly what is meant in the film Pulp Fiction, when one character declares 'I'm gonna get medieval on yo' ass'. But the stereotype of uncontrolled violence inflicted in the distant past is not only historically misleading, it also tricks us into believing that there is an unbridgeable gulf between modernity and the Middle Ages. In Suspended Animation, Robert Mills tackles this misconception head on, confronting these uncomfortable medieval practices on their own ground. He exposes the reader to a host of challenging, sometimes shocking texts and...>>