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13.04.2021

“Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic” translated by Dan Attrell and David Porreca (kindle ebook version)

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"A manual for constructing talismans, mixing magical compounds, summoning planetary spirits, and determining astrological conditions, Picatrix is a cornerstone of Western esotericism. It offers important insights not only into occult practices and beliefs but also into the transmission of magical ideas from antiquity to the present. Dan Attrell and David Porreca’s English translation opens the world of this vital medieval treatise to modern-day scholars and lay readers. The original text, Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm, was compiled in Arabic from over two hundred sources in the latter half of the tenth century. It was translated into Castilian Spanish in the mid-thirteenth century, and shortly thereafter into Latin. Based on David Pingree’s edition of the Latin text, this translation...>>

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13.04.2021

“The Magus: A Complete System of Occult Philosophy” by Francis Barrett (Red Wheel/Weiser kindle ebook version)

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"The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer; being a Complete System of Occult Philosophy is a handbook of the occult and ceremonial magic compiled by Francis Barrett and published in 1801. This book facilitated the modern revival of magic by making information from otherwise rare books readily available. It may have influenced novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton and occultist Eliphas Levi. More controversially, it has been identified as an influence on Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, in Reed C. Durham, Jr.'s speech "Is There No Help for the Widow's Son?" Reproduction of 1801 Edition."...>>

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13.04.2021

“Mental Projection Made Easy” by Kenyata Long

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"When you learn to consciously project your consciousness, you recapture the inborn freedom given to you by the creator. Make no mistake that this truly is a gift and we are to use it to increase the prosperity levels of our own lives and the lives of those we know. In fact, Mental Projection is such a powerful tool that you can even use it to raise the vibration of the planet and even other places in the galaxy. The only limit to how you can use this natural gift is your own imagination and training. Using Mental Projection, you can become a nearly unstoppable force for both your personal good and the good of...>>

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13.04.2021

“Metaphysics of Children’s Literature: Climbing Fuzzy Mountains” by Lisa Sainsbury

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"Metaphysics of Children's Literature is the first sustained study of ways in which children's literature confronts metaphysical questions about reality and the nature of what there is in the world. In its exploration of something and nothing, this book identifies a number of metaphysical structures in texts for young people-such as the ontological exchange or nowhere in extremis-demonstrating that their entanglement with the workings of reality is unique to the conditions of children's literature. Drawing on contemporary children's literature discourse and metaphysicians from Heidegger and Levinas, to Bachelard, Sartre and Haraway, Lisa Sainsbury reveals the metaphysical groundwork of children's literature. Authors and illustrators covered include: Allan and Janet Ahlberg, Mac Barnett, Ron Brooks, Peter Brown,...>>

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12.04.2021

“Reading the Enemy’s Mind: Inside Star Gate: America’s Psychic Espionage Program” by Paul H. Smith

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"If you thought The Manchurian Candidate was fiction or John Farris's The Fury, which featured a CIA mind-control program run amok, was the stuff of an overheated imagination, you were sorely mistaken. From behind the cloak of U.S. military secrecy comes the story of Star Gate, the project that for nearly a quarter of a century trained soldiers and civilian spies in extra-sensory perception (ESP). Their objective: To search out the secrets of America's cold war enemies using a skill called "remote viewing." Paul H. Smith, a U.S. Army Major, was one of these viewers. Assigned to the remote viewing unit in 1983 at a pivotal time in its history, Smith served for the rest...>>

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