Magick Matters

12.01.2021

“Hex Appeal: Seductive Spells for the Sassy Sorceress” by Lucy Summers

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"Lucy Summers puts a lighthearted face on witchcraft as she offers girl-to-girl advice on charms, chants, and other spellbinding methods for attracting guys and making dating problems vanish in that proverbial puff of smoke. Presented in a fun-to-read question-and-answer format, her brand-new Hex Appeal shows how to Captivate that dream guy with potent potions to make his head spin Make unwanted admirers disappear with a powerful banishing spell Discover witchcraft secret ingredients that give a girl true hex appeal Stylishly chic color illustrations, a handy checklist for each magic hex, and easy instructions on how to activate the spells combine to make this entertaining volume a...>>

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12.01.2021

“The Book of the Law” and “The Book of Lies” by Aleister Crowley

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"Aleister Crowley’s black magic masterpiece The Book of the Law is the central sacred text of Thelema, written or ‘channeled’ by Crowley in 1904, who claimed it was dictated to him by a disembodied entity named ‘Aiwass’ while he spent the night in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The Book of Lies consists of 93 chapters, each of which consists of one page of text. The chapters include a question mark, poems, rituals, instructions, and obscure allusions and cryptograms. The subject of each chapter is generally determined by its number and its corresponding Qabalistic meaning. This is the original 1912 public domain text without Aleister Crowley’s 1921 commentary and without any...>>

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11.01.2021

“Midnight Movies” by James Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum

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“It started out as an affectionate homage to late-night movies, and ended being an affectionately embraced late-night movie,” director Jim Sharman would say of that thing called Rocky Horror. A decade ago, The Rocky Horror Show — later to be filmed as The Rocky Horror Picture Show — was little more than a perverse gleam in the eye of one “Ritz” O'Brien, it could be said that the phenomenon virtually began with something that had already become a cliche and a commonplace: the late-night picture show. Ever since theater exhibitors got the idea of putting on special programs at midnight — mainly diverse kinds of marginal exploitation fare, ideal for Halloween spook-a-thons or rowdy...>>

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11.01.2021

“The Demiurge in Ancient Thought: Secondary Gods and Divine Mediators” by Carl Sean O’Brien

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"How was the world generated and how does matter continue to be ordered so that the world can continue functioning? Questions like these have existed as long as humanity has been capable of rational thought. In antiquity, Plato's Timaeus introduced the concept of the Demiurge, or Craftsman-god, to answer them. This lucid and wide-ranging book argues that the concept of the Demiurge was highly influential on the many discussions operating in Middle Platonist, Gnostic, Hermetic and Christian contexts in the first three centuries AD. It explores key metaphysical problems such as the origin of evil, the relationship between matter and the First Principle and the deployment of ever-increasing numbers of secondary deities to insulate...>>

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11.01.2021

“Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World” by Amar Annus

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"The concept of sign, a portent observed in the physical world, which indicates future events, is found in all ancient cultures, but was first developed in ancient Mesopotamian texts. This branch of Babylonian scientific knowledge extensively influenced other parts of the world, and similar texts written in Aramaic, Sanscrit, Sogdian, and other languages. The seminar will investigate how much do we know about the Babylonian theory and hermeneutics of omens, and the scope of their possible influences on other cultures and regions."...>>

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