Magick Matters

24.12.2025

“The Greek Prayer of St. Cyprian: A Medieval Phylactery” by Simone Kotva

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"The Greek Prayer of St. Cyprian is a versatile piece of ancient Christian magic with roots in medieval Byzantium. An apotropaic prayer in which pagan sorcery and Christian exorcism meet, the Greek Prayer has enjoyed a tumultuous seven-hundred-year history. Declared "most loathsome superstition" by the Protestant Bishop John Fell and forbidden by the Inquisition, in Eastern Christianity the Prayer was included in liturgical handbooks and widely used as a healing formula. The Greek Prayer also became the origin of many popular Cyprianic formulae found in European grimoires, such as the Grimoire of Pope Leo, the Portuguese and Spanish books of St. Cyprian, and the Scandinavian Black Books. Its Greek form, however, so relevant to the...>>

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24.12.2025

“Cyprianus: St. Cyprian and the Black Book in Scandinavian Folklore” by Simone Kotva

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"Cyprianus is the name of an infamous grimoire in Scandinavian folk magic and a byword for sorcery. In recent years, dozens of Cyprianus books have been translated into English, revealing a rich array of folk-magical operations similar to those found in the Iberian Cyprian tradition. Missing from this emergent literature, however, is the place of folklore. Cyprianus: St. Cyprian and the Black Book in Scandinavian Folklore provides a translation of Danish legends relating to the Cyprianus, originally collected in the second half of the nineteenth century by the folklorist Evald Tang Kristensen. Most of these legends refer to the Cyprianus as a book — its powers, familiar spirits and those persons bold (and sometimes foolish)...>>

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23.12.2025

“Celestial Fairies: Light Beings from the Forgotten Dimensions” by Sagar Sharma

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"Have you ever felt a presence in the trees, a whisper in the wind, or a shimmer in your dreams? This is not fantasy. This is memory. In this groundbreaking book, Sagar takes you on a thrilling, soul-stirring journey into the hidden realms where fairies aren’t folklore they're light beings, ancient allies, and guardians of forgotten dimensions. Blending spiritual science, mythology, personal insights, and forbidden knowledge, this book reveals: The true origins of Celestial Fairies and how they differ from jinn, angels, and elementals Secret portals on Earth where the veil between worlds is thin How ancient civilizations like the Celts, Egyptians, and Sumerians had contact with...>>

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22.12.2025

“Tarot Magic for the Reality Hacker: Divination in the Modern World” by Ari Freeman

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"A revolutionary guide that fuses divination and ceremonial magic to enhance magical practice Drawing on traditional Tarot teachings while simultaneously exploring path-defining divination techniques for the modern world, this book is perfect for those looking to expand their understanding of the tarot, ceremonial magicians who want to incorporate Tarot into their magical training, and Tarot readers who want to incorporate spells into their divination. Leaving no stone left unturned, Ari Freeman guides even the most sceptical reader through the tradition of using the Tarot to summon Angels, it’s use for counselling, to Tarot’s new twenty-first century interaction with Artificial Intelligence. Tarot Magic for the Reality Hacker is a practical exploration of five-hundred years of Tarot reading,...>>

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21.12.2025

“Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses” by Moises Naim and Quico Toro

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"From snake-oil salesmen to crypto grifters, the "fascinating" (Fareed Zakaria) story of charlatans—and why we fall for them For centuries charlatans have been bamboozling victims. But today, charlatanry is more lucrative and global than ever. Using the power of digital technology, our age’s charlatans have spun a worldwide web of exploitation on an unprecedented scale. In Charlatans, global affairs experts Moisés Naím and Quico Toro investigate how charlatans fool us and why they’ve become so influential today. They argue that modern charlatans exploit the same weak points in human cognition as the snake-oil salesmen of the old West. They earn our trust, trick us into believing they have some special skill or knowledge, then exploit us....>>

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