Magick Matters

26.04.2022

“Ancient Magic: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Supernatural in Greece and Rome” by Philip Matyszak

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"An accessible historical exploration of the methods and motivations behind using magic in ancient Greece and Rome. In the ancient world, magic was everywhere. The supernatural abounded, turning flowers into fruit and caterpillars into butterflies. In a time before scientists studied weather patterns and figured out what caused the Earth’s most mysterious phenomena, it was magic that packed a cloud full of energy until it exploded with thunderbolts. It was everyday magic, but it was still magical. In Ancient Magic, author Philip Matyszak ushers readers into that world, showing how ancient Greeks and Romans concocted love potions and cast curses, how they talked to the dead and protected themselves from evil spirits. He takes ...>>

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26.04.2022

“Elemental Spirits” by Jaq D. Hawkins

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"Discover the nature of the elements, types of spirits associated with each element, and correspondences in magical thought as well as rituals and divination methods in an animistic world of nature magic. Included in Elemental Spirits are types of natural objects, and sometimes man-made objects, which attract nature spirit inhabitants as well as methods to see or communicate with these elemental spirits, places of worship or invocation, and the nature of thought-form spirits associated with the basic four elements; Earth, Air, Fire and Water, as well as the element of Spirit called Aether. From fanciful fairies to guardian spirits of stone circles, Elemental Spirits is a 'must have' for anyone who has an interest in ...>>

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26.04.2022

“Gods and Monsters” edited by Michael Kelly

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"Gods and Monsters is a collection of five profound and challenging writings by some of the foremost members of The Apophis Club. These essays seek to address the nature and essence of entities such as Gods, Dæmons and Spirits from both practical and philosophical standpoints, offering up new insights and tools to Initiates of the Draconian current: Vampyric Alchemy by Steve Dee and Lucien von Wolfe. This study examines the archetypes of the Lycanthrope and the Vampyre, and the ways in which they may be awakened and used in the process of Self-transformation. At The Left Hand of the Goddess by Matt Anon and Durga Mahavidya. An in-depth study of Indian Tantric practice (the ...>>

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26.04.2022

“Chaos Ritual” by Steve Wilson

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"The Chaos Current is the most vital aspect of modern occultism, but while various authors have presented aspects of Chaos Magic or general descriptions, this book presents for the first time ever a detailed guide to an entire system, but unlike other step-by-step guides, the end result it gives is a system completely unique to the individual reader. 'Sahaja Sutra' enables each practitioner to develop their own stances, chants, mantras and all of the other building blocks of any magical system. The advantage in this Spontaneous Magic system is that each element arises from the subconscious, which Austin Osman Spare described as 'the greatest magician'. 'Medicine Wyrd' adapts these methods for Shamanic practice, first enabling ...>>

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26.04.2022

“The Science of Demons: Early Modern Authors Facing Witchcraft and the Devil” edited by Jan Machielsen

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"Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking behind them all. But were his powers real? Did his powers have limits? Or were tales of the demonic all one grand illusion? Physicians, lawyers, and theologians at different times and places answered these questions differently and disagreed bitterly. The demonic took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe. By examining individual authors from across the continent, this book reveals the many purposes to which the devil could be put, both during the late medieval fight against heresy and during the age of Reformations. It explores what it was like to live with demons, and how careers and identities were ...>>

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