Magick Matters

26.10.2024

“Victorian Christmas: Traditional Recipes, Decorations, Activities, and Carols” by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

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"Celebrate the holiday like a Victorian with authentic dishes and customs beloved by all, from the working classes to the royal family. Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, a descendant of Charles Dickens, reveals the fascinating tale of Christmas traditions during Queen Victoria’s reign. In 1843, while Dickens was inventing the Christmas ghost story, a London civil servant commissioned the first Christmas card and Windsor Castle displayed artificial Christmas trees and served turkeys for Christmas dinner. During the next five years, the first recipe for Christmas pudding appeared, Christmas crackers debuted, and a London newspaper showcased Christmas trees to the world. Hawksley explores these customs and more so you can experience the season authentically to period. Feast on ...>>

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25.10.2024

“Outwitting the Devil with Study Guide: Original 1938 Classic” by Napoleon Hill (2024 edition)

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"Napoleon Hill, who was one of America’s greatest influential thinkers, reveals how you can triumph over obstacles to find success in business and in life in his classic book, Outwitting the Devil, profound, powerful, resonant, and rich with insight. The Devil ensnares and controls our minds so we are unable to achieve our personal goals. Hill went so far as to interview the Devil, himself, exploring the innermost depths of the psychology of motivation to understand why so many individuals, including himself, let fear, procrastination, anger and jealousy prevent us from realizing our full potential. The resulting confession from the Devil made this book so controversial as to remain unpublished for over 70 years. ...>>

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24.10.2024

“Where Two Worlds Meet: How to Develop Evidential Mediumship” by Janet Nohavec

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"Janet Nohavec has built her reputation as a medium and as a teacher of mediumship on the respect and integrity she gives to her work. In Where Two Worlds Meet, Janet shows you how to hone your own mediumistic gifts by sharing her proven, systematic techniques for practicing evidential mediumship—the most credible way to build a bridge between this world and the next. For Janet, mediumship is sacred work that carries tremendous responsibility. In these pages she gives specific instruction in how to change people's lives and bring comfort to those who are grieving with evidential messages from the other side. Here you'll learn how to paint those who have crossed over back to ...>>

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24.10.2024

“Cyprian’s Offices of Spirits” by Jake Stratton-Kent (Night School vol. II)

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"This "Guide to Grimoiring" ends the Night School series by renowned occult author Jake Stratton-Kent. The first volume, The Sworn and Secret Grimoire, used the Grimoire of Turiel as a starting point for engaging with the ritual process when working with grimoiric spirits and can be thought of as an "occult primer". In this second volume, Cyprian’s Offices of Spirits, Jake moves us into the realm of Cyprianic spirit-work, the mysteries of the Lunar Mansions, and an investigation of the Kings and Queens of the Elementals. Moving between history and practice, Cyprian’s Offices of Spirits, as its predecessor did with Turiel, takes its inspiration from Nathaniel Moulth’s Petit Manuel du Devin et ...>>

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24.10.2024

“The Sworn and Secret Grimoire” by Jake Stratton-Kent (Night School vol. I)

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"A "Guide to Grimoiring" is well overdue, with unqualified persons claiming to fill the gap only to muddy the waters further. Simplifying the processes involved is unhelpful; what is required is to render them comprehensible and "user friendly" in a time where they are regaining their deserved prestige as monuments of a tradition preceding the Christian era while nonetheless rooted in it. These processes are demanding and require both work and study in order to succeed. So too the "by rote" attitude exhibited by some writers on the subject requires a counterblast. Forging and reforging grimoires has always been a part of their real nature, in a metallurgical as well as a literary sense. Ritual ...>>

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