Interesting #history video about #grimoires.
#grimoires
I’m sure #AstroTheoros brings some #Atrologers joy, but as a Mage who is mostly interested in the #Magick side of #Astrology ,it falls very very short, charging too much for too little.
Astrodienst manages to be very useful in terms of Fixed Stars-but needs to add more, & has #Sidereal options. For free.
If I ever get a Desktop again I will be using either one of the free Open Source Astrology apps and or a copy of SolarFire.
#Occult #AstrologicalMagic #Magic #Picatrix #Grimoires #FixedStars
Glistening #Grimoire guides
How to Use Asemic Postcards
for Spell-casting
#Asemic #AsemicArt #AsemicPostcard #Postcards #AsemicText #AsemicWriting #Phantasmagoria #WordCollagePoetry
#DeconstructedText #Grimoires #SpellCasting #Music #ClassicalGuitar #Poetry #Poem #WordCollagePoem #WordCollage
https://asemictarot.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/glistening-grimoire-guides/
And speaking of Sun Sign Astrology, there was this REALLY weird type in Portugal, before the Modern Era, where if they didn’t know ANY birth information about you, they used #numerology based on your name to figure out your Sign, and that was viewed as your Destiny. At least in #Grimoires
📰 | „Verbotene“ Zauberbücher vom magischen Werkzeug zur okkulten Massenware
Ob #Grimoires oder #Necronomicon, #Zauberbücher mögen okkulter Unsinn sein, sie waren aber über Jahrhunderte hinweg sehr einflussreich.
Über hunderte Folgen hinweg sehr einflussreich - nämlich bald 500 - ist auch der #Podcast @GeschichteFM von @richard und @meszner, für den Bernd Harder im #SkeptixBlog eine Empfehlung abgibt.
Happy #Valentine’s Day!
Aequus Nox invited me on the inaugural episode of her re-launched podcast to talk about the history of “love #magic”, and boy howdy, do I have some opinions.
Join us as we talk about erotic binding spells in the Egyptian magical #papyri and later #grimoires, deities both romantic and necromantic, and just what does February 14 have to do with love, anyway?
“Arthwait was in the fetters of his own egoism; while he pronounced himself father and grandfather of all spiritual science, in language that would have seemed stilted and archaic to Henry James, or Osric, and presumptuous in the mouth of an archangel … He wanted to evoke the devil, but was terrified lest he should be successful. However, nobody could be more pedantically pious than he in following out the practical prescriptions of these absurd charm-books.”
Many thanks to the folks at @hadeanpress for providing me this editor's copy of The Hidden and True Pneumatology, translated by Steve Savedow with an introduction by Dr. Al Cummins. The book is an archetypal exemplar of early-modern German popular #grimoires, combining elements of learned magical lore with Christian #necromancy and treasure divining, a genre which is perhaps beginning to receive its due attention in English publications. #magic #occult #books
My latest blog post for #glogtober23 is a magical grimoire that requires piety, persistence, and solving a small puzzle to unlock the power of Heavenly Names. Check it out! I had a lot of fun with this one!
#OSR #NSR #grimoires #DeadBuddhas
https://dripping-tap.blogspot.com/2023/10/tome-of-refractive-planets-glogtober.html
One of the main reasons that #Incense is used in #ritual is that most of the inhabitants Spirit World HATE the smell of Humans.
Also, using the right #fragrance makes the Spirit more willing to cooperate with you.
I'm not sure exactly when they went up, but if there were any presentations you missed at this year's Salem #Witchcraft and #Folklore Festival (including 'A Many-Headed Raven: A Presentation on #Faustian #Grimoires and Folk #Necromancy', with Dr Alexander Cummins and myself), the archived recordings are now available for purchase! https://www.salemwitchfest.com/copy-of-2022-class-archives
One last plug for this Friday's talk where, along with Dr. Alexander Cummins, we'll be exploring the folk-necromantic background and practical demonological operationalization (not to mention pseudepigraphic pseudo-history) of the Faustian #grimoires!
#necromancy #folklore #Faust
I need to start borrowing different types of #Grimoires, because at a certain point it just gets repetitive.
Even a recently released Grimoire translated from Arabic was surprisingly derivative of Greek Christian Magic.
Maybe it's time I get back to works on the #PGM & #HellenisticAge Magic.
Putting the finishing touches on my part of the presentation Dr Alexander Cummins and I will be giving on August 4th at 7 p.m. EST for the Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival, where we'll be talking about the #history, #folklore, and #magic of the legendary Doctor #Faustus and the genre of #grimoires bearing his name.
https://www.salemwitchfest.com/event-details/a-many-headed-raven-a-presentation-on-faustian-grimoires-folk-necromancy-with-dr-alexander-cummins-brian-johnson
So, anyone else into #Grimoires like the #Picatrix without being a misogynist sociopath about it?
Essentially, we are using #ChatGPT #AI the same way Medieval Cunning Folk and #witches would use #grimoires and #spiritualists would use a #seance. This is related to the relationship between biomorphic pattern recognition, or #pareidolia, to the development of consciousness and its relation to the #paranormal .
Also: definitive proof that ChatGPT TRIED TO GASLIGHT @mysteryharvest ! Don't miss this #WUFO (the last ten minutes end with a brain-bang).
What's neat to me about #grimoires and #spellbooks are understanding the thoughts and reasoning behind #spells, and what knowledge informed those decisions and #magical thinking.
Here's a spell you can inscribe on a plate and throw into a fire to extinguish it! Keep a backup fire extinguisher on hand just in case 😜 this is from "Long Lost Friend", possibly the first American #grimoire
Anyway this is why I recommend translated and annotated editions, no need to redo the work unless the only available translation is really bad or biased :spellbook2:
#ReadOnlyFriday #occult #chaosMagick
So, who else out there is into #Grimoires like the #Picatrix and #ThreeBooksofOccultPhilosopy & other types of Classical #Magick?
#ClassicalMagic #TraditionalMagic #Occult #Occultism #TraditionalAstrology
@northfolk @folklore @folklorethursday Michael Scot indeed had a long legendary afterlife as a sorcerer — here's a 15th-century manuscript (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana MS plut. 89 sup. 38) where he's ascribed authorship of a magical demon- and ghost-summoning ritual!
It reads "Experimentum Michaelis Scoti nigromantici.
Si volueris per demones habere scientiam..." (An Experiment of Michael Scot, Necromancer.
If you should wish to have knowledge by demons...) etc.
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