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The ultimate book of magic for kids from a world-famous magician,
complete with photographs for easy to follow instructions. From one
of the world's premier practitioners of classic magic, with years
of experience instructing younger readers in the magical arts,
comes this new revision of his complete guide to learning and
performing fantastic feats of prestidigitation. Acclaimed by the
Los Angeles Times as "the text that young magicians swear by," it's
full of step-by-step instructions. More than 2,000 illustrations
provide the know-how behind 300 techniques, from basic card tricks
to advanced levitation, along with advice on planning and staging a
professional-quality magic show.
As within + so without = a healthy witch. But getting there takes
the right magikal work. This holistic witchy workbook combines
medical knowledge with magikal healing to put you where you need to
be to get the most out of your life. Learn to personalize your
healing needs by fusing skills in magik and nutrition, conducting
rituals, and employing specialized spells. Using the pentagram
model, take a healing journey through each organ in your body,
allowing you to gain optimal health via signs, suggestions, and
practical tips. Examine each element, and discover how your organs
interact and affect your magikal energy flow. The tools here will
guide you to becoming a naturally healthy witch, enabling you to
work with the Goddess from a place of sacred well-being. A healthy
witch is a successful witch!
Modern Day Magic is the only step-by-step guide that shows how to
weave magical practice into your daily life. The book offers
practical exercises, meditations, rituals, and journal prompts
designed especially for men and women with busy schedules. With
eight simple magic rules, Modern Day Magic is also a primer to help
readers understand fundamental magic rules and practices to help
them unlock their magical power and use it to reclaim and change
their lives for the better.
This luxe deck makes it easy to bring a little magic to everyday life. Featuring charms, potions, natural remedies, and rituals for self-care, empowerment, love, and more, The Spells Deck is an enchanting, all-levels introduction to witchcraft. Each card features shimmering artwork on the front and simple instructions for a spell on the back. Delivered in a charming portable package with foil stamping, this deck is a beautiful accessory for modern mystics and spirituality seekers.
Weave the threads of ancient Heathen magic into your modern life.
Based on Norse, Anglo-Saxon, and Old English source material,
Elves, Witches and Gods provides explanations and hands-on
techniques for galdr, seidr, fiber magic, herb craft, journeying,
going under the cloak, and connecting with deities and elves.
Author Cat Heath has recreated Heathen magic techniques through
decades of research and experimentation. This book introduces you
to deities such as the Spinning Goddess, the Spear God, Odin, and
Freyr. You will discover recipes, spells, and prayers, as well as
tips for specific oils and charms. Whether you re using magic to
influence your fate or you want to learn the craft of the helrune,
this book will help you take the next steps on the Heathen path.
With their dramatic descriptions of black masses and cannibalistic
feasts, the records generated by the Basque witch-craze of 160914
provide us with arguably the most demonologically-stereotypical
accounts of the witches sabbath or akelarre to have emerged from
early modern Europe. While the trials have attracted scholarly
attention, the most substantial monograph on the subject was
written nearly forty years ago and most works have focused on the
ways in which interrogators shaped the pattern of prosecutions and
the testimonies of defendants. Invoking the Akelarre diverts from
this norm by employing more recent historiographical paradigms to
analyze the contributions of the accused. Through interdisciplinary
analyses of both French- and Spanish-Basque records, it argues that
suspects were not passive recipients of elite demonological
stereotypes but animated these received templates with their own
belief and experience, from the dark exoticism of magical
conjuration, liturgical cursing and theatrical misrule to the sharp
pragmatism of domestic medical practice and everyday religious
observance. In highlighting the range of raw materials available to
the suspects, the book helps us to understand how the fiction of
the witches sabbath emerged to such prominence in contemporary
mentalities, whilst also restoring some agency to the defendants
and nuancing the historical thesis that stereotypical content
points to interrogatorial opinion and folkloric content to the
voices of the accused. In its local context, this study provides an
intimate portrait of peasant communities as they flourished in the
Basque region in this period and leaves us with the irony that
Europes most sensationally-demonological accounts of the witches
sabbath may have evolved out of a particularly ardent commitment,
on the part of ordinary Basques, to the social and devotional
structures of popular Catholicism.
'Once one is fairly competent at practical sorcery, there is little
of importance that remains to be said or read about the subject;
the magician at this point tends to emphasize inner development in
his work. It seems to me that Chaos Magic itself has reached this
point; the basic ideas needed for anyone to construct his or her
own system of sorcery and to hone their skills are already covered
by the available books. What has been lacking so far, is a Chaos
magical approach to the investigation of the ecstatic states that
underlie magical gnosis. This book, rather than trying to provide
yet another slightly different flavour of Chaos technique, takes as
its starting point the relationship between ecstasy and magic;
between Chaos Magic and Chaos Mysticism, if you like.' from page 8
"Chaotopia is neither Utopia nor its opposite. It is what Austin
Osman Spare called 'the chaos of the normal', seen through an
illuminated eye, the eye of the sorcerer." Chaotopia includes
updates and evaluations of techniques in Chaos Magick and an
exploration of ecstatic states in relation to both magick and
mysticism. Also chapters on: Wealth Magick/Conflict and
Exorcism/Sex Magick/Body Alchemy and Healing/Magick and
Physics/Chaos Illumination/Spirits/Aeonics 'A highly intelligent
book by a leading Chaos Magician which will broaden and deepen
Chaoist debate, theory and practice.' Peter J. Carroll
The rites, practices, and texts collected by the mysterious UR
group for the use of aspiring mages.
- Rare Hermetic texts published in English for the first
time.
- Includes instructions for developing psychic and magical
powers.
In 1927 Julius Evola and other leading Italian intellectuals
formed the mysterious UR group. Their goal: to bring their
individual egos into a state of superhuman power and awareness in
which they could act "magically" on the world. Their methods: the
practice of ancient Tantric and Buddhist rituals and the study of
rare Hermetic texts. So successful were they that rumors spread
throughout Italy of the group's power, and Mussolini himself became
quite fearful of them. Now for the first time in English
"Introduction to Magic" collects the rites, practices, and
knowledge of the UR group for the use of aspiring mages.
Included in "Introduction to Magic" are instructions for
creating an etheric double, speaking words of power, using
fragrances, interacting with entities, and creating a "magical
chain." Among the arcane texts translated are the Tibetan teachings
of the Thunderbolt Diamond Path, the Mithraic mystery cult's "Grand
Papyrus of Paris," and the Greco-Egyptian magical text "De
Mysteriis," Anyone who has exhausted the possibilities of the
mundane world and is ready to take the steps necessary to purify
the soul in the light of knowledge and the fire of dedication will
find a number of expert mentors here.
In this comprehensive reference manual, two leading occult
researchers present step-by-step instructions, some never before in
print, for developing the most basic and essential skills for
magical practitioners of any tradition--creating thought forms
through astral manipulation.
Magical Use of Thought Forms includes sections on the structure
of reality and on new visualization techniques to build correct
astral images for highly potent magical work, from creating a
Familiar or Guardian to building a Memory Palace, Also revealed in
this extraordinary guide: The occult art of observation How to
build up desire as fuel for a potent astral engine The three-point
location of occult power in the physical brain The creation of
advanced astral structures including Godforms and angelics, audial
images, and astral landscapes
The most spectacular aspect of this book is the instruction
given for the performance of the legendary alchemical experiment:
the creation of the homunculus, an animated form that can last up
to several hours.
The political philosopher and writer William Godwin (1756-1836),
who was also the husband of writer Mary Wollstonecraft and father
of Mary Shelley, was known for his philosophical works and novels.
In this work, originally published in 1834, Godwin turns to the
issue of the supernatural, and to some of the famous - and
sometimes unexpected - people associated with it. He begins by
defining some magic practices, such as divination, astrology, and
necromancy, giving examples of the latter from the Bible. The
remainder of the work consists of brief sketches of people and
places involved in the occult world, beginning in the Ancient
Middle East and Greece, surveying the Christian era in Europe, and
ending with the New England witch trials. In a remarkable work of
synthesis, he discusses apparently supernatural episodes in the
lives of many historical figures, from Socrates and Virgil to Joan
of Arc and James I.
This book, translated and edited by the occultist Samuel Liddell
Mathers (1854-1918) and published in 1889, introduced to Victorian
England an important work of Renaissance esoterica. Purportedly the
deathbed testament of King Solomon to his son, distilling all the
angelic wisdom he received in his lifetime, it provided its readers
with detailed instructions in conjuring, divining and summoning
God's power to work 'experiments', or spells. For Mathers, it
represented 'the fountain-head and storehouse of Qabalistical
Magic' and formed a central part of his efforts to lend scholarly
respectability to occult research. Mathers edited the text using
available manuscripts at the British Museum, and it continues to
offer authoritative and fascinating insight into both Renaissance
occultism and its Victorian revival. Features of this edition
include introductions from three distinct manuscripts, a table of
the planetary hours and their magical names, and spells for
producing invisibility, creating magic carpets and identifying
thieves.
The Bloody Sacrifice Charlotte Rodgers is a non denominational
magickal practitioner and an animist, and The Bloody Sacrifice is
the story of her work with blood. It chronicles her use of road
kill and blood in art, ritualised scarification and tattoo work,
and the use of venous and menstrual blood in magick. Also included
are Charlotte's interviews with tattoo artists; priests from belief
systems which utilise blood sacrifice; artists who use their own
HIV positive blood as a medium; and those who use mortifications
and body modification to effect changes in consciousness and self.
All here share a common bond of talent combined with an ability to
articulate their beliefs. For example Louis Martinie, a priest in
the New Orleans Voodoo Spiritual Temple. Martinie has integrated
his Tibetan Buddhist beliefs into his Voodoo practice and in doing
so shows how personal spiritual evolution can effect change within
a syncretic religion. As a blood related illness affected various
parts of Charlotte's life, she was given a chance to explore blood
ritual in a very different way. Documenting this part of her
journey gives an understanding of AIDS, HIV and HCV, and its effect
on spirituality and contemporary blood rites. Blood Ritual, with
all its history, baggage and dangers holds a power to create
change. Whether this power is held within blood and how much impact
is created merely by our perception is for the reader to decide.
The Bloody Sacrifice is an honest, modern and thought provoking
personal insight into an ancient aspect of our spirituality and
creativity. The author was born in New Zealand and after many years
of travel, fast living and dodgy magick, now leads a life of quiet
eccentricity commuting between England and Asia. She creates,
exhibits, and occasionally sells art made from road kill and has
had articles published in many magazines.
Bring the power of the ancient runes into your life for divination
and magic with "Northern Mysteries & Magick" (revised edition
of "Leaves of Yggdrasil) "by Freya Aswynn.
The runes are more than an ancient alphabet. They comprise a
powerful system of divination and a path to the subconscious forces
operating in your life. "Northern Mysteries & Magick" is the
only book of Nordic magick written by a woman, and it is the first
to offer an extensive presentation of rune concepts, mythology, and
magical applications inspired by Dutch/Friesian traditional lore.
Also unique in this book is the inclusion of the feminine Mysteries
of the North. You'll learn how they are represented in the runes.
You will see how each of the major deities of Northern Europe still
lives in the collective consciousness of people of Northern
European descent.
- A complete analysis of the Elder Futhark Runes and their meanings
- How to use the runes for divination including several rune
spreads
- Using the runes in magick
- Rune charms and power sigils
- Shamanic drumming and chanting
- Profiles of the eight major Gods
- The Northern Feminine mysteries featuring four major goddesses
The first edition of this book was considered a classic. Now,
revised and expanded, "Northern Mysteries & Magick" is one of
the most amazing and important books ever on the Runes and the
magick of Northern Europe.
Learn how Celtic legend and mythology can bring magic into your
daily life. Walk with the Tuatha De Danann and hear their wisdom on
the wind. See colour as a doorway to a magical world. Speak to
animals and become one with the turn of the seasons. Including
practical exercises that can be performed by witches of all
abilities, this book will teach you how your Celtic forebears are
still alive, in the sorcery and skill of the magical practitioner
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