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Connect to the magic of the world around you for healing,
empowerment and self-care Nature is filled with hidden, elusive
energies: the growth spirals of sunflowers, the electromagnetic
spectrum of rainbows, the bio-energy of trees and the sound waves
of thunder. Working with the potent energy of nature's bounty, you
will learn to nurture and embrace your inner guardian witch through
spell work. Brimming with rituals, wishes and enchantments to
encourage spiritual growth, abundance and prosperity, and featuring
beautiful illustrations from the author, this book is an
illuminating guide to harnessing the earth's power for personal
reflection. It reveals how magic can be used as a reciprocal force
for good that protects and promotes our well-being, as well as that
of our planet. The Little Book of Earth Magic is for those who seek
to form a meaningful connection with nature and take their
spiritual practice to a new level.
With his philosophical and scientific training, Steiner brought a
new systematic discipline to the field of spiritual research,
allowing for fully conscious methods and comprehensive results. A
natural seer, he cultivated his spiritual vision to a high degree,
enabling him to speak with authority on previously veiled
mysteries.
The Zohar is the great medieval compendium of Jewish esoteric and
mystical teaching, and the basis of the kabbalistic faith. It is,
however, a notoriously difficult text, full of hidden codes,
concealed meanings, obscure symbols, and ecstatic expression. This
illuminating study, based upon the last several decades of modern
Zohar scholarship, unravels the historical and intellectual origins
of this rich text and provides an excellent introduction to its
themes, complex symbolism, narrative structure, and language. A
Guide to the Zohar is thus an invaluable companion to the Zohar
itself, as well as a useful resource for scholars and students
interested in mystical literature, particularly that of the west,
from the Middle Ages to the present.
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Wiccan Candle Spells Book 2
- Wicca Guide To White Magic For Positive Witches, Herb, Crystal, Natural Cure, Healing, Earth, Incantation, Universal Justice, Love, Money, Health, Protection, Diet, Energy
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Film is a kind of magic, a world of shadows and light, where
anything is possible and the dead come back to life. Film can
persuade us to believe in anything and special effects can work
miracles. It is therefore the perfect medium for expressing occult
phenomena, and since the beginnings of cinema history, film has
done just that. Movie Magick explores the way in which films have
been inspired by Alesiter Crowley's famous definition of "Magick"
as "the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity
with Will." This naturally encompasses classic occult movies, such
as Hammer's adaptations of Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out,
but also ventures further afield into the cultural background of
the modern occult revival, exploring the way in which occult movies
have responded to the esthetics of fin de siecle decadence, the
symbolist writings of Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Wagnerian music
drama, the Faust legend, the pseudo-science of Theosophy, the
occult psychedelia of the 1960s, occult conspiracy theories and
some of the more arcane aspects of animation. The result is a
cinematic grimoire, which will appeal to both sorcerers and
apprentices of movie magick.
Daughters of Hecate unites for the first time research on the
problem of gender and magic in three ancient Mediterranean
societies: early Judaism, Christianity, and Graeco-Roman culture.
The book illuminates the gendering of ancient magic by approaching
the topic from three distinct disciplinary perspectives: literary
stereotyping, the social application of magic discourse, and
material culture.
The volume challenges presumed associations of women and magic by
probing the foundations of, processes, and motivations behind
gendered stereotypes, beginning with Western culture's earliest
associations of women and magic in the Bible and Homer's Odyssey.
Daughters of Hecate provides a nuanced exploration of the topic
while avoiding reductive approaches. In fact, the essays in this
volume uncover complexities and counter-discourses that challenge,
rather than reaffirm, many gendered stereotypes taken for granted
and reified by most modern scholarship.
By combining critical theoretical methods with research into
literary and material evidence, Daughters of Hecate interrogates
gendered stereotypes that are as relevant now as for understanding
antiquity or the early modern witch hunts.
This book will guide you if you wish to read more about hedge
witchcraft as a pathway, or are already following such a path and
wish to progress. It only has a little about hedge riding as this
book has too small a scope to include it. Please read the
accompanying book in the Pagan Portal series, Hedge Riding.
Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy
were the arcana mundi, the "secrets of the universe," of the
ancient Greeks and Romans. In this path-breaking collection of
Greek and Roman writings on magic and the occult, Georg Luck
provides a comprehensive sourcebook and introduction to magic as it
was practiced by witches and sorcerers, magi and astrologers, in
the Greek and Roman worlds.
In this new edition, Luck has gathered and translated 130
ancient texts dating from the eighth century BCE through the fourth
century CE. Thoroughly revised, this volume offers several new
elements: a comprehensive general introduction, an epilogue
discussing the persistence of ancient magic into the early
Christian and Byzantine eras, and an appendix on the use of
mind-altering substances in occult practices. Also added is an
extensive glossary of Greek and Latin magical terms.
In Arcana Mundi Georg Luck presents a fascinating -- and at
times startling -- alternative vision of the ancient world. "For a
long time it was fashionable to ignore the darker and, to us,
perhaps, uncomfortable aspects of everyday life in Greece and
Rome," Luck has written. "But we can no longer idealize the Greeks
with their 'artistic genius' and the Romans with their 'sober
realism.' Magic and witchcraft, the fear of daemons and ghosts, the
wish to manipulate invisible powers -- all of this was very much a
part of their lives."
Who are the familiar spirits of classical culture and what is their
relationship to Christian demons? In its interpretation of Latin
and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all
classical deities, semi-gods, and spiritual creatures, including
the gods of the household, the lares and penates." "But with "In
the Company of Demons," the world's leading demonologist Armando
Maggi argues that the great thinkers of the Italian Renaissance had
a more nuanced and perhaps less sinister interpretation of these
creatures or spiritual bodies.
Maggi leads us straight to the heart of what Italian Renaissance
culture thought familiar spirits were. Through close readings of
Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola, Strozzi Cigogna, Pompeo
della Barba, Ludovico Sinistrari, and others, we find that these
spirits or demons speak through their sudden and striking
appearances--their very bodies seen as metaphors to be interpreted.
The form of the body, Maggi explains, relies on the spirits'
knowledge of their human interlocutors' pasts. But their core trait
is compassion, and sometimes their odd, eerie arrivals are seen as
harbingers or warnings to protect us. It comes as no surprise then
that when spiritual beings distort the natural world to
communicate, it is vital that we begin to listen.
In the living room of a London flat, a man stands naked and
blindfolded. His wrists are bound together behind his back with red
cord, which is looped round his neck and holds his arms up to make
a triangle. A white cord is tied round his right ankle. What do
witches do? What is it like to be a witch? Experience the process
through the eyes of Stewart Farrar, author, journalist and witch,
as he describes in detail in this new paperback edition for 2021
the activities and practices of modern-day witches. Principles of
healing and clairvoyance as well as rituals, invocations and
initial rites are covered in depth as Farrar accompanies the reader
into the personal life of his own coven.
"The Gates of the Necronomicon" is another important and invaluable
companion book to the Necro. To properly utilise the magick of the
Necro, an occultist must decipher the deep complex world that the
Mad Arab describes, and for many a reader, the complexity and
nuance are overwhelming. Here Simon gives a detailed and compelling
history of the importance of the constellations, especially the Big
Dipper - the Bear constellation. Ancient cultures from Asia, Africa
and South America all have myths that point to the importance of
the Bear constellation, and Simon convincingly argues that this
universal acknowledgment suggests that this constellation is deeply
rooted in the origin of the human race. Hence the importance of the
location of the Bear constellation in the night sky for the
efficacy of the spells found in the Necro. This book will be an
invaluable resource for practitioners of the occult for years to
come.
Universities And The Occult Rituals Of The Corporate World explores the metaphorical parallels between corporatised, market-oriented universities and aspects of the occult. In the process, the book shows that the forms of mystery, mythmaking and ritual now common in restructured institutions of higher education stem from their new power structures and procedures, and the economic and sociopolitical factors that have generated them.
Wood argues that universities have acquired occult aspects, as the beliefs and practices underpinning present-day market-driven academic discourse and practice weave spells of corporate potency, invoking the bewildering magic of the market and the arcane mysteries of capitalism, thriving on equivocation and evasion. Making particular reference to South African universities, the book demonstrates the ways in which apparently rational features of contemporary Western and westernised societies have acquired occult aspects. It also includes discussion of higher education institutions in other countries where neoliberal economic agendas are influential, such as the UK, the USA, the Eurozone states and Australia.
Providing a unique and thought-provoking look at the impact of the marketisation of Higher Education, this book will be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students engaged in the study of higher education, educational policy and neoliberalism. It should also be of great interest to academics in the fields of anthropology, folklore and cultural studies, as well as business, economics and management.
Suppose you could ask God the most puzzling questions about existence--questions about love and faith, life and death, good and evil. Supose God provided clear, understandable answers. It happened to Neale Donald Walsch. It can happen to you. You are about to have a conversation. Walsch's fascinating three-year conversation with God about every aspect of life and living began in 1992, Walsch says, when he was struggling financially and his health and relationships were suffering. Out of frustration, he composed an angry, passionate letter to God demanding to know why his life was in such turmoil. To his amazement, when he was finished, he was moved to continue writing as God answered back. The book that grew from that first experience addresses the real life issues we all face at work, at home, and out in the world, as well as the larger questions of the nature of God and his relationship to man. How does Walsch know that God was actually talking to him? "The book contains concepts and information beyond anything I've ever thought of," says Walsch. "But more importantly, I've found out through other readers that there are hundreds of people that have had this same experience. This book has allowed them to speak out." Walsch claims that God speaks to everyone all the time, that we're just not listening. "Have you ever been struck by a song lyric or the cover story of a magazine you suddenly pass on a newsstand that seems to answer a question you've had? Have you ever met someone for the first time and had that person mention something out of the blue that's been on your mind? Have you ever gone to church and thought the minister must have read your mail, because he seems to be talking directly to you? We often write things off to coincidence that we should give God credit for."
Magic, witches, and demons have drawn interest and fear throughout
human history. In this comprehensive primary source reader, Martha
Rampton traces the history of our fascination with magic and
witchcraft from the first through to the seventeenth century. In
over 80 readings presented chronologically, Rampton demonstrates
how understandings of and reactions toward magic changed and
developed over time, and how these ideas were influenced by various
factors such as religion, science, and law. The wide-ranging texts
emphasize social history and include early Merovingian law codes,
the Picatrix, Lombard's Sentences, The Golden Legend, and A
Midsummer Night's Dream. By presenting a full spectrum of source
types including hagiography, law codes, literature, and handbooks,
this collection provides readers with a broad view of how magic was
understood through the medieval and early modern eras. Rampton's
introduction to the volume is a passionate appeal to students to
use tolerance, imagination, and empathy when travelling back in
time. The introductions to individual readings are deliberately
minimal, providing just enough context so that students can hear
medieval voices for themselves.
Opulent jeweled objects ranked among the most highly valued works
of art in the European Middle Ages. At the same time, precious
stones prompted sophisticated reflections on the power of nature
and the experience of mineralized beings. Beyond a visual regime
that put a premium on brilliant materiality, how can we account for
the ubiquity of gems in medieval thought? In The Mineral and the
Visual, art historian Brigitte Buettner examines the social roles,
cultural meanings, and active agency of precious stones in secular
medieval art. Exploring the layered roles played by gems in
aesthetic, ideological, intellectual, and economic practices,
Buettner focuses on three significant categories of art: the
jeweled crown, the pictorialized lapidary, and the illustrated
travel account. The global gem trade brought coveted jewels from
the Indies to goldsmiths' workshops in Paris, fashionable bodies in
London, and the crowns of kings across Europe, and Buettner shows
that Europe's literal and metaphorical enrichment was predicated on
the importation of gems and ideas from Byzantium, the Islamic
world, Persia, and India. Original, transhistorical, and
cross-disciplinary, The Mineral and the Visual engages important
methodological questions about the work of culture in its material
dimension. It will be especially useful to scholars and students
interested in medieval art history, material culture, and medieval
history.
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