Tag: alchemy
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On Ink and Ink Making
In a previous post I wrote about my fascination with writing as it pertains to magic. An important part of this practice is the creation and use of magical inks. Up to this point, that has involved taking commercial inks and adding my own materia and consecrations to them as appropriate.1 But recently I’ve gotten…
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What They Meant Was…
One of my biggest pet peeves with modern analyses of historical texts is when an author states – with authoritative confidence – they have decoded the true meaning of a text, and that it is something only tenuously implied by the text itself. And this happens all the time with magic and occult topics. Things…
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Into That Darkling Fire
I’m about fifteen years too late to start a magical blog. A quick perusal of any list of blogs that once covered magic and occult topics – such as those that participated in Deb Castellano’s New Year, New You project – reveals a collection of dead links, abandoned spaces, and dried-up husks of forgotten passions,…