Month: September 2018
Emergent Magick: Bibliography
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Hans Dieter. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation: Including the
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Buckland,
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Cornelius,
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Crowley,
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Davis,
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Davis,
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Davis,
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Davis,
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Dee, Steve, and Vayne,
Julian. Chaos Craft: The Wheel of the
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Faulkner,
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Faulkner,
Raymond O., and Ogden Goelet. The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book
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Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and
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Grey, Peter. The Red Goddess. London, England:
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Hagan,
John C., and Raymond A. Moody. The Science of Near-death Experiences.
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Hancock,
Graham, and Santha Faiia. Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of
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Hancock,
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Stratton-Kent,
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Stratton-Kent,
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Vayne, Julian, and Wyrd,
Nikki. The Book of Baphomet. South
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Whitcomb,
Bill. The Magicians Companion: A Practical & Encyclopedic Guide to
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Whitcomb,
Bill. The Magicians Reflection: A Complete Guide to Creating Personal
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Websites
American Folkloric
Witchcraft: http://afwcraft.blogspot.com/
Chaos Matrix: https://www.chaosmatrix.org/
Hermetic Library: https://hermetic.com/
Internet Sacred Texts
Archive: https://www.sacred-texts.com/
Podcasts
Runesoup
Occult of Personality
Scroll of Thoth – The Podcast
of Emergent Magick
Emergent Magick: History
EMK also draws influence
from the counter-culture of the 1960s, particularly the psychedelic movement. Timothy
Leary, Aldus Huxley, Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and the Electric Kool-Aid
Acid Test, and the culture surrounding the Grateful Dead, all espoused the use
of psychedelics in the creation of neo-tribal societies based on community and
individual freedom. This philosophy is perhaps best summarized in the works of
Terence McKenna, and his “stoned ape” hypothesis. McKenna suggested that great
advances in human evolution took place due to our species’ use of psychedelic mushrooms,
and that a return to their use, along with tribal spiritual values, are key to
us returning to Earth-based principles and avoiding the catastrophes of global
war and environmental destruction. In our view, the great social experiment of
the 1960s led to massive advances in rights for women and minorities, and
universal enfranchisement. The reaction of the totalitarian right ended that
progress abruptly. EMK seeks to refine the methods used by those earlier
counter-culture heroes and lead that experiment to its fruition.
Hypothetically, what if I put in my will that I wanted to be buried in a bio-vase to become a tree. Then I said I wanted that tree to stand 77 years and then I wanted my child’s child (or whoever they felt was close enough to them to call a child if they don’t want kids of their own) to take a branch of the tree and fashion it into a wand, how powerful would that shit be?
Emergent Magick – Ancestors
Much
of the mythology we know today comes from what has been well preserved. For the
most part, what gets preserved in any culture are things important to the
ruling class. The major gods and goddesses and their stories were certainly
known to the commoners, but for the majority of people, household gods, local
heroes, and ancestors played a more important role in daily life. Any Roman who
had the means kept a room in their home for the ancestors. Many households in
Ancient Egypt and Greece had a small shrine to venerate important family
members that had passed. Even after the spread of Christianity, the cult of the
saints informed public life more than the scripture itself. Ancestor veneration
is well entrenched in almost every human culture.
Ave Babaon
Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal
Ave Babalon
Frater T rambles about magick while he’s high.
That spell is a homonym should be the first clue. To cast a spell is to make the words. The Word has always been the most powerful magick sapiens use. It is not unique to us, but we seem to use it par-excellence. And we are, of course, the only species that writes. Words allow us to have extremely complex thought patterns.
Mighty is Djheuty, who is master of the Word.
And by far, the best thing we learned to do with words is tell stories. People will always stop and listen to a story. Make it entertaining. Use the old spell. The Monomyth. The hero has a thousand faces, but the story remains the same. The call to adventure… The descent into the underworld… The promise of rebirth….
So yeah, as my gnostic friend says, “Write your own story. Live your own myth.”