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westernmystery:

 

Nice article! Something i often overlook myself nowadays. I usually wore my Ordo Arcanae grade robe or even did the ceremony naked (depending on its nature) but now i have gotten lazy.

I have heard arguments against robes, implements, titles and so on for some time and to be perfectly honest almost got to a point where lazyness became a virtue (“look mom, no hands”).

One could see a non implement approach as a sign of skill but still, after all is said and done, “like attracts like”.

The same “free” pagans (in my case ) that would call robes and titles silly and superflous would gladly make themselves a talisman.

Robes, as oppose to God forms, are physical, material. Thus if “like attracts like” any operation with an desired outcome of a material nature should be strengthened by wearing, weilding and navigating among material symbols.

Thus reaching the conclusion that Thaumaturgists should really benefit from it (the Goetic circle and triangle are always physical for example).

Next ritual i will don my robe while playing “Putting on the ritz” at full volume. 😉

L.V.X

Frater R.i.G.

dydadistracted:

pg 112
In 1978 a book by an English occultist named Peter James Carroll was published. That book wasLiber Null, the text that is widely considered to have given birth to Chaos Magic. It was followed in 1982 by the book Psychonaut. From 1987 onwards these two books were published in one volume ( Liber Null & Psychonaut), which is still an essential primer for anyone desiring to get to grips with the theory and practice of Chaos Magic.

pg 116

When I first read the book back in 1992 in my bedsit in Roath, I was struck by the illustrations by an artist named Brian Ward that appear in Psychonaut. They were said to be portraits ofLovecraft’s dreaded Old Ones, at least in the urban legends surrounding the book, of which there were already quite a few by the end of the 1980s (back in the days before online shopping).

pg 120

Certainly this correlation between Ward’s images and the Old Ones was re-enforced by the pseudo-esoteric comic strip Zenith where obvious imitations of Ward’s images were used to portray entities clearly derived from the preternatural deities of the Cthulhu mythos.

pg 124

And yet there is little actual evidence to confirm any relation between these images and the Old Ones, other than that some of them (particularly the illustration on page 168) bear an uncanny likeness to Cthulhu and his ilk.

pg 128

We don’t know for certain who they are are what their titles are, with the exception of the rather different illustration on page 172, which is clearly the Mithraic leontocephaline.

pg 146

Surprisingly – considering the cult status of Liber Null & Psychonaut – none of these images (with the exception of the leontocephaline on page 172) can be found online, or have been marketed at all outside of the covers of the book. I’m not sure how many fans of the book would buy them in the form of T-shirts, posters, models or cards, but I imagine quite a considerable few would.

pg 168 – Cthulhu?

Brian Ward – despite his obvious talent – does not appear to have any online presence at all. So, giving in to curiosity I decided to email the book’s author – Peter Carroll himself – and ask him to clarify who or what were the subjects of Ward’s illustrations. I didn’t expect a reply, but I got one anyway.

pg 172 – Mithraic leontocephaline

In his reply Peter explained that the identity of the images are unknown to him (“I selected them because I liked the look of them…It all remains a bit of a mystery……..”); that he hadn’t seen the artist in “decades”, and had originally met Brian Ward “only briefly” describing him as “a strangely secretive character”,

pg 178

Given the mystery surrounding the artist, I guess we can feel fortunate that Peter chose to employ these images in Psychonaut, as otherwise we would most probably never have encountered them at all. Who knows what other gems this otherwise unknown artist has produced? Just like the identities of these illustrations, we may never know.

pg 190

beyond-the-wand:

Ok so far, according to Fundies:
– Satan wants to bring about world peace.
– Satan wants gender, sexual, racial, and ethnic equality.
– Satan encourages people to think and reason and make their own moral decisions.
– Satan encourages personal freedom, control over one’s own body and mind.
– Satan doesn’t judge people for being humans with natural flaws and animal urges.

You know, this Satan fellow sounds like a Pretty Cool Guy.

fornsed:

These pictures show a bit about Scandinavian & Nordic Folk Magic. 
and information about the REAL magical practices, materials and procedures commonly used.

Kajas Ann cast a spell to bind skogsraet– the guardian spirit of the forrest, Terjarv 1917. 

systemofaclown:

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