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Agrippa on Goêteia
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Agrippa on Goêteia

We provide a new English translation of Agrippa’s 1527 chapter ‘Of Goêteia and Necromancy’ as well as our own reflections on Tenets of a Forbidden Craft.

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The Poisonous Skull
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The Poisonous Skull

A short excerpt from ‘Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900: A Sourcebook’ in which Oleg underestimates the effectiveness of chthonic sorcery.

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Lucifer or Enoch?
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Lucifer or Enoch?

What good is the knowledge of what holds the world together at its core if we continue to destroy it? More important than the knowledge of the innermost might be the knowledge of partaking.

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The Birds in The Seven Valleys
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The Birds in The Seven Valleys

A parable of the Persian mystic and poet Farīduddīn 'Attār (1136-1220), which we read here as an allusion to the magical and omnipresent powers of the wind.

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