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The Celestial Intelligencer
Adapted from Francis Barrett's The Magus (1801)
Read and animated by Dan Attrell
You can read the full text here: sacred-texts.com/grim/magus/ma134.htm
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The Celestial Intelligencer
Adapted from Francis Barrett's The Magus (1801)
Read and animated by Dan Attrell
You can read the full text here: sacred-texts.com/grim/magus/ma134.htm
#magic #magicsquares #alchemy #astrology #history #religiousstudies #hermetica #hermeticism #esotericism #nineteenthcentury #literature #magick
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![Archaeology of Ancient Magic and Ritual Practice [Dr. Kirsten Dzwiza Interview]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Xv4slIp1O_g/hqdefault.jpg "Archaeology of Ancient Magic and Ritual Practice [Dr. Kirsten Dzwiza Interview]
This is an interview with Dr. Kirsten Dzwiza about her work on the archaeology of ancient magic, particularly drawn from the material culture of Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
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Dr. Dan Attrell, Dr. Kirsten Dzwiza, and Dr. David Porreca
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Artwork by Antonio Basoli (1774–1848)")
![Gnostic Cosmology and the Apocryphon of John [Lecture]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aSp5TYEDYwU/hqdefault.jpg "Gnostic Cosmology and the Apocryphon of John [Lecture]
This is a re-recorded version of an older talk by Dan Attrell entitled What Athens Has Got To Do With Jerusalem: The Marriage of Greek and Jewish Themes in the Apocryphon of John
Artwork: Nicholas Roerich - Mother of the World
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Hengel, Martin. Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in their Encounter in Palestine during the Early Hellenistic Period Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975.
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![Angels, Daemons, and Magic in Ethiopian Religion [Interview]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ab9bs4KF7YI/hqdefault.jpg "Angels, Daemons, and Magic in Ethiopian Religion [Interview]
Topics: Magic, Angelology and Daemonology, Scrolls, Enoch, Intercultural Exchange, Ethiopian Orthodoxy
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![The Ritual of Perfect Nature [Picatrix 3.6]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aihFCuBEOyg/hqdefault.jpg "The Ritual of Perfect Nature [Picatrix 3.6]
This is a reading of Picatrix Book 3, Chapter 6 which pertains to the Hermetic/pseudo-Aristotelian concept of the “Perfect Nature” which is a kind of illumination experienced by the perfected sage at the summit of all learning in both the sciences and in philosophy – in other words, the knowledge of and conversation with ones higher genius. The passage draws on texts from the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica and describes a peculiar magical incubation ritual followed by another invocation ritual and a communal feast, with some speculations on what exactly is Perfect Nature and how it connects to the science of astral magic.
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