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Who Metatron is: Enoch transformed into an angel in the Third Book of Enoch, the "lesser YHWH", the Talmud scene in which he is flogged because of Elisha ben Abuyah, his place in Kether in W
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The two great families of modern Satanism: the atheistic, of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan and The Satanic Temple, and the theistic, of the Temple of Set and the groups that revere Satan as
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Why rue, guinea hen weed (guiné) and the snake plant, known in Brazil as the sword of Saint George, are used for protection: where each tradition comes from, baths, smoke cleansing and pots
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Where the ideas of "black magic" and the "black magician" come from: the medieval confusion between necromancy and nigromancy, Éliphas Lévi's morality of the will, the Brothers of the Shadow
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What tradition actually records about offerings to Lucifer: the simple offerings of the Grimorium Verum, the pact of the Grand Grimoire, contemporary Luciferian practice with light, incense
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Lucifer does not appear among the 72 spirits of the Goetia because the list comes from Johann Weyer, who organised hell differently. Who the kings of the Goetia are, the passing mention unde
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The history of dowsing, from the forked rod of German miners to the pendulum on the consulting table, and what the experiments show: the movement is real, but it comes from the ideomotor eff
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Valerian in herbal medicine and in magic: the Latin name, the smell that attracts cats, its use for sleep and what the studies really show, the modern correspondences with Venus, sleep and p
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Peppermint in magical tradition and herbal medicine: the myth of the nymph Minthe, the plant's hybrid origin, the correspondences used in modern magic (Mercury, purification, mental clarity)
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What chaos magic is: belief as a tool, gnosis, sigils and servitors. Its origins with Austin Osman Spare, Discordianism and Peter Carroll, the Illuminates of Thanateros and the authors who s
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The Key of Solomon (Clavicula Salomonis), the most copied grimoire of the Renaissance: where it came from, what it teaches about purification, planetary hours, tools and pentacles, Mathers'
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From the sorcerer-bishop Cyprian of Antioch to the black-covered book sold at newsstands: the legend, the 19th-century Portuguese grimoire, the Galician Ciprianillo, enchanted treasures and
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What the Gnostics said about the Demiurge, the god who made the world out of ignorance: its origin in Plato's Timaeus, Yaldabaoth in the Apocryphon of John, the archons, the difference betwe
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Who the pombagira is: the origin of the name in Pambu Njila, the Bantu nkisi of the crossroads; Maria Padilha, from Iberian love prayers to the terreiros; her role in protection, counsel and
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What The Key of the Mysteries (1861), Éliphas Lévi's third major book, is about: the attempt to reconcile religion, science and magic, the astral light, the critique of table-turning spiritu
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The history of the Fraternitas Saturni, founded in Berlin by Eugen Grosche after the Weida meeting with Crowley: the Law of Thelema with the addition of "love without pity", Saturn as Lucife
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How the Ars Goetia, the first part of the Lemegeton, came to be: the legend of Solomon and his ring, Johann Weyer's list, the 17th-century manuscripts and the Mathers and Crowley edition tha
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The principles of Éliphas Lévi's magic and why he is the father of modern ceremonial magic: the astral light, the trained will, the law of balance, the pentagram, the 1856 Baphomet and the l
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Who Buer is in the Goetia: what Weyer and the Lemegeton say, the image of a lion with five goat legs from the Dictionnaire Infernal, the link with Sagittarius and herbs, and how modern pract
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Azazel, the scapegoat of Leviticus and the fallen angel of 1 Enoch, and Samael, the angel of death whom the Kabbalah married to Lilith. How the two names travelled through the Bible, the Tal
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Where the Lilith and Samael couple comes from: the lilitu of Mesopotamia, Isaiah 34, the incantation bowls, the Talmud, the Alphabet of Ben Sira, the Treatise on the Left Emanation and the Z
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Which grimoires Lucifer appears in and in what role: the morning star of Isaiah, the 16th-century conjuring manuscripts, the emperor of the Grimorium Verum, Lucifuge Rofocale in the Grand Gr
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How the Greeks worshipped Artemis: the temple at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders; the bear-girls of Brauron; the altar of Artemis Orthia at Sparta; and the shift to Diana in Rome. What the
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Who Tlazolteotl was, the Aztec goddess of filth, sexuality, childbirth and purification: the "eater of filth", the confession described by Sahagún, the temazcal sweat bath, her Huastec origi
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