Category: Magic
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Astrological timing of Magical Work
For Venusian work, try to work when Venus is in Taurus, Libra, or Pisces but avoid, whenever possible, working with her energies with she is in Aries or Scorpio.
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Exploring Neolithic Near Eastern Domestic Rituals
The wall paintings, which follow well-defined rules, provide clues about the nature of these hearth rituals.
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How might Stonehenge have been experienced and used by people in the prehistoric past?
What if, because of its form, Stonehenge possesses a unique, magical agency or potency that manifests in being experienced and or used as diversely as Jacquetta Hawkes has suggested?
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Two Versions: which do you prefer?
Two different voices were required – which do you prefer and why?
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 5)
In this, Jung took the view from Jewish magic that ‘guardian angels’ could be pretty much the same thing as one’s daimon.
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 4)
As Dr Liz Greene reminds us, not only was Carl Jung very familiar with Ficino’s work, but he relied on it extensively in his own work in the Liber Novus.
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 3)
The primary text of Alexandrian Hermeticism is known as the Corpus Hermeticum, which itself is a collection of 17 different primarily philosophical treatises written in Greek in 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 2)
In line with the Persian philosophers whom he had studied, Corbin identified the human imagination as ‘an autonomous world of intermediaries, the mundus imaginals, where visions, apparitions, angels, and hierarchies occurred independently of any perceiving subject’.
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 1)
Jung’s work with magic and astrology demonstrates not only is there a place for esoteric traditions in modern science but also if we are to become all that we as men and women can be an important link must be made between irrationalism and progressive rationalism.
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The Daemon of Carl Jung
In Plato’s Republic(The Myth of Ur), souls cue up to choose their next life and are assigned a daemon – an overseer for that life. In classic astrology, daemon could be determined using one’s natal chart and as the result, it was incumbent upon the individual to establish contact with (or invoke) his or her…