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•July 30, 2013 • Leave a Comment
Correspondences, an international online journal to the academic study of Western esotericism
•July 29, 2013 • Leave a Comment
As someone interested in magick and the occult, I am quite used to the fact that this is a topic which lies outside the mainstream in general. This also means that you do not finde much about your specific topic in terms of magazines, papers or even books in a normal book store. Much less is there anything to ensure the quality of any articles or whatever you do find. Not many Universitys offer the topics around western esotericism and information based on scientific research is hard to get. I grab a book from Oxford University Press every now and then and I find high quality Information in the masonic research Lodge (Quatuor Coronati). It seems that all or most magick Orders or Fraternitys offer magazines or “Flying Rolls”, but these usually follow little or no scientific methods and present mostly a onesided view on the topic.
Due to these circumstances I am quite happy that I found “Correspondences” which is an online magazine with quite promising aims. I personally find Issue 1.1 quite interesting and I hope for more
Correspondences is an international, peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the academic study of “Western Esotericism”. The editors acknowledge that the use of this umbrella term for a widely variant field of alternate scientific and religious ideas is problematic. Correspondencestherefore maintains an openness toward varying interpretations of the boundaries of the field of Western Esotericism. For example, articles related to esoteric currents from other global cultural centers may be accepted if a connection to alternative currents in “western culture” is implicitly established. The following list of areas of study is provided for clarification:
Alchemy, Anthroposophy, Astrology, Eco-spirituality, Esotericism in art, literature, and music, Freemasonry, Geomancy, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Illuminism, Initiatory secret societies, Kabbalah, Magic, Mesmerism, Mysticism, Naturphilosophie, Neo-paganism, New Age, Occultism, Occulture, Paracelsianism, Rosicrucianism, Satanism, Spiritualism, Theosophy, Traditionalism, Ufology, Witchcraft.
I hope you enjoy the link.
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Travel.-Ing: Travel Equipment
•July 24, 2013 • 1 Comment
I really love to travel. Over the years of travelling I accumulated a lot of useful travel gear and I realised that people who do not travel regularly often have really bad gear or have no clue what they really need. So I decided to do some posts about my gear in this blog. I will try to include where you can get it and why I think its usesfull. My needs might be different from other people needs since I travel not only privately but also as part of my job. In addition I happen to put a lot of strain to my gear since I travel more often then not to places where no tourist will ever go. In the following I will review my writing gear. Continue reading ‘Travel.-Ing: Travel Equipment’
25. Takahiro Iwasaki
•May 3, 2013 • Leave a CommentWow great!
Takahiro Iwasaki creates these painstakingly small sculptures out of everyday household objects – from socks and towels to toothbrushes and rolls of duct tape.
Magic, Mazes, and Math
•April 25, 2013 • Leave a Comment
A Review of Ari Goelman’s The Path of Names (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013)
By Derek Newman-Stille
Despite wanting to go to math camp and magic camp, Dahlia is convinced by her parents to attend Jewish camp. It comes complete with everything she would expect – sports, crafts, outdoor activities, friends, Hebrew lessons, and mean girls… and a few things she doesn’t expect – dreams from another person’s memory, sudden knowledge she didn’t possess before, kabbalistic magic, possession, conspiracies, and dead girls. Jewish camp ends up combining the best and worst of math and magic camp with real supernatural events and important magical numbers from kabbalistic literature.
In Ari Goelman’s The Path of Names, Dahlia’s diseffected boredom turns into desperate battle she learns that she needs to solve mysteries both magican and murdrous in order to save her fellow campers. She just wants to be normal, like other kids…
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Event-based inner clock … or practical Magick for parenting
•April 23, 2013 • 1 Comment
Well, I have recently been asked to write more on the practical magick I do. Basically I do a lot of little things, so do not expect any
accounts on calling Demons or hunting dragons on some Astral plane (clearly enough I do that every now and then as a recreational task, but not for any real purpose).
Since my third son was born late 2012 I am the one responsible for bringing the two bigger boys to bed. I do enjoy reading to them, so we all have fun. But I really do fall asleep when I need to stay with them until they sleep. Waking up (or not) later makes me feel as if a fright train
is running through my head for the rest of the evening. Anything I wanted to do on an evening like that is cancelled. So I used a little magickal “trick” to improve the situation.
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Fractal:Into the Depths No. 54
•April 18, 2013 • 1 CommentWebpage found: Incendiary Arts
•April 16, 2013 • Leave a CommentAs a couple of my posts show, I am working a lot with fragrances.
I just stumbled across a webpage from around the IOT crowd which specialized in
the olfactory direction of the magickal arts.
Incendiary Arts Aromatics is a small business with a Northern European and Western Tradition influence, which creates Extraordinary Aromatics from Exceptional Ingredients.
Whether serving a Magical or Non-Magical function, Incendiary Arts’ aromatics are created with the art and love of a perfumer, with the magical power of Intent, and are intended to be the highest quality hand-crafted aromatics available.
Enjoy the page, here it is:
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