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[neon_suntan]

Classic sigil magick (based on the work of Austin Osman Spare) pares the practice down to the intent of the mage without the need to call upon otherworldly powers.

As 'sort of' described here by Grant Morrison

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[Khem Caigan]

Classic sigil magick (based on the work of Austin Osman Spare) pares the practice down to the intent
of the mage without the need to call upon otherworldly powers.

The work of Spare & Co. is, technically, Modern sigil magic
(one could even call it Post-Modern).

Classic sigil magic, as I have been at some pains to point
out previously on this Forum, goes back well beyond the
Renaissance & Mediaeval Periods into the truly Classical
Era.

[Khem Caigan]

Another text from the E.'.O.'.B.'.D.'. Archives :

The Golden Dawn: Twilight of the Magicians
by R.A. Gilbert, 1983
( 6.9M MB .PDF )

The file is down as of 2/19/2012EV.

If anyone would like a copy, please
feel free to message or email me.

[Kieranfoy]

Got a question, khem. You mentioned 'post-modern sigils' before. What do you think of the mOre post modern types of magickal workings (online covens/ group spells, flashlights as a symbl of fire in workings, yadda yadda)?

[Khem Caigan]

Got a question, Khem. You mentioned 'post-modern sigils' before. What do you think of the mOre post modern types of magickal workings (online covens/ group spells, flashlights as a symbol of fire in workings, yadda yadda)?

Hi, Kieran ~


I have been practicing Daemonic Astrology for
over 40 years now. My approach is Classical,
and founded in the Physics and Natural Magic
of the Stoics. I don't follow the later Religionist
schemes of the Middle Ages <promulgated and
imposed by interaction/friction with Church &
Inquisition>.

To toss in a useful analogy, I think that examining
the astronomical and astrological work of Galileo
through the filters of the Church is pointless, if
what you are truly interested in is astronomy and
astrology.

Likewise pointless, if your interests lay with Stoic
Astrological and Daemonic Physics.

The Religious models firmed up into the Psychological/
Psychodrama models during the course of the 1800s,
when fringe Masonry groups such as the Hermetic
Order of the Golden Dawn re-interpreted / mangled
the work of earlier/Classical Daemonic Astrologers.

In fact, we can argue that the Hermetic Order of the
Golden Dawn was the first ChA0$ MagiK group out
there, with its blatant disregard for the Classical
systems and its colonial syncretic appropriation and
shoe-horning of other cultural and ethnic magics into
its own kludged structure.

I have a great deal more to say on the subject in
some of my earlier posts here - see, for example :

Secular ( and Forum Safe ) Magical Praxis
« Reply #560 on: July 15, 2009 »
http://tinyurl.com/7ggpbzv
   
Soror A:. D:. A:. and The Esoteric Order of the Brazen Dawn
« Reply #564 on: July 16, 2009 »
http://tinyurl.com/866hxmy
   
Re: The Brass Goggles Occult Society...
The Esoteric Order of the Brazen Dawn...
« Reply #370 on: April 01, 2009 »
http://tinyurl.com/yfagorf

Re: The Brass Goggles Occult Society..
The Esoteric Order of the Brazen Dawn...
« Reply #372 on: April 01, 2009 »
http://tinyurl.com/7fl4usj

That said, I am also an old T.I.A.M.A.T.-List alumnus,
and was/am involved in ongoing experiments on
several MUSHes :

Testing the Internet As Magickal/Aethyric Tool
http://tinyurl.com/855r9eo

There is a bit more information available on the subject
in the Society for the Academic Study of Magic
List Archives, here :

ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC Archives
http://tinyurl.com/7cbluya

And see also :

Ritual Performances and Collective Intelligence:
Theoretical Frameworks for Analysing Activity
Patterns in Cloudworks
(.PDF @ Open Research Online)
http://tinyurl.com/7nsaljm

The traffic on this BrassGoggles sub-forum is quite
low, but I heartily recommend our archives to those
interested in Steampunk, Victoriana and Esoterica -
they are chock-a-block with meaty stuff.

Cors in Manu Domine,


~ Khem Caigan

"Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation;
Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing;
Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
Water and Earth, Passive to Generation."

Of the Division of Chaos
-Dr. Simon Forman

[Khem Caigan]

Something of possible interest for the Ch@0$oPhists
in our little Order - a new book on Rosaleen Norton,
whose work is <sadly> much less known than that of
Austin Osman Spare. Here's a brief review and some
further links :

" Although they never met, the Australian witch
Rosaleen Norton (1917-1979) and British visionary
artist Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956) shared many
points in common.

As occult practitioners operating within the Western
esoteric tradition, both artists were well versed in the
literature of Western magic, Theosophy, Kabbalah,
Eastern mysticism, and modern psychoanalysis.

Fascinated by mediæval magical grimoires, they
also explored the seals associated with elemental
spirit-beings and developed unique forms of sigil
magic.

Perhaps even more significantly, Norton and Spare
utilised their own personal techniques of self-hypnosis
and trance in order to produce their distinctive
visionary artworks.

As this book demonstrates, there is a clear parallel
between the trance states associated with the Zos /
Kia cosmology of Spare and the trance magic of Norton.

Profiling both artists in detail, and with in excess
of 120 colour and black and white images, Dark Spirits
explores the unique contributions of both Spare and
Norton as visionary outsiders and is necessary reading
for anyone interested in the nether regions of the
magical psyche. "

Further details at :

Dark Spirits: The Magical Art of Rosaleen Norton
and Austin Osman Spare
by Nevill Drury
@Salamander And Sons.com
http://tinyurl.com/7shwa7n

See also :

Rosaleen Norton :
The Witch of Kings Cross
@Beinart.Org
http://tinyurl.com/6wudqtk

Rosaleen Norton
@Wikipedia
http://tinyurl.com/6wstlv9

Rosaleen Norton's Contribution to
the Western Esoteric Tradition
by Nevill Drury (.PDF)
@Asanas.Org.UK
http://tinyurl.com/7rphhbk

[Khem Caigan]

Another text from the E.'.O.'.B.'.D.'. Archives :

A Complete Book of Magic Science
transcribed by Frederick Hockley, 1871.
( 18.68 MB .PDF )
http://tinyurl.com/7nv37ba

The file will be up until 3/30/2012EV.

Following that, if anyone would like
a copy, please feel free to message
or email me.

[shemijacobs]

Hi Khem
Do you think that Neptune coming home will help the TIAMAT...compassionate creativity and all ?
Shemi

[DaggerClock]

Wow, mind blown. Its fun reading through all the posts, thanks Khem I feel like reading through your stuff is like a quick little crash course

[steampunknarwhal]

Although I stopped trying to do things using alchemical symbols long ago, I have always been a fan of the occult. Count me in.

[Duellist]

With apologies for the thread-necromancy (and, in all honesty, can we name a thread where necromancy would be more appropriate?), I came across a curiosity today that I felt compelled to share.

The 1899 Ritual: What Would Pagan Ritual Have Looked Like at the end of the 19th Century?

While it's never explicitly stated, one of the arguments [Ronald Hutton] makes in the book [Triumph of the Moon] is that by 1899 everything that one would have needed to produce a witch ritual was in place. A few years ago a friend and I decided to test that theory and what we ended up with was The 1899 Ritual.

It's a (slightly generic) pagan ritual designed around the materials available to a practitioner in the year 1899, drawing on Freemasonry and Aradia, but it does seem like something relevant to modern steampunk pagans or any students of the occult.

[Calluna Vulgaris]

This thread is most definitely relevant to my interests.

While I'm pretty familiar with the faerie lore of Europe and Asia, I'm trying to research stories of the Good People in America, specifically related to New England. (I'd also like to follow in the footsteps of Misses Griffiths and Wright and get photographic evidence, but that's a whole other issue.  )

[Khem Caigan]

While I'm pretty familiar with the faerie lore of Europe and Asia, I'm trying to research stories of the Good People in America, specifically related to New England.

Welcome to the E.'.O.'.B.'.D.'.!

You might try Googling "pukwudjie" and "pukwudjie sightings".

And see also:

The Good People : New Fairylore Essays
edited by Peter Narváez
( Preview @GoogleBooks)
http://tinyurl.com/b72q5ph

[Athanor]

I note with some amazement that there have been no postings on the B.G.O.S.-E.O.B.D. Sub-Forum for over a year. Such an oversight cannot be allowed to continue. So here, from the archives of that little-known and reclusive Magus, Elias Ashmole Crackbone (b. 1944), is something for those of us on the Path to Knowledge and Wisdom to ponder.

"Truly it has been said, that he who seeks, shall find; and quite often, he shall wish he hadn't.

Consider, if you will: there are many ancient tomes that assert that 'In these pages lies concealed the Key to the Mysteries.' And in many cases, indeed the Key may be found therein.

But, having found the Key, you must open the Door yourself.

And, of course, you must first find the Door. And having found it, opened it with the Key, and passed through, the Door will then close behind you. And you may observe that there is no keyhole on the inside; the Door only opens one way. And shout and scream and hammer on the Door as ye might, no-one else will come and open it for you.

Having once passed through the Door, there is no return; the only way is forward. You must follow the Path before you, wherever it may lead, facing with courage every Danger, accepting with grace every Gift freely given.

Are you prepared for this? And further, can you be certain that the Door you have just passed through is the right Door?

Indeed do many enigmas and conundrums present themselves for our erudition and entertainment."

    E.A.Crackbone, "The Lesser Precepts: Extended Version. Collected Works, Vol.XXIII" Crackbone Institute of Evolutionary Thaumodynamics; Ruyton of the Eleven Towns, Shropshire, England; 2nd Edition, 2005. Pages 666-667

(This particular Precept is missing from the 2011 trade paperback edition, for some inscrutable reason.)

Athanor (TOAOTAG).

Edit: The fact that this posting is No.888 on the B.G.O.S.-E.O.B.D. thread is not without its own Esoteric significance, as all students of Thaumodynamics must be aware.    

[Kieranfoy]

Write not the mystic numbers!

Say, rather, it is the (seven plus one) three times post.

Fool! Do you wish to invoke Bel Shamharoth?

[Athanor]

Seven? One? Three? ........

By the tangled beard of Baalberith, what fearful, forbidden Door have you opened by writing those numbers, in that particular order.......??

Remember the wise words of the Philosopher of the Miskatonic: "Do not call up that which you cannot put down!"

Oh, never mind..... (Wanders off, muttering a gutturally chthonic incantation from the Book of Eibon ..... and is heard at last to exclaim, shudderingly, "There! That should fix it!")......

Athanor, Ordo Meum Sanguinarium Individualis, 33^o

[Kieranfoy]

Order of my individual blood?

Quod est,  magus Athanor?

[Athanor]

Order of my individual blood?

Quod est,  magus Athanor?

Almost, but not quite. The declensions may not be quite accurate - long time since I studied Latin at school.

But something like - "My Own B----y Order."

Athanor

[CorneliaCarton]

Ooh, now this place intrigues me. I am very interested in the occult and the paranormal, so count me in.

[walking stick]

The revival of this thread is obviously on the (Tarot) cards.

[Clym Angus]

Chao$ magic eh? I do remember hearing Steve Lake defended the quarters as teletubbies once.
I was not there so I have little to say of the lasting effects of defending your circle with a bunch of actors in freakish Muppet suits.

I like to think it ended badly, but then Steve was so powerful he could have probably farted out a Wight or malevolence for breakfast. So it wasn't really a fair test.

I found him vexing. In a ballsy, self confidant, loud and likeable way but still vexing.

[Heckler]

The revival of this thread is obviously on the (Tarot) cards.

The stars are right for the thread which did not live and cannot die to live again.

[Miss Indigo Darling]

That thread is not dead which can eternal lie.

[Clym Angus]

The revival of this thread is obviously on the (Tarot) cards.

The stars are right for the thread which did not live and cannot die to live again.

I don't know it doesn't seem that bad to me, Khem Caigan's comments are worth it for the extensive bibliographies alone. A wise old aspect of the male and one I wager, not to be trifled with or taken lightly.

Wassail sir.

[Heckler]

Wassail sir.

So mote it be.