Thoth Graecus – An Obsession
What started off as a curiosity with the figure of Thoth (or Toz/Toc) Graecus has become a full blown obsession. The thread I was hoping to pull at is quickly unravelling the garment that is my time –...
View ArticleThe Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee – A Review
Firstly, I would like to suggest that if and when I am named the arch-conjuror of the United States, or a particular state, or perhaps even the local Starbucks, I would prefer it to be done so without...
View ArticleObserving the Lunary Sphere
I was doing some research recently that I thought would be interesting to share, and I use the term “interesting” loosely. Several manuscripts on a variety of topics note that operations should be...
View ArticleA Slightly Overdue Book
When I was a young lad in my college days at Oxford… okay, well, not Oxford, but the University of Maine… I checked out a book of magic titled “A Treatise on Angel Magic” from the Fogler Library (not...
View ArticleSecret Writing
Trithemius’ crypto-magical work Steganogaphia has been calling to me over the last year or so, but I hadn’t the time to really dig up a copy. This work existed in manuscript form since approximately...
View ArticleOf the Arte Goetia: John Dee?
Next in a series of articles for the launch week of my new book Of the Arte Goetia, I want to discuss the possible role of Elizabethan magus John Dee in the emergence of Goetia into the English...
View ArticleThe Pauline Art of Solomon
You know I love me some Hockley, so I was really happy to see that Alan Thorogood has released another excellent volume. In the tradition of works to date, the book has an introduction by Thorogood, a...
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