Frank Close, Lucifer’s Legacy: The Meaning Of Asymmetry

The Arbatel De Magia Veterum (Arbatel: On the Magic of the Ancients) is a grimoire of ceremonial magic that was published in 1575 in Switzerland. It was likely edited by Theodor Zwinger, and published by Pietro Perna. The actual author of the text remains unknown, but scholars suggest Jacques Gohory as a possible candidate.

The Arbatel mainly focuses on the relationship between humanity, celestial hierarchies, and the positive relationship between the two. The Olympian spirits featured in it are entirely unique to this grimoire. Unlike other grimoires, the Arbatel exhorts the magus to remain active in their community (instead of isolating themselves), favoring kindness, charity, and honesty over remote and obscure rituals. The teachings of Swiss alchemist Paracelsus greatly influenced the writing of this work, though it is also deeply rooted in classical culture, Ancient Greek philosophy, the Sibylline oracles and the philosophy of Plotinus.

Originally written in Latin, these selected ten pages come from a later German translation of the work, dated to 1686.

Austin Osman Spare

Psychological symptoms, states and processes associated with the dissociation label

Richard J. Brown, Different Types of “Dissociation” Have Different Psychological Mechanisms

from Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers

Symbols of Transformation

C. G. Jung

The movement of the light into the sphere of work. Bringing the wisdom back into the consciousness of humanity, so that it can rise proportionately to its descent, to meet the higher mind of the Soul.

Claudine Aegerter and Berenice Benjelloun, The Spirit of the Tarot

I Just Heard the Universe Sigh, Shana Tugbert, 1976

Johann Faust - Höllenzwang (17th c.).

At the beginning of the 17th century, a book of black magic was published, attributed to the mythical Faust, and known by the title Höllenzwang. The library in Weimar owned a manuscript of this text, which Goethe was aware of. The document, which is difficult to date, is written in cabalistic signs and, according to a German gloss, contains a series of magic spells for exorcists.

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