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Ouranos wrote:Another good source is Picatrix Vol 1 to 4 on dlscrib.com
Also known as Ghayat Al-Hakim translated from the Arabic by Hashem Atallah
Thanks, let me check on that. By the way, what is the preface of the book all about?

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As stated in the Intro
"the text of this Medieval work consists of four books covering the art and practice of Astrological, Talismanic and Astral Magic. The author has compiled information derived from 224 books by "ancient sages" with the intention of uniting all these diverse arts into a practical system."

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She uses it in practice
Blessings!

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My thoughts on the rituals of astrology magic can lead you into very real and concrete danger if you are a novice, but i leave humour below regarding a poem by Robert Southey:-

Cornelius Agrippa
by Robert Southey
A BALLAD,

OF A YOUNG MAN THAT WOULD READ UNLAWFUL BOOKS, AND HOW HE WAS PUNISHED .

VERY PITHY AND PROFITABLE .

C ORNELIUS A GRIPPA went out one day;
His Study he lock'd ere he went away,
And he gave the key of the door to his wife,
And charged her to keep it lock'd on her life.

" And if any one ask my Study to see,
I charge you to trust them not with the key,
Whoever may beg, and entreat, and implore,
On your life let nobody enter that door.

There lived a young man in the house, who in vain,
Access to that Study had sought to obtain,
And he begg'd and pray'd the books to see,
Till the foolish woman gave him the key.

On the Study-table a book there lay,
Which Agrippa himself had been reading that day;
The letters were written with blood therein,
And the leaves were made of dead men's skin; —

And these horrible leaves of magic between
Were the ugliest pictures that ever were seen,
The likeness of things so foul to behold,
That what they were is not fit to be told.

The young man he began to read
He knew not what; but he would proceed,
When there was heard a sound at the door
Which, as he read on, grew more and more.

And more and more the knocking grew;
The young man knew not what to do;
But, trembling, in fear he sat within,
Till the door was broke, and the Devil came in.

Two hideous horns on his head he had got,
Like iron heated nine times red-hot;
The breath of his nostrils was brimstone blue,
And his tail like a fiery serpent grew.

" What wouldst thou with me? " the Wicked One cried,
But not a word the young man replied;
Every hair on his head was standing upright,
And his limbs like a palsy shook with affright.

" What wouldst thou with me? " cried the Author of ill;
But the wretched young man was silent still;
Not a word had his lips the power to say,
And his marrow seem'd to be melting away.

" What wouldst thou with me? " the third time he cries,
And a flash of lightning came from his eyes,
And he lifted his griffin claw in the air,
And the young man had not strength for a prayer.

His eyes red fire and fury dart
As out he tore the young man's heart;
He grinn'd a horrible grin at his prey;
And in a clap of thunder vanish'd away.

THE MORAL .

Henceforth let all young men take heed
How in a Conjurer's books they read.

https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/cornelius-agrippa

You may enjoy Sebastian's Voodoo:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMMZOVxANVQ

Or my feeble attempt at poetry below:-

When the Vatican wise sit fearful for our fate,
While paying homage to the relic beyond their gate,
The oath, the obelisk, high on Capitol Hill,
bending the Cosmos to their ego and will,
Hydra's wine bittersweet, raised high in a flagon
Betwix't freedom and love, or release of the Kraken!

When karmic dark clouds hang crying from the sky,
and those of the 33 degree calculate and scry,
Look to the angles, there you will find God star might,
T'is the Cosmic bugle, first blood in the Sirius fight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v1PC1Ey6c8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TUOPeNJCK8
Spinal injury gives lots of time for research.
Other interests include the paranormal.

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Eddiesmooth wrote:how is alisair crowley thought of in the community?
There is no community consent on Uncle Al (or on anything else, for that matter) to be found here. So opinions on him would depend on who you ask.

Personally, I see him as a man of great knowledge regarding the occult sciences, notwithstanding the personal weaknesses he had.
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https://michaelsternbach.wordpress.com/

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We all have 'cult' references to the 'occult'.
Aleister Crowley is one who paved the way to many people in search of understanding why we are here.

For me, it was 'Le Matin des Magiciens' by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier. It was translated into English by Rollo Myers in 1963 under the title "The Dawn of Magic", and in 1964 released in the United States as The Morning of the Magicians (Stein and Day; paperback in 1968 by Avon Books). A German edition was published 1962 with the title 'Aufbruch ins dritte Jahrtausend' (Departure into the Third Millennium).
Pauwels and Bergier went on to pursue their interest in the paranormal in the magazine Planète, dedicated to what they termed 'réalisme fantastique' (fantastic realism). Both The Morning of the Magicians and the Planète magazine had considerable influence on the esotericism of the 1960s–1970s counterculture, heralding the popularization of New Age ideas
As they said "Let us repeat that there will be a lot of silliness in our book, but this matters little if the book stirs up a few vocations and, to a certain degree, prepares broader tracks for research".
Some of the ideas in the book are so close to the fictional works of H. P. Lovecraft such as "The Call of Cthulhu" or At the Mountains of Madness (published in 1928 and 1931, respectively) that it is probable that Lovecraft's fiction directly inspired the book.

Pauwels's planetary pattern was a Bucket with Uranus/Moon in Pisces as the handle or Apex of the Bucket, which channels the entire dynamism of the chart and constitutes the native's privileged focal point. Opening the gates of knowledge into the unknown.

ref: Wikipedia
Blessings!

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Hi Ouranos,

I remember reading about Crowley calling up the demon Choronzon, it must have been an awful shock coming face to face, i bet the poor demon was never the same again.
Just humour!
https://occult-world.com/choronzon/

Mind you i have had bad experiences with the paranormal, but not with ritual magic, i have never tried it.
Spinal injury gives lots of time for research.
Other interests include the paranormal.

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Hi Ouranos and Michael Sternbach,

I'm not setting out the rituals, but how Aleister Crowley used astrology magic, so he waited for days when Alnilam, Belt of Orion and Osiris star, or Sirius the Isis star was on a Cardinal Point, being Due South, North, East or West. this was done on one of three points of the day being ancient Greek day marker being sunset prevoius to date, the Florentine Calendar would explain:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentine_calendar

Sunrise being ancient Egyptian day marker, and after 1582 when the Gregorian Calendar was used, we now use midnight as the start of the day.
Crowley used Hermetic astrology and if he was invoking a powerful demon, he would use Sirius and Alnilam and Hermes/Mercury the Messenger of the Gods and master of magic.
https://www.hermetic-academy.com/hermes/

I thought i would start with when he called up the demon Choronzon, quote below:-
"The ritual for crossing the Abyss took place on December 6, 1909, outside the town of Bou Saada. Crowley and Neuberg walked out into the desert until they found a valley that had a suitable floor of fine sand. They formed a circle of rocks, drew around it a magic circle, and then drew a magic triangle. The Demon would be invoked into the triangle. The circle would protect Neuberg, who would sit within it, armed with a magical knife and a notebook for recording what happened. Crowley intended to enter the triangle, a dangerous act for a magician. He thus became perhaps the first magician in the Western magical tradition to offer his own body ritually as a vehicle for manifestation of a Demon.

Before the start of the ritual, Neuberg took an oath that he would defend the magic circle “with thoughts and words and deeds??? and would use the knife to attack anything that entered it, even Crowley."

https://occult-world.com/choronzon/

So the Date is 6 December 1909 near Bou Saada in Algeria.
Egyptian sunrise day marker was chosen, the Sun rose with Mercury within 2 degree's and Antares is near, while Sirius was setting in the West, a very powerful invoke, but he needed it if he messed with Choronzon, graph below:-

https://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/ ... 234a6f.png
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Other interests include the paranormal.

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Crowley arrived in Cefalu, Sicily on 1st April 1920 to start the A.A. and the Abbey of Thelema, and probably did a ritual, quote :- "The Crowleys arrived in Cefalu on 1 April 1920.[90] During their stay at the abbey, Ms Hirsig was known as Soror Alostrael, Crowley's Scarlet Woman, the name Crowley used for his female sex magick practitioners in reference to the consort of the Beast of the Apocalypse whose number is 666.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Hirsig

Midnight day marker used, Alnilam setting under a degree Aldebaran setting under two degree's from horizon, graph below:-

https://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/ ... 25d8c6.png
Spinal injury gives lots of time for research.
Other interests include the paranormal.