Twice We Make Magic: The most magical children’s fantasy adventure of 2022: Book 2 (Once We Were Witches)

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In addition to the general introduction, which is both learned and comfortably reader-friendly, each magic text has an individual introduction offering a finely tuned reading sensitive to the layering of sources and the complexity of the compiler's stance.

To avoid this, don’t weave the tail end into the stitches of the first round – instead, weave it into the stitches of the second round and beyond. Pull the working yarn back through the loop, while rotating the hook so that the tip faces you again, to draw up a loop. By comparison, from the mid- thirteenth to the fifteenth century the broader intellectual and social conditions that informed the conception and practice of magic were relatively stable in England. Put down everything you've been told about magic--that it's arcane, occult, and forgotten in the mists of time.If you use the practices in this book, you will bring the sacred into your everyday life and find the mystical in the typical. By contrast, Agrippa’s De occulta philosophia took up a role as the premier magic sourcebook or encyclopedia of magic, one that it has consistently played to the present day. By demanding learning, a high level of self- control, fasting, sexual abstinence, regular participation in rites of the Church, knowledge of the liturgy, and homosocial surroundings, they not only made a virtue of the clerical lifestyle, but also turned it into a source of cosmic power. Each of the two very different sixteenth-century texts edited here offers a panoramic view into its compiler’s world; liberally enhanced with arcane diagrams, the texts are usefully contextualized by the notes and ancillary materials Klaassen provides. All our operations and projects are supported by a strong bench of technical experts and experienced engineers.

As a result, the works of the great Renaissance mages did not accord well with the needs, inclinations, and sensibilities of most practicing magicians, who saw no need to build a different system of practical magic from obscure sources in ancient Greek and Hebrew.

Last year I told a spiritually-inclined friend I was having trouble moving past a hurtful/toxic incident in my life. I find it harder to do the Magic Ring technique when the loop is hanging in the air, or laid out flat on a table. Predictably, most sixteenth- century scribes, even those who were educated enough to read Latin or other ancient languages, filled the pages of their books with the highly scripted works of medieval ritual magic.

Scot not only provided translations of medieval texts but also collected vernacular material which had already been simplified and transformed. She painted England as a stagnant intellectual backwater, which eventually took up the stylish continental trends in magic, beginning with John Dee, whom she represents as a great hermetic mage. It is my contention that in these manuscripts of deceiving rogues and true believers, middlebrow conjurers and Latinate mages, as much as in the dizzying esoteric traditions of renaissance high magic, we may see the origins of modern European magic.Knowing where these forms of magic came from can help us understand why they look the way they do, the ways they reflect continuity with their medieval sources, and ultimately the changes they underwent at the hands of their Elizabethan scribes and authors.