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Separation of the spiritual vapours (the winged cherubs) from the “death’s head,” the earthly residue, represented by the black crow and the corpse.
This image explains the general rationale behind why we’re killing it with fire (for the salt principle). We are hoping to extract the “soul”/essence/spirit (lol remember the soul debate) of the thing that we just turned into toast.
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Christian Marlowe, the Occult Batman.
1580-87: Educated in Theology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (BA, 1582; MA, 1587). Theological study at Cambridge was heavily oriented towards Calvinist Reformed Christianity. In the same period, he worked as a spy for the state, rooting out Catholic sympathizers
1593: Doctor Faustus is written and first performed
May 18, 1593: The Privy Council issues a warrant for Marlowe’s arrest, based on charges of atheism and subversion.
Mary 30, 1593: Marlowe is murdered in a drunken disagreement (in the company of several figures involved in espionage)
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Dictionnaire Infernal (19th century)
The first spirit, Bael, is a corruption of Ba’al (‘Lord’), the Canaanite storm god. He can be summoned by King Solomon.
Likewise, the arch-demon ‘Beelzebub’ derives from ‘Ba’al Zebub’, a variant of Ba’al worshipped by the Philistines. (people of Canaan) He takes a variety of forms, shapeshifting demons (very scary)
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Cover of an early 20th century edition of “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”.
The tale as first published in 1845 in a periodical called the American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Science.
In 1846 he published it as a stand alone booklet, under the title, “Mesmerism in articulo mortis”, accompanied by an editorial note: ‘a pure recital of facts . . . of so extraordinary nature as almost to surpass belief”.
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Typical 19th century spirit photos. The camera functions as an experimental instrument, detecting apparitions that are not visible to the human subjects.
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‘Adam Kadmon’, the Primordial Human, as Microcosm.
The truth is magic and sex orgies.
The supreme goal of the Cabalist is tikkun olam, ‘restoration of the world’. In our world, and in the human soul, the powers of God have become disintegrated, unbalanced; the Cabalist seeks to put the oppositions back together:
“so that finally man might thereby understand his own nobleness and worth, and why he is called Microcosmus” (Fama Fraternitatis, 178).
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John Valentin Andreae (1586-1654), theologian, reformer and esotericist. Author of Christianopolis (1619) and the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (1616)
The origins and teachings of the Rosicrucians are described in three anonymously published books that have been attributed to Johann Valentin Andreae (1568–1654), a Lutheran theologian and teacher. (According to Brittanica idk about Fraser)
The Fama Fraternitatis of the Meritorious Order of the Rosy Cross (1614), The Confession of the Rosicrucian Fraternity (1615), and The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosenkreuz (1616) recount the travels of Christian Rosenkreuz, the putative founder of the group, who is now generally regarded as a fictional character rather than a real person.
“The generation of all natural things is twofold: one which takes place by Nature without Art, the other which is brought about by Art, that is to say, by Alchemy, though, generally, it might be said that all things are generated from the earth by the help of putrefaction”
“For a constant moist heat produces putrefaction and transmutes all natural things from their first form and essence . . . into something else. For as putrefaction in the bowels transmutes and reduces all foods into dung, so, also, without the belly, putrefaction in glass transmutes all things from one form into another . . .” (Concerning the Nature of Things, 163).
Fire burn. Fire good. Fire clean. Salt is mystical substance now. (Alchemy principle remember the symbolism of the cherubs and the crow). Fire cleanses and then you get magical spirit dust from the thing you used to make your salts.
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The chemist William Crookes (1832-1919) and the spirit control “Katie King,” allegedly manifested by the medium Florence Cook in the 1870s.
Florence Cook (ca 1856 – 22 April 1904) was a medium who claimed to materialise a spirit, “Katie King”. The question of whether the spirit was real or a fraud was a notable public controversy of the mid-1870s. Her abilities were endorsed by Sir William Crookes but many observers were skeptical of Crookes’s investigations, both at the time and subsequently. It really did cause quite a scene.
But it shows the sensationalism and how huge this all got.
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Marlowe’s literary adaptation of the necromantic circle (Scene 3)
Christian Marlowe was literary Occult Batman. He says some shit about Jehovah and he explains how the circle works in the occult using his play. Then he writes this scene,
(The power of magos/magic is illusory and he compares that to Aquinas (lololol))
- Faustus: Did not my conjuring speeches raise thee? Speak.
- Meph: That was the cause, but yet per accidens; / For when we hear one rack the name of God,/ We fly in hope to get his glorious soul . . . (Scene 3).
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The demon Belial pays homage to Solomon. From the ‘Book of Belial’, Jacobus Teramo (15th century).
The Testament of Solomon (ca. 4th century ce), is the oldest Solomonic grimoire, the prototype and inspiration for the late medieval manuals. The “Key of Solomon” and the “Lesser Key of Solomon” aren’t actually traceable to Solomon though. This is an example of how grimoires were mixed up and “half-digested” messes of kabalistic(esoteric), christian, and jewish liturgy.
It introduces the theme of Solomon’s magical signet ring, which enables him to master demons and harness their powers in the construction of the Temple of Jerusalem. Solomon is a super famous king/figure in the Jewish Religion.
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Eliphas Levi, Dogme et Ritual de la Haute Magie (1855-56).
Baphomet: supposedly the blasphemous idol worshipped by the Knight’s Templar. Another demonic-human-animal hybrid, a symbol of sexual transgression, therefore also of liminality and mystery. Alchemically, it may represent the prime matter of creation, which defies all boundaries and limitations.
Obviously Baphomet was non gender conforming and was woke as fuck.
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The Magic Circle, Goetia
Magic Demon summoning circle that bring all the demons to the yard. Solomon made it and it starts with Eheia, significant for more than milkshakes. It ‘borrows’ -significantly- from Aprippinas magical circle of friendship. The magic circle also protects Solomon or the summoner from the demons bad touch.
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Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor from 1576-1612
Rudolf was deeply interested in the occult sciences and he was a patron and protector to some of the more controversial thinkers of the day: Dee, Giordano Bruno, as well as the astronomers, Kepler and Brahe. The occult had some deeeeep pockets and highly influential friends. Probably cause science is magic.
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Innovations in cooling the distillate to facilitate separation: the ‘Moor’s head’ and condensing barrel
By cooling the distillate, we can facilitate the separation of the alcohol (which boils at 79 degrees Celsius) from water (which boils at 100 degrees) and other impurities.
Super useful for chemistry and illustrates how deeply connected the occult and science fields were at the time
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Faustus: History and Myth
The historical “Faustus” was one Georgius Helmstetter (i.e. from Helmstadt), a graduate of Heidelberg University (Master of Arts). (Pfft so a broke writer)
The name he adopted, ‘Faustus’, was perhaps an allusion to the Manichean ‘heretic’ of the same name (see Augustine’s Confessions)
He was a wandering astrologer and magician, celebrated by some (commissioned to cast horoscopes for minor nobility) and derided by others as a diabolical figure, associated with forbidden magic and sexual deviancy.
Luther in 1537 described Faustus as the ‘brother in law of the Devil’ and his followers developed the legend of his Pact with the Devil and subsequent damnation.(Told you sex demons)
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“Triangle of the Art”
The Greek is ‘garbled’ but honestly they were either really drunk when they wrote it or just didn’t fucking know greek. Either way, it says ‘primeumaton’ which probably is derived from ‘preumenes’ which means ‘kind/gentle’ and ‘anaphaxeton’ which might mean appear. Further supports my theory of being drunk or stupid (possibly both).
You command the demon you summon into the magic triangle when it’s being bad “disobedient” and hope a timeout will make it behave.
Illustrates the clusterfuck of esoteric ritual combinations of things. Hilariously, Wiccans use it today and it’s tied into chakras which is not how Chakras work (as a Hindu I promise). Generally in a circle hand holding stereotypical white bitch fashion. It’s a solomonic ritual.
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The tomb of Illumination
Hermes Redivivus
Essentially a movement that was born after a bunch of anonymous publications “claiming” to have discovered the tomb and works of an “unknown esoteric” order had emerged. Tons of people then tried to say that they were the sect that was the true “rosicrucian” group and they had the actual mysteries. It was a bunch of hype that got dismissed by Johann Valentin Andreae. But some scholars think he may have said that to have the Church calm the fuck down.
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Frontispiece to Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (1667)
Where my nerds at? (Mood of the scientifically minded of this time)
The nerds congregated a lot and then it was out of these scientific circles that the Royal Society was formed in 1662 now with an official charter from the newly restored monarch, Charles II.
Thanks nerds!
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The period demon.
The toxic basilisk: “You must know that it gets that power and that poison from unclean women . . . For the basilisk is produced and grows from the chief impurity of a woman, namely, from the menstrual blood” (164).
Basically your period made this thing and you’re a witch and it’s going to fucking eat you for being a woman how dare you witch.
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Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati in 1776. Beginning in the 19th century, the Illuminati were vilified by conservative factions as instigators the American and French Revolutions. These conspiracy theories form the distant background to current fantasies about the “New World Order” and the alleged persistence of the Illuminati in our own times.
Though lacking any credibility, these theories reflect the gradual politicization of occult ideas that first took shape in the social and religious upheavals of the 17th century. This convergence of occultism and radical politics was first announced in the Rosicrucian manifestos. (Well fuck it’s real and it started with this asshole)
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“Katie King” and Florence Cook
Florence Cook (ca 1856 – 22 April 1904) was a medium who claimed to materialise a spirit, “Katie King”. The question of whether the spirit was real or a fraud was a notable public controversy of the mid-1870s. Her abilities were endorsed by Sir William Crookes but many observers were skeptical of Crookes’s investigations, both at the time and subsequently.
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The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. With new additions (1631).
Written by badass Christian Marlowe(Occult Batman).
Timeline:
Written in 1592; first performed (Lord Admiral’s Men), 1594
Marlowe’s death: 1593
First printed edition: 1604 (A text)
Issuing of the Act of Abuses, 1606
Revised (censored?) and expanded edition (William Byrde and Samuel Rowley): 1616 (B text)
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For occultists, like Helena Blavatsky, electro-magnetism and its technological applications seemed to demonstrate the truth of ancient esoteric doctrines.
Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891), founder of the Theosophical Society (in 1875). Its headquarters are still located in Adyar (Madras), India.
The Origin of Species was published in 1859 (Blavatsky’s text was first published in 1877, just as Darwinism was becoming mainstream). She connected the emerging western idea of evolution to the Indian idea of samsara: the idea of cycles of reincarnation, through which the individual becomes progressively enlightened.
It’s through Blavatsky that western esotericism was synthesised with Indian thought (e.g. Buddhism and yoga), a process furthered by Aleister Crowley at the turn of the 20th century.
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George Washington’s Masonic apron.
Note: the all-seeing Eye of the solar Deity; the coffin of initiatory death and resurrection; and the pillars representing Solomon’s temple
Means George Washington was into some kinky shit. Or that the occult had become a lot more common than the Christians would have us believe.
Masonry was the product of the age of enlightenment, an era of political and social upheaval focusing on the things we take for granted today such as inalienable rights, democratic government. This focus on reason rather then religious tradition is based on Alchemical and Rosicrucian teachings which spawned in the dark ages propagating an evolution in science, influencing philosophers such as Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, and those in German Existentialism.
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Rembrandt, 1632 (It should legit be a meme. Found one!)
God created as a chemist creates: just as the alchemist separates material bodies, and analyses them into their principles and elements, through the skilled application of fire, so God separated and distilled the elements of creation from an original stuff, through the agency of his divine fire, the Holy Spirit. (The Pope was inspired and officially outlawed alchemy)
Arcanum, or, Mysterium: the hidden nature of an entity, its quintessence or celestial component; the most subtle curative properties of a substance, which can be extracted and strengthened through alchemical methods. (aka #sciencebros)
The medicines of the apothecaries (the pharmacists of early modern Europe) were unrefined concoctions of herbs and minerals, ground up in oil to make a kind of topical ointment, or mixed in wine or water and cooked into a syrup. Finally they were blended with sugar to mask the revolting smell and taste. (Can’t stop us science bros before church hoes)
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The full magic circle of Solomon and it’s oriented to the East (remember first demon was Baal who came from the East). The triangle is the best magic wizard hat and adds to the power of demon possession by infinity (I’m assuming)
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Jewel of the 18th degree of the Scottish Rite, ‘Knight of the Rose Croix’.
Freemasonry, especially from the 18th century onwards, was influenced by the ideals and symbolism of the Manifestos.
More evidence supporting the influence of the Rose Cross’s existence and why it went the Middle Ages equivalent of viral.
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Intercourse between human women and demons was central to witchcraft lore. This was one of the explanations for the origins of fairy folk and other hybrid monsters.
I would assume fallen angels could totally bag hotter lookin bitches but what do I know. So it’s to lend paganism and femininity over to evil of course. Also the devil is better at sex than you are so protect your womenfolk.
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Alchemy follows in Nature’s footsteps, replicating and perhaps even surpassing her products. Technology expands the boundaries of Nature and the scientist is thus a co-creator—a divine craftsman.
NATURE IS LOVE AND LIFE AND MAGIC AND SO ARE WE. Essentially. But SCIENCE
If the alchemy of Paracelsus can distil the life-giving powers of substances, then it is but a short step to the claim that it can replicate the process by which life itself is created.
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A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed For Many Years Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits
(I told you this dude was high af)
Dee sought divine assistance by attempting to converse with angels. He and his medium, the convicted counterfeiter Edward Kelley, held numerous séances both in England and on the Continent, where the two traveled together—mainly to Poland and Bohemia (now the Czech Republic)—between 1583 and 1589. By all accounts Dee was sincere, which is more than can be said for Kelley, who may have duped him. (Also juicy gossip Kelly probably knocked up his wife when they swapped wives every so often)
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THE HIEROGLYPHIC MONAD
John Dee wrote this treatise on symbolic language in 1564. The essay explains his discovery of the monad (unity) underlying the universe as expressed in a hieroglyph or symbol. Dee called this “Hieroglyphic Monad,” a “magical parable” based on the Doctrine of Correspondences, which lies at the heart of alchemy. (He sounds like he was on acid ngl)
Dee continued with the Monas hieroglyphica (The Hieroglyphic Monad [2000], Monas hieroglyphica), wherein he offered a single mathematical-magical symbol as the key to unlocking the unity of nature. As passionately as he believed in the utility of mathematics for mundane matters, Dee expressed conviction in the occult power of mathematics to reveal divine mysteries.
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Freemasonry, the teachings and practices of the secret fraternal (men-only) order of Free and Accepted Masons, the largest worldwide secret society. Spread by the advance of the British Empire, Freemasonry remains most popular in the British Isles and in other countries originally within the empire.
It’s still active today!
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Magic ruins and mercury distillation bitches. I’m a wizard.! (Step 3 of the first principle which is mercury)
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Frances Yates has suggested that John Dee was the chief inspiration behind the manifestos. Could the symbol of the Rose-Croix be based on the Tudor Rose?
(Queen Mary’s and Queen Elizabeth’s family crest) John Dee was friends with both of them.
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Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815)
He came up with Animal Magnetism. Which is a bunch of bs that i highly recommend looking up for a good laugh. It’s ghetto hypnotism.
Mesmer explained disease as an imbalance or obstruction in the magnetic fluid of the patient. The “mesmeriser” cleared this obstruction by directing his own energy into the patient and re-establishing proper circulation of the magnetic fluid. Physical magnets (and also magnetic baths) were used as aids, but the healing was effected through “animal magnetism”.
The onset of seizures (crises) was a sign that the obstruction was clearing. In some cases, he noted, as a side-effect of this treatment, that patients would enter a dream-like state, akin to that of a sleep-walker, a “somnambulistic” state.
In this alternate state of consciousness, they often exhibited paranormal abilities, like clairvoyance. Mesmer speculated that these states might provide a scientific explanation for demonic possession and spirit apparitions.
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Steam extraction of sulfur. Another one of Alchemy’s principles.
The principle of individuation and specific difference; in the plant kingdom it is an essential oiliness, bound up with the alcohol, that gives to each type of plant its specific healing properties.
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John Dee, the Elizabethan Magus (1527-1608)
Fun fact he coined the term “British Empire” when he advocated for British expansion and the beginning of colonialism (thanks dude). He was an advisor of Queen Elizabeth and had many skills. Mainly he was a math wizard and liked to straddle the lines between the occult and hard sciences.
He did a horoscope for Queen Mary of Scots and Princess Elizabeth then he was charged for “calculating” which he got cleared and then was charged again (for the same horoscope nonsense) later for treason which the Church had to sort out.
He was cleared both times but obviously he was pissed.
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Robert Fludd, apologia compendiara (1616)
Fludd, a friend and colleague of William Harvey, was an ardent defender of the Rosicrucians. Fludd was not a member of the Rosicrucians, as often alleged, but he defended their thoughts as expressed in numerous manifestos and pamphlets like the Apologia Compendiaria.
He did that against the claims of Libavius who of course said that the Rosicrucians indulged in heresy, diabolical magic and sedition (remember vaginas, angerl orgies, and plants that are born from gallow semen) made in his Analysis confessionis Fraternitatis de Rosea Cruce (Analysis of the Confession of the Rosy Cross).
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Dictionnaire Infernal (19th century)
Astaroth is the 29th spirit in the Goethia and he is often depicted riding a dragon and looking handsome. Astaroth” is derived from the very “Ashtoreth” mentioned in the passage from 1Kings (“For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians,”), the goddess of the Sidonians. The Greek, Astartē, Ishtar of the Babylonians. Originally a goddess of fertility, and likened by the Romans to Aphrodite.
This is important because this repaints Jewish/Solomonic demons as twisted versions of pagan gods.
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Aramaic incantation bowl, used for trapping demons.
These devices were typical of Jewish magical practice from 6th century ce. This practice lies behind the later Arab lore of the genie (djinn) in the bottle. Solomon’s brazen vessel in the ‘Goetia’ is a distant survival of these ideas and practices.
Perfect example of the different ways cultures, languages, and practices from different sources were used and bastardized.
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circa 1910, show medium Marthe Beraud (also known as Eva C. and Eva Carrière) excreting ectoplasm – her specialty – during a séance. In the top photo, a strange face appears on the ectoplasm. With the development of rapid shutter technology, spirit photography becomes dynamic and interactive. The material was said to be formed when mediums were in a trance state; it could only be created in near darkness (light, mediums said, would make it disintegrate), and it was emitted from orifices on the medium’s body (Beraud’s usually came from her mouth, nose or ears). But rather than being some spiritual substance, the so-called ectoplasm was usually gauze, muslin, chiffon or, in the case of Mina “Margery” Crandon, sheep’s lung. Beraud was the first medium to perform the ectoplasm trick, and one of her outspoken supporters was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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•In Mesmer’s heyday, knowledge of electricity (from Greek, elektron, ‘amber’) was limited to the static form. The relation between electricity and magnetism was only dimly understood. But in the final decades of Mesmer’s life, key discoveries were made that paved the way for the modern understanding of electro-magnetism.
1791- Galvani (allegedly) discovered the electric current while dissecting a frog. His scalpel accidentally touched the brass hook on which the specimen was suspended, creating a circuit.
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Pentacle or Hexagram of Solomon,
Is displayed on the magician’s apron.
(AGLA is a Cabalistic notarikon, meaning Ata Gibor Le-Olam Adonai, i.e. ‘Thou Art Mighty Forever Lord’). Notarikon is fancy speak for acronyms, Jews use them to derive words in some contexts.
It’s hexagonal and written on parchment.
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Dee’s scrying apparatus, including a small clear crystalline globe and a black obsidian mirror, possibly of Aztec provenance.
Srying was essentially looking into a refelective surface and “telling the future” using magical rules or whatever. It shows how faithfully John Dee took all this stuff and how deeply his bs cases affected him and pushed him into alchemy further.
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Fractional Distillation
Alchemists would begin with large quantities of wine or vinegar, distilling a fraction of the original volume (around a tenth), and then redistilling that fraction, taking a tenth every time. After seven to ten distillations the product was considered high quality burning water. (sounds like a waste of wine honestly)
The word ‘alcohol’ is from Arabic and (oddly enough) it means ‘the powder’ (al-kohl). The word was first (mis)applied to distilled spirits by Paracelsus in the 15th century.
The Medievals called it aqua vitae or aqua ardens, i.e. ‘water of life,’ or ‘burning water’.
In the alchemical literature it is also called ‘Dew of Heaven,’ or, ‘Quintessence,’ reflecting its supposed celestial origins. Which was perfect for Thomas acquinas to use as the basis or justification of calling alchemists “evil sorcerers”. Which he laid out the groundwork for.
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This is Katie King and Florence Cook. The same person who used pictures and overexposures as frauds. They’re famous because they tricked a legit hardass science skeptic into believing her. Or she could legit be a spirit ghost medium or ghosts are real and she got one of those fuckers in a shot like this one.
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Some of the trippy rumors and stories about mandrake root (that thing that people reallllllly shouldn’t eat cause you’ll trip balls and or die).
The mandrake’s association with criminality underscored its deviant and dangerous nature. It was thought that picking the mandrake was hazardous; it would emit an ear-splitting shriek.
Literally where this came from
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The magical principle of mercury. This is the distillation step which happens after it ferments.
It needs to be distilled after fermenting in whatever the fuck that earlier concotion was.
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The Tria Prima
The three main ingedients/principles of alchemy. Basically how to do the alchemy and what steps are needed by using these substances as examples. Alchemy is the process of breaking down substances to their base components/parts and then making something more valuable from that.
Mercury:
Sulphur:
Salt:
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History of Doctor Johann Faustus’, published by Johann Spies, 1587
Perfect example of the defamatory practices that the public and Christianity took to make paganism look bad. This was written by a professional scribe and made into a “chapbook” (cheap book for the public) and distributed widely after it was printed by a prominest publisher. Obviously to get the word out about how evil Faustus was. It was the inspiration for the play Dr. Faustus
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Psychical Researcher, Schrenck-Notzing, handling an ectoplasmic specimen as it (allegedly) emanates from the body of a medium (c. 1911).
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Distillation is the separation of the subtle from the gross: “With great sagacity it doth ascend from earth to heaven” (Emerald Tablet)
Really good for the mercury principle in alchemy
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Diagnosis and treatment of disease are guided by astrological correspondences between the body and the stars, following the Hermetic conception of the human as microcosm.
We are stardust but not literally. Ties into how behind but ahead science could be in relation to the occult. THank god for Bacon amiright?
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Testimony that showcases the hardcore silencing of the occult practicers/pagan traditions.
Testimony of Richard Baines, 12 May 1593. Baines worked for the Elizabethan spymaster, Francis Walsingham, rooting out Catholic English radicals living abroad.
Several of his accusations are echoed by the poet, Thomas Kyd, who was arrested the same day on suspicion of treason.
“I think all men in Cristianity ought to indevor that the mouth of so dangerous a member may be stopped”
Among other colourful charges, Baines accused Marlowe of stating:
“That Christ was a bastard and his mother dishonest”
“That he was the sonne of a Carpenter, and that if the Jewes among whom he was borne did Crucify him theie best knew him and whence he came”
“that all the new testament is filthily written”
(FUCK YEAHFREEDOM OF SPEECH)
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Bacon’s rehabilitation of “natural history”
Bacon has a genius idea, how about not writing 500million pages of bullshit to talk about things in the natural science?
Also he doesn’t want to talk about goats fucking aphrodite and somehow plants have balls because of it. Because that’s fucking stupid.
Basically, cut the flack and the oral traditions that people don’t recall or know the meaning of anymore.
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Woodcut from Ulrich Molitor, De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus (1489).
The (presumed) linkage between female sexuality and forbidden knowledge was reinforced by the Book of Enoch.
Basically Vaginas are sacred and the road to the mystical magic of losing your virginity (joking). But it’s an illusion to the occult traditions/rites without being too obvious. Here it just looks gross and mildly rapey, during their time, it was the norm obviously. #women’srights
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The “Adamic” or “Enochian” language, revealed to Dee and Kelly during their “angelic conversations” in the 1580’s. Dee legit believed he was speaking to angels, Kelly was fucking with him.
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Elias Ashmole (1617-1692), founding member of the Royal Society and one of the first recorded initiates of Freemasonry in Britain
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The Marquis de Puysegur (1721-1825), a student of Mesmer, made the “magnetic trance” central to the later development of Mesmerism.
He claimed that the mesmeriser could manipulate the movement of the magnetic fluid through the force of his will alone. The “mesmerized” patient would be placed under the mind control of the mesmeriser. All of our popular notions about “brain washing” can be traced to the theories and practices of de Puysegur.
In one direction, the mesmeriser appears as the prototype of the modern psychiatry.
In the early 19th century, before chloroform, some physicians began to apply mesmerism in surgery, as an analgesic (OUCH).
In 19th century psychiatric discourses, the hypnotic state was linked to hysteria and schizophrenia. Ultimately this trajectory will lead us to Freud and the psychology of the unconscious.
(You’re getting veryyyyyyy sleepyyyyyy)
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Science explodes with the Scientific Revolution thanks to Copernicus, Kepler, Descartes, Bacon etc.
In the natural histories of the 16th century we see the persistence of the older Hermetic vision of nature. To classify a baboon, for instance, we need to contextualize the entity within a network of associations—sympathies and antipathies—involving not only its natural kinships, but its religious symbolism (that the baboon was sacred to Thoth in Egypt), its astrological associations, and even the etymology of its name.
This is clunky and annoying and needs to fucking change. Which the Science peeps are all over.
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A lovely image of men trying to make humans without the help or need of a woman. Women are evil cause they tempt us and the demon with their magic vaginas. So let’s make a homunculus to fix our sinful natures! Also pagans and witches are evil!
The homunculus is “the distilled essence of masculinity, concentrated and purified of its material dross” (Newman, 157). Human nature perfected, without the toxic and demonic contribution of the mother . . .
The homunculus retains its association with mystery and the teaching of mysteries (the positive sense of the “monster”), but it has been cleansed of any demonic and transgressive associations.
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The Rosicrucian manifestos: the Fama Fraternitatis and the Confessio Fraternitatis, were published anonymously in Germany in 1614 and 1615 (12 years before the publication of the New Atlantis).
Basically it was a document that can be summarized this way. The science men were in my opinion correct to hide some stuff from the public, church, and state (in my opinion). I mean they thought periods could make basilisks, I ain’t about to die cause people are dumb.
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Circa 1910, show medium Marthe Beraud (also known as Eva C. and Eva Carrière) excreting ectoplasm – her specialty – during a séance. In the top photo, a strange face appears on the ectoplasm.
With the development of rapid shutter technology, spirit photography becomes dynamic and interactive.
The material was said to be formed when mediums were in a trance state; it could only be created in near darkness (light, mediums said, would make it disintegrate), and it was emitted from orifices on the medium’s body (Beraud’s usually came from her mouth, nose or ears). But rather than being some spiritual substance, the so-called ectoplasm was usually gauze, muslin, chiffon or, in the case of Mina “Margery” Crandon, sheep’s lung. Beraud was the first medium to perform the ectoplasm trick, and one of her outspoken supporters was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Seal of Astaroth
Another types of demon to be summoned. Astaroth “can make men wounderfull knowing in all Liberal siences” (summon him for this exam)
Basically demons can be seen as sources of knowledge and wisdom, cause of the Book of Enoch. There was a giant ass sex orgy with angels and women and god cast them out cause they was hella nasty. Obviously this sex novel is considered not “true testament” I assume because angels are kinky. Anyway, the angels that had the sex party were cast off/away from heaven and became demons and the occult turned to the demons for knowledge because reasons.
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Rembrandt, A scholar in his Study, ca. 1650.
The Cabalistic cipher on the mandala remains a mystery, except for the first notarikon (jewish acronym), INRI, i.e. Iesu Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews). This also had a more esoteric alchemical meaning: Igne Natura Renovatur Integra.
Means rembrandt was into some kinky shit (don’t quote me on that)
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The third principle of alchemy, this is salt! This is the calcification of salts.
Basically salt represents the essential earthiness of a substance, the principle of “fixity” extracted from its caput mortuum or ‘death’s head’.
Basically kill it with fire. Ashes are fertilizer right? Same thing.
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Séance in the studio of Baron von Erhardt, Italy 1909.
Whenever the medium was giving a demonstration, the Baron would press a button, which activated both the camera and the flashlight behind it, illuminating Paladino and snapping a picture. “Thus he pictures tables suspended in the air, the medium with his coat removed, apparently by ‘spirit’ hands, and flung against the screen of the cabinet, and a mandolin in the air,” the New York Times said. No word on whether or not the medium passed the test.
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Compendium Maleficarum (17th century) The Devil’s Sabbath
Basically the Christian fear of pagan customs resurging personified. It’s easy to cast the pagans as evil now cause it’s been long enough that people don’t remember how the Church stole a fuckton of pagan ideas, literature, and other shit.
The lore of the Witches’ Sabbath reflected a deep-seated paranoia about the resurgence of paganism—now equivalent to the worship of the Devil and his minions. The rites of the Sabbath, culminating in the Devil’s “pact,” were imagined as transgressions of the Christian religion.
Burn the witch bitch.
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The original alchemical still (or ‘alembic’), invented by ‘Maria’, a Jewish alchemist ca. 3rd century CE
Distillation: extraction of the components of a mixture which have a relatively low boiling point (the more volatile or ‘spiritual’ components) by converting them into vapour and then condensing them again to liquid form.
Distillation is the separation of the subtle from the gross: “With great sagacity it doth ascend from earth to heaven” (Emerald Tablet)
And anything to do with mercery principle for alchemy
aka science bitches
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Early 20th century séance, photographed by William Hope, later exposed as a fake.
This seance, captured by renowned spirit photographer William Hope around 1920, supposedly shows a ghostly arm levitating the table. The arm was actually superimposed during a double exposure.
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Lol more mandrake art to ward off evil madrake spirits and the deadly effects of its shriek.
It got humanized and was thought to be human and sexual at some points or lethal and deadly at others. Depended on who was telling the story. The totem mandrake was to distract the really evil mandrake spirit with as a sex toy while the human escaped.
Anyway, the lethality of this fucking root essentially made it magical and therefore the occult and devil magic.
Witches be errywhere.
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The Flight of Icarus (17th century)
Quoting Dr.Faustus. Icarus (represents Fautus)was too damn stupid to not meddle with divine affairs. He dabbled in Necromancy and shit got real. The wax got heavy and the feathers melted off and he was cast off into ruin(death) for fucking with shit he shouldn’t have.
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Mandrake root. Will fuck you up. Do not consume. People totally tried to consume this thing. It’s heavily associated with witchcraft and
supposedly generated from the semen of executed criminals in the earth beneath the gallows. (Mainly a rumor among MANY others to tell people NOT TO EAT THIS THING). People still tried to eat it anyway.
(it’s a field of study for me if you wanna learn some really cool and nerdy neuroscience about this hilarious plant with me later)
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Late 19th century table turning
The participants of the séance were looking for tangible proof of the existence of the spiritual world. This demand for empirical confirmation links Spiritualism to the attitude of 19th century scientific materialism.
https://youtu.be/uvtrOSQm0qM
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The motif of the serpent as messiah recurs covertly in the iconography of alchemy
This forbidden linkage was also suggested through the gematria of the Hebrew names nachash (serpent) and mashiach (messiah), which both equal 358.
The occult is all about that orgy party in Enoch, so according to that version, we got knowledge cause angels fucked women and they had kids. Then the angels planted shit and did alchemy like bosses. The snake was obviously dat angel dick, and the image is to show how the Church be lyin.
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Heinrich Khunrath (1560-1605). ‘The Cosmic Rose’, from his Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595). Possible source of the Rose-Croix Symbol?
The Rosy Cross was a huge deal at the time so the search for who the fuck wrote those anon docs was really high. There’s still an active search for the writer even though most of those ideas are bullshit.
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But the mesmeriser also inherits features of the ‘black magician’, who controls the secret forces of nature through heightened perception and will and directs them to sinister ends.
The occult representations of mesmerism often assume a sinister cast, as in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). Mesmerism is one of the powers of the undead. (Lavater loved Mesmerism)
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Still the salts stage, but the actual making of ash part incase you didn’t kill it with fire hard enough. It’s to grind down everything to make a smoother powder and enable a better mix.
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Lucifer Rofocale, from the Grand Grimoire, or Le Veritable Dragon Rouge (18th-19th century)
The Grand Grimoire (18th century)
- I place myself at thy disposition, to appear before thee at thy call when, having been purified . . . thou shalt open the Book, having described the Kabbalistic circle and pronounced the word Rofocale . . . I also engage to deliver thee the treasure which thou seekest, on condition that thou keepest the secret for ever inviolable, art charitable to the poor, and dost give me a gold or silver coin on the first day of every month. If thou failest, thou art mine everlastingly.
- Imprimatur: Lucifer Rofocale
Fancy incantation to summon Lucifer the best of the sex demons. Obviously super sexual (if you red it lol) I’ll pimp myself out if you pay me once a month homey.
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Extraction of Mercury 1: Fermentation
One of the three alchemy principles.
The primal matter and universal Spirit; quicksilver in the mineral kingdom, aqua vitae in the vegetable kingdom.
“For a constant moist heat produces putrefaction and transmutes all natural things from their first form and essence . . . into something else” (163).
(delicious)
Honestly they’re talking about how creatures, plants, bugs, algae etc. Love dark, moist, dank, places. “Spontaneous Life”
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Compendium Maleficarum (17th century) The Devil’s Sabbath
Basically the Christian fear of pagan customs resurging personified. It’s easy to cast the pagans as evil now cause it’s been long enough that people don’t remember how the Church stole a fuckton of pagan ideas, literature, and other shit.
The lore of the Witches’ Sabbath reflected a deep-seated paranoia about the resurgence of paganism—now equivalent to the worship of the Devil and his minions. The rites of the Sabbath, culminating in the Devil’s “pact,” were imagined as transgressions of the Christian religion.
Burn the witch bitch.
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Statue of Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), at the site of his execution in 1600 (Campo de’ Fiori, Rome)
Italian philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, and occultist whose theories anticipated modern science. The most notable of these were his theories of the infinite universe and the multiplicity of worlds, in which he rejected the traditional geocentric (Earth-centred) astronomy and intuitively went beyond the Copernican heliocentric (Sun-centred) theory, which still maintained a finite universe with a sphere of fixed stars. Bruno is, perhaps, chiefly remembered for the tragic death he suffered at the stake because of thetenacity with which he maintained his unorthodox ideas at a time when both the Roman Catholic and Reformed churches were reaffirming rigid Aristotelian and Scholastic principles in their struggle for the evangelization of Europe.
It shows how ruthless religions got when putting down dissenters.
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Steam extraction of sulfur. Another one of Alchemy’s principles.
The principle of individuation and specific difference; in the plant kingdom it is an essential oiliness, bound up with the alcohol, that gives to each type of plant its specific healing properties.
