9/12/24

Reconstruction of The Claviculae Salomonis - The Fourth Pentacle of Jupiter


The fourth Jupiter's Pentacle appealed to me, and when I saw the other variants besides the one by S. L. M. Mathers, I noticed that the name Adoniel was missing and the squares looked somewhat different. So I decided to do more research. 

,,The fourth pentacle of Jupiter.-- It serveth to acquire riches and honor, and to possess much wealth. Its angel is Bariel. It should be engraved upon silver in the day and hour of Jupiter when he is in the sign Cancer." from Claviculae Salomonis by S. L. M. Mathers

5/12/24

Reconstruction of The Claviculae Salomonis - The sixth pentacle of Mars


Yes, another reconstruction from the well known Claviculae Salomonis and another dive into kabbalistic magic.

In the description of the pentacle it says: 

The sixth pentacle of Mars. – It hath so great virtue that being armed therewith, if thou art attacked by any one, thou shalt neither be injured nor wounded when thou fightest with him, and his own weapons shall turn against him.


5/10/24

Reconstruction of The Claviculae Salomonis - The fifth pentacle of the Sun


Claviculae Salamonis is a medieval grimoire. The original text has not been found and the oldest translations are in Latin.
It has survived only in copies. Each version of the text has its own errors and distortions and some of them do not correspond to each other at all.

At the end of the 19th century the grimoire was restored and put together by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, his text also came into the hands of Czech hermeticists and basically its equivalent was published by Trigon from the Universalia library in the 1990s.

The original text by Mathers is available on esotericarchives.com with notes by Joseph. H. Peterson, who presents the pentacles from another manuscript.

Mathers' main contribution is the purification and correction of the Hebrew and the creation of the Hebrew text in the pentacles. In all the manuscripts I have seen so far, the pentacle texts have been in Latin, Italian, or German.

6/01/23

Top 5 movies about Dreaming

The best movies about dreaming. Not the most expensive or the most visually successful. Just don't look for Inception or Dreamscape here. Certainly not Vanilla Sky or Jacob's Ladder. Similarly, neither are gore movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street or Beyond Dream's Door. These films have their merits, no doubt, but they're more about something other than dreaming.
The main aspects of the selection are the story, the idea, and the depiction of dreams or dreaminess, or at least parts of it. So there are five films that are worth the time, because you can't watch everything, so you have to choose, ideally the good ones:


Leathe of Heaven - (1980) 


9/09/19

Do Not Follow John Constantine - The Comic Book Is Not a Grimoire

What is John Constantine drawing and what does he have to say about it?


"This magic circle was designed by John Dee in the 1600s when he wanted to keep demon Choronzon away. Nothing occult or hexing will hurt you here."