The best known of the spears in European mythology are Odin’s Spear (Gungnir), Lugh’s Spear (Assal) and Longinus’ Spear (the Spear of Destiny).
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At the same time, there are far more examples of people who, having abandoned the support of Traditions, ended up nowhere, having accumulated nothing but overweening self-conceit.
Magical traditions of different eras and peoples clearly understood the importance of Power in both magical and everyday life. Naturally, the question arose: how does one increase the level of Power?
There are several fundamentally important answers to this question.
The Eddic tales of Ragnarøkr — the final battle between the gods of the second generation and the thurses — include a strange episode: the battle begins with the unconquerable Odin, the Great Aesir, riding straight into the maw of the wolf Fenrir, where he perishes.
The principal work attributed to Honorius is the “Grimoire of Honorius.” The “Manuscript of Honorius” was first printed in Rome between 1628 and 1671. No manuscripts of this text have survived, and the first printed edition appeared only in the 17th century in France. According to Arthur Waite, this book, attributed to the Roman Pope, is a malicious forgery intended to discredit the Catholic Church.
Oktoada, as the static imprint of the Quadripolar Quaternary, signifies a moment in infinite extension, the eternal present that lies beyond time
In the folklore of the British peoples, a plot appears often enough to be called “marvelous funerals” — the funerals of the Fair Folk. Yet tales and legends repeat that Fairies do not die — at least, not of old age (they can only be killed or mortally wounded).
Yet at times they grow so weary of life that they begin to dream of death, which would deliver them from the burden of being. And to die, a Fairy must obtain an immortal soul, like a human one…
One would very much not want there to be more of such “marvelous funerals”…
There is probably no other question that has provoked such heated debate and elicited so many polarized answers as the question of how sexual energies interact with Magic and “spirituality.” Some staunchly defend the necessity of celibacy, or at least abstinence, for Magi; others, on the contrary, insist on the necessity of using sexual energies in Magic.
Modern mass mind has been conditioned to the belief that plants are entirely friendly to humans and that medicines derived from them are far better and more beneficial than synthetic ones.
The full title of this edition, translated, reads as follows: “This is the book of Adam Kadmon, given to him by the angel Raziel, and this book is a gate through which the righteous pass by the way of peace to the abode of God, to partake of divine grace.”
We have already discussed that, according to the Slavic cosmogonic myth, the first creative Dyad Svarog and Lada is balanced by the Supporting biner Veles–Semargl.
We have also already spoken about the Lord of the Threshold Veles.
Now our task is to touch upon the Power of Overcoming generated by Semargl.
The European pagan understanding of reincarnation was deeper than modern primitive notions of the process. What was meant was precisely transmigration: the flowing of a special invisible and imperceptible substance, a life‑force, which made two lives of completely different personalities somehow connected to one another and tinged with the same tone.
The study of Dreaming has become very popular thanks to a vogue for Latin American writers who introduced the Western world to indigenous notions of trance visions.