Let’s examine a largely unknown example of how the Olympic Spirits were pragmatically incorporated into the ever-evolving strands of folk magic. Specifically, we are taking a look at how the Olympic Spirits were leveraged as lares or household deities.
Read MoreThis essay is intended to be a torch thrown into the dark realms of Paracelsus’s genius. My naive hope is that someone might catch this torch and walk on with it. If, however, its flames will die down in full flight, my more realistic hope remains that it might hit some magicians and astrologers as a blunt club to the head. For that is what happens to me, each time I delve deep into Paracelsus’s writings: I see my mind cut, I bleed certainties, only to witness the morning star of new possibilities.
Read MoreIf we were to translate Paracelsus’s explanations on faith in the above quotes and elsewhere into a 21st-century position, we could give it as such: He defines the human capability of having faith in something as the ability to flow into one.
Read More[…] It takes Paracelsus less than two pages to establish a critical foundation for a Western type of shamanism almost entirely forgotten or overlooked today. In sparse words and with the precision of an adept in his field, he gives us the essential outline of the ecosystem of spirits within which the magus operates and orientates themselves.
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