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When I was a catholic, I always liked saint Thomas.

I'm a fan of the other St. Thomas

that is not an image of Abraxas. It is the traditional representation of the philosopher s stone material in the form of an allegorical dragon. One head is mercury, one silver, snd one gold, that is Mercurius, Sol and Luna. It comes from a work by an italian alchemist called Giovanni Battista Nazar...

Oh my I remember this thread. Anyway: From Twilight of the Idols: 10. Not to perpetrate cowardice against one's own acts! Not to leave them in the lurch afterward! The bite of conscience is indecent. From Liber Al vel Legis: 46. Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart? 47. Where I am ...

Perhaps it would be wise rather than to discuss whatever or not some creatures have the quality good or the quality evil, to discuss what those qualities are. So I am asking the original poster, and really any on the forum, what are good? And what are evil? And how do you know if a creature have th...

Latin gets you loads more than just ancient texts, but you know it varies and such

Despite the fact that I had a dream in which I was walking through a library and picked up a book called Pico I prefer Bruno because he doesn't draw so much from Hebrew sources and completely embraces Hermetism above Christianity. Actually being as it was a dream that might have been Picatrix I saw,...

Oops just read the post and it's in there.

Funny you should relate him to Ganesha, I once saw a picture of each side by side and was struck by the similarity of the pose in that particular depiction. Of course I thought nothing of it.

I've heard the Baphomet as Corruption of Mahomet thing before. Also interesting to me is the phonetic similarity between Baphomet and Behemoth.

We need IAO131 back. I think he has a website

How do I change my avatar?

Anyone familiar with him? I've been reading about him recently but I haven't been able to get hold of any of his actual work. Just now found an english translation of The Heroic Frenzies in the Twilight Grotto (Last time I went there it was for Agrippa and Dee) but everything else there is in Latin....

I think it may already have been mentioned but demon is a neutral term originally meaning a wise spirit. Cacodemon being the term used to refer to malevolent entities, and I forget its correpsonding term. Although within the prevailing Christian paradigm and thus the major method for supernatural in...

I was a member of the old OF. You know, back before it was an archive. This is a new tag though because I'm mysterious. I wonder if I can get hooked again. How active is it here?

My interests are fairly broad. 'Theurgy' is a pretty good tag though.