#ritualmagic — Public Fediverse posts
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Transmission Begins // BLOOM IN RED
Facebook tried to dim my flame, but you can’t erase a siren born of blood and forest.
I root myself here, altar open, red silk and braids burning against green.
This is my new sanctuary for music, ritual, art, and transmissions—unfiltered, sovereign, and raw.
Red is my vow: survivor, healer, and wild creator.—Alice Alkemy
🩸🌹#AliceAlkemy #SewerSiren #BloomInRed #RitualMagic #BloomJournal #MusicMastodon #RedMagic #MastodonArt #Poetry #Mythos #Occult
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Ritualistically Sacrificing People’s Images Upon the Social Media Altar of Hate
It’s honestly kind of disturbing how obsessed people get with random social influencers, whether they’re famous or infamous, and how it’s almost become normal to turn any social media profile into a hate altar. The scariest part is how the line between memes and cult imagery has practically disappeared. Memes started out as just funny, ironic things, but now they’re something way bigger. They’re symbols. There’s actual research on how memes have moved beyond comedy, morphing into tools that shape beliefs and ideologies—just like how cults use imagery to brainwash and control their followers.
Influencers and politicians alike are no longer just figures we joke about—they’re symbols, figures we can either elevate or tear down. We don’t just laugh at them anymore; we turn them into these icons that can launch entire social movements, reshape ideologies, or fuel some ridiculous narrative. It’s not just about making fun of someone anymore. Sometimes, these memes border on something way darker—like worship or destruction—depending on which side of the fandom you fall on.
And it’s terrifying how this kind of obsession has been normalized. People dive into echo chambers where they only engage with content that confirms their biases, and anything remotely opposing is shot down with this obsessive, almost toxic rejection. Extreme views aren’t just tolerated—they’re amplified. It’s not just some online debate over a politician anymore; it’s about people relentlessly tearing apart someone’s reputation or blindly idolizing them to the point where they can’t do any wrong. Research on online behavior shows how this kind of content, all sensationalized and emotionally charged, is addictive—and it distorts how people see the world. Honestly, it’s like living in a digital, distorted version of reality, where everything is turned into outrage-bait just for clicks, likes, and shares. We live in a simulacrum.
What’s worse is the pathology of obsessions is now endemic to societies. It’s one thing to follow someone or engage with their content, but when it starts to consume every part of your online life—every post, every comment, every thought—something’s gone seriously wrong. They invest all this emotional energy into someone they’ve never met, creating a weird parasocial delusion. And in the digital age, it’s gotten out of hand. Some people stalk influencers, track every tiny detail of their personal lives, or even harass them online. It starts as harmless admiration, but when taken too far, it crosses a line into a full-blown obsession that hurts not just the influencer’s image but the mental health of the person obsessed too.
When you think about it, this obsession becomes like some twisted ritual where the target’s image is sacrificed. It’s not just harassment anymore—it’s dehumanization. People twist and distort a public figure’s image so much that it stops being who they are and becomes something else entirely—an idea, a symbol. It’s the same thing cults do to people: the image gets manipulated, and the followers consume it until the person themselves doesn’t exist anymore, just the idea of them. And online, it’s the same story. Figures get turned into icons that are either worshipped or torn apart, their real selves completely lost in the process. It’s like their image is being ritually sacrificed by the collective judgment of the masses—and there’s no space for nuance.
And it’s not just celebrities or politicians who are at risk. Anyone who gets thrust into the public eye through virality can become a target. All it takes is one Tik Tok. The obsessive need to either tear down or elevate a random figure based on personal biases is getting more and more cult-like. It’s become this bizarre, ritualistic form of image destruction where random people or public figures are “sacrificed” at the altar of online outrage. Their whole identity is reshaped to fit whatever narrative the internet wants to push—usually with little regard for fairness or truth. Algorithms play into this, rewarding the most extreme, polarizing content.
How the hell did we get here? How did we go from memes being these lighthearted jokes to this whole twisted, digital ritual where people’s identities get sacrificed for the sake of outrage, obsession, or devotion? Social media has created this bizarre world where the lines between fandom, obsession, and cult-like worship are totally blurred. We don’t just admire or criticize people anymore; we’re engaging with them in ways that are unhealthy, toxic, and Machiavellian. The person stops being a person. They become a symbol. And not just any symbol, but one to either tear down or idolize.
At this point, it’s not even about laughing at a meme, liking a post, or following someone on social media. It’s about ritually altering someone’s image until they’re either a god or a devil, depending on how the viewer sees them. And that’s the truly messed-up part. The online world has become a place where memes can turn into cult icons, and obsessive fixations are normal.
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What a marvel!
Let’s hope no semiologist gets hurt reading this piece :)Art is becoming increasingly essential in asserting our cultural autonomy against a technological determinism that, more often than not, exists solely in the minds of those who take the Gartner Hype Cycle as gospel and the marketing of major consulting firms as sacred writ.
The space of critique is our salvation.
The future is a space for self-determination.[Link to article: Meet the Artist Using Ritual Magic to Trap Self-Driving Cars – Vice]
https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-artist-using-ritual-magic-to-trap-self-driving-cars-2/
#ArtAsResistance #CriticalDesign #TechnologicalDeterminism #CulturalAutonomy #SpeculativeArt #AIArt #TechCriticism #FutureIsNow #SelfDrivingCars #RitualMagic #ContemporaryArt #AutonomyVsAutomation #DigitalCulture #PostDigitalArt
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What a marvel!
Let’s hope no semiologist gets hurt reading this piece :)Art is becoming increasingly essential in asserting our cultural autonomy against a technological determinism that, more often than not, exists solely in the minds of those who take the Gartner Hype Cycle as gospel and the marketing of major consulting firms as sacred writ.
The space of critique is our salvation.
The future is a space for self-determination.[Link to article: Meet the Artist Using Ritual Magic to Trap Self-Driving Cars – Vice]
https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-artist-using-ritual-magic-to-trap-self-driving-cars-2/
#ArtAsResistance #CriticalDesign #TechnologicalDeterminism #CulturalAutonomy #SpeculativeArt #AIArt #TechCriticism #FutureIsNow #SelfDrivingCars #RitualMagic #ContemporaryArt #AutonomyVsAutomation #DigitalCulture #PostDigitalArt
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What a marvel!
Let’s hope no semiologist gets hurt reading this piece :)Art is becoming increasingly essential in asserting our cultural autonomy against a technological determinism that, more often than not, exists solely in the minds of those who take the Gartner Hype Cycle as gospel and the marketing of major consulting firms as sacred writ.
The space of critique is our salvation.
The future is a space for self-determination.[Link to article: Meet the Artist Using Ritual Magic to Trap Self-Driving Cars – Vice]
https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-artist-using-ritual-magic-to-trap-self-driving-cars-2/
#ArtAsResistance #CriticalDesign #TechnologicalDeterminism #CulturalAutonomy #SpeculativeArt #AIArt #TechCriticism #FutureIsNow #SelfDrivingCars #RitualMagic #ContemporaryArt #AutonomyVsAutomation #DigitalCulture #PostDigitalArt
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What a marvel!
Let’s hope no semiologist gets hurt reading this piece :)Art is becoming increasingly essential in asserting our cultural autonomy against a technological determinism that, more often than not, exists solely in the minds of those who take the Gartner Hype Cycle as gospel and the marketing of major consulting firms as sacred writ.
The space of critique is our salvation.
The future is a space for self-determination.[Link to article: Meet the Artist Using Ritual Magic to Trap Self-Driving Cars – Vice]
https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-artist-using-ritual-magic-to-trap-self-driving-cars-2/
#ArtAsResistance #CriticalDesign #TechnologicalDeterminism #CulturalAutonomy #SpeculativeArt #AIArt #TechCriticism #FutureIsNow #SelfDrivingCars #RitualMagic #ContemporaryArt #AutonomyVsAutomation #DigitalCulture #PostDigitalArt
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What a marvel!
Let’s hope no semiologist gets hurt reading this piece :)Art is becoming increasingly essential in asserting our cultural autonomy against a technological determinism that, more often than not, exists solely in the minds of those who take the Gartner Hype Cycle as gospel and the marketing of major consulting firms as sacred writ.
The space of critique is our salvation.
The future is a space for self-determination.[Link to article: Meet the Artist Using Ritual Magic to Trap Self-Driving Cars – Vice]
https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-artist-using-ritual-magic-to-trap-self-driving-cars-2/
#ArtAsResistance #CriticalDesign #TechnologicalDeterminism #CulturalAutonomy #SpeculativeArt #AIArt #TechCriticism #FutureIsNow #SelfDrivingCars #RitualMagic #ContemporaryArt #AutonomyVsAutomation #DigitalCulture #PostDigitalArt
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Desecration!
Rušení posvŕtných hájů lípových, or, Disruption of sacred linden groves.
It seems a bunch of yobbos have invaded a sacred ritual held in a clearing in a forest.
The treatment of light and shade is exquisite in this 1884 engraving, published in a book “Bohemia: oint work of Czech writers and artists”, by František Adolf Šubert, lead, and František Adolf Borovský, co-editor.
#pagan #ritualMagic #druids #fromOldBooks #engraving #vintageArt
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Subert-Cechy-Vol2/pages/056-spirit-battle/
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Desecration!
Rušení posvŕtných hájů lípových, or, Disruption of sacred linden groves.
It seems a bunch of yobbos have invaded a sacred ritual held in a clearing in a forest.
The treatment of light and shade is exquisite in this 1884 engraving, published in a book “Bohemia: oint work of Czech writers and artists”, by František Adolf Šubert, lead, and František Adolf Borovský, co-editor.
#pagan #ritualMagic #druids #fromOldBooks #engraving #vintageArt
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Subert-Cechy-Vol2/pages/056-spirit-battle/
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Desecration!
Rušení posvŕtných hájů lípových, or, Disruption of sacred linden groves.
It seems a bunch of yobbos have invaded a sacred ritual held in a clearing in a forest.
The treatment of light and shade is exquisite in this 1884 engraving, published in a book “Bohemia: oint work of Czech writers and artists”, by František Adolf Šubert, lead, and František Adolf Borovský, co-editor.
#pagan #ritualMagic #druids #fromOldBooks #engraving #vintageArt
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Subert-Cechy-Vol2/pages/056-spirit-battle/
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Desecration!
Rušení posvŕtných hájů lípových, or, Disruption of sacred linden groves.
It seems a bunch of yobbos have invaded a sacred ritual held in a clearing in a forest.
The treatment of light and shade is exquisite in this 1884 engraving, published in a book “Bohemia: oint work of Czech writers and artists”, by František Adolf Šubert, lead, and František Adolf Borovský, co-editor.
#pagan #ritualMagic #druids #fromOldBooks #engraving #vintageArt
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Subert-Cechy-Vol2/pages/056-spirit-battle/
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Desecration!
Rušení posvŕtných hájů lípových, or, Disruption of sacred linden groves.
It seems a bunch of yobbos have invaded a sacred ritual held in a clearing in a forest.
The treatment of light and shade is exquisite in this 1884 engraving, published in a book “Bohemia: oint work of Czech writers and artists”, by František Adolf Šubert, lead, and František Adolf Borovský, co-editor.
#pagan #ritualMagic #druids #fromOldBooks #engraving #vintageArt
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Subert-Cechy-Vol2/pages/056-spirit-battle/
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#ICYMI: Capital Area Satanists/Green Serpents Full Moon Ritual from this weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDnVqOmzVykFull ritual text:
https://queersatanic.com/capital-area-satanists-a-ritual-for-the-cold-moon-and-the-dead/#CapitalAreaSatanists #GreenSerpents #Satanism #SatanicRitual #MoonRitual #LunarRituals #FullMoon #RitualMagic
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#ICYMI: Capital Area Satanists/Green Serpents Full Moon Ritual from this weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDnVqOmzVykFull ritual text:
https://queersatanic.com/capital-area-satanists-a-ritual-for-the-cold-moon-and-the-dead/#CapitalAreaSatanists #GreenSerpents #Satanism #SatanicRitual #MoonRitual #LunarRituals #FullMoon #RitualMagic
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#ICYMI: Capital Area Satanists/Green Serpents Full Moon Ritual from this weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDnVqOmzVykFull ritual text:
https://queersatanic.com/capital-area-satanists-a-ritual-for-the-cold-moon-and-the-dead/#CapitalAreaSatanists #GreenSerpents #Satanism #SatanicRitual #MoonRitual #LunarRituals #FullMoon #RitualMagic
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#ICYMI: Capital Area Satanists/Green Serpents Full Moon Ritual from this weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDnVqOmzVykFull ritual text:
https://queersatanic.com/capital-area-satanists-a-ritual-for-the-cold-moon-and-the-dead/#CapitalAreaSatanists #GreenSerpents #Satanism #SatanicRitual #MoonRitual #LunarRituals #FullMoon #RitualMagic
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#ICYMI: Capital Area Satanists/Green Serpents Full Moon Ritual from this weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDnVqOmzVykFull ritual text:
https://queersatanic.com/capital-area-satanists-a-ritual-for-the-cold-moon-and-the-dead/#CapitalAreaSatanists #GreenSerpents #Satanism #SatanicRitual #MoonRitual #LunarRituals #FullMoon #RitualMagic
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A Malediction Ritual Against Evil Empires
(Dark Moon Ritual Dec. 1, 2024)
Suggested materials are:
* a candle
* a lighter or matches
* a piece of paper
* a writing instrumentThough if you lack any of these you can simply follow along on the video stream.
The candle will be lit in the ritual, so keep it at hand for now.
*If you are not a member but are interested in getting involved, you can find a link to our [Capital Area Satanists’] Discord at CapitalAreaSatanists.org
CREDITS
Opening and Closing of Ritual: The Organizers of Capital Area SatanistsThe Malediction Against Evil Empires: Piper Furiosa
(Inspired by Greek Curse Tablets & Archbishop Gavin Dunbar’s “Monition of Cursing")
Performed and Filmed By: Felo de Se and Piper Furiosa
Video Editing: Piper Furiosa
#Satanism #SatanicRitual #CapitalAreaSatanists #Ritual #RitualMagic #MoonRitual #DarkMoonRitual
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A Malediction Ritual Against Evil Empires
(Dark Moon Ritual Dec. 1, 2024)
Suggested materials are:
* a candle
* a lighter or matches
* a piece of paper
* a writing instrumentThough if you lack any of these you can simply follow along on the video stream.
The candle will be lit in the ritual, so keep it at hand for now.
*If you are not a member but are interested in getting involved, you can find a link to our [Capital Area Satanists’] Discord at CapitalAreaSatanists.org
CREDITS
Opening and Closing of Ritual: The Organizers of Capital Area SatanistsThe Malediction Against Evil Empires: Piper Furiosa
(Inspired by Greek Curse Tablets & Archbishop Gavin Dunbar’s “Monition of Cursing")
Performed and Filmed By: Felo de Se and Piper Furiosa
Video Editing: Piper Furiosa
#Satanism #SatanicRitual #CapitalAreaSatanists #Ritual #RitualMagic #MoonRitual #DarkMoonRitual
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A Malediction Ritual Against Evil Empires
(Dark Moon Ritual Dec. 1, 2024)
Suggested materials are:
* a candle
* a lighter or matches
* a piece of paper
* a writing instrumentThough if you lack any of these you can simply follow along on the video stream.
The candle will be lit in the ritual, so keep it at hand for now.
*If you are not a member but are interested in getting involved, you can find a link to our [Capital Area Satanists’] Discord at CapitalAreaSatanists.org
CREDITS
Opening and Closing of Ritual: The Organizers of Capital Area SatanistsThe Malediction Against Evil Empires: Piper Furiosa
(Inspired by Greek Curse Tablets & Archbishop Gavin Dunbar’s “Monition of Cursing")
Performed and Filmed By: Felo de Se and Piper Furiosa
Video Editing: Piper Furiosa
#Satanism #SatanicRitual #CapitalAreaSatanists #Ritual #RitualMagic #MoonRitual #DarkMoonRitual
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A Malediction Ritual Against Evil Empires
(Dark Moon Ritual Dec. 1, 2024)
Suggested materials are:
* a candle
* a lighter or matches
* a piece of paper
* a writing instrumentThough if you lack any of these you can simply follow along on the video stream.
The candle will be lit in the ritual, so keep it at hand for now.
*If you are not a member but are interested in getting involved, you can find a link to our [Capital Area Satanists’] Discord at CapitalAreaSatanists.org
CREDITS
Opening and Closing of Ritual: The Organizers of Capital Area SatanistsThe Malediction Against Evil Empires: Piper Furiosa
(Inspired by Greek Curse Tablets & Archbishop Gavin Dunbar’s “Monition of Cursing")
Performed and Filmed By: Felo de Se and Piper Furiosa
Video Editing: Piper Furiosa
#Satanism #SatanicRitual #CapitalAreaSatanists #Ritual #RitualMagic #MoonRitual #DarkMoonRitual
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A Malediction Ritual Against Evil Empires
(Dark Moon Ritual Dec. 1, 2024)
Suggested materials are:
* a candle
* a lighter or matches
* a piece of paper
* a writing instrumentThough if you lack any of these you can simply follow along on the video stream.
The candle will be lit in the ritual, so keep it at hand for now.
*If you are not a member but are interested in getting involved, you can find a link to our [Capital Area Satanists’] Discord at CapitalAreaSatanists.org
CREDITS
Opening and Closing of Ritual: The Organizers of Capital Area SatanistsThe Malediction Against Evil Empires: Piper Furiosa
(Inspired by Greek Curse Tablets & Archbishop Gavin Dunbar’s “Monition of Cursing")
Performed and Filmed By: Felo de Se and Piper Furiosa
Video Editing: Piper Furiosa
#Satanism #SatanicRitual #CapitalAreaSatanists #Ritual #RitualMagic #MoonRitual #DarkMoonRitual
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The Magic Square of Mercury is a type of kamea and magic square. The context of that conversation was about how mages are always complaining about Mercury in retrograde, though any magician worth their salt would understand that planetary magic squares can be used to block the astral energy.
I am more of a sorcerer than a diviner, so I use magical symbols, systems, and subjunctive conditional (prescriptive fictions) to alter reality instead of trying to predict it. Therefore, the predictive power of astrological systems is irrelevant to me personally because I use them to manipulate, not predict, possible futures.
Mathematically, a magic square is a grid of numbers arranged in such a way that the sum of the numbers in each row, column, and diagonal is the same.
While I am not otherkin, I am a cambion (half-demon). An incubus ‘altered’ my father’s sperm, so I have a human father, a human mother, and a demonic parent. You can think of it as an astral virus. My preternatural insight is knowledge of sorcery and thaumaturgy, which gives me mathematical aptitude. My mathematical abilities and my magical abilities are intrinsically linked and are manifestations of my demonic heritage.
#alchemist #Alchemy #Animism #animistic #Astral #astrological #astrology #ceremonialMagic #ceremonialMagick #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #Hellenism #Hellenistic #HermeticOrderOfTheGoldenDawn #hermeticism #magick #occultism #otherkin #pagan #paganism #paranormal #ritualMagic #ritualMagick #sigil #sigilMagic #sigilMagick #sigils #Spirituality #talisman #talismans #Thaumaturgy #Thelema #theosophy #Theurgy #Twitter #witch #witchcraft
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The Magic Square of Mercury is a type of kamea and magic square. The context of that conversation was about how mages are always complaining about Mercury in retrograde, though any magician worth their salt would understand that planetary magic squares can be used to block the astral energy.
I am more of a sorcerer than a diviner, so I use magical symbols, systems, and subjunctive conditional (prescriptive fictions) to alter reality instead of trying to predict it. Therefore, the predictive power of astrological systems is irrelevant to me personally because I use them to manipulate, not predict, possible futures.
Mathematically, a magic square is a grid of numbers arranged in such a way that the sum of the numbers in each row, column, and diagonal is the same.
While I am not otherkin, I am a cambion (half-demon). An incubus ‘altered’ my father’s sperm, so I have a human father, a human mother, and a demonic parent. You can think of it as an astral virus. My preternatural insight is knowledge of sorcery and thaumaturgy, which gives me mathematical aptitude. My mathematical abilities and my magical abilities are intrinsically linked and are manifestations of my demonic heritage.
#alchemist #Alchemy #Animism #animistic #Astral #astrological #astrology #ceremonialMagic #ceremonialMagick #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #Hellenism #Hellenistic #HermeticOrderOfTheGoldenDawn #hermeticism #magick #occultism #otherkin #pagan #paganism #paranormal #ritualMagic #ritualMagick #sigil #sigilMagic #sigilMagick #sigils #Spirituality #talisman #talismans #Thaumaturgy #Thelema #theosophy #Theurgy #Twitter #witch #witchcraft
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I’m always highly amused when ceremonial magicians or energy workers claim to practice high magic or have some skill, but then when I whip out a very basic magic square of Mercury, they claim they do not do Math magic. It’s quite amusing to me because there’s a slight medieval difference in the connotation between Sorcery and Thaumaturgy, and many of them will call the basic magic sorcery they do, such as sigils, thaumaturgy.
Technology, art, and magic can inspire awe and wonder, so the artist is similar to the technologist, which is similar to the magician in that their disciplines are marvelous. Many occultists incorrectly use thaumaturgy to reference any art, technique, or technology that is marvelous or even extraordinary, so it is frequently conflated with sorcery, albeit there’s a large difference between black and white magic from an esoteric perspective.
Orthodoxly, the adept is not the sorcerer. While both inspire awe and wonder, Johnathan Dee explicitly mentioned Thaumaturgy as a mathematical art in The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara. In that preface, John Dee primarily discusses foundational principles and concepts of geometry as presented by Euclid. Euclid’s “Elements” is a comprehensive compilation of the fundamental principles of geometry, including definitions, postulates, propositions, and proofs.
In addition to that, Enochian Magic is highly algorithmic and uses techniques that John Dee discussed in The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara. The modern understanding of Thaumaturgy is predicated on Math, though. Math and technology elicit the same aesthetic sense of awe and wonder that miracles and magic do. For example, lightning is awesome. It inspires awe and wonder. We can call a lightning strike beautiful and thus grant it an aesthetic value that we seek to capture in art. Since this is willful and deliberate, the art is magic. So, we can call lightning magical; however, that isn’t sufficient to call it thaumaturgy.
High Magic is highly metaphysical and uses formal symbolic languages, such as Geometry and Math. If you are bad at Math or do not like Math, you are quite limited.
Alchemy and Thaumaturgy are branches of Natural Magic which do not necessarily depend on spirits. So I am always highly amused when so-called occultists on Twitter try to discredit me while acknowledging they actually know nothing about the magic I practice.
I hate fraternities. Always have. Always will. I was never tempted to join one in college, though my sister pledged to a sorority. This applies to occult fraternities too. Occult lodges are just occult frat bros. For some reason, though, not subjecting myself to the abuse of occult orders somehow makes me less knowledgeable. It’s so bizarre.
Anyone who knows me knows that I love The Vampire Diaries universe, and I really relate to the members of the Gemini coven, especially the siphoners, like Josie. While they are known for their vampire and witch hybrids, the Gemini coven is especially skilled at hoary and creating mechanical devices based on hoary astrology that serve as astrological machines. They called it an ascendant, and it’s normally presented as a key to a prison world in the show.
Gemini covenMy husband and I are putting together something like those devices from 3D printing parts and gears to create an astrological engine. That is an example of Thaumaturgy. See this link for a copy of The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara.
#alchemist #Alchemy #Animism #animistic #Astral #astrological #astrology #ceremonialMagic #ceremonialMagick #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #Hellenism #Hellenistic #HermeticOrderOfTheGoldenDawn #hermeticism #magick #occultism #pagan #paganism #paranormal #ritualMagic #ritualMagick #sigil #sigilMagic #sigilMagick #sigils #Spirituality #Thaumaturgy #Thelema #theosophy #Theurgy #Twitter #witch #witchcraft
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I’m always highly amused when ceremonial magicians or energy workers claim to practice high magic or have some skill, but then when I whip out a very basic magic square of Mercury, they claim they do not do Math magic. It’s quite amusing to me because there’s a slight medieval difference in the connotation between Sorcery and Thaumaturgy, and many of them will call the basic magic sorcery they do, such as sigils, thaumaturgy.
Technology, art, and magic can inspire awe and wonder, so the artist is similar to the technologist, which is similar to the magician in that their disciplines are marvelous. Many occultists incorrectly use thaumaturgy to reference any art, technique, or technology that is marvelous or even extraordinary, so it is frequently conflated with sorcery, albeit there’s a large difference between black and white magic from an esoteric perspective.
Orthodoxly, the adept is not the sorcerer. While both inspire awe and wonder, Johnathan Dee explicitly mentioned Thaumaturgy as a mathematical art in The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara. In that preface, John Dee primarily discusses foundational principles and concepts of geometry as presented by Euclid. Euclid’s “Elements” is a comprehensive compilation of the fundamental principles of geometry, including definitions, postulates, propositions, and proofs.
In addition to that, Enochian Magic is highly algorithmic and uses techniques that John Dee discussed in The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara. The modern understanding of Thaumaturgy is predicated on Math, though. Math and technology elicit the same aesthetic sense of awe and wonder that miracles and magic do. For example, lightning is awesome. It inspires awe and wonder. We can call a lightning strike beautiful and thus grant it an aesthetic value that we seek to capture in art. Since this is willful and deliberate, the art is magic. So, we can call lightning magical; however, that isn’t sufficient to call it thaumaturgy.
High Magic is highly metaphysical and uses formal symbolic languages, such as Geometry and Math. If you are bad at Math or do not like Math, you are quite limited.
Alchemy and Thaumaturgy are branches of Natural Magic which do not necessarily depend on spirits. So I am always highly amused when so-called occultists on Twitter try to discredit me while acknowledging they actually know nothing about the magic I practice.
I hate fraternities. Always have. Always will. I was never tempted to join one in college, though my sister pledged to a sorority. This applies to occult fraternities too. Occult lodges are just occult frat bros. For some reason, though, not subjecting myself to the abuse of occult orders somehow makes me less knowledgeable. It’s so bizarre.
Anyone who knows me knows that I love The Vampire Diaries universe, and I really relate to the members of the Gemini coven, especially the siphoners, like Josie. While they are known for their vampire and witch hybrids, the Gemini coven is especially skilled at hoary and creating mechanical devices based on hoary astrology that serve as astrological machines. They called it an ascendant, and it’s normally presented as a key to a prison world in the show.
Gemini covenMy husband and I are putting together something like those devices from 3D printing parts and gears to create an astrological engine. That is an example of Thaumaturgy. See this link for a copy of The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara.
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The thing that I find very interesting about many occultists, especially chaos magicians, is that they do not realize we have sigils in our brains. A sigil is a symbol. Ontologically, a symbol is an abstract denotation of a set, a representation, and a representation that points to a value which could also be a representation. When I think about my bed, I do not have an actual bed in my brain. The thought about my bed is a representation of my bed. It’s a symbol.
When you form memories, your brain creates things called memory traces, which are physical representations and symbols of objects. These memory traces can be formed from changes in synaptic strength, such as long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) and distributed across neural circuits. After that, a partial cue or context can trigger the retrieval of a complete memory. In addition to that, memories can be reactivated and consolidated. Stored memories can be retrieved and reactivated, leading to their stabilization and potential modification through consolidation. This creates a physical trace.
As an aside, the parapsychologist who scientifically investigated mediumship, Stephen Braude, wrote a paper a while ago about the Hard Problem of Psychology and how this relates to memory traces. You can find that paper here:
Memory Without a TraceSigils are metaphysically useful because they allow us to identify, manipulate, and map purely conceptual entities that are not physical, and they act as mnemonic identifiers that allow us to locate things in our minds.
There is an aspect of this of particular interest: Since memory traces and sigils connote the same magical ideas and can be used in the same implementations, you can use other people’s memories in the same way that you use a sigil. I’m human and you’re human. So, we are instances of a prototypical ontological classification of humans. We are representative of humanity. As I said before, a symbol is a subset of a category. In a one-dimensional enumeration of characters or objects, these entities are symbolic because they are a set of things that we can count; therefore, they are extensions of that set. We are instances of the set of humanity; therefore, we’re not just people, we are also symbols and entities with a physical presence.
So, not only can you treat memory traces in people’s brains as sigils, you can treat their entire physical presence as a symbol of humanity itself. And since a person has a persistent existence through time, there are multiple versions of them that exist at different times. We don’t move through time; instead, information about us is translated moment to moment, so it is more like every moment we physically exist is a moment where we are copied. But, we still are us, right? We are an abstraction of ourselves – a pattern or a signal. That means you can treat a person as an archetype of themselves.
The interesting thing about many ceremonial magicians is that they tend to elevate humanity and assert that sorcery applies to non-physical things; however, it does not apply to humans because humans have a physical presence. That is not true. Our physical bodies are information, since they are fundamentally comprised of a canonical ensemble of states, from which information emerges. That implies we are intrinsically symbolic entities, and we are instances of a particular pattern that we call humanity. More importantly, we are a manifestation of a self-replicating pattern that we call life. Since any time-dependent thing can be deconstructed into a sum of sines and cosines, that means time-dependent things like life have harmonics. We call a propagation of information, such as something through time, a signal. So, our existence is symbolic on a rising and falling edge. Not only are we symbolic, we might not even be “real,” but I digress. The same rules that apply to any other being a magician is evoking can also be applied to humans.
Ousia is a Greek metaphysical term commonly translated as “essence,” “substance,” or “being.” In metaphysics, ousia refers to the fundamental nature or essence of something. In the context of belonging to a category, ousia can be understood as the underlying essence or substance that defines what something fundamentally is, rather than just its superficial properties. It connotes spirit. Thus, we can view instances of individual humans as extensions of the human soul or human spirit and use people as symbols to manipulate the soul or spirit. The potential energy would be dunamis, and the realized energy would be energia. Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of formative causation and morphic resonance supports the idea of an entelechy and ousia that emerges from a field of forms.
Can sigils be charged? The answer is usually no. Sigils are not the thing itself; instead, sigils are representations and pointers. For example, a conventional usage of a sigil is as signatures for entities, or they serve as mnemonic identifiers within our schema.
Can you create a sigil that can be charged? Yes, if you use a system that is composed of different possible states where when something is added or subtracted, it changes the system. An example of creating a charged sigil is via technomancy. If you were to use Johnson–Nyquist noise and you psychically and magically projected a pattern onto that noise which denotes the “sigil”, then you can say something has been charged. In addition to that, you can combine that with hash functions of encryption to generate something cryptographic.
If we treat memory traces as sigils, can you charge that? Yes, however, it would holistically impact that person. Charging the edges of neural circuits affect synaptic transmissions. In a neural circuit, the edges typically represent the connections between neurons, known as synapses. The ion channels have potential, and that potential determines if a neuron fires or does not fire; therefore, you can charge that memory trace and neural circuits since there’s potential and different states there that can come from charges.
Entropy can refer to any energy that is not doing intended work. So, the energy from a traumatic event (a haunting) or the residue from a magical act (a ritual) that is no longer going towards doing something but it just exists in the ambience is entropic. Human neurophysiology is extremely sensitive to the energies that magic uses, so entropic psychic or magical energy can charge the neurology of a person by being in that place. Humans are highly volatile “sigils”. Conventionally, if you turn a person’s image into a meme, you are effectively treating them as a memetic sigil.
However, a sigil written on the floor in chalk cannot be charged because there are no different states that are sensitive to the magical energy that can change. It can be aligned with a non-physical construct, but it cannot be charged because there’s no sufficient physical entropy. Magic and psychic energy interact strongly with randomness, so with something created via Johnson–Nyquist noise or even something that undergoes Brownian motion and precipitates out of a solution, there’s a potential for it to be in a different state. The charge would be held within the enthalpic properties of the precipitate. A sigil written in chalk is not going to spontaneously change its shape during a ritual. Instead, the sigil acts as an identifier and mapping to the magical or psychic entity, allowing one to interact with it intentionally.
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The thing that I find very interesting about many occultists, especially chaos magicians, is that they do not realize we have sigils in our brains. A sigil is a symbol. Ontologically, a symbol is an abstract denotation of a set, a representation, and a representation that points to a value which could also be a representation. When I think about my bed, I do not have an actual bed in my brain. The thought about my bed is a representation of my bed. It’s a symbol.
When you form memories, your brain creates things called memory traces, which are physical representations and symbols of objects. These memory traces can be formed from changes in synaptic strength, such as long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) and distributed across neural circuits. After that, a partial cue or context can trigger the retrieval of a complete memory. In addition to that, memories can be reactivated and consolidated. Stored memories can be retrieved and reactivated, leading to their stabilization and potential modification through consolidation. This creates a physical trace.
As an aside, the parapsychologist who scientifically investigated mediumship, Stephen Braude, wrote a paper a while ago about the Hard Problem of Psychology and how this relates to memory traces. You can find that paper here:
Memory Without a TraceSigils are metaphysically useful because they allow us to identify, manipulate, and map purely conceptual entities that are not physical, and they act as mnemonic identifiers that allow us to locate things in our minds.
There is an aspect of this of particular interest: Since memory traces and sigils connote the same magical ideas and can be used in the same implementations, you can use other people’s memories in the same way that you use a sigil. I’m human and you’re human. So, we are instances of a prototypical ontological classification of humans. We are representative of humanity. As I said before, a symbol is a subset of a category. In a one-dimensional enumeration of characters or objects, these entities are symbolic because they are a set of things that we can count; therefore, they are extensions of that set. We are instances of the set of humanity; therefore, we’re not just people, we are also symbols and entities with a physical presence.
So, not only can you treat memory traces in people’s brains as sigils, you can treat their entire physical presence as a symbol of humanity itself. And since a person has a persistent existence through time, there are multiple versions of them that exist at different times. We don’t move through time; instead, information about us is translated moment to moment, so it is more like every moment we physically exist is a moment where we are copied. But, we still are us, right? We are an abstraction of ourselves – a pattern or a signal. That means you can treat a person as an archetype of themselves.
The interesting thing about many ceremonial magicians is that they tend to elevate humanity and assert that sorcery applies to non-physical things; however, it does not apply to humans because humans have a physical presence. That is not true. Our physical bodies are information, since they are fundamentally comprised of a canonical ensemble of states, from which information emerges. That implies we are intrinsically symbolic entities, and we are instances of a particular pattern that we call humanity. More importantly, we are a manifestation of a self-replicating pattern that we call life. Since any time-dependent thing can be deconstructed into a sum of sines and cosines, that means time-dependent things like life have harmonics. We call a propagation of information, such as something through time, a signal. So, our existence is symbolic on a rising and falling edge. Not only are we symbolic, we might not even be “real,” but I digress. The same rules that apply to any other being a magician is evoking can also be applied to humans.
Ousia is a Greek metaphysical term commonly translated as “essence,” “substance,” or “being.” In metaphysics, ousia refers to the fundamental nature or essence of something. In the context of belonging to a category, ousia can be understood as the underlying essence or substance that defines what something fundamentally is, rather than just its superficial properties. It connotes spirit. Thus, we can view instances of individual humans as extensions of the human soul or human spirit and use people as symbols to manipulate the soul or spirit. The potential energy would be dunamis, and the realized energy would be energia. Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of formative causation and morphic resonance supports the idea of an entelechy and ousia that emerges from a field of forms.
Can sigils be charged? The answer is usually no. Sigils are not the thing itself; instead, sigils are representations and pointers. For example, a conventional usage of a sigil is as signatures for entities, or they serve as mnemonic identifiers within our schema.
Can you create a sigil that can be charged? Yes, if you use a system that is composed of different possible states where when something is added or subtracted, it changes the system. An example of creating a charged sigil is via technomancy. If you were to use Johnson–Nyquist noise and you psychically and magically projected a pattern onto that noise which denotes the “sigil”, then you can say something has been charged. In addition to that, you can combine that with hash functions of encryption to generate something cryptographic.
If we treat memory traces as sigils, can you charge that? Yes, however, it would holistically impact that person. Charging the edges of neural circuits affect synaptic transmissions. In a neural circuit, the edges typically represent the connections between neurons, known as synapses. The ion channels have potential, and that potential determines if a neuron fires or does not fire; therefore, you can charge that memory trace and neural circuits since there’s potential and different states there that can come from charges.
Entropy can refer to any energy that is not doing intended work. So, the energy from a traumatic event (a haunting) or the residue from a magical act (a ritual) that is no longer going towards doing something but it just exists in the ambience is entropic. Human neurophysiology is extremely sensitive to the energies that magic uses, so entropic psychic or magical energy can charge the neurology of a person by being in that place. Humans are highly volatile “sigils”. Conventionally, if you turn a person’s image into a meme, you are effectively treating them as a memetic sigil.
However, a sigil written on the floor in chalk cannot be charged because there are no different states that are sensitive to the magical energy that can change. It can be aligned with a non-physical construct, but it cannot be charged because there’s no sufficient physical entropy. Magic and psychic energy interact strongly with randomness, so with something created via Johnson–Nyquist noise or even something that undergoes Brownian motion and precipitates out of a solution, there’s a potential for it to be in a different state. The charge would be held within the enthalpic properties of the precipitate. A sigil written in chalk is not going to spontaneously change its shape during a ritual. Instead, the sigil acts as an identifier and mapping to the magical or psychic entity, allowing one to interact with it intentionally.
#Animism #animistic #ceremonialMagic #ceremonialMagick #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #egregore #egregores #grimoire #grimoires #magick #occult #occultism #pagan #paganism #paranormal #Parapsychology #psychic #ritual #ritualMagic #ritualMagick #rituals #RupertSheldrake #sigil #sigilMagic #sigilMagick #sigils #sorcery #Spirituality #witch #witchcraft
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🔮✨ Dive into the Enchanting World of Modern Witchcraft with Tanya Luhrmann! ✨🔮
Are you curious about how magic thrives in our scientific era? 🌟 Join us as we unravel the mysteries of "Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England." Discover the fascinating journey from skepticism to belief through the lens of 'interpretative drift.' 📚💫
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Watch now:
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🔮✨ Dive into the Enchanting World of Modern Witchcraft with Tanya Luhrmann! ✨🔮
Are you curious about how magic thrives in our scientific era? 🌟 Join us as we unravel the mysteries of "Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England." Discover the fascinating journey from skepticism to belief through the lens of 'interpretative drift.' 📚💫
#Magic #Witchcraft #RitualMagic #TanyaLuhrmann #InterpretativeDrift #Witchcraft
Watch now:
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🔮✨ Dive into the Enchanting World of Modern Witchcraft with Tanya Luhrmann! ✨🔮
Are you curious about how magic thrives in our scientific era? 🌟 Join us as we unravel the mysteries of "Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England." Discover the fascinating journey from skepticism to belief through the lens of 'interpretative drift.' 📚💫
#Magic #Witchcraft #RitualMagic #TanyaLuhrmann #InterpretativeDrift #Witchcraft
Watch now:
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🔮✨ Dive into the Enchanting World of Modern Witchcraft with Tanya Luhrmann! ✨🔮
Are you curious about how magic thrives in our scientific era? 🌟 Join us as we unravel the mysteries of "Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England." Discover the fascinating journey from skepticism to belief through the lens of 'interpretative drift.' 📚💫
#Magic #Witchcraft #RitualMagic #TanyaLuhrmann #InterpretativeDrift #Witchcraft
Watch now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50eSsUSSujc -
🔮✨ Dive into the Enchanting World of Modern Witchcraft with Tanya Luhrmann! ✨🔮
Are you curious about how magic thrives in our scientific era? 🌟 Join us as we unravel the mysteries of "Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England." Discover the fascinating journey from skepticism to belief through the lens of 'interpretative drift.' 📚💫
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Watch now:
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One of the main reasons that #Incense is used in #ritual is that most of the inhabitants Spirit World HATE the smell of Humans.
Also, using the right #fragrance makes the Spirit more willing to cooperate with you.
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One of the main reasons that #Incense is used in #ritual is that most of the inhabitants Spirit World HATE the smell of Humans.
Also, using the right #fragrance makes the Spirit more willing to cooperate with you.
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One of the main reasons that #Incense is used in #ritual is that most of the inhabitants Spirit World HATE the smell of Humans.
Also, using the right #fragrance makes the Spirit more willing to cooperate with you.
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The Moonlit Hermit is not (yet) on Mastodon, so I am sharing this for him. He is working with the #LunarMansions and having some interesting thoughts and results. #Picatrix #ritual #RitualMagic #astrology
https://moonlithermit.blogspot.com/2022/11/seeking-mystery-in-lunar-mansions.html -
The Moonlit Hermit is not (yet) on Mastodon, so I am sharing this for him. He is working with the #LunarMansions and having some interesting thoughts and results. #Picatrix #ritual #RitualMagic #astrology
https://moonlithermit.blogspot.com/2022/11/seeking-mystery-in-lunar-mansions.html -
The Moonlit Hermit is not (yet) on Mastodon, so I am sharing this for him. He is working with the #LunarMansions and having some interesting thoughts and results. #Picatrix #ritual #RitualMagic #astrology
https://moonlithermit.blogspot.com/2022/11/seeking-mystery-in-lunar-mansions.html -
The Moonlit Hermit is not (yet) on Mastodon, so I am sharing this for him. He is working with the #LunarMansions and having some interesting thoughts and results. #Picatrix #ritual #RitualMagic #astrology
https://moonlithermit.blogspot.com/2022/11/seeking-mystery-in-lunar-mansions.html
