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Image 1 — The Secret Teachings Of All Ages by Manly P. Hall. (soda for size comparison)
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The Secret Teachings Of All Ages by Manly P. Hall. (soda for size comparison)

This is the superb Taschen "Sumo" Edition of this book alongside it's newly published "Companion" edition. Definitely worth a read no matter which edition you choose. This enormous "Sumo" sized edition and it's companion edition are currently still available on the Taschen Website. £530 for the pair. Alternatively, much cheaper editions can be found from many sellers including Amazon. £9.99 Paperback.

u/Zen_Shot — 4 days ago
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A woman divorces her husband because he stood up for himself

Okay so I found this Medium article and I am actually losing my mind.

This stay at home wife openly admits she has not slept with her husband in over a year because she is touched out. Meanwhile this guy works fifty hours a week to keep a roof over her head.

The guy finally wakes up and stops giving her free validation. He stops being a doormat and what does she do? She snoops through his iPad finds out he is reading some psychology stuff and instantly calls him abusive and apparently divorces him.

I stg they do not truly love us they just want the utility and lifestyle we provide. The second you stop being a resource for them to extract from you are completely disposable. Read this garbage and tell me I am wrong.

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u/TravellingSamuel231 — 5 days ago

Check your local Half Price Books

Snagged these three beautiful condition books. Mauve Zone is a Starfire reprint from 2016 and the other two are Skoob first editions. Paid $75 a piece for the Skoobs and $50 for the Starfire. So while not necessarily a steal, I'm pretty happy with the price.

u/Leading-Pea-2920 — 13 days ago

JSK - The Trve Grimoire

Evening all.

Got mail today !

And what an absolutely glorious today it is, because of it.

- Complete with green butterfly talisman
- No; 164/1000
- Condition ; Immaculate

Anything else you want to know, just message !

u/Mines_a_mojito — 13 days ago

Shams Al-Maarif Al-Kubra for Sale (uncensored edition)

Ultra-Rare, 100% Uncensored, Contains All Original Complete Talismans & Magic Squares

This private, unredacted underground run was printed in 1404 AH (1984 CE). At the time, printing unedited grimoires was legally restricted, making this an unnumbered, private limited production for dedicated practitioners.

The Cairo Archival Markings: The title page features genuine handwritten archival catalog notes from a Cairo collection ("Qahira 25"), showing that the 1892 Istanbul plates used for this 1984 reprint were sourced directly from historical Egyptian occult archives.

dm or email roxfeldampness@gmail.com

u/TheRisnox — 14 days ago
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What are some book recommendations if I want results without gathering crazy materials?

There seems to be a lot of books on magick that require extremely random things.

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u/Difficult_Print_5642 — 12 days ago

The Wonders of Magnetism and the Mysteries of Turning and Talking Tables, by J. Trismégiste, Paris 1854

I enjoy digging through old online archives and republishing forgotten books for my personal collection, and sharing them with others along the way. In English, pretty much everything already exists, but many occult works originally written in French have never been published in English. What a shame! Since French is my native language and I'm bilingual, I figured I could translate these works and bring them back to life in the language of Shakespeare.

So here is one of these rather strange works: The Wonders of Magnetism and the Mysteries of Turning and Talking Tables, by J. Trismégiste, published in Paris in 1854 by L. Passard. The pseudonym is obviously a nod to Hermes Trismegistus. The book came out at the height of the table-turning craze, which had swept through all the Parisian salons.

The first part deals with animal magnetism. The author traces its history through the centuries, presents Mesmer's propositions and Deleuze's principles, then explains in very practical terms how to magnetize someone and how to wake them up. He then describes the "phenomena" obtained. Somnambulists travel at a distance to visit the sick, and some supposedly even went all the way to the Moon. You'll also find Du Potet's famous "magic mirror."

The second part is devoted to turning and talking tables. The author recounts their American origins. He then gives a genuine how-to guide. He also explains how to build your own "zoo-magnetoscope" at home.

Available on Amazon here: https://a.co/d/0bySciA0

If you have suggestions for French books you'd like to see translated, let me know. If the subject interests me, I might translate it :P

u/gigueurfou — 14 days ago
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Natural Magic - John Porta (Full PDF)

Giambattista della Porta’s Natural Magic is often misremembered as a mere encyclopedia of Renaissance parlor tricks and early science, but reading it reveals a rigorous, operative manual for the physics of the vincula (bond).

Porta systematically maps the architecture of sympathy and antipathy; how the virtues of stones, plants, and planetary correspondences bind to the human pathētikon (affectability), and how the imagination can alter physical matter. He explains the mechanics of how their virtues are caught, concentrated, and directed.

This text is the Rosetta Stone for understanding how the Renaissance magus actually manipulated reality. It was exactly this rigorous, structural framework of natural correspondences that Giordano Bruno absorbed and expanded into his infinite, operative cosmology.

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When the Roman Inquisition inevitably targeted Porta for his operative knowledge, he chose to conform. He publicly disavowed the deeper magical elements of his work, neutered his texts, and was allowed to die an old man in his bed.

Giordano Bruno, carrying the exact same philosophical framework, refused to castrate his operative truth for the priesthood. He chose the fire instead of recanting

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u/-Hypsistos — 13 days ago