A captivating introduction to the practice of the Egyptian Magical Tradition, drawing on translations from the recorded history, magical and religious secrets of the Nile Valley. Not a book for beginners on the magical Path but certainly ideal for those fasinated by an ancient knowledge which influenced nearly every emerging magical and myatical tradition in the Western World.

Liber Aegyptius: The Book of Egyptian Magic

Politics & Social Sciences

Draco, Mélusine

Social Sciences

Drake Intl Services

Explores how ancient Egyptian gods evolved from abstract concepts to recognizable forms, intertwining religion, magic, and daily life over millennia. In the days of Egyptian antiquity, many of the gods were abstract concepts rather than the actual anthropomorphic god-pictures familiar to us today. Many of the later fully-morphed deities were originally theological concepts represented by a distinctive hieroglyph, very similar to the correspondences used in modern ritual magic. As the need for a controlling religion grew, so did the spiritual need for more tangible forms on which to focus the common people's devotions. The common man's mind dwelt on the concrete, not the abstract, and so the gods took on those strange but easily recognisable animal-human shapes to satisfy the religious-teaching-by-pictures demands of less scholarly folk. The images recorded in tomb paintings, bas-relief and statuary were intended to represent living forms of the gods themselves, or Pharaoh as a god. There was a simple reason behind this. Egyptian life, magic and religion were inextricably intertwined, one could not, and did not exist, without the other. God, or a male/female/multiple concept of that god, was manifest in everything animate and inanimate.The authentic Egyptian religion developed over thousands of years, with each deity assuming many forms under the influence of various religious movements and/or foreign invasions. Each form also developed its own positive and negative aspects, which responded in various ways to different people, and so it is now impossible to be dogmatic about how the gods of those different theologies relate and blend. It is also important to realise that the original religion was never an earth-bound concept since the priesthood explored mysticism on a cosmic scale: their spirituality extending to the stars and beyond. The Egyptian civilisation took over 3000 years to evolve fully and a further 2000 years to decay, which is why the Egyptian Mystery Tradition cannot be encapsulated into convenient modern packaging.

Understanding the Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

Religion & Spirituality

Pen and Sword History

Magic Crystals, Sacred Stones is aimed at those who have explored crystal working as a beginner and who now wish to understand the mysteries of the Earth at a deeper level.

Magic Crystals, Sacred Stones

New Age & Spirituality

Axis Mundis Books

The interest in the religion and spirituality of the Egyptians is increasing steadily as people begin to realise that it is possible to follow this ancient belief in the 21st century. This religion is the oldest recorded belief system in the world, having just entered its sixth millennia - and can still teach us how to live in both earthly and cosmic harmony.  But first, we need to put things into some sort of perspective ...  The modern, abstract cover design instead of traditional artwork immediately suggests that 'The Atum-Re Revival : Ancient Egyptian Wisdom for the Modern World' is going to offer a different approach to ancient Egypt.  As one reader said:  "A really well written, interesting and knowledgeable book; having quite an interest in the Egyptian Mystery Tradition, I found this to be an extremely solid and informative text.  I have studied a little Egyptian magic, but this book is fascinating and goes much further than anything I have previously read."    Unusually, the text examines ancient Egyptian belief from earlier times rather than the later, more familiar Greek influences.  It also includes a genuine calendar that has been compiled from various Greek and Demotic Magical Papyri lodged in the British Museum, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Staarliche Museum in Berlin and the Rijksmuseum in Leiden; the Sallier Papyrus IV and The Cairo Calendar currently lodged in the British and Cairo Museums. The calendar lists the names of the deities whose anniversaries take place on every day of the year including special spells (prayers) that were devised for the protection on certain 'unlucky' days.  Every day was considered to have some magical significance, which caused it to be "good, bad, or partly good and partly bad".  By consulting these lists of lucky and unlucky days, each individual could protect himself and his family against the danger of the day. It is also interesting to see just how much ancient Egyptian customs and philosophy has influenced Western European culture and metaphysics right up to the 20th century.   The author, Melusine Draco is Principal of the Temple of Khem, which teaches the modern Egyptian Mysteries and as she says: "By viewing the Egyptian Mystery Tradition as a continuing and expanding faith, with its own temple calendar, established history and 'futuristic' thinking, it is possible to see that this very ancient wisdom has a very positive place in the modern world."

The Atum-Re Revival: Ancient Egyptian Wisdom for the Modern World

History

Ancient Civilizations

Curses have given the world some of its greatest legends and folklore, and the more grisly and gory, the better we like them. But cursing, or ill-wishing, is not a practice confined to magical practitioners - black, white or grey - it is a form of expression intended to do harm in reparation for some real or imagined insult and can be ‘thrown’ by anyone of any race, culture or creed without any prior experience of ritual magic or witchcraft. According to the dictionary, however, a curse is defined as: To invoke or wish evil upon; to afflict; to damn; to excommunicate; evil invoked on another person. If this is the clear definition, then under what circumstances can we challenge this established way of thinking and ask ourselves can cursing ever be justified? And if we hesitate for just a moment, then we must ask the next question: Is cursing evil? Like all aspects of life, however, it is advisable to put things in their proper perspective before passing judgement.

Pagan Portals - Spellbook & Candle: Cursing, Hexing, Bottling & Binding

Moon Books

A large number of poisonous plants have beneficial uses in both domestic medicine and magic. Needless to say, when utilising a toxic plant in magic, we are adding certain extra deadly or potent energies into the mix and it is inadvisable to start messing about with deadly poisons unless we've made a thorough study of the subject - and not just by glancing at a paragraph in a book on herbal preparations!

Pagan Portals - By Wolfsbane & Mandrake Root: The Shadow World Of Plants And Their Poisons

The term 'power animal' was introduced into contemporary language in 1980 by anthropologist Michael Harner, in his classic work The Way of the Shaman, and refers to a broad-based animistic and shamanic concept where the animal is conceived as a tutelary spirit guide that helps or protects individuals, lineages and nations. Horses and humans became companions a long time ago, and the horse adopted as a power or totem animal represents power, speed, courage, nobility, freedom and chthonic energy. Black Horse, White Horse: Power Animals Within Traditional Witchcraft guides your footsteps on this most ancient of paths…

Shaman Pathways - Black Horse, White Horse

Traditional Witchcraft and the Path to the Mysteries, the sixth and last in the Traditional Witchcraft series, is a voyage of discovery and, as with every journey, it is essential that we understand where we are now and where we want to be. We need proper direction unlike that popular old Irish saying: “If I wanted to be going there, I wouldn’t be starting from here!” So let us make our preparations, put our house in order, and begin our journey of exploration and self-discovery. As with all stages of Life there are friends and acquaintances to consider: the essence of some we will take with us – the rest we will leave behind. But as the genii from Where the Rainbow Ends says: “Time is short, and we have far to travel.”

Traditional Witchcraft and the Path to the Mysteries

Much of what passes for ‘witchcraft’ today was everyday knowledge to our forebears, especially those who lived and worked in the countryside. Here were to be found practical household hints, remedies and family recipes that had been handed down from generation to generation, some still existing in the form of treasured journals and notebooks. There is, however, nothing fanciful or far-fetched about this information - in fact, The Secret People is a remembrance of times past and a preservation of ‘parish-pump witchcraft, wise-women and cunning ways’ adapted for use in the 21st century. It may also go a long way in helping those present-generation pagans in search of an identity and answer the questions: Who ... what am I?

The Secret People: Parish-Pump Witchcraft, Wise-Women and Cunning Ways

Those who have grown up with Pan as a playmate remember how, back in the day, it would be possible for a young child to disappear into the woods with only a dog for company for hours on end without there being a hue and cry raised in its absence; and it was on those woodland rides and pathways - summer or winter - that Mélusine Draco often encountered Pan.

Pagan Portals - Pan: Dark Lord of the Forest and Horned God of the Witches

Sociology

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