Brujería and Chill

 The Secret to Magic is: anyone can do it.

[carpemagicae]

Yo! what are your feelings on Alchemy?

which kind of alchemy are we talking about? Give me a point of reference re: what you’re thinking

[carpetenebras]

[luxocultapress]

Leilani Bustamante -  Diabolica

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[carpemagicae]

I'm sure you've answered this elsewhere, but, as a new Catholic with a passing interest in the occult, how do you mix the two? I am aware yu use some philosophy as well to arrive at some connectons, but I'm still curious, since I feel turned off from the occult by my secular family and the "mainstream"

So first you have consider that natural philosophy is doctrinally valid.

Then you have to consider Wisdom 7:15-30

Then you have to consider that what is the “occult” is socially constructed. So Cornelius Agrippa and Athanasius Kircher are today considered occultists, but I would just call them Catholic natural philosophers. A lot of what is today considered occult is in fact simply the forms of logic and understanding that have become demonized due to Enlightenment neoScholasticism in the Church permeating everything like a damn cancer tbh.

Then read the Aparecida Document by CELAM

And you should arrive in a strange place that serves as a solid foundation for one’s mystical journey to God

[carpetenebras]

There is no such thing as the horseman of pestilence.

Y’all gringo Christians say horseman of pestilence because you replace the horseman of CONQUEST/Victory etc that is a metaphor for how IMPERIALISM IS BAD with pestilence cuz yall white christians can’t handle anti-imperialist discourse in scripture

it fucking pisses me off too that across all video games and tv shows and even fucking art not a single fucking person fucking respects revelations enough to break from US Christian narratives and recognize 

THE HORSEMAN OF PESTILENCE DOES NOT EXIST AND IT’S THE FUCKING HORSEMAN OF CONQUEST

[sinbadism]

wow I had no idea about this, but it really makes sense, seeing as I think the book of revelations is a lot based on enochian stuff… which was written by jews, not greeks or romans or anything. so of course conquest would be a terrifying thing to us

[ranma-official]

Under another interpretation, the first horseman is called Pestilence, and is associated with infectious disease and plague. It appears at least as early as 1906, when it is mentioned in the Jewish Encyclopedia.

Lying isn’t cool.

[carpetenebras]

When a Protestant hegemonic society uses scripture in a way to distance themselves from imperial conquest, it is not rooted in Jewish interpretation, or of it is it is through the use of Jewish tradition as a crutch to de-legitimize the Apostolic Churches.

Furthermore, since we’re quoting wikipedia:

Under another interpretation, the first horseman is called Pestilence, and is associated with infectious disease and plague. It appears at least as early as 1906, when it is mentioned in the Jewish Encyclopedia.[10]The interpretation is common in popular culture references to the Four Horsemen.[11]

The origin of this interpretation is unclear.

The scripture literally describes the first horseman using the terms Nikon in the Greek. They are the Conqueror. Explicitly.

[ranma-official]

For absolute majority of Christianity’s history, the horseman was Conquest, and the interpretation of pestilence follows purely from the mention of plagues a bit further on. Pestilence is a Jewish interpretation, and relatively recent.

Lying is not cool. Say: “I lied and I’m sorry.”

[carpetenebras]

The entry uses Protestant sources for the entire entry in the understanding and framing of Revelations, e.g. Johannes Weiss and Hermann Gunkel and Fredreich Spitta. All Protestants. Which is actually a fascinating/wild reality that the Jewish Encyclopedia used entirely German Protestant exegesis but that’s another issue. Sounds like you need to apologize hunty. 

[carpetenebras]

the fragmentation of the soul from the mind as a result of the Enlightenment is the cause and source of significant portion of the violence throughout the Modern period

[archiemcphee]

Self-taught makeup artist and body painter Alexys Fleming, aka Madeyewlook (previously featured here), took a break from transforming herself using cosmetics and bodypaint and instead completely covered her face and upper torso in googly eyes. We we think she looks awesome!

But how Fleming looks wearing googly eyes is only half the fun. Watch this tutorial video to also experience what she *sounds* like while wearing all those rattling googly eyes:

Follow Madeyewlook on Instagram or YouTube to check out more of her amazing transformations.

[via Laughing Squid]

[wilwheaton]

#VANDALEYES!

[carpetenebras]

and here we have a comical yet perfect interpretation of what an Angel of the Lord looks like

[bluefluke]

Finally done tweaking the Majors under the Smith/Waite system. I was toying with the idea of making a Thoth version too. If that’s something you guys are interested in let me know! :3

[liminalforces-deactivated201703]

Figure 9 from Liber Null & Psychonaut by Peter J. Carroll, pg. 78

[carpetenebras]

It’s interesting to think about this today in conjunction with the Dugin’s use of the Chaos star that makes an emphasis on the diagonal rather than the cardinal arrows and makes them larger, pointing thus to Aggression, Attraction, Fright, and Passion, within the larger categories of Hate, Desire, Love, and Fear.

But also making less of an emphasis, conversely, on Destruction, the cusp between Aversion/Anger, Lust, and the cusp between Greed/Rapture.

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[carpemagicae]

how strange

I’ve drawn the third sigil of qayin before

[houghtonlib]

This manuscript was created for an Assyrian Christian of the 18th century, and is small enough to be carried by its owner at all times. It contains a collection of charms, or prayers for protection, to various saints. The illustration here depicts Mar Gewargis (St. George) and the dragon.

MS Syriac 156

Houghton Library, Harvard University

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@assyrian-prince

[carpemagicae]

so I have a question. There are lot of people on tumblr that say you can't curse as a practitioner while working with the Christian God, like it's one of the Big No-Nos and people should only use the craft to spread love and light when paired with the religions. It's been bothering me lately because obviously I don't want to be doing something "wrong" but I also don't fully equate my view on Christianity with love and light and happiness. Do you have any thoughts on this?

God literally created a whole flood because angels banged women.

Jesus literally caused a fig tree to whither just because he didn’t like the one fig he ate from the tree.

Entire chapters in Scripture are calling for God to vengefully smite and annihilate your enemies.

[justinbthemagician]

Justin the Magician: JB's Magickal Grimoire

Here are all of my “Magickal Grimoire” comics all in one place!

[hermeticpaw]

Amazing!

[spanishskulduggery]

what's the difference between brujo mago and hechicero?

It’s the difference between “witch/wizard”, “mage, magician”, and “sorcerer/sorceress” in English basically.

el brujo or la bruja is typically “witch” or “wizard” or “warlock” in English. As an adjective brujo/a means “captivating” or “bewitching”. Also related is la brujería “witchcraft”

And for reasons I’m not TOTALLY sure of, la casa embrujada is “haunted house” but more literally “bewitched house”… I’m not exactly sure how witches came to be linked to ghosts/spirits except if we’re talking about necromancy, but I guess it’s easier than saying something like “enfantasmado” or something? Also I guess witches are linked to dark spirits so maybe that’s why. But growing up ghosts and witches were very separate things in my mind.

The word mago/a is “mage” or “magician”, related to la magia “magic”

And hechicero/a is “sorcerer” or “sorceress” which is related to el hechizo which is potentially “a spell” or “a hex”. Related is hechizar “to cast a spell on” or “to hex”, and la hechicería “sorcery”

Somewhat related is el/la nigromante “necromancer” and la nigromancia “necromancy” 

[carpemagicae]

Nah that's not the etymology of brujo tho, I'll talk about it when I get back to my house.

[eclipsedlives]

YALL I NEED TO KNOW

What is happening with this smarmy chick??? Give me the tea I have no idea what’s going on but I heard something about punching Ares??? I need answers!!!!???!?

[pieandhotdogs]

[deep breath] Here we go.

Smarmy got on PU a couple of months ago and kept “calling out” Soloontherocks, who had been blogging about Star Wars pretty steadily since about November, generally leaving the pagan community to its own devices, etc. Solo told Smarmy to fuck off, and told the Kemetic community to come collect its trash, since they were always moaning about “whaaa Solo’s MEAN”. Smarmy responded with “Omg how rude, look how awful Solo is how could they”. This continued for a week or two and finally Solo was like “enough” and the usual drama-filled death-match commenced. This ended in Smarmy claiming that Solo was harassing her, so Solo told her to stay off their blog and don’t mention them on her blog. Smarmy did not oblige. Continued to claim harassment. Solo has statcounter and asked why Smarmy kept visiting their blog. Smarmy was like “what no I’m not that isn’t me, I haven’t visited your blog in like months what are you talking about?” Solo posted a screenshot of her IP address like “really?” And Smarmy thought that meant that she’d be doxxed, started claiming legalities that don’t exist against Solo. Solo was like “I didn’t dox you, but jsyk I could because you have left your shit all out in the open holy shit” and actually offered to help protect her information. Smarmy wasn’t having it “stop saying you could dox me I’m calling the police that I hate to arrest you!” Solo’s like “okay bud don’t blame me when someone actually doxxes you.”

Meanwhile, I personally made a couple of untagged posts on MY blog about how important it is to ME to show deference and subservience to MY Gods. Hyacinth-halcyon and Answersfromvanaheim got butthurt about it and started making posts about how you don’t have to listen to your gods or obey them or anything like that, while several bloggers continued to talk about how bad of a person I am for being a “blind sheep” to MY Gods. The Kemetic Fandom got involved, because of course they did, namely thetwistedrope and our good pal smarmy. TTR went on their usual soapbox about how Kemetics don’t have to show their gods any respect and how terrible Hellenics are for talking about hubris. Smarmy decided to lie and say she punched Ares in the face. Hellenics objected. Answersfromvanaheim and TTR turned that into the entire Kemetic community being victimized by the entire Hellenic community.

Smarmy is still complaining about Solo doxxing her. Kamonra finally gets fed up and actually doxxes Smarmy because A) she’s still being annoying and B) she’s now disrespecting other peoples’ religions after whining for weeks about Hellenics applying hubris to Kemeticism. Smarmy blames Solo for the dox and retaliates by doxxing a random person in Florida.

I think that’s the gist of it, sorry it turned out so long.

[soloontherocks]

You forgot the part where the reason I noticed how dox-able she was in the first place was because she swore up and down that she had “taken precautions” to prevent doxing and it would be impossible

so I was curious what precautions she had meant and *googled* her. *Once*.

and literally the entire first page of results was just DOX EVERYWHERE.

me over here like “oh. ohhhhh. dats not good…”