I could hear hyenas whooping out there at night, cobras slid into our backyard, when the local medicine men held their ceremonies I heard the drumming and chanting.
The Sworn Book of Honorius . based on a conversation with an archangel named Hochmel (after the sephira Chokmah) and a sizeable ninety-three chapters long, is a key and influential grimoire, containing many of the basic elements of practical ‘goetic’ magic that were to appear in a host of grimoires to follow, the more important of which are listed below. Perhaps more significantly this grimoire touches on the whole area of the question of the usage of magic and sorcery within the Church, and even beyond that, to the essential questions about magic vs. divinity, including the nature of Christ and whether or not he was a magician himself (as discussed in Chapter 4).
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I think every child’s world has wild places where dark things might be waiting, places where the borderline of normal reality seems to fracture. For me, living in Malawi probably gave those places and those dark things a more tangible, more vivid form than they might have had if I’d been growing up in Vermont or in Dublin. Right outside our backyard was the bush, a whole savage and mysterious and potentially lethal world just a thin wire fence away. I could hear hyenas whooping out there at night, cobras slid into our backyard, when the local medicine men held their ceremonies I heard the drumming and chanting. (And yes, I was warned to avoid all this stuff, but I was the kind of kid who always got a few steps closer than my parents ever knew).