The Magician's Dictionary

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Edward E. Rehmus. The Magician's Dictionary

INTRODUCTION

WARNING:

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ABRACADABRA. BRACADABR. ACADA. CAD. A

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Footprints of Buddha

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Mayan Comics

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DAGDAGIEL

Death Posture

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CONCLUSION:

Sacrifice by Mithras

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The Generation of Numbers

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O nimble God of Pestilence and Woe. of bogs from which pollutions blow. Snuff not this my hope to turn. Thy demon winds all loose to burn (no help to martyrs, but to makers) Those original Red Night Shapers. Who mixed the sacred rivers, Milk & Blood. With thanatic-knotting, wicked-plotting Club. And made of Life its Death and Menstr’al Flood

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“Romulus” in Egyptian Hieroglyphics

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

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the magician’s dictionary

In only the most ordinary sense are we “already” magicians. It’s true that any deliberate action which produces a visible ripple over the surface of reality is a magical act. Nature itself endlessly engages in creatively magical acts every moment. But what we are painfully learning for the first time is that magic comes out of our connectedness to the world and is in no way whatsoever the wielding of some mythical power over things from “outside” them. Thus, neither ordinary religion, with its parched, subnatural separation from physical, supposedly “unclean” bodies, nor science with its tedious and incessant denial of all “taint” of self, can be called magic.

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The value of quartz as an amulet is twofold: it bestows vitality and, as an Antitoxin, routs evil spirits. It is effective because it derives from the detritus of other, possibly malignant, spirits, in dark mineral springs. However, quartz crystal has been so exploited by New Age merchants that it is rapidly losing its meaning and power.

The most popular origin of the word (Arabic hamala, “something carried”) is the least correct. Latin amuletum, which was a little case or receptacle for carrying magical objects (like the Judaic mezuzah), derives from ampla, ama (”bucket” or something with handles, like a jug). The ama was also the bucket used in putting out fires.

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