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Tag: Magick
3.28.19: Puns Of Destiny!!!
“My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?”
–Charles Fort
Welcome to Butterfly Language, a look at the world inside and outside my head.
The Alchemical “Burt Wonderstone”
Burt Wonderstone: “Mr. Gray. What you do is not magic. It is monkey porn.”
Steve Gray: “I understand. It’s natural for a dying leaf to be frightened by the autumn wind.”
OK, here you go: possibly the most “deep,” esoteric analysis of the movie The Incredible Burt Wonderstone you will ever read.
You’re welcome.
Prepare to have your world-view, your religious identification, and even your very perception of reality altered forever—all through this seemingly insignificant 2013 movie starring Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. We’re gonna talk Simon Magus, we’re gonna talk alchemy, we’re gonna talk psychedelic plants…it’s gonna be wild. Really.
My Life As A Hypersigil, Part One
The “hypersigil” or “supersigil” develops the sigil concept beyond the static image and incorporates elements such as characterization, drama, and plot. The hypersigil is a sigil extended through the fourth dimension. My own comic book series The Invisibles was a six-year long sigil in the form of an occult adventure story which consumed and recreated my life during the period of its composition and execution. The hypersigil is an immensely powerful and sometimes dangerous method for actually altering reality in accordance with intent. Results can be remarkable and shocking.
–Grant Morrison, “POP MAGIC!”
I used to be a “character”…and I don’t think I’ve ever fully explained that to you before.
The Operatic Bonkers Possibly Untrue Story Of “The Spear Of Destiny”
“The Spear appeared to be some sort of magical medium of revelation for it brought the world of ideas into such close and living perspective that human imagination became more real than the world of sense.”
–Trevor Ravenscroft, “The Spear Of Destiny”
The Spear Of Destiny by Trevor Ravenscroft—a story about reincarnation, alchemy, evil sorcerers, secret societies, soulless doppelgängers, sex magick, possession by alien entities, Aztec peyote, the Akashic Record, questionable homeopathic practices, psychic vaginal ectoplasm, a sacred Christian relic that could rend the very fabric of time as we know it, and, yes, Nazis—is one of the most elaborate and utterly bizarre conspiracy meta-narratives you will ever encounter
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“The Craft”: Witch Craze Of 1996
Nancy: “I drink of my sisters, and I take into myself…all the power of Manon.”
Sarah: “That’s all?”
–“The Craft”
There were three main pop-culture fads going on in the mid-1990s:
Aleister Crowley, This Was Your Life
It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one’s environment.
–Aleister Crowley, “Moonchild”
I’ve found that if you do enough research on conspiracy theories or the occult, all roads link back to Crowley. Magician, poet, author, mountain-climber, yoga practitioner, drug-addict, and occasional maniac, Crowley was one of the decisive influences on modern Western occult philosophy and practice. (And it’s pronounced “Croly,” by the way.)
