grimoire...same root as grammar
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 17:57:13 CDT 2008
Mark Kohut wrote:
> The term "grimoire" commonly serves as an alternative name for a spell-book
the real-life grimoires would be (please correct or add, those who know more...)
1) The Black Pullet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Pullet (amulets, and spells to aid
in life and to attain the ability to converse with the Black Hen and convince
it to lay golden eggs...)
2) Lesser Key of Solomon - summoning of spirits, called the Goetia
and again, amulets
the patterns on these amulets have certain correspondences to -
or, more simply, "look like" - electronic circuit designs
(as Pynchon noted about Kilroy)
The Golden Dawn revived some of this material, and
contributed artwork; so did IG Crowley (and continues to do...
see oto-usa.org)
continuing my errant thought about brain waves,
perhaps said amulets and designs etc (and chants)
are designed like circuit diagrams to conduce to certain
brain waves
admittedly a rigorous quantitative basis is a desiderata
not fully met...
another word for magic is gramarye
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