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It sounds like you have it planned out pretty well. An alternative way to consecrate the black band of Isis could be to just wrap the cloth around a statuette of Isis and give it offerings daily, maybe for a lunar month or look for appropriate Egyptian festival dates to work it around. These initiat...

Astar_Mundi wrote:After this discussion I'm going to reread the PGM and make sure I'm not talking out of my ass.

I would do the same but on my home planet we all talk out of our ass.

...all these systems of magic were based upon a singular source of ancient wisdom, who was more than likely Thoth himself, who came to teach the Fire Priests of Magic. You missed the most important bit, that he was also AN ALIEN and that he laid an egg out of which was hatched the baby Jesus. ...th...

...all these systems of magic were based upon a singular source of ancient wisdom, who was more than likely Thoth himself, who came to teach the Fire Priests of Magic. You missed the most important bit, that he was also AN ALIEN and that he laid an egg out of which was hatched the baby Jesus. ...th...

As Leonardo has already stated, the PGM is a collection of many texts from a whole smorgasbord of traditions which were all bouncing off each other over a period of time. Nobody would seriously claim they have one over-riding influence. Unless you are going with a very vague notion that all Meditera...

PGM is so trendy these days. You guys do realise its just rehashed Zoroastrianism and Chaldaean magic brought across the Aegean...nope. No historians around? Nope. I'm talkin' to myself. Ok. I'm gonna go sit in the corner with the history nerds and read a book :geek: Lets hope no historian ever rea...

Wow Ged, thanks for the detailed response. It seems Skinner's work is as bad on the Solomonic side as it is on the PGM side. The pic I posted is indeed Bes as Akephalos, from the spell where you draw him on your hand. Skinner includes it in his section on the ceremonial sword where he continues his ...

As far as who is pictured in the illustration I take it you are suggesting it is not the prototypical Greco-Egyptian Magician. The "Dying God" then? An Adonis, Osiris, Jesus, Tamuz type character? I'm not near my copies of either book to look at the reference. You're very warm with these ...

I must say, I do like Skinner's occasional joke at the expense of the uncritical reader. On pp201-2 he quotes from PDM xiv 90 which describes a phylactery made from a linen band wrapped around the body of the scryer, stained with hoopoo blood. Skinner reinterprets it to be an instruction to bind a l...