The Black Library

And but one word with one of us? couple it with
something; make it a word and a blow.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

There seems little point in practicing magic unless you want to do at least a few extraordinary things with this incarnation.
-Peter J Carroll, The Octavo

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.
- Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.
-Peter J Caroll, Psybermagick

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Behind the clock back there you know
At the four winds bar
- Blue Öyster Cult, Astronomy

Offering's a complicated business.
- Jake Stratton-Kent

Another related point is that theological eclecticism to the tune of replacing this structure with pagan deities so it appeals to personal taste does the ritualist no favours as it undermines their ability to leverage a power dynamic that is better understood and has been employed countless times.
- Julio Cesar Ody, Magister Officiorum

Only fluffy bunnies need apply.
- Jake Stratton-Kent

"If you want the win, stay civil and stand in your invincibility."

- Gordon White, Rune Soup

You are certainly free to join whatever nineteenth-century swingers club masquerading as a magical order you like, but do it on your own time.
- Gordon White, The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality

It took me more than ten years to begrudgingly admit to myself that meditation is the single best thing you can do to improve your health and your magic and that I should probably do more of it.
- Gordon White,The Chaos Protocols: Magical Techniques for Navigating the New Economic Reality

Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a time, now isn’t then.

- Ursula K. le Guin

...the practioners of magic have always been syncretists, experimenting intraculturally and sticking with what worked.
- Michael M. Hughes, Magic for the Resistance
#MagicResistance

Bakery and metallurgy are just different applications of alchemy, and all three are closer together in practice and mystery than most people might expect.
- Sam Block aka polyphanes Digital Ambler

The Black Library

A Celebration of Magical Education, Commerce, Community & Activism

I've had a little time to digest the delightful whirlwind that was The Salem Summer Symposium, but I'm not entirely sure I have my thoughts in order as it were. So this review is likely going to contain some rambling and some moments of me marking memories.

Details: Written by Chariot/Evilded777; Category: The Black Library; Published: 22 August 2019; Last Updated: 04 March 2020; Hits: 965

#sss2019

...the practitioners of magic have always been syncretists, experimenting intraculturally and sticking with what worked. - Michael M Hughes, Magic for the Resistance

Details: Written by Chariot/Evilded777; Category: The Black Library; Published: 02 May 2019; Last Updated: 27 June 2019; Hits: 17127

Yes, I had my first astrological consult (we've come a long way from that old Sun Signs book, baby) and it was quite educational and informative.

Details: Written by Chariot/Evilded777; Category: The Black Library; Published: 09 April 2019; Last Updated: 09 April 2019; Hits: 819

"Magic is not a purely intellectual exercise carried out without risk from the proverbial armchair."

Details: Written by Chariot/Evilded777; Category: The Black Library; Published: 06 March 2019; Last Updated: 04 March 2020; Hits: 1428

I wasn't going to write this. I thought about it, and scrapped it. But then into my inbox comes this article on Medium (does anyone actually subscribe? Will it be worth the $$?) about the subject and author of the first book I ever listened to: The Super Natural: Why The Unexplained is Real by Whitley Strieber and Dr Jeffrey Kripal.

Details: Written by Chariot/Evilded777; Category: The Black Library; Published: 02 March 2019; Last Updated: 22 August 2019; Hits: 742

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