This short book is a translation of some of the myths of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. It is a history of the creation of the world, the gods, and humanity, and the early days of the sacred city of Ífè, the traditional center of Yoruba culture. The text was recited to the author/translator by the high priests of Ífè, and the book is still cited in some books on traditional Yoruba religion and thou
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This is a short collection of some curious Alchemical treatises which was republished by A.E.Waite in 1893. According to the preface, Waite found these in a manuscript belonging to a collector of occult books. This etext uses Unicode to display astrological symbols (here used in an alchemical sense, of course). The Hermetic Tracts comprised in this volume are printed from a quarto manuscript (itse
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"OPHIOLATREIA, the worship of the serpent, next to the adoration of the phallus, is one of the most remarkable, and, at first sight, unaccountable forms of religion the world has ever known. Until the true source from whence it sprang can be reached and understood, its nature will remain as mysterious as its universality, for what man could see in an object so repulsive and forbidding in its habit
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Fuller had an occultist side that oddly mixed with his military side. He was an early disciple of English poet and magician Aleister Crowley, and was very familiar with his and other forms of magick and mysticism. While serving in the First Oxfordshire Light Infantry he had entered and won a contest to write the best review of Crowley's poetic works, after which it turned out that he was the only
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Após ser lançado nas versões Inglês e Espanhol pela editora Fall of Man "O Livro Negro da Quimbanda"contará com a versão em Português! O Livro Negro da Quimbanda será lançado e distribuído no Brasil pela editora Parzifal com nova capa , fotos e layout. Os autores " Ophis Christos" e "Necrocosm" , ambos fundadores da O.V.S demonstram que através da utilização de um sistema de magia eclética profund
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