FacebookTwitterLinkedIn 37: The Brigonian 2021 – #26 A CHALLENGING YEAR After I got my two shots of the Pfizer vaccine, on March 17, Theresa and I headed for Hermosa Beach in California, south of Los Angeles. Being out once more in the “real world” was exhilarating, and despite a ...
W. de Laurence and the title The Lesser Key of Solomon—Goetia: The Book of Evil Spirits (Chicago: de Laurence, Scott and Co.), which is the Mathers/Crowley work unacknowledged; this edition is listed as still in print (!) A larger version—in size, not in content—bearing Crowley's...
Back in October, I was the keynote speaker for theSociety for Ethics Across the Curriculum‘s 25th annual conference. My talk was titled “On Truth, Values, Knowledge, and Democracy in the Age of Generative ‘AI,’” and it touched on a lot of things that I’ve been talking and writin...
Sir David Brewster's interesting little book on " Natural Magic" gives an account of the way in which an acquaintance with the secrets of nature and of art have been used to support claims of being on intimate terms with the spiritual world. But the expression "Natural Magic" was used in...
Sefer ha-Razim, a third- or fourth-century Hebrew text, claims in its preface to have been "more precious and more honorable and more difficult" than any other book in the possession of Solomon. See • Michael A. Morgan's translation, Sepher ha-Razim: The Book of the Mysteries (...