In Ritual orCeremonial Magic, the altar represents the center of the universe and, by extension, the center of the self. In the western occult tradition, the altar is ideally constructed of stone but is more usually of wood, in the shape of a double cube, two feet by two feet and four...
therefore, which were spoken to the blessed Daniel are fulfilled: ‘And my servants shall be afflicted, and shall fall by famine, and by sword, and by captivity'[Dan. 11:33]. Daniel
Louis XIII disconnected himself from his father's allies, and joined himself to his father's enemies, by the project of a double marriage; for while he solicited for himself the hand of the Spanish Infanta, he offered his sister in marriage to the Prince of the Asturias. This boded the ...