I've recently been working on the folklore elements in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, which contain implied comments on this issue of elaborate ritual -- for instance wizards who know that though the full Rite of Ash-Khent requires umpteen objects and takes three hours to do, you can get the same results with 2cc of mouse blood. Or three witches evoking as demon with a scrubb ing brush and some old dried-up soap(they happen to be in a wash-house at the time). This, one feels, is Real Magic!
Jacqueline
--- On Fri, 12/12/08, D E <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: D E <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Magical Garments
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, 12 December, 2008, 4:21 PM
> : )
>
> and there was a catholic explorer-priest whose name escapes
> me at present,
> who wrote of celebrating an improvised mass in the wilds of
> China, using
> river water and an oatmeal mush for bread, and how it was
> one of the most
> moving experiences of his life
>
> chaos magick came about at least in part as a reaction to
> the overblown you
> must have seventeen kinds of props-and-paraphernalia before
> you can do
> anything angle of 'traditional' ceremonial magic
>
> because you can never find a black egg salesman when you
> really need
> one.....
>
> dave e
>
>
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>
> How true, how very true! I have sometimes wondered
> (frivolously, I admit)
> what happens if a Ritual Magickian needs to conduct a rite
> in an emergency
> and does not have all his robes, wands, incense etc at
> hand. Ritual
> Christianity, e.g. Roman Catholicism, does allow the
> omission of all robes
> and 'props' in emergencies and extreme situations
> such as saying Mass on a
> battlefield, the only essentials being bread, wine and (I
> think) a piece of
> stone to symbolise an altar. Are there similar
> dispensations in Magick?
>
> Jascqueline Simpson
>
>
>
>
>
> --- On Fri, 12/12/08, Caroline Tully
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>
> > From: Caroline Tully <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Magical Garments
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Friday, 12 December, 2008, 7:22 AM
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > Has anyone ever thought, like me lately, that the
> Hermetic
> > Order of the
> > Golden Dawn sure required that one supply oneself with
> what
> > seemed like a
> > lot of garments,.. sashes, nemysses(?), shoes... I
> presume
> > people would have
> > had them made, either by themselves, by their wives,
> or by
> > a tailor(ess).
> > They probably didn't have many shops selling
> magical
> > robes like we do today
> > (although I'm not aware of that many - probably
> because
> > I live in
> > low-population Australia). I know Florence Farr did
> > embroidery work, but I
> > wonder about those costumes... I mean even to perform
> the
> > Evocation of
> > Taphthartharath, not strictly in the Golden Dawn
> > curriculum, required quite
> > a bit of clothing and paraphernalia.
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know of any articles about Ceremonial
> Magic
> > garments? Even
> > articles about Pagan fashion would do.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > ~Caroline Tully.
> >
> >
> >
> > http://necropolisnow.blogspot.com/
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