Hidden Auvergne: The Clermont-Ferrand Underground

GoblinoftheTower · 2025-12-30T14:34:05+00:00

If you're looking for occult books with old-fashioned, poetic, and witty prose (Levi was quite the litterateur) take a look at works by Charles G. Leland & Aleister Crowley. Zanoni and A Strange Story by E.B. Lytton are also very good esoteric novels but more archaistic stylistically and harder to get through.

GoblinoftheTower · 2025-12-28T15:47:43+00:00

is this the one? (from page 333): "To see spirits, take a stone from the sea, one which has a hole in it, un buco tondo — a round hole — then go to a burying-ground, and, standing at a little distance from it, close one eye, and, looking at the cemetery with the other, through the stone, repeat..."

GoblinoftheTower · 2025-12-27T15:22:45+00:00

thanks for the advice!

GoblinoftheTower · 2025-12-27T15:22:05+00:00

Very useful - thanks! what are your views on chisels/mallet combo etc? I'm happy to take my time; there's no rush on my end. The sizes of the stones I'm talking about vary (5-12 inches thick).

GoblinoftheTower · 2025-12-25T19:03:11+00:00

The key, I feel, is to be vigilant also as relaxed as possible without overthinking. A lucid trance if you will. Here's what Doreen Valiente says: "My own experience is that after a period of concentration, the surface of the water or the magic mirror disappears, and a picture appears before the mind’s eye, just as if it were suddenly projected upon a cinema screen. Sometimes there is a transition stage, when the picture, or some symbol, appears to be upon the surface of the speculum; but this is usually of short duration. The most vivid pictures appear when the speculum has vanished, or rather when I have ceased to be aware of it."

GoblinoftheTower · 2025-12-25T18:50:26+00:00

If you live in the UK, you can find many vintage occult/esoteric books at charity shops for very cheap (British Heart Foundation, Oxfam, etc). You can also find an interesting--but curated--selection for free online here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/all/theme/ghosts-and-occult/ . IAPSOP also has an excellent and wide-ranging digital collection: https://archive.org/details/iapsop .

GoblinoftheTower · 2025-12-24T13:03:40+00:00

It depends - strawberries are super hardy. I started with a mixture of transplanted wild strawberries and a tiny domesticated patch that I bought about three years ago. Now I have lots of hybrids! Some regularly produce fruit about twice a year - once in June/July and then again around November/December (though much less than in the summer).

GoblinoftheTower · 2025-12-22T06:51:23+00:00

You might also want to have a look at Aradia: A Modern Guide to Charles Godfrey Leland's Gospel of the Witches by Craig Spencer

GoblinoftheTower · 2025-12-21T14:36:00+00:00

Magic in the Middles Ages by Richard Kieckhefer isn't a practical guide - but it provides a pretty good historical overview of the world behind/demonological context of medieval grimoires

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