Eric Purdue

I’m a serious magician

James Joyce:

God I love gas

Seriously. I'm a soft sell there

He heard that little people would kidnap you and take you away. I asked him "what happens then?" He said "they teach you about the medicinal uses of plants for a few years". "I said, "Then what?" He replied, "Then they release you."

That sounds fine to me.

I was reminded today of a story a babalawo told me years ago about a well-known babalawo who was scared to go into the woods in Nigeria. 1/2

Pliny the elder said that Marcus Agrippa was born feet first, and this kind of birth was henceforth called an Agrippan birth.

I was born the same way. The Agrippan connection was with me since I was born.

This is one of my favorite quotes in Agrippa’s “Three Books of Occult Philosophy” (in turn quoted from Ficino). It compares how magicians using many things for a magical working, unite into a whole greater than its parts - not unlike bees making honey from many flowers.

My friends are moving and I saw this. I spent 10 years on this thing! The insult!!!

Morin mocks a critic of astrology and says: "it seems enough to teach nothing to his ignorant readers with shriveled little questions".

A book that Morin wrote in the 17th century has such a kickass name:

"Revealing the Cabala of the Astrological Houses"

A 17th-century critique of astrology says that aspects are stupid because the critic thinks that good aspects work because our human eyes look kindly upon them when we look up at the planets in the sky, and badly with evil aspects.

Thank you babe!

I’ll tell him myself

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Thank you!

Babawawawa

I’m your elder. No argue

I just want people to know that I’m not a mere astrologer, olorisha, and translator. I’m a content creator.

The best footnote ever. This is from Richard Burton’s translation of Arabian Nights.

Gan

I finished Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. There’s a theme in the series of repeating names that are similar.

Example: Calla, Callahan, & Calvin.

I moved to a neighborhood called “Cully”.

A character’s name is Patrick Danville.

My brother’s name is Patrick & I’m from Danville.

Sigh.

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Don't make Agrippa sad. He had a hard life. I'll talk about that too.

We’re running out of time! Registrations to my Three Books of Occult Philosophy are closing in two days on Friday!

The Agrippa translator is here for it

When I moved I left A LOT behind. I brought my books, clothes, orishas, and a small bit of furniture. It was time to stop dragging things that weren’t me.

I feel way better and clearer. I highly recommend it!