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Grimoires with Alexander Cummins

What Magic Is This?

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The Origins of Grimoire

If you are in any way inclined to work with the dead, working with dead magicians, right? Means you're going to have to be familiar with the kind of magic that people were doing back in the day. So this happens with the excellent book, a bunch of clever ghosts turn up Agrippa, Solomon, Adam, Bacon. They see themselves in the spirit world, dress differently and do ritual actions that they then copy and spirits turn up. It's one of the reasons I'm so interested in cutting folk because they're also service magicians. And I wanted to talk about some of the demonology of it. Phil did the bulk of the work on the Ritual pro city

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