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== Sacrificial Dagger == | == Sacrificial Dagger == | ||
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| + | ''From the film The Mummy (1999) starring: Brendan Fraiser this is the original Ceremonial Dagger. It is double sided and made from a very durable quality bronze. It is 18 inches long x 4 inches wide x 1.5 inches deep and weights about 15lbs. It is a real prop dagger from the film. It also served quite nicely to torpor a vampire after it was jammed into his head.'' | ||
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== Elements of Classical Magic == | == Elements of Classical Magic == | ||
* -- Alchemy (Chrysopoeia = Ouroboros [gesture] / ''εν το παν'' (en to pan) or in English "one is the all" [spoken]) | * -- Alchemy (Chrysopoeia = Ouroboros [gesture] / ''εν το παν'' (en to pan) or in English "one is the all" [spoken]) | ||
Revision as of 11:41, 29 March 2020
Contents
Blood Flask
Demonic Walking Stick
Sacrificial Dagger
Description
From the film The Mummy (1999) starring: Brendan Fraiser this is the original Ceremonial Dagger. It is double sided and made from a very durable quality bronze. It is 18 inches long x 4 inches wide x 1.5 inches deep and weights about 15lbs. It is a real prop dagger from the film. It also served quite nicely to torpor a vampire after it was jammed into his head.
Elements of Classical Magic
- -- Alchemy (Chrysopoeia = Ouroboros [gesture] / εν το παν (en to pan) or in English "one is the all" [spoken])
- -- Amulets (protective)
- -- Apotropaion -- Greek: To avert evil
- -- Astrology
- -- Carmen (verse)
- Five Classical Elements -- Air, Earth, Fire, Water & Quintessence
- -- Curse tablets (Latin: tabella defixionis / Greek: katadesmos)
- -- Divine figurines (Hermes)
- -- Ephesia Grammata
- -- Evil Eye
- -- Gemstones: Their uses in magick
- -- Goetia (Interestingly, goetia is similar in its ambiguity to charm: it means both magic and power to sexually attract.)
- -- Herbs & Their Magical Properties
- -- Phylactery
- -- Poetry / Songs (Orpheus)
- -- Sator Square (Palindrome)
- -- Talisman (focus for spell effects)
- -- Teletai (mystical formulas / celebration of mysteries)
- -- Theurgy (According to the Greek philosopher Plotinus (205–270 CE) theurgy attempts to bring all things in the universe into sympathy, and man into connection with all things via the forces that flow through them.)
- -- Voces magicae
- -- Wands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_in_the_Graeco-Roman_world
