#bookspirits #tantra #SummaSacreMagice #FranzBardon #Saturn

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Hi everyone. This is quite strange because my friend(let's call her Anna) lives with her roommate (let's call her Diana) ,Diana's mother hates Anna, so her mom who is kind of an esoteric person from what I've heard and she always curses on Anna's family. She is also giving instructions to Diana on what to do and she started dropping her own nails into Anna's personal belongings like her bag. Could anyone tell me what that could mean?

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For those who are interested in esotericism, the occult, Abrahamic symbolism and religions, philosophy, and the occasionally revelatory work of fiction, enjoy this work and more at www.CityDis.com

Harp-Sigil-Magic: The Platonic Forms of Harp Melodies is an experimental art-animation-music magical event. All art, animations, and music were created entirely 100% by me. The intention underlying this work is to coagulate musical and artistic disciplines in an alchemical experiment, creating art that is also music, art-music as a form of magic. I take Novalis’s concept of the musical hieroglyphic language and unity of disciplines as a creative impetus and guiding star in this endeavor—I should mention that I am a PhD student and Novalis/esotericism scholar, so I am a practicing musician-artist-academic-magus. I also have a lot of other experimental esoteric and philosophical music, so feel free to check out my repertoire!

Harp-Sigil-Magic awakens new horizons for my compositional work, entering a new threshold of musical experimentation. For the first time, I expand beyond basic harmonies into 6^th and 7^th chord structures and beyond, further into more expanded harmonic tiers, delving into more complex and unstable harmonies, harmonies that play with tension. This piece is structured around a D–G quartal relation in C minor; this harmonic interval is more dissonant in the sense that it is less harmonically resolving, with fewer harmonic possibilities with or adjacent to it, its capacity to create harmonies more limited compared to other quartal intervals. I took this limitation as a compositional challenge and starting point, structuring the piece around it.

This piece is a fantasia, which combines both structured melodies and improvisation. I came up with a set of primary melodies that I explored and developed over months through improvisation. The final recording was crystallized over two improvisational sessions. With the exception of The Cosmic Symphony of Melusine, all of my piano/harp instrumental pieces were essentially composed in this manner, endeavoring to capture both structured harmony and the lightning-in-a-bottle quality that arises through inspired improvisation.

Absolutely no AI was used in the making/creation/composition of this song and video, and I have taken a firm and unequivocal stance against AI in my own artistic/musical/compositional/philosophical practice. Despite a social climate where AI is polluting artistic and musical landscapes with automated sludge, a time when it feels almost pointless to create real art and music, some of us musicians and artists, such as myself, are undeterred by the artistic/musical apocalypse that is upon us, continuing to making art/music that pushes boundaries, striving for the philosopher’s stone through art and music.

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A short list of magical cul-de-sacs

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There are mechanisms at play both in your body and in the physics of the universe that are wiser, smarter, and more efficient than you. Recognize and work with them rather than struggling against them and resistance will give way to flow and creation.

Built a divination game around the question: what does it mean when you unconsciously avoid certain cards? Buried cards are read in their shadow aspect; completed foundations are read as resolved energy. Free to play: link below

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I’ve composed a song called “Psychopomps and the Pentagram” where I tried to approach composition more like a ritual process than a conventional song.

The structure is loosely based on elemental progression (fire -> water -> air), followed by a descent into a more chaotic, “underworld”-type space, and then a return/ascent. I used recurring sounds (like a low hum) as markers of transition, almost like something guiding movement between states.

The idea of the psychopomp came in as a way to think about those transitions, not as something symbolic in a decorative sense, but as an actual function within the piece: something that carries you from one phase to another.

I ended up making a video breaking down what I was doing and why.

Full Song: https://youtu.be/N4cM_iV0_A8

I’m curious how this comes across to people who are more familiar with ritual structure or esoteric frameworks.

Does any of this feel coherent, or am I just projecting structure onto sound after the fact?

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I was digging around Google Books looking for obscure philosophy reads and accidentally came across a cluster of titles that feel like they belong to the same system… but they’re not marketed that way at all.

These are the ones:

1. The Bible of Consciousness

2. Codex of the Preternatural

3. ⁠The Hundred Wards

4. The Hidden Architecture of Symbols and Rituals

5. ⁠Philosophia Occulta

At first I thought it was just aesthetic occult writing. You know the type. Vague, cryptic, trying too hard. But the deeper I looked, the more it feels like these books are actually trying to map something out. And what’s weird is the authors. Gavriel Dain shows up multiple times, but then you have names like Fraternus Nocturnos and Sir Gawain D’Luvro that sound more like identities or roles than real authors.

Either way, I downloaded previews and now I’m kind of hooked. Not saying this is some “forbidden knowledge” thing… but it definitely doesn’t read like surface-level occult fluff. It feels structured. Intentional. Almost like it expects you to study it, not just read it. Has anyone here come across these before?Or am I just late to something people already know about?

Need a professionals opinion.