By Collin de Plancy
Dictionary of Witchcraft is a must have source for somebody drawn to witchcraft, pagan religions, and the occult. This old dictionary was once the 1st reference paintings to significantly rfile superstitions, manifestations, magic, and superstitions. The author’s curiosity was once to assemble an unlimited quantity of subject that will curiosity, entertain and educate others. This dictionary was once consulted by way of the various maximum Romantic writers, significantly by means of Hugo. Collin de Plancy the culture of many prior demonologists of cataloguing demons by means of identify and name of the Aristocracy, because it occurred with grimoires like Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and The Lesser Key of Solomon between others. it really is thought of an incredible paintings documenting beings, characters, books, deeds, and explanations which pertain to the manifestations and magic of trafficking with Hell; divinations, occult sciences, grimoires, marvels, blunders, prejudices, traditions, folktales, a number of the superstitions, and customarily all demeanour of exceptional, superb, mysterious, and supernatural ideals.
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TAROT TRUMP: Do not confuse with Resh , Daleth is spelled l"'1~' (DLTh). " A door is a valve that can bar or accommodate both the entrance and exit of things. It is a tent flap, a threshold, and a gate. Walk out of the door of your house and you move from the unity of your home to the multiplicity of the world and vice versa. The most important "door" for humans is a woman's womb and/or vagina. It accommodates the entrance of the fertilizing male member, and nine months later, it is the door through which we all enter the world.
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I suppose inevitably there will be those who view as crude and ollensive Ben Clifford's sexual allusions to Hebrew letters and other clements of Qabalistic study. Admittedly, at first glance it does appear I hat he places an inordinate emphasis on phalluses and vaginas, wombs and sperm, and such. As he is no longer here to defend himself, I feel I must say a few words on the Rabbi's behalf. For the last two thousand years there has been a concerted effort hy those who would guide the spiritual life of Western Civilization, 10 divorce human life from nature (on one end of the scale) and from I iod on the other.