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By Daniel A. Schulke

Veneficium matters the intersection of magic and poison, originating in remotest antiquity and achieving into the current day. past their features as brokers of physically damage, poisons have additionally served as gateways of non secular ecstasy, occult wisdom, and sensorial aberration, in addition to the root of therapies. Allied with Samael, the Edenic serpent of first transgression whose identify in a few interpretations is 'Venom of God', this aspect of magic wends in the course of the rites of historical Sumer and Egypt, via ecu Necromancy, Alchemy, the arcane the rites of the Witches' Sabbath, and modern day folks magic. Of specific word to this learn are the herbs of the so-called 'Devil's Garden', bearing relation to the witchcraft innovations of the Graal of nighttime, the Witches' Supper, and the Unguentum Sabbati, the flying ointment of the witches which has exerted fascination over student, historians, and practitioners alike. past attention of the toxicological dimensions of magical energy, the concurrent thread of astral and philosophical poisons also are tested, and their resonance and dissonance with magical perform explored. Veneficium can be of curiosity to scholars of magic, witchcraft, alchemy, botanical folklore, medication, and occult pharmacology.

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11 sits respective powers and responsibilities. h v of death, disease, mutation and sterility. i/'/xi//i or shadow-emanations of the Kabbalistic sephira, '«»< liusk-like impurities of industry do not merely cease ^ 1 ivity once buried in the ground, but continue to leach • upt influences over time and space. tdrs, centuries, or millennia and fuse with the strata of N unit- herself. Persistent residue of the agricultural i)"i «tu itle lead arsenate ( P b H A s 0 4 ) is a classic example. «»»«»• used extensively in orcharding, it remains in the soil for decades and can also be systemic, migrating into the tissues of trees and their fruit —the witches' poisoned apple bearing the mark of Samael.

By use of a kind of poetic empiricism, the Ally of each poison under investigation was made manifest to the adept by the act of its imbibition. This marked a return of needful subjectivity to the Poison Path, not as an unacknowledged flaw, but as the restoration of an estranged and essential part of 'objectivity'. Inquiry was not limited merely to the routes of history, therapeutics, and chemical assay, but also through mantic embodiment of the poison genii themselves and their alignments with the adept's own magical trajectories.

By this route of inquiry, the powers 'I heaven and hell were embodied in man, as were the i»>ieniials of the earthly body as furnace, retort, «n« iluilum, and all the transmutative apparatus of the rinlosopher. I h i s noetic path of corporeal self-discovery in relation to MSI in is exemplified by Dale Pendell in his trilogy of books rnutko/Poeia, Pharmako/Dynamis, and Pharmako/Gnosis. >•< 11 (impounds of antimony, some taken orally. By use of a kind of poetic empiricism, the Ally of each poison under investigation was made manifest to the adept by the act of its imbibition.

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