Black Magic: The Elizabethans, III
One thread connecting Renaissance magic with our own New Age magic is the belief in secret brotherhoods and perfect societies, such as the lost continent of Atlantis.
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Wednesday’s Child: Opus Signinum
Continuing last week’s ruminations about things that endure and are to be celebrated for their virtue…
Wednesday’s Child: Vicissitudes
On other occasions I have shared with the gentle reader my experience of the precariousness characteristic of an unemployed writer’s life…
Lower Than Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
For all the social forces and political and cultural battles contributing to what Christianity has taught about sex and marriage, what seems undeniable is that the religion Christ founded lifted family life onto an entirely new plane, through the teaching that marriage is sacred and that the bond between husband and wife is indissoluble until death.
For all the social forces and political and cultural battles contributing to what Christianity has taught about sex and marriage, what seems undeniable is that the religion Christ founded lifted family life onto an entirely new plane, through the teaching that marriage is sacred and that the bond between husband and wife is indissoluble until death.
Italian III.3
It is time to work on the subjunctive. This is taken up by Olga Ragusa on p. 109. Plus a poem of Carducci.
Naive Conservatives Put Their Trust in Princes, Again
I am a little puzzled by the Conservatives’ reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold birthright citizenship.
Wednesday’s Child: Maybe it’s the Heat
I analyzed the “Twitter herd” instinct in this space before, but the heat has now made it truly Gadarene. The swine, in fact, quite possibly leapt into the Sea of Galilee because they wanted to cool off.
Darkness Visible, The Elizabethans, Part III
One thread connecting Renaissance magic with our own New Age magic is the belief in secret brotherhoods and utopian societies ruled by adepts in Hermetic magic, such as the lost continent of Atlantis.
Italian I I.2 Un Canzone Updated 06/26
Un Vecchio Frack by Domenico Modugno
Probably Modugno’s finest song, and that is saying a great deal. You will find it on Youtube but when I post the link it does not work so go to it yourself.
Darkness Visible: The Elizabethans, Part II
When the greatest magus of the age, Giordano Bruno, was burned at the stake at the Campo dei Fiori in Rome in 1600, Bruno’s English friends and followers were careful to distance themselves from their discredited master
