Scattered across many museums, there are scrolls of Papyrus from the Early Common Era. Strange documents filled with spells of all kinds, formulae, prayers, hymns, rituals and rites. Their influences are all over the place- Egyptian, Greek, Jewish, Babylonian, Coptic even Gnostic and Christian. They are called the Greek Magical Papyri. Amazing documents that give us a glimpse into how magic was performed for a period of time, even though many of the spells date from much further back. Their existence is Miraculous. In this episode of WMiT, Doug is joined by Matthew to discuss a kind of magic that the host uses on a near weekly basis- Graeco-Egyptian Magic!
Show Notes
- The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation Volume I: Texts by Hans Dieter Betz – Buy a copy of this Book! Seriously, it is astounding
- Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic by Dr. Stephen Skinner – As essential as the book above. Provides a tonne of context and is fantastic for easy look-up of the PGM’s contents
- Transmission of Magical Knowledge – The Papyrus Magical Handbooks in Context – This is an awesome website and a must visit
- Practical Graeco-Egyptian Magic Video feat. Dr. Stephen Skinner
- A History of the Theban Magical Library
- Rituals of Apparition in the Theban Magical Library
- Looking at the Coptic Magical Papyri IX
- Classical Hermetic Rituals from The Digital Ambler – Sam Block is an amazing resource as far as PGM Magic is concerned. He helped me so much with a lot of my personal practice. Please support him, buy him a coffee and marvel at his work. I know I have
- The Digital Ambler – PGM – Scroll Down for a tonne of Content
- On Repurposing Ritual Parts for New Practices – The Digital Ambler
- Tripped up over Add/Do The Usual in the PGM? Sam Block has got yer Back with a fantastic Framing Rite
- The Headless Rite from The Digital Ambler – A rite that I use every week
- Animal Sacrifice: A Bloody Mess of a Topic – The Digital Ambler
- Work, Lineage, and Auturgy – A very important Message from Sam Block
- Sublunar Space – Great Stuff
- Voces Magicae – A Ghost of a site. No longer around but wonderful material from the Wayback Grave
- The Book of Abrasax: A Grimoire of Hidden Gods by Michael Cecchitelli
- Graeco-Egyptian Magic: Everyday Enchantment by Tony Mierzwicki – Probably the most practical of all the books listed here
- Hermetic Magic by Dr. Stephen Flowers – Some good things in here. And some… Other things…
- Jake Stratton-Kent on Geosophia in Watkins Magazine
- The True Western Magical Tradition? A Review of Jake Stratton-Kent’s Encyclopedia Goetica – These Books are going to be remembered for a long long time. Very Important work
- Dioscorides De Materia Medica
- Music from this Episode can be heard here. Pretty great as some of the music is Graeco-Egyptian and comes from Papyri
- The Long Ships by Frans Bengtsson – One of my favourite novels of all time. It’s in my Top Ten, without a doubt. Read it and love it
- The Language of the Corpse by Cody Dickerson – Matthew’s story of the Manitoba Bull came from this book
What Magic is This? 
I find it fascinating that “spirit contact” is so often considered the definition of magic. That’s really silly because magic works perfectly without spirits. Unless, of course, we count ourselves among the spirits which would of course be correct. But you do not need any outside source, your own power works perfectly well.
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