The Caretaker

MEDIEVAL MAGIC - 3/14/2022

The medieval world saw the emergence of a new paradigm for magic. What was once only a loose conglomerate of legends and folk traditions was now a loose conglomerate of legends, folk traditions, and meticulously systemized knowledge. And like most important things in the medieval era, this new paradigm was born from catholic priestess getting into fights.

This was a scrappy era for the church. The latin-speaking Catholic church had spent most of its history sharing power in the roman em...

MEDIEVAL MAGIC: 3/11/2022

The medieval world saw the emergence of a new paradigm for magic. What was once only a loose conglomerate of legends and folk traditions was now a loose conglomerate of legends, folk traditions, and meticulously systemized knowledge. And like most important things in the medieval era, this new paradigm was born from catholic priestess getting into fights.

This was a scrappy era for the church. The latin-speaking Catholic church had spent most of its history sharing power in the roman em...

MEDIEVAL MAGIC: 3/10/2022

The medieval world saw the emergence of a new paradigm for magic. What was once only a loose conglomerate of legends and folk traditions was now a loose conglomerate of legends, folk traditions, and meticulously systemized knowledge. And like most important things in the medieval era, this new paradigm was born from catholic priestess getting into fights.

This was a scrappy era for the church. The latin-speaking Catholic church had spent most of its history sharing power in the roman em...

READING LIST UPDATE:

With John Dee proving to be significantly denser than previously thought, I've done some digging and come up with two texts I'm going to power through:

"John Dee and the Empire of Angels" by Jason Louv

"Enochian Vision Magic" by Lon Milo Duquette

MORE TO FOLLOW

NOTES ON MEDIEVAL MAGIC

TAKING SHAPE, NEARLY THERE

SCHOLASTIC ANALYSIS OF MAGIC

Scholasticism and the Church

• Magic has almost universally been banned by the church
• Yet magic thrives in the medieval world
• Thats the Clerical Necromantic Underground Babey
• “Rodger Bacon: “Christianity had two major competitors: Magic and Philosophy”
• How did magic work? What did it mean to them?
• Well, a lot of stuff. Many that disregard magic as a whole, but, upon...
  2022-03-08 18:38:47 +0000 UTC View Post

NOTES ON MEDIEVAL MAGIC - 3/4/2022

SCHOLASTIC ANALYSIS OF MAGIC

Scholasticism and the Church

• Magic has almost universally been banned by the church
• Yet magic thrives in the medieval world
• Thats the Clerical Necromantic Underground Babey
• “Rodger Bacon: “Christianity had two major competitors: Magic and Philosophy”
• How did magic work? What did it mean to them?
• Well, a lot of stuff. Many that disregard magic as a whole, but, upon closer inspection, appear to plu...
  2022-03-04 18:26:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Medieval Magic: Draft - 2/28/2022

The medieval world saw the emergence of a new paradigm for magic. What was once only a loose conglomerate of legends and folk traditions was now a loose conglomerate of legends, folk traditions, and meticulously systemized knowledge. And like most important things in the medieval era, this new paradigm was born from catholic priestess getting into fights.

This was a scrappy era for the church. The latin-speaking Catholic church had spent most of its history sharing power in the roman em...

Medieval Magic: Draft - 2/23/2022

The medieval world saw the emergence of a new paradigm for magic. What was once only a loose conglomerate of legends and folk traditions was now a loose conglomerate of legends, folk traditions, and meticulously systemized knowledge. And like most important things in the medieval era, this new paradigm was born from catholic priestess getting into fights.

This was a scrappy era for the church. The latin-speaking Catholic church had spent most of its history sharing power in the roman em...

Medieval Magic Draft: 2/22/2022

The medieval world saw the emergence of a new paradigm for magic. What was once only a loose conglomerate of legends and folk traditions was now a loose conglomerate of legends, folk traditions, and meticulously systemized knowledge. And like most important things in the medieval era, this new paradigm was born from catholic priestess getting into fights.

This was a scrappy era for the church. The latin-speaking Catholic church had spent most of its history sharing power in the roman em...

More Notes on Medieval Magic: 2/19/2022

SCHOLASTIC ANALYSIS OF MAGIC

Scholasticism and the Church

• Magic has almost universally been banned by the church
• Yet magic thrives in the medieval world
• Thats the Clerical Necromantic Underground Babey
• “Rodger Bacon: “Christianity had two major competitors: Magic and Philosophy”
• How did magic work? What did it mean to them?
• Well, a lot of stuff. Many that disregard magic as a whole, but, upon closer inspection, appear to plu...
  2022-02-19 19:57:07 +0000 UTC View Post

UNTITLED MAGIC BOOK - MEDIEVAL MAGIC - NOTES - 2/16/2022

What is the medieval era?

• Rise of the church and scolasticism.
• We’ve got this new thing called scholasticism (Scholars!)
  Whats Scholasticism?
  Commitment to Catholicism
  Dialectical Reasoning
  Rigorous Conceptual analysis
  Careful drawing of distinctions
  formal debate and disputation
• The Church! (Priests!)
  Edict of Thessalonica makes christianity the official religion of the late roman empire
  Dominant religious power str...
  2022-02-16 19:20:04 +0000 UTC View Post

UNTITLED MAGIC BOOK: EXCERPT - MEDIEVAL MAGIC - 2/15/2022

THIS SECTION IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE ENTIRELY RE-WRITTEN

The year is 410. The Western Roman Empire has fallen. The Renaissance is a long way off, now is the time of the medievals. Magic in the medieval world is characterized by two things: The Past, and The Church. An increasingly powerful catholic church is locked in a careful dance of expansion and syncretism with the myriad pre-christian beliefs of europe. Along with the presence of the catholic priest comes another figure, The Schol...

UNTITLED MAGIC BOOK: MEDIEVAL MAGIC AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD - 2/10/2022

The day is full of work and song. The night is deep and cold. Every sunday sit under the effigy of a man in agony. A priest incants words in an ancient language you do not speak or understand. He says the words are holy and you believe him. How else could flesh and blood taste of bread and wine? Wondrous things are possible. You know this to be true. You taste it for yourself every sunday. The priest says there are the good wonders, the miracles of God, and the bad wonders, the magic of the d...

UNTITLED MAGIC BOOK: EXCERPT - 2/4/2022

MEDIEVAL MAGIC

The day is full of work and song. The night is deep and cold. Every sunday sit under the effigy of a man in agony. A priest incants words in an ancient language you do not speak or understand. He says the words are holy and you believe him. How else could flesh and blood taste of bread and wine? Wondrous things are possible. You know this to be true. You taste it for yourself every sunday. The priest says there are the good wonders, the miracles of God, and the bad wonder...

Untitled Magic Book - Draft Outline

(The structure of the book is taking shape!)

FORWARD

• Heres what this book is

PART 1 - AN INTRODUCTION TO MAGIC

DISCUSSION OF TERMS

• Define magic
• Hows it different from religion?
• Discuss the triple helix briefly
• Define Cosmology
• Okay but is any of this real? (Include Armaan’s garlic anecdote here)
• “We will discuss all of this in greater detail in part 3”

PART 2...