ImageMagick - modified and distributed. It runs on all major operating systems. Most of the functionality of ImageMagick can be used interactively from the command line; more often however, the features are used from progams written in the programming languages Perl, C, C++, Python or Java, for which ready-made ImageMagick interfaces (PerlMagick, Magick++, PythonMagick and JMagick) are available. This makes it possible to modify or create images automatically and dynamically. There is no general purpose GUI front end for ImageMagick. GraphicsMagick is a fork of ImageMagick 5.5.2 which is intended to provide a more stable interface..
High Magick - High Magick In witchcraft, High Magick (not to be confused with ceremonial magick) is the practice and study of esoteric and/or paranormal disciplines specifically designed to promote the Great Work, which is the perfection of the spiritual self so that one may help the World advance spiritually. High magick is not specifically complex, difficult, or structured, although the majority of the individual systems used tend to be so. Thelema, alchemy, Rosicrucianism, and the initiatory and relevatory aspects of Wicca are some examples of high magick. Some people find the term "high magick" misleading, believing it means that this kind of magick is somehow better than "low magick". This is not true. They are merely different. High magick is the alteration of the self according to Will, while.
Goetic magick - Goetic magick Goetic magick (or the Goetia) is a system of "demonic" magick based on the first part of The Lesser Key of Solomon. This system gives specific instructions for evoking (conjuring to one's exterior) one of 72 entities described in the book. Although it is not explicitly stated in the lesser key, this system will also work on other entities not described in the book. Though described as demons by the early magickians, Goetic spirits actually serve many useful functions to those with the fortitude to summon and command them properly..
Grimoire magick - Grimoire magick A branch of magick taken largely from Grimoires, or old books of spells from the simple to the very complicated. Classic grimoires include: The Book of the Sacred Magick of Abramelin the Mage The Grand Grimoire The Sworn Book of Pope Honorius Grimoirium Verum The Key of Solomon The Lesser Key of Solomon Some of these books have fallen to the wayside as more-or-less uninformative collections of cantrips. Others, particularly the lesser key and Abramelin, have become fundamental components of magickal practice and philosophy, particularly Thelema and Satanism..
Enochian magick - Enochian magick Enochian magick is a system of ceremonial magick based on the evocation and commanding of various spirits. It is based on the 16th century writings of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley, who claimed that their information was delivered to them directly by an angel. They created the Enochian script, and the table of correspondences that goes with it. It claims to embrace secrets contained within the apocryphal Book of Enoch. See Also Magick Occultism Mysticism.
Dark Magick - Dark Magick Dark Magick is a novel about a small town where everyone is either involved in witchcraft or has the 'powers' to be involved in it. This book was written by Cate Tiernan and is part of her Sweep book series. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers. Dark Magick, which is actually the name of a store in the book, is a story about a girl, Morgan, and her boyfriend Cal, who have attempted to kill a schoolmate named Hunter near a cliff, stabbing him with an athame. Through her powers and those of Hunter's cousin Sky, Morgan runs into surprise after surprise. Everything going on will affect her life as well as Cal's..
Chaos magick - Chaos magick "Nothing is true; everything is permitted." - Hassan I Sabbah "...if you want a one-line definition with which most Chaoists would probably not disagree, then I offer the following. Chaoists usually accept the meta-belief that belief is a tool for achieving effects; it is not an end in itself." - Peter Carroll, January, 1992 "Chaos is not in itself, a system or philosophy. It is rather an attitude that one applies to one's magic and philosophy. It is the basis for all magic, as it is the primal creative force. A Chaos Magician learns a variety of magical techniques, usually as many as s/he can gain access to, but sees beyond the systems and dogmas to the physics behind the magical force and uses whatever.
Ritual magick - Ritual magick Ritual or devised acts related to the use of magick, for worship of, or rehearsal of principles embodied in magick..
Magick - Magick Magick is an archaic spelling of magic, revived by Aleister Crowley to differentiate "true" magic from illusion or stage magic. His definition treats magic in the context of the paranormal and magic in the context of religion as special cases. Crowley defined magick as "the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the will." By this, he included "mundane" acts of will as well as ritual magick. In Magick in Theory and Practice, Chapter XIV, Crowley says: What is a Magical Operation? It may be defined as any event in nature which is brought to pass by Will. We must not exclude potato-growing or banking from our definition. {107} Let us take a very simple example of a Magical Act: that.
Kenneth Anger - to 30 minutes) mood pieces, in 1955 he made a documentary film of the ruins of Crowley's magical abbey in Cefalu, Sicily. During the late 60's he associated with The Rolling Stones, and Mick Jagger did the music for Anger's 1969 film Invocation of My Demon Brother. Several of his films are collected in the 4 volume Magick Lantern Cycle, these are marked * in the filmography. Filmography Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat (1941) Tinsel Tree (1941-1942) Prisoner of Mars (1942) The Nest (1943) Escape Episode (1944) Drastic Demise (1945) Escape Episode (shorter sound version) (1946) Fireworks (1947)* Puce Moment (1949)* The Love That Whirls (1949) Maldoror (1951-1952, unfinished) Eaux d'Artifice (1953)* Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (1953) Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954, recut in 1966)* Thelema Abbey.
Kitchen witch - Kitchen witch A Kitchen witch is a practitioner of magick who uses the tools at hand to work his or her spells and create their rituals. For example using a kitchen carving knife for an athame, a cast iron pot for a cauldron, etc. Common kitchen herbs frequently have magical uses as well. See neopaganism, Wicca..
James Branch Cabell - the knights in Manuel's company after his departure. Though now largely forgotten by the general public, his work was very influential on later authors of fantastic fiction: Robert A. Heinlein's Job, A comedy of Justice has an appearance of the Slavic god Koschei (from Jurgen), and Fritz Leiber's Swords of Lankhmar was also influenced by Jurgen. Jack Vance's Dying Earth books show considerable stylistic resemblances to Cabell; Cugel the Clever in those books bears a strong resemblance, not least in his opinion of himself, to Jurgen. Other works include: Something about Eve The Cream of the Jest Domnei Smirt, Smith, Smire (trilogy) Quotes "...In the early part of the 20th century, there was a fantasy writer named James Branch Cabell who had a theory of writing as magick. His books (highly.
John Wilkins - in the following year prebendary of St Paul's and bishop of Chester. Possessing strong scientific tastes, Wilkins was the chief founder of the Royal Society and its first secretary. He died in London. His numerous written works include An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (London, 1668), in which he proposes a new universal language for the use of philosophers. He is remembered also for a curious work entitled The Discovery of a World in the Moon (1638, 3rd ed., with an appendix "The possibility of a passage thither," 1640). Other works are A Discourse Concerning a New Planet (1640); Mercury, or the Secret and Swift Messenger (1641), a work of some ingenuity on the means of rapid correspondence; and Mathematical Magick (1648)..
Visualization - consumed by white sharks, which represent the body's immune cells. Athletes sometimes use visualization to try to help them succeed at their sport. Visualization forms part of Rosicrucianism and Esotericism in general. Magick also employs visualization. Compare with meditation and with petitionary prayer. The term visualization can refer to any technique for creating images to represent abstract data, for example with computer graphics. See also Qi Qigong Autosuggestion Mysticism Esotericism Meditation.
H. P. Lovecraft - Island. Lovecraft's grave in Providence has from time to time been inscribed with a graffito of his most famous turn of phrase, quoted from The Call of Cthulhu: "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die." Survey of Lovecraft's work The definitive editions (specifically At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, The Dunwich Horror and Others, and The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions) of his prose fiction are published by Arkham House, a publisher originally started with the intent of publishing the work of Lovecraft, but which has since published a lot of other fantastic literature as well. Lovecraft's poetry is collected in The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H.P. Lovecraft, while much.
Heptagram - construction with 14 intersecting lines. It has uses in magick. A solid (filled) form of heptagram appears often on the flag and in the heraldic symbolism of Australia. In the Australian context, the seven points allegedly represent the six states of Australia one each) plus one for the combined Territories. The seven-pointed stars make a refreshing change from the numerous conventional vexillological five-pointed stars..
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa - vanitate scientiarum (printed in Köln 1527) a satire of the (according to Agrippa) sad state of science. Libri tres de occulta philosophia or Three Books of Occult Philosophy (printed in Paris 1531 and in Köln 1533) a book about magick and cult-classic for practitioners of this art to this day. Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex a book on the equality of women. (A complete collection of his writings were also printed in Lyon in 1550.) Also see Pentagram.
Gong (band) - saxophonist, Didier Malherbe living in a cave in Deya, before film director Jerome La Perrousaz invited the band back to France to record the soundtracks to his movies. They were subsequently approached by the newly formed independent label BYG and signed up for two albums (Magick Brother, Mystic Sister and Bananamoon). By 1971, a regular line-up had established itself, and Gong released their Camembert Electrique album. The UK release, put out by Virgin Records subsidiary Caroline Records in 1974, was priced at 49p, ensuring that sufficient numbers were sold for the album to chart (had it not been barred from the charts for being so cheap). Gong played at the first Glastonbury Festival and were subsequently one of the first acts to sign to Virgin Records, getting first pick of the.
Gong mythology - hinted at through all of Gong's earlier albums but is not the central theme until the "Radio Gnome Trilogy" (1973-1974). The story begins on the album Flying Teapot (1973), when a pig-farming egyptologist called Mista T Being is sold a "magick ear ring" by an "antique teapot street vendor & tea label collector" called Fred the Fish. The ear ring is capable of receiving messages from the Planet Gong via a pirate radio station called Radio Gnome Invisible. Being and Fish head off to the hymnalayas of tibet (sic), where they meet (in a cave) the "great beer yogi" Banana Ananda. Ananda tends to chant "Banana Nirvana Manana" a lot and get drunk on Fosters Australian Lager. This latter development mirrors the real-life experience of band-members Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth,.
Fontanelle - (see 1992 in music). Babes in Toyland was one of the pioneerings in Riot Grrrl punk, which fused hardcore music with fierce feminist lyrics and a defiant, anti-authoritarian image. Track listing Bruise Violet (Babes In Toyland) - 2:52 Right Now (Babes In Toyland) - 2:19 Bluebell (Babes In Toyland) - 2:22 Handsome and Gretel (Babes In Toyland) - 1:50 Blood (Babes In Toyland) - 2:44 Magick Flute (Babes In Toyland) - 3:02 Won't Tell (Babes In Toyland) - 2:27 Quiet Room (Babes In Toyland) - 2:59 Spun (Babes In Toyland) - 3:03 - :41 Jungle Train (Babes In Toyland) - 2:15 Pearl (Babes In Toyland) - 1:56 Real Eyes (Babes In Toyland) - 2:51 Mother (Babes in Toyland) - 3:13 Gone (Babes In Toyland) - 2:28 Personnel Lee Ranaldo - Producer.
