On the Homeric Art (Interview with Storyteller Jeff Wright)
Podcast | 2 months ago
My conversation with Jeff Wright, Homeric storyteller, bard, and host of Trojan War: The Podcast and Odyssey: The Podcast. Jeff and I met at the University of Waterloo's very first Homer Appreciation Day in late April 2026, and there we set up a plan to sit...
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Saturn Cast Down
Video | 3 months ago
Exploring some of the many ways people throughout history have turned to the Greater Fortune, Jupiter, in protecting themselves against Saturn's overbearing malefic and melancholic nature. #history #esotericism #esoteric #saturn #jupiter #mythology #greekmy...
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How Witches Deprive Man of His Virile Member [Malleus Maleficarum II.7]
Video | 11 months ago
In the spirit of the season, we return to the infamous 1486 demonological witch-hunting manual, the Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer, specifically Book 2, Chapter 7 which focuses on a very peculiar but prevalent aspect of witch belief in 15th century ...
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Were Those Who Invoked Demons Subject to the Inquisition?
Video | 12 months ago
This video explores what the 14th-century Dominican inquisitor Nicholas Eymeric believed should be done with invokers of demons, "either magicians or heretics, or those suspected of heresy." In his Directorium Inquisitorum (1376), he organized these kinds o...
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The Inquisition of Heretical Depravity on Sorcerers, Diviners, and Invokers of Demons
Video | 1 years ago
Today we look at how the 14th-century Dominican Inquisitor Bernard Gui's infamous Manual of the Inquisition of Heretical Depravity (Practica inquisitionis heretice pravitatis) deals with sorcerers, diviners, and invokers of demons. You can read Bernard Gui'...
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Astrology and Astral Causality in the Malleus Maleficarum
Video | 1 years ago
Here we explore the treatment of astrology and astral causality in the infamous 1486 demonological witch-hunting manual, the Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger. You can read the Montague Summers translation of the Malleus here for fre...
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The Lesser Key of Solomon - Ars Goetia [Grimoire Audiobook]
Video | 1 years ago
The Lesser Key of Solomon the King, or Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis Rex, here transcribed from Sloane MS. 3825 in the British Library, is one of the most infamous texts of Western esotericism. The Ars Goetia is one particular text within the Lesser Key and...
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Sepher Yetzirah vel Liber de Creatione [De Arte et Mysteriis: Latin Podcast #7]
Podcast | 1 years ago
Part 7 of the 'De Arte et Mysteriis' Latin podcast, which serves to provide brief explanations of concepts and texts in the history of western esotericism in simple, comprehensible Latin. Most Latin resources on this platform focus on either classical or Bi...
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The Seven Liberal Arts: Geometry, Astronomy, Music
Video | 1 years ago
The Seven Liberal Arts: A Study in Mediaeval Culture: Part 6 - Geometry, Astronomy, and Music, by Paul Abelson (1906), read by Dan Attrell Full text here: https://archive.org/details/sevenliberalarts00abeluoft/page/n13/mode/2up?view=theater Support The Mode...
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The Key of Solomon, Book II [Grimoire Audiobook]
Video | 1 years ago
This grimoire audiobook presents Book 2 of 2. The full text is in the public domain, and available here: https://archive.org/details/b24884431/mode/2up?view=theater The Key of Solomon the King, or Clavicula Salomonis, is one of the most famous and influenti...
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The Key of Solomon, Book I [Grimoire Audiobook]
Video | 1 years ago
The Key of Solomon the King, or Clavicula Salomonis, is one of the most famous and influential grimoires (or better yet, 'grimoire traditions') in the Western occult world. Translated and edited in 1888 by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers, co-founder of the Her...
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Latin Cabala [De Arte et Mysteriis: Latin Podcast #6]
Podcast | 1 years ago
Part 6 of the 'De Arte et Mysteriis' Latin podcast, which serves to provide brief explanations of concepts and texts in the history of western esotericism in simple, comprehensible Latin. Most Latin resources on this platform focus on either classical or Bi...
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