Treasures of the Sorcerers: A Guided Tour of Ritual Tools & Magic Objects, with Historian of Magic Dr Alexander Cummins, begins October 12
Saturdays, October 12 - November 9, 2024
2-4pm ET (NYC time)
$110 Paid Patreon Members / $125 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be recorded for those who cannot attend live
The arsenals of historical magicians include a vast array of magical tools, enchanted objects, cunning devices, and sorcerous implements. Such instruments of ritual and folk magic could require careful preparations by particular timings and rites of consecration, and could even require certain specified ways of storing and re-charging as well as wielding them.
Such magical objects include the ubiquitous magic wands, scepters of conjuration, and wizards staffs that grant authority, discharge spells, and command spirits; the range of ritual knives, swords, athames, and bolines that demarcate magic circles, protect the practitioner, and prepare ingredients; the scrying stones, crystal balls, and magic mirrors by which seers conjure visions and tutelary entities; not to mention the very robes, sorcerous apparel, and magical attire—from headwear to footwear—worn when performing magical operations; and even the magic rings that house and harness the powers of the stars and spirits, empower the wearer, and cast illusions.
In this five-part course, contemporary cunning-man and historian of magic Dr Alexander Cummins will lead us through a guided tour of these types of ritual tools and magical objects—Wands, Blades, Shewstones, Garments, and Rings—exploring sorcerous techniques of preparation, consecration, and utility for these enchanted and enchanting implements, as well as the cosmologies, intentions, and operations of their makers and users.
Along the way we’ll make contextual comparisons between historical ritual tools and ideas about the mythological items and mythic artifacts which partly informed them: from fairy cloaks of invisibility and the conjuring ring of King Solomon, to the caduceus of Mercury and the rod of Asclepius; and many many more beyond. Through this examination and celebration of magical manufacture of these material forms of sorcerous efficacy and expertise, we’ll refine our own understandings and engagements with sorcerous instruments and experiments.
Dr Alexander Cummins is a contemporary cunning-man and historian of magic. His magical specialities are the dead (folk necromancy), divination (geomancy) and the grimoires.
Saturdays, October 12 - November 9, 2024
2-4pm ET (NYC time)
$110 Paid Patreon Members / $125 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be recorded for those who cannot attend live
The arsenals of historical magicians include a vast array of magical tools, enchanted objects, cunning devices, and sorcerous implements. Such instruments of ritual and folk magic could require careful preparations by particular timings and rites of consecration, and could even require certain specified ways of storing and re-charging as well as wielding them.
Such magical objects include the ubiquitous magic wands, scepters of conjuration, and wizards staffs that grant authority, discharge spells, and command spirits; the range of ritual knives, swords, athames, and bolines that demarcate magic circles, protect the practitioner, and prepare ingredients; the scrying stones, crystal balls, and magic mirrors by which seers conjure visions and tutelary entities; not to mention the very robes, sorcerous apparel, and magical attire—from headwear to footwear—worn when performing magical operations; and even the magic rings that house and harness the powers of the stars and spirits, empower the wearer, and cast illusions.
In this five-part course, contemporary cunning-man and historian of magic Dr Alexander Cummins will lead us through a guided tour of these types of ritual tools and magical objects—Wands, Blades, Shewstones, Garments, and Rings—exploring sorcerous techniques of preparation, consecration, and utility for these enchanted and enchanting implements, as well as the cosmologies, intentions, and operations of their makers and users.
Along the way we’ll make contextual comparisons between historical ritual tools and ideas about the mythological items and mythic artifacts which partly informed them: from fairy cloaks of invisibility and the conjuring ring of King Solomon, to the caduceus of Mercury and the rod of Asclepius; and many many more beyond. Through this examination and celebration of magical manufacture of these material forms of sorcerous efficacy and expertise, we’ll refine our own understandings and engagements with sorcerous instruments and experiments.
Dr Alexander Cummins is a contemporary cunning-man and historian of magic. His magical specialities are the dead (folk necromancy), divination (geomancy) and the grimoires.
Saturdays, October 12 - November 9, 2024
2-4pm ET (NYC time)
$110 Paid Patreon Members / $125 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be recorded for those who cannot attend live
The arsenals of historical magicians include a vast array of magical tools, enchanted objects, cunning devices, and sorcerous implements. Such instruments of ritual and folk magic could require careful preparations by particular timings and rites of consecration, and could even require certain specified ways of storing and re-charging as well as wielding them.
Such magical objects include the ubiquitous magic wands, scepters of conjuration, and wizards staffs that grant authority, discharge spells, and command spirits; the range of ritual knives, swords, athames, and bolines that demarcate magic circles, protect the practitioner, and prepare ingredients; the scrying stones, crystal balls, and magic mirrors by which seers conjure visions and tutelary entities; not to mention the very robes, sorcerous apparel, and magical attire—from headwear to footwear—worn when performing magical operations; and even the magic rings that house and harness the powers of the stars and spirits, empower the wearer, and cast illusions.
In this five-part course, contemporary cunning-man and historian of magic Dr Alexander Cummins will lead us through a guided tour of these types of ritual tools and magical objects—Wands, Blades, Shewstones, Garments, and Rings—exploring sorcerous techniques of preparation, consecration, and utility for these enchanted and enchanting implements, as well as the cosmologies, intentions, and operations of their makers and users.
Along the way we’ll make contextual comparisons between historical ritual tools and ideas about the mythological items and mythic artifacts which partly informed them: from fairy cloaks of invisibility and the conjuring ring of King Solomon, to the caduceus of Mercury and the rod of Asclepius; and many many more beyond. Through this examination and celebration of magical manufacture of these material forms of sorcerous efficacy and expertise, we’ll refine our own understandings and engagements with sorcerous instruments and experiments.
Dr Alexander Cummins is a contemporary cunning-man and historian of magic. His magical specialities are the dead (folk necromancy), divination (geomancy) and the grimoires.