The Aeternum Notebooks

Nails, horseshoes, blades, and threshold objects: iron has protected homes, animals, and people for centuries in European magical traditions.

How did the Psalms become operative words? From the Middle Ages to Long Lost Friend, from folk Christianity to hoodoo,...

Opening an ancient grimoire means entering a language in which words no longer merely serve to describe. Divine names, Greek,...

Today, the name “dragon’s blood” is used for resins, powders, incense sticks, scented oils, and blends whose only common feature...

Alchemy, too often reduced to the chimera of gold-making or seen as an archaic and obscure science, is actually one...

Hoodoo is one of the most significant folk traditions in American history. However, its name remains little known outside the...

For centuries, grimoires, talismans, prayers, dreams, and ritual operations have sought to understand why some beings seem favored by fate...

The magic wand is one of the oldest instruments in the history of occult and religious practices, but also one...

The study of Western ceremonial magic, free from modern reinterpretations, reveals a structure of remarkable precision where the magic circle...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the British occultist Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) inaugurated a bold new spiritual path he...

Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) was a Renaissance scholar, physician, philosopher, and mage who dedicated his life to uncovering the secrets of...

Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, Alexandria quickly became a cosmopolitan melting pot of cultures and knowledge in...