The Aeternum Notebooks

Since humanity first looked up at the sky, the stars have been much more than just points of light in...

In ancient Egypt, magic (heka in Egyptian) was omnipresent and inseparable from religion and daily life. The Egyptians believed that...

Ásatrú is a Germanic-Nordic neopagan religion (also called Scandinavian) that aims to revive the spiritual tradition of the ancient Vikings...

The French and European compagnonnages – these brotherhoods of itinerant workers in wood, stone, or metal trades – have always...

The Fortune Teller, painted by Caravaggio at the end of the 16th century, depicts a gypsy reading the palm lines...

From the earliest sacred stories to the pages of grimoires and medieval treatises, the figure of the devil was built...

Madame Fraya, whose real name was Valentine Dencausse, was a famous French clairvoyant and palm reader from the Belle Époque...

Magic is also rooted in families, lineages, and communities that saw blood and dynastic memory as a privileged channel of...

In magic treatises, certain practices reappear as essential keys to the most demanding operations. Among them, suffumigation holds a special...

Madame de Thèbes, whose real name was Anne Victorine Savigny, was a famous French clairvoyant and palm reader during the...

Imagine a village in Alsace in the 19th century. A cow is wasting away, the milk turns sour, and the...

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891) is a major figure in 19th-century occultism, known for co-founding the Theosophical Society in 1875 and...