On a February evening in 1884, something extraordinary supposedly happened in a secret temple. The Elect Magi and Templar Mistresses of the Order of the Palladium had finally succeeded in summoning Asmodeus, a demon prince who arrived in dramatic fashion—ripping through the temple roof, accompanied by mysterious slow music, wielding a great sword in one… Read more »
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Léo Taxil’s legend about Thomas Vaughan reads like occult fiction at its most sensational. According to the hoax, everything changed for the Vaughan line on March 25th, 1645, when Oliver Cromwell granted Thomas Vaughan the privilege of beheading William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury. In Taxil’s tale, Vaughan steeped a cloth in Laud’s blood and… Read more »
The 2026 Forecast featuring T. Susan Chang and Andrew B. Watt is now available! Join us as we take a look at astrology and Tarot for each month in the coming year.
As a learning exercise with DaVinci Resolve, I created a music video for a song I made earlier this year. The song was primarily recorded using a bunch of Korg Volca synthesizers and some additional sound effects and soundscaping in Reaper.
Over the past few months, I have been working on a new podcast series about the 16th century grimoire, The Arbatel. At first, I wanted this to be a similar format as my series on Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy, but thinking back on that project, I was overwhelmed by how much work it… Read more »
The Arnemancy Podcast is five years old this year! Can you believe it? And I would love to celebrate with you!
For the past few months, a few friends have been pressuring me to try my hand at making YouTube videos. I have already been uploading podcast episodes to YouTube, usually with just a static image. In addition, I have been using REAPER to edit videos for on-demand classes. So, I thought, how much extra work… Read more »
Renaissance Sigil Magic is back! First offered at Dark Star Magick earlier this year, my class exploring historical techniques for sigil creation is now being offered online! From magic squares to magical alphabets to magical math, let the methods of pre-modern magicians come alive for you!
I have just released a new online tool for generating Playfair cipher keys using whatever text you feel like using. While this may seem like an unusual tool for a website like this, those who have taken my class, The Other Trithemian Art, or heard me talk about using modern hand-ciphers with Renaissance magical techniques,… Read more »
I used three different MIDI keyboards and a bunch of sound effects to create this soundscape-rich taiko-drum-driven musical interpretation of the story of Katharina Kepler and how she was accused of witchcraft.
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