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"Traditional European witchcraft descends from shamanism, which is evident when we compare the abilities attributed to witches during the medieval witch trials with the powers of shamans. Witches healed the sick. They performed divination and augury. They conversed with spirits and kept familiar spirits as their servants, usually in the form of small animals such as cats. Witches were able to bewitch beasts, cause storms, and affect the growth of crops. Spirits instructed them in the technical details of their profession. Most significantly, it was believed that they had the power of flight. All these abilities are shamanic.

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It is impossible to know how extensive the practice of witchcraft was in Europe prior to and during the Renaissance, when the persecution of witches by the Catholic and Protestant churches reached its height. The records of the witch interrogations and the literary works of witch finders, demonologists, and priests of the Inquisition certainly exaggerated their number outrageously, but when this exaggeration is discarded, it must be concluded that traditional shamanic skills passed from generation to generation as a cultural heritage of rural European communities formed the basis for the genuine practice of witchcraft.”

- Donald Tyson Soul Flight: Astral Projection & the Magical Universe http://amzn.to/1bID82f

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Johann Georg Gichtel - Alchemical Chakra Diagram (relations of resonance between the 7 planets and the 7 chakras).

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Alchemical Symbols.

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Alchemical and Rosicrucian Compendium, 1760.

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The Pathway of the Two Serpents. Gold Solar Serpent and the Black Lunar Serpent are alchemical opposites with different paths through the alchemical container of the body. When they meet, the Marriage of the Sun and the Moon takes place and this is when there is a possibility of immense energy. When the two serpents reach the crown, they become known as the Uraeus, which anoints the higher brain centres and leads to increased intelligence. As they ascend, they crisscross one another to form nodes at each chakra, and magnetically energise them, as they go. The chakras spark into life as each one is touched in this alchemical weaving dance. In this way, with the interwoven pattern, the two serpents create what’s called the Central Column or Central Pillar. Eventually the two serpents reach the crown and then the hypothalamus, which is visualised as a Chalice. 

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Names of Demons from Collin de Plancy’s ‘’Dictionnaire Infernal’’, 1818.

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Spirit Of The Birch by Alan Lee.

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101A2690 - Bull elk. ©Jerry Mercier by jerry mercier on Flickr.

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Cracks In The Ice

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