Crucible 2016 Schedule

Uniting the Will in Practical Magic with Existential Kink

Ancient Greek thaumaturgists recognized a united will as the foundational condition for success in practical magic (i.e., positive synchronous manifestations of wealth, love, good fortune, etc.). The human will, however, is usually heavily divided between our conscious, deliberate intentions and our unconscious patterns and drives. Very few people, including aspiring magicians, ever attain a fully united will, and this shortcoming is at the root of why many fail to achieve tangible results in spell workings.

In this talk, Carolyn Elliott will present a radical and rapid technique which has proven effective for hundreds of her clients and course participants, Existential Kink, for uniting our conscious and our unconscious wills so as to enjoy reliable success in generating concrete results through practical magic.

Divination without Self-Deception

Whether it's scrying through a looking-glass or pendling, remote viewing or clairvoyant trance, telepathy or empathy, or just telling if a ritual "worked," divination and extrasensory perception all share a common obstacle - our own minds. We'll talk about some of the more common problems that our own minds can introduce to the process of divination or perception, and discuss methods for mitigating these pitfalls. Techniques and solutions from various traditions will be discussed, and we'll also look at some common ways these often overlooked techniques are already present or ready to be incorporated into your own ritual or divinatory practices.

Art of Zon: Manifesting Spirits

In this presentation, I will be revealing a divinely communicated summoning technique that physically manifests spirits, without the use of a Triangle of Art. Among the discussed will be the importance of shedding the ego, mastering the 5 senses, astral projection, and an important tool that provides the magician with an abundance of energy: the tesseract. Not only will energy manipulation be covered, but some book-learned material as well, such as the rituals Liber V vel Reguli and LVX (and how to convert them into energy) are a part of this summoning. One might say that this technique is the best of energy manipulation and ceremonial magic combined.

One must know how to build astral tools and how to astral project for this spirit summoning to be of use. A notepad and something to write with is strongly recommended. Hand outs will be provided.

Accidental Talismans

Our junk and clutter are powerful talismans which have taken on a sentient life of their own; feeding off of our life force, depleting our energy, keep us harnessed to the past and holding us back from the possibilities of the future. Participants learn how our Accidental Talismans affect us physically, psychologically, emotionally and spiritually.

Read like a Fortune Teller

All my life people mentioned that the Tarot deMarseilles was the most symbolically correct Tarot, but I avoided it. I avoided it because the art was plain. I avoided it because there were no helpful pictures on the pip cards, I avoided them because other decks seemed more filled with esoteric symbolism. I avoided it because despite them being what Tarot was for 300 years - no magicians read with them. I avoided them until a few years ago when I FINALLY learned to throw all that, and everything that came with the RWS and later English Tarots out the window. I stopped reading like a esoteric psychologist and started reading like a fortune teller.

This class is about how to read Tarot like the cartomanic system it is. How to see plain and specific patterns in dance from one card to the next. I will cover why I switched to the Older Tarots with their plain cards, and how the mysteries of the Tarot get obscured when weighed down with arcane symbols, runes, and cat people.

Best yet, by the end of this class you will be able to read the Tarot, even the pip cards, without that stupid little white book.

Art of Zon: The Knowledge in Energy

In this presentation, I will be discussing how to retrieve information from energy. Whether it is from sigils/seals, direct contact with deities or even your own/other's energy fields. This includes using energy for divination and remote viewing.

Omnimancy: Spell Analysis

This year's lecture is on how spells actually work and more importantly how to reverse engineer spells. The idea being that if one knows how something works, it becomes far easier to improve it.

Searching for Montague Summers: Anatomy of an Obsession

Who was Montague Summers? Gerard O'Sullivan has tried to answer this question, and with limited success, since his first terror-stricken reading of Summers's "The Werewolf" in early adolescence. In this presentation O'Sullivan recounts the genesis of his obsession with Summers and his work, which lead him to a dogged pursuit and eventual recovery of the writer's lost papers, missing since August of 1948. In this presentation O'Sullivan will address questions which continue to linger about Summers, the "disreputable clergyman" who lived from 1880 to 1948 and whose influence and legacy in esoteric and literary circles persists to this day. Was Summers really Father Summers, a duly ordained priest in the Roman Catholic Church, or was he — as some maintain — an independent Catholic cleric or bishop? And despite his public abjurations of witchcraft and magic was he, in fact, a practicing occultist himself?

Defense Against the Dark Arts

In each cycle of the year, one is called forth to speak on the dread and forbidden topic of the dark arts. To date, none have had the fortitude to holds this mantle beyond that cycle. Most are driven mad or worse. Not realising that all qualified had taken one step back, the doom has been thrust...

"Dark Arts" has become a literary term at times evoking images of crazed Black Magicians crafting works of Evil to turn people's souls to destruction. But Dark and Light are as Ethically Grey as Good and Evil.

How does one recognise Dark Arts? How does one use them for personal needs? And how does one walk away unscathed? Can any actually be done?

Mixing anecdote, philosophy, and study; Andrei explores the tools, toys, problems and pitfalls of del arts n'asti.

Introduction to Practical Ceremonial Magic

This lecture attempts to address the problem of practical ceremonial magic. That is, it's not obvious how to apply it to daily life challenges, nor is it obvious how to do so in a way that makes sense to your life path. Learn how to more easily navigate the magical landscape and how to look inside yourself for power and spiritual fulfillment.