{LIVE REMOTE ONLINE OFFERING} BE NOT AFRAID: ANGELS IN ENGLISH MAGIC

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Angels are to be found in many operations of early modern European magic. Appeals to such divine messengers (angeloi) accompany almost any and all works of prayer, contemplation, and sanctification, not to mention formal rites of sorcery and conjuration.

The evidence attests to a variety of engagements between angels and humans in both Christian – not to mention older Jewish – formal angelology and folk magic alike: from simple prayers to one’s personal guiding angel for protection, healing, clarity, and comfort to complex conjurations involving asperged and fumigated circles and pentacles and oh so much Latin. Astrological, geomantic, and angelological magics throughout history and across cultures have appealed to planetary archangels, seven ‘Secondarian Intelligences’ considered to stand before the Almighty, and hosts of other astrological angelic messenger spirits of time and place.

Angels have been called to impart knowledge by divine means, as in the works of the medieval Ars Notoria. They have been sought by scrying in ‘shewstones’, mirrors, and crystals, and indeed in oiled thumbnails, by glistening polished sword, and via many other glimmering surfaces. Angelic messages are even called by incubating dreams through the use of purifications, sigils, vigils, and meditative prayer. Exorcists, conjurors, and nigromancers have all called upon the holy might of angelic forces to compel, exorcise, and command wicked and unclean spirits.

In this class, contemporary cunning man and historian Dr Alexander Cummins will take us through detailed study of several operations of early modern angelic magic, sourced from prayerbooks, popular pamphlets, grimoires, treatises of occult philosophy, the working-books of cunning-folk, historic scrying journals, and accounts by early modern heresiographers and demonologists. In so doing, we will examine where the pious meets the pragmatic in these angelic choruses of prayer and practice, and look to ways we can understand and even embody such heavenly spiritual influences and loci of power.

Dr. Alexander Cummins is a magician, diviner, historian, and poet whose work focuses on magical books, demonology, geomancy, and folk magic as well as love divination and enchantment. His doctoral research centred on magic and the emotions in the pre-modern world. He can be found at www.alexandercummins.com