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"Many books in many ages have been written concerning the Ars Magia, but the foregoing elucidations shall serve us best where our Craft is concerned. Green Sorcery echoes these precepts, but in additoin presupposes a spiritous template, rather than a pshycological or energetic substratum. Accordingly, the World and the Universe are recognized as being composed of an infinitude of spirits, each with a different character and power. Thus Green Sorcery also encompasses the dynamic access to, collaboration with, and command of Spirits. Plant rites, cosmologies, deities and artifacts comprise its Corpus Fecundi. Embraced by this Way of Knowing are the pathways of Healing and Poisoning; Phytognosis; Chemistry adn Plant Alchemy; Zymurgy; Embalming; Vinology and Viticulture; Aromatics and Perfuming; Horticulture; Dyeing; Compounding Cosmetics; and the diverse, flavorful rituals of the Culinary Arts. Hylozoistic in stance, Our Arte reverse plants as peers and allies rather than as subservients or mere chymical principles to be manipulated, as is the dominant rationale in modern Herbalogy. It hails in each plant a wise and intelligent spiritous personality, or Genius. Intimate knowledges of these genii and their personalities comprise the hart of Our Arte, in the same way congress with angels and demons was central to the magic of the medieval necromancer. Plant genii may be accessed in many of the same ways, but there are also characteristics unique unto the Vegetal Realm, such as their direct interplay with earth-powers; their shifting affinities by season, planetary motion and starlight; their spiritual amplification during blossoming; the antiquity of their accumulated geomantic wisdom; and their significant alchymical interplay with the powers of the Sun and Moon."
Ars Philtron by D.A. Schulke.
"The Sages of Old instruct that the occult knowledge of Tress and Herbs, as well as the sacred arts of healing, divination, and enchantments, was given mankind in remote times by the gods. According to the teachings of some religious traditions, these were the so-called Fallen Angels, exiled from the celestial mansions by a jealous demiurge; or descending by will to share their divine power with the races of men. The ancient Books of Enoch reveal how these heavenly luminaries known as the Watchers took the daughters of men as wives and taught them the arts of astrology, writing, metalworking, perfumery, and herbalism.
By other accounts, these tutelary divinities were the beloved nymphs, tree-spirits, fairy-folk, sylvan genii, or rustic entities allied unto the dominions of the wilderness, such as good Chiron, that venerable centaur who taught the great god Asklepios the disciplines of medicine. In many traditions, it was the Trees and Herbs themselves, or the land wherein they were rooted, who taught the plant-doctors their art, often revealing themselves by way of a unique 'Language of the Trees' whereby vegetal powers were accessed by song and incantation."
Viridarium Umbris by D.A. Schulke.
Remarkable books blending traditional magic and science together. By far the best modern occult books I have ever read, and a very good reminder that "pagan" and "occult" do not have to be synonyms for "poorly researched" or "anti-science". Also a very good example of how myth can be accepted as true without rejecting either other mythologies or science/critical-thinking in the process.
Ars Philtron by D.A. Schulke.
"The Sages of Old instruct that the occult knowledge of Tress and Herbs, as well as the sacred arts of healing, divination, and enchantments, was given mankind in remote times by the gods. According to the teachings of some religious traditions, these were the so-called Fallen Angels, exiled from the celestial mansions by a jealous demiurge; or descending by will to share their divine power with the races of men. The ancient Books of Enoch reveal how these heavenly luminaries known as the Watchers took the daughters of men as wives and taught them the arts of astrology, writing, metalworking, perfumery, and herbalism.
By other accounts, these tutelary divinities were the beloved nymphs, tree-spirits, fairy-folk, sylvan genii, or rustic entities allied unto the dominions of the wilderness, such as good Chiron, that venerable centaur who taught the great god Asklepios the disciplines of medicine. In many traditions, it was the Trees and Herbs themselves, or the land wherein they were rooted, who taught the plant-doctors their art, often revealing themselves by way of a unique 'Language of the Trees' whereby vegetal powers were accessed by song and incantation."
Viridarium Umbris by D.A. Schulke.
Remarkable books blending traditional magic and science together. By far the best modern occult books I have ever read, and a very good reminder that "pagan" and "occult" do not have to be synonyms for "poorly researched" or "anti-science". Also a very good example of how myth can be accepted as true without rejecting either other mythologies or science/critical-thinking in the process.
