We go on with Goethe’s Faust! In the interest of finishing before Walpurgisnacht, we take a longer selection this week. Please read from 235-311 (only half the pages are in English).

More of Goethe’s Faust this week! Please read the scenes in the study, pages 173-209, and in Auerbach’s Keller, 209-233.

We continue with Goethe’s Faust this week. Please read pages 129 (from “ANOTHER CITIZEN”) through to the end of the section,173. (This is only 22 pages in English.)

We are doing it. We are reading the famous initial scene from Goethe’s Faust and talking about what it means to be a magician.

Please read the Dedication, pp.64-67, the Prologue in Heaven, pp.82-91, and from The First Part of the Tragedy, the initial scene in Faust’s study, pp.92-124. If you don’t speak German, you will only read half of these pages! Congrats and condolences.

Optional: The Historical Background section of Kaufmann’s introduction, pp.12-21.

This week, as a side dish to our Egg: The Delphic Maxim ‘Know Yourself’ in the Greek Magical Papyri by Hans Dieter Betz.

This week we discuss the classic 1973 film The Wicker Man. Please watch it at home and come to the group with THREE GOOD QUESTIONS to stimulate conversation!

We invite you to join us in our simultaneous working of a week-long spell from the Greek Magical Papyri: the wonderful Egg of the Daimon. We begin at dawn on Sunday, September 21st.

In preparation, please read:

Sfinga’s artice, Meeting With Your Own Daimon, from the “With Cunning and Command” blog.

Some sections from Stephen Flowers’ Hermetic Magic: “Origins” (pp. 3-17), “Principles of the Hermetic Synthesis” (pp. 37-43), “Daimonology” (pp. 99-100), and “Magical Theories” (pp. 135-141).

Also recommended for context: the Wikipedia article on the PGM.

Against all odds – still – Hecate’s Fountain by Kenneth Grant. We will discuss pages 93-124 – “Spells of Hadit” and “Centres of Pestilence.”

Hecate’s Fountain continues to flow from, and to, the seats of our trousers. Please read pages 56-92 – the chapters “Sticks of Trance,” “Space Seed,” and “Sentient Mist.”

We continue with Hecate’s Fountain by Kenneth Grant! This week, please read pages 21-55. Or as near as you can get.