As the term "mancy" originally referred to divination, originally "necromancy" was less about raising zombies and more about using the dead to predict the future, such as by throwing bones, studying entrails, or summoning a prophetic ghost for questioning.
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My book review of Dr Al Cummins' NAZARTH: PILLARS OF GLADNESS has emerged from Parlibrum's shiny new website. Itt's a lovely little book, published by @hadeanpress as a "Geomancer's Angelical Psalter". Join me for a discussion of Dee's Enochian as speech-act and poetry enhancing the relationality of the seer.
https://www.paralibrum.com/reviews/nazarth-pillars-of-gladness-by-alexander-cummins
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[…] As Cummins suggests, the calls and figures as a whole might be deployed for various sorcerous reasons. Yet if there is one thing that remains constant with poetry, it is the ardency with which it is performed that makes it so evocative – even spoken softly, gently, soothingly, in tones of intima
Bevan Thomas
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