Greetings, folks! Gall nuts, eh? I've put the URL in the "Obscure Grimoiric Items" folder in the links section. :) Anyone who hasn't looked at that folder...
Greetings fellow Aspirants! This is just a friendly reminder about my latest interview- on the John MicNair Show starting July 1st! It is a Podcast show, so...
Thelema Athena, boy this thread grew while I was away! In the meantime I found quite a few gall nuts (been in Dorset which is rich in oak trees, as is...
Thelema Athena and all, great thread, aim to type up the papyrus ref alongside the grimoire recipe for a 'papyrus parallels' post, in the meantime I'm all ears...
... I think the best thing would be black winter truffles; Tuber Melanosporum Vitt. These are the darkest most pungent variety, combined with Mryyh that's a...
... The ink cap mushrooms are edible btw, good in soup :). However they are a far far cray from truffles (and about a million times easier to find). With...
Thelema Athena, yup truffles are interesting and exotic but stuff about making ink from ink caps is easy to find, but not for truffles. The word ink and...
Thelema Athena, more head scratching later, still finding plenty of mushrooom ink and no truffles, but the Greeks and Romans thought truffles were an...
... and no ... that could ... There are some old manuscripts and books about dying textiles with mushrooms which are very interesting. I don't recall any...
Thelema Athena and All, some interesting magical ink recipes (complete with instructions!) http://walkinthelight.co.uk/inks.htm ALWays Jake ... [Non-text...
Thelema, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_gall_ink interesting background, chemistry etc.. Particularly interesting is this ink destroys paper but is very...
... from ink ... papers), not ... correct. Any ... India ink used to have actual musk in it. It may have just been for the odor, I guess you could sell a...
Thelema, More than one ever needs to know about the Desert Truffle... http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/jan2007.html Still, can't see any need for them...
Thelema, hi Scar and Vorcirith, well done you persistent buggers! ;-) You managed to convince me these are local (to the papyrus authors) as well as havng...
... and are ... Yum! :) Compared with the other recipes it does seem like a bit of an extraneous ingredient. Interesting about the lightning thing, it ...
Squid ink risotto with black truffles, yum. And very, very black. I agree with Vorcirith..at first glance the Saturnian influence seems likely. Truffles and...
Thelema, Thing is, the black truffle found in France didn't really get used till Renaissance and Modern times. The truffles talked about in the Classics and by...
Greetings in LVX Better late than never – we overshot the planned launch at summer solstice by a few days but are now happy to present the first edition of ...
Anyone know who or if this is a djin or what type of being this might be? goes by the name, "roboam" I know, there is one in the Bible too. Don't think it's...
The First Is the question of the triangle of the Art. How does each person use of it , I mean Do you use the triangle like the scying mythed as Kraig tells...
Thelema, hi Scar, all good points, reckon that tan truffle is our boy (would have liked to have seen it in the 'Wares of a Morrocan Folk Doctor' list, but it's...
Hello, I have a question for you guys if you're up to it. What planet rules cannabis? I'm not extensively well read in the source books on astrology but you...
My money would be on Neptune. Pot is basically Jovial, what with the giggles and the feasting. But it is also oceanic with the mental state. Jupiter was...
... It does bring out the comedian in people, in groups anyway. It does increase appatite in most people. These do fit into the Jupiter profile. Vorcirith ...
... Music dancing and sex. It increases peoples appreciation of rythem. It increases their kinesthetic awareness and their enjoyment of sex. I believe these...
Here we have an important distinction: between the function of an herb from a disciplined perspective (not everyone can meditate while using cannabis) and what...
Julian's Jupiter/Neptune call seems good, for reasons cited. I think I've seen it attributed to Saturn as well (will have to check references not handy),...
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