Whether gazing into the spirit-world, telling fortunes from a crystal ball, spying on earthly enemies, or calling spirits into precious jewels and water-glasses alike, the practices of the visionary magics of scrying employ a huge variety of objects and glimmering surfaces to facilitate these spiritual experiments, revelations, and actions.

This Treasures of the Sorcerers: Blades class-bundle is a self-contained module originally part of the larger five-part Treasures of the Sorcerers course series.  In this class, we take stock of the wide range of implements and media of visionary divination and evocatory scrying – such as crystal balls, “black mirrors”, polished stones, and even bowls of water – to consider the magical operations of vision-at-a-distance, spontaneous wisdom, channeled magical texts and revelations, and the conjuring of spirits into reflective objects to impart knowledge and receive orders to work.

This study surveys a plethora of historical examples of famous and indeed infamous historical and legendary magicians and their magic mirrors, shew-stones, and other tools which facilitated their second sight. In exploring these tools and techniques of crystallomancy, stone-scrying, lapidary lore, and the divinations performed via glasses of water, we will investigate various visionary practices for attaining knowledge and traditional forms of “remote-viewing” as well as the evocatory conjuration of spirits into shining objects and receptacles; and consider how such implements were ensorcelled and gazed into, and how exactly they can be employed in our magics today.

This class-bundle includes:

An Illustrated Lecture Recording (two hours duration)
Lecture Slide-Deck
Bibliography & Further Recommended Reading

A full table of contents of the class itself runs:

•        Legendary Mirrors & Stones
•        Virgil’s Warning Mirrors
•        Roger Bacon’s Magic Mirror
•        A Historical Snow White?
•        Crowley’s Topaz Calvary Cross
•        The Stone-Scrying of Dr John Dee
•        Adamic Stones
•        Breastplate Lapidary
•        Shewstones
•        Berill Visions & Calls
•        Drawing Spirits into Crystals
•        Guardian Angel in a Crystal
•        The Oily Stone of Onely
•        The Excellent Booke’s Flat Stones
•        Cunning Crystallomancy
•        Mirrors
•        The Mirror of Solomon
•        St Cyprian’s Mirror of Four Kings
•        Water-Glasses
•        Holy Shades in Crystals, Glasses, & Water
•        Gauntlet’s Water-Glass Angels
•        Notes on Use

By purchasing this class recording, you agree that you understand that no part of the material dictated or provided throughout the duration of the presentation may be reproduced, distributed, or used in any other form (neither electronic nor mechanic, including photocopies and recordings), without the direct and written consent of the instructor, Dr Alexander Cummins.