the Night

I have spent much time in libraries. I am an aficionado of old tomes.I appreciate a book that has been in the hands of some other human, experienced their essence and possibly even contains remnants of their existence in the form of notes, scrawls and the like. Even inscriptions in the blank first pages can be exciting,intriguing and informative. A brief insight into other lives lived.Loves longed for or lost. I enjoy perusing thrift shops and used book stores and the like looking for any treasures of times past. I have been known to give used books as gifts as well as adding them to my own library. It was upon one such excursion to a small used book store sandwiched in between a lumber yard and a laundromat in an out of the way village in rural Pennsylvania that I came upon a tome entitled From Ritual to Romance by Jessie L. Weston. Being an account of the Holy Grail I was enticed into purchasing it and when I got it home and sat down to examine it I found this inscription on the insi

Being my insight into the Magicking and Mystical. My vision of the Alchemical symbols, runes and oghams and ritual practices of the Nordic,Celtic,Slavic and Dietsch peoples of my ancestry A grimoire on esoteric practices. We start with the runes. I follow the Elder Futhark as laid down by those who introduced writing to the Northern areas. Words are Magick in and of themselves. I have seen many different variations of symbols called the Witch's runes. But what is a witch but one who draws the Force of Nature to themselves and works that force to their advantage.  I prefer to let Nature give it's Forces to me freely and work me with that Magick. I have set forth my own version  {  as imagined here  }  which I call the Hermit's Runes due to my solitary lifestyle. First, the opposites, the Yin and the Yang and the Union thereof.Two distinct and intertwined forces that cannot exist without the other. Next are the Elements. The Ether. The Sun gives us Fire Energy.The Air.The Wat