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Episode 04 – Slide 45

FootnoteWilliam Smith said of his own education: “During this period, I enjoyed in common with other boys of my age and circumstances, but limited opportunities for acquiring an education; and being like most youths, more fond of play than study, I made but little use...

Episode 04 – Slide 42

FootnoteMicahel Quinn: “While the Smith family’s belief in astrology can be demonstrated only circumstantially and inferentially, the Smiths left direct evidence of their practice of ritual magic. In addition to the magic dagger, among Hyrum Smith’s possessions at his...

Episode 04 – Slide 41

FootnoteSibly’s New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences… Sibly describes Pah-li-Pah as “one of the celestial powers”. Pah-li-Pah is the second of seven angels of ceremonial magic. The reverse side of the “Saint Peter Bind Them” parchment has a complex...

Episode 04 – Slide 40

FootnoteThe Smiths’ source for Jubanladace is Scot’s Discourse Concerning Devils and Spirits (Quinn, p. 110; Scot, p. 43). The central disk of the “Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah” parchment has four Maltese crosses and a Latin phrase as suggested by Reginald Scot (Scot,...

Episode 04 – Slide 38

Footnotehttp://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sibly-Astrology/pages/magical-signs/ “The dimensions of the circle is [sic] as follows: a piece of ground is usually chosen nine feet square, at the full extent of which parallel lines are drawn one within another, having sundry...