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🦇 🦇 The word occult comes from the Latin occultus (clandestine, hidden, secret), referring to "knowledge of the hidden" 🌑 🎃 🎃 Angmar “We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?” -Christina Rossetti 🦇 Hand Me Down We live in the shadow of the dead, all the things they passed to us And now are ours, the chair-back worn smooth by a hundred hands, the barren Rug that shows the track of feet, light trapped by youth or heavy Footed and burdened with age. We live in the shade of dead Wishes and dreams, books that fall open to a once-loved phrase, We can choose To shudder and wince from the memories of those we loved and those We never knew, the ones our parents scarce remembered. Or we can fold them In the mind's embrace, make ourselves not an endpoint But a point on the journey of a turned bedstead, a chest, A shelf of books, and the wisdom Of a hundred generations .

-Lori Dixon 2024 Christopher Lopa "On the eve of each new year, the Celts believed, the barrier between the living and the dead became porous" The Celtic Origins of Trick-or-Treating smithsonianmag Uploaded by Niemann in dk images library This group is named after " Complete illustrated Book of the Psychic Sciences" a b ook by Walter B. Gibson 1966.A fun and interesting read.



Walter Brown Gibson (September 12, 1897 – December 6, 1985) was an American writer and professional magician , best known for his work on the .

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