A Luxryne course
Sigil Craft
Seals, signatures and the modern sigil
From Renaissance planetary seals to Austin Osman Spare and chaos magic: how sigils are made, what they were believed to do, and how to use them as tools of focused, positive intention.
By the end of this course you will
- Make a sigil with Spare's letter method
- Understand chaos magic's approach
- Trace sigils on the planetary kameas
Curriculum
Module I
The Sigil
History and the letter method.
Module II
The Modern Sigil
Chaos magic and its variations.
Module III
Planetary Seals
Kameas and the Rose-Cross.
Course reading list
- Austin Osman Spare, The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): The Psychology of Ecstasy (1913)
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy (1533; tr. J. F., 1651)
- Francis X. King & Stephen Skinner, Techniques of High Magic (1976)
- Peter J. Carroll, Liber Null & Psychonaut (1978, 1982)
- Phil Hine, Condensed Chaos (1995)
- Francis Barrett, The Magus (1801)
- Israel Regardie (ed.), The Golden Dawn (1937–40), including 'Book T'