Greetings!
Well now...I have a small contribution to add here.
I was really working hard on a magical talisman that would help to confer 'invisibility'. I created a ring made from lead and inscribed the inner surface with a Latin motto. I used lead because I wished to utilize a Saturnian influence... and lead was readily available.
I formulated a series of rituals and magical operations to carry me through the construction phase of my project. The result was a finger ring made of lead with a partial skull sculpted as a bezel. The motto was inscribed on the inner side. It was time for a trial run! I slipped on the ring and intoned the mantric words of the motto. It got visibly darker in the room. I took off for a walk. As I traversed the county road from my house to the store I didn't notice anything unusual. I felt abit down that the experiment wasn't too successful. When I reached the store I went into the drugstore and perused the paperbacks. Finding one I liked I then went up near the counter and waited to be noticed.....and I waited....finally, in full sight of the clerk behind the register, I walked out of the store, holding my purloined copy of the book in hand! Noone saw me! I went home, determined to write the entire incident down in my journal. Again, nothing worthy of notr on the mile long road home...save a melancholy that seemed to weigh on me. Most likely a guilty conciousness over ripping off the book! Ah well... The ring ended up in a box of occult accoutremon' and was forgotten until one year later...
I was boasting to some friends about an 'invisibility' ring that I made and we all had a laugh about it. Next day I unearthed the thing and took it with me to show my friends my handiwork. We were all meeting at the University lounge to wait for my sister and my parents to show up when I displayed the ring. I placed it on and again the room seemed to get darker. While we were sitting there at a table nearest the door entry to the lounge when my sister appeared and looked around the room. Her gaze never stopped at our table! My parent then showed up and, seeing mt sister, they hastened to join her, now sitting 2 tables away from me and my friends! We (me and my friends) were amazed! I took off the ring and immediately my sister noticed us and waved over thinking we had just walked into the room! None of them saw me or my friends! ..and they had to walk right by us! The room was not dark anymore.
I noticed that while wearing the ring I was 'overlooked' by others but also that I was suffering from an acute melancholia which I now believe came from the Saturnian influence. The inner inscription, in English, was: Light change to Shadow. I realize now that it was a very stupid thing to do....but, at one time, I had made an Invisibility ring. btw....the ring was stolen from me years later. The crook who stole it commited suicide. So much for Saturnian influence!
Magic can be done...it just isn't what we expect! (IMG:
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This post has been edited by bym: Oct 14 2006, 06:48 PM