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Cool idea

Ask >>>/fringe/

That would be a very valuable contribution to the study of magic, but it sounds like an enormous amount of work for a single person. Another think to keep in mind is that not all grimoires agree with each other, so if your aim is to create a 'universal grimoire' you're going to have to find a way to sort the misinformation from the true knowledge.

>>37697

Therein is the key; my view of magic is that is simply the flip side of religion, which can be propped up by the reality that the classical grimoires were largely written by priests, for priests, with a basis in judaism and catholic writings.

I have already made a list of 73 grimoires by date of creation, and will be going from oldest to newest as I sort and catagorize. Grimoires borrow from each other, and I expect that by 1720, almost nothing new was being added.

So every article is mentioned just once, and anything that is repeated by a later book simply gets the repeating book added in as a footnote to the subject.

I am calling nothing 'false' and nothing 'true', because to someone at some point in time, they accepted the article as true, or useful. Religious books, primarily Shemot within Torah, the Quran, and later commentary from scholarly works will be excluded ver batum - all commentary is subject to extreme boiling down within a historical context. Such as the commentary within the Talmud and Zohar; I can cook those down to maybe 6 pages tops.

>>37684

Only if you are prudent enough to detect every blind that many of them contain. However, many of them also contain contradictory correspondences and technical matters. It isn't enough to grab all the grimoires and categorize their contents, as it is understanding at the most basic level how and why the grimoire works. Once you understand that, then you can make your own grimoire, which in turn is truly a universal grimorie not bound by tradition and the habitus of the past.

SacredTexts already exists.