In yo face!

It has come to my attention that some time after Asteria became available to the public at large there have been some discussions in occult circles over energies from the heavens coming down to Earth and how that is bogus or something like that. While it is not my goal to teach the ignorant because I'm no teacher and mostly because I don't care, I have added this screenshot from "Practicing Astral Magic in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Istambul: A Treatise on Talismans Attributed to Ibn Kemal (d. 1534)" by A. Tunç Şen for everyone to see, be they ignorant or otherwise. 

The passage itself refers to one by the name of Mueyyedzade Abraham whom, being ever so uncultured, I admit I haven't heard of until I read the aforementioned paper. Skipping past that because it's ancient news, Ibn Kemal was Mueyyedzade's student and protege which makes the former somewhat of a very scholasticated individual in current occult wannabe academic terms. 

If we consider the vast knowledge in astrology, which includes advanced knowledge in scholastic astrological talismans Arabs and Persians possessed and the fact much of that knowledge came into the possession of the Ottomans upon the latter's expanding empire, we can presume that Mueyyedzade fellow to have been quite knowledgeable to say the least. As such, we can very well label statements such as those I've mentioned of having started in certain occult circles as being dumbassed attempts to seize the spotlight through desperate attempts to minimize something that risks to overthrow stupid occult dogmas based on personal beliefs. And while Claudius Ptolemy might have very well been a plagiarizer and more of a records keeper than an astrologer, that Mueyyedzade chap was no bs to say the least.

As such, all ye occultists and magicianists, I would recommend you'd be rather careful whom you're following when it comes to improving your personal practices, as there are some out there who, although appear to be knowledgeable and wise, are likely to mislead you because that's what their ego and personal interest dictates. 

Hate on, dum-dums!

The Great Gazoo