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The First Mirror of Lilith is a ritual to invoke Lilith and ask her questions through the assistance of necromancy using a mirror engraved with Solomonic symbols and text. The ritual recalls Lilith's identity as a mirror spirit found in the Zohar in Pekudei: Verse 920. In this verse, any man who vainly looks into a mirror during the night of a new moon risks awakening the demon Asirta, who in turn, will summon Lilith to torment him.

The only known Renaissance-era ritual involving Lilith comes from the fifteenth-century Munich Manual of Demonic Magic. Among the book's magical workings, many of which are unique to this manual, is a ritual called the First Mirror of Lilith (primum speculum Lilit). This operation is a form of divination using necromancy. By constructing and consecrating a mirror to Lilith, the magician may discover information concerning murders, thefts, and other hidden matters.

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Eight of Wands

... that the Eight of Wands tarot card is connected to swiftness?
... that the name Mammon has come to mean "wealth" in Hebrew?
... that the Kabbalistic angel Ieiazel governs printing and books?
... that the planet Mars governs sports and physical activities?
... that sometimes wasps and butterflies served as familiars of witches?
... that an edition of the The Angenomicon was released in only 100 numbered copies?
... that Temat Kheret deals with skin disorders?
... that the Celtic Cross layout was first published in The Key to the Tarot?

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Saint Joan of Arc

2 May - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. (1536)
2 May - German Jesuit scholar and author Athanasius Kircher is born. (1602)
3 May - Occult horror film The Craft is released in theaters. (1996)
4 May - Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance. (1415)
7 May - Argentine folk saint Eva Perón is born. (1919)
8 May - Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans, turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War. (1429)
9 May - Austrian painter Christoph Haizmann successfully retrieves his diabolical pact from Satan with the help of an exorcist. (1678)
9 May - Doug Headrick, a 12-year-old boy, disappears from Devil's Gate Dam in Pasadena, California. (1960)
10 May - Antoine Court de Gébelin, author who wrote an early treatise on the Tarot, dies in Paris. (1784)
13 May - Psychic Jeane Dixon predicts the assassination of John F. Kennedy in an issue of Parade Magazine. (1956)
15 May - French author Jean-Baptiste Pitois, who coined the terms Major Arcana and Minor Arcana, is born. (1811)
16 May - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc. (1920)
19 May - Arthur Edward Waite, creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot, dies. (1942)
23 May - A merchant of Shiraz, the forerunner of the Baháʼí Faith, announces that he is a prophet and founds a religious movement. (1844)
23 May - German physician and astrologer, Franz Mesmer, is born. (1734)
24 May - Nicolaus Copernicus dies. (1543)
26 May - Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia. (1896)
31 May - Occultist and author Éliphas Lévi dies. (1875)

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Horus is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as god of kingship and the sky. He was worshipped from at least the late prehistoric Egypt until the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt. Different forms of Horus are recorded in history, and these are treated as distinct gods by Egyptologists.

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