Book about Sorcery, toltec and more old Mexican stuff

[Mornings Son]

THE MAGIC AND MYSTERIES OF MEXICO

TEZCATLIPOCA AS A WER-JAGUAR

THE MAGIC AND
MYSTERIES OF MEXICO

OR

THE ARCANE SECRETS AND
OCCULT LORE OF THE ANCIENT
MEXICANS AND MAYA


BY

LEWIS SPENCE
http://www.archive.org/stream/magicmyst ... t_djvu.txt

[Intentwielder]

Thanks for posting this MS, it looks like it could contain a lot of valuable information.  I copied it onto a document for later study....

[delawaredan]

I did the same thing Intentwielder! Thanks MS

[Intentwielder]

MS, DD,
Tell me if you have the same impression...
I did review that material with the hope that it was going to offer revealing insights with another perspective.  But after skimming it's content, I found the author to be in the usual university mode.  By that I mean they are all academic technique and no substance whatsoever.  The paper may have made a fine dissertation for a grade in a classroom, but the author obviously knew nothing whatsoever about magical practices.  I'm sorry to say it is yet another case of over-educated folly, (not controlled by any means)...it was 15 tons of theory and not one ounce of wisdom based upon actual practice.  This guy would have learned far more in a single session with Mescalito, than he did in four years of textbook, "didactic anthropological reductionism".

[delawaredan]

Yes - I started to skim through the book and it was like you said. But it could still be a resource.

[Mornings Son]

IntentWielder... I agree with you, yet my hope is that there might be clues to practices that we/I did not know of. Sometimes these clues can be found in even popular fiction.

Not having finished reading the text I can only mark that I have not found a good clue yet.

[Intentwielder]

Yes, I see what you mean.  The text did have interesting historical references, although the author admits that they are inconclusive.    If either of you find something of interest, please post it here if you get the chance....

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