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May. 4th, 2003 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changelingFrom the WitchSchool.com class on Magickal Grimoires, which is sourced from Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires by Aaron Leitch:
Not only this, but the Christian mysticism of the written word had woven itself into the tradition, and the books surfaced as living magickal objects. They were often regarded as alive, or as possessed of spirits. When they were burned, witnesses actually reported hearing screams coming from within the pages. Even the cleric-mages themselves warned against the opening of the books by those unpracticed in magickal lore.
The "screaming books" remind anyone else of the Restricted Section at Hogwarts? The warning against opening books if you're non-magical is also reminiscent of the Unseen University library (...which in turn has echoes of the Rosicrucians' "Invisible College" mentioned earlier in the above source).
Not only this, but the Christian mysticism of the written word had woven itself into the tradition, and the books surfaced as living magickal objects. They were often regarded as alive, or as possessed of spirits. When they were burned, witnesses actually reported hearing screams coming from within the pages. Even the cleric-mages themselves warned against the opening of the books by those unpracticed in magickal lore.
The "screaming books" remind anyone else of the Restricted Section at Hogwarts? The warning against opening books if you're non-magical is also reminiscent of the Unseen University library (...which in turn has echoes of the Rosicrucians' "Invisible College" mentioned earlier in the above source).