Fonte: socalcustoms.com Fonte: socalcustoms.com Fonte: socalcustoms.com Fonte: socalcustoms.com Fonte: socalcustoms.com Fonte: socalcustoms.com Fonte: socalcustoms.com Fonte: socalcustoms.com Fonte: socalcustoms.com Fonte: socalcustoms.com Today on thefeast day of St. Cyprian and Sta. Justina on the 26th ofSeptember Sacred Alchemy Store is offering St. Cyprian of the Black Cat Bone asour offering in honor of this enigmatic and precious saint, patron ofnecromancy and one of many saints dressing well the garments of folkCatholicism. The chargehas been made in the course of the nine days of Cyprian, prayers to the leftand to the right along with anointments and fumigations at midday and midnighthath been done to bring in the Sun at midday and the Sun at midnight to enforcethe feline sorcerous juices resting within this icon balancing the Sun both whiteand black equally. And in truth the black cat bone is not a metaphor here, butthe nail that serves as the axis for this sorcerous offering and carried withinthe saint. St. Cyprianis amongst those powers that those of us from the old persuasion might deem awitchcraft saint, a terminology that tend to generate a great deal ofresistance amongst contemporary practitioners of occultism and paganism simplydue to a Catholic bias rehearsed in a disenchanted postmodern reality saturatedwith opinions and truism that can never hope to be anything but an echo oflies. Some wouldargue that Christianity is anti-paganism, yet, a term like the old faith or old religion was in truth, as EmmaWilby stated, in her erudite studies about the Cunning folk on the Isle of Albion, a reference to Catholicism in the time of reformation. The CatholicChurch or more correctly The Roman Catholic Church was a continuation of Romanways, mediated this new vision ascribed to Ieshua then adopted as a prophetfor a particular way of interpreting theology and theophany in a Catholic orUniversalist way. Certainly a lot has changed since then and the Roman CatholicChurch went through several schism and reformations in itself. Christiansaints might be seen as similar to the sadhus of India and the prophets ofIslam and Judaism pertaining to the Christian mythology, where saints continuedmetaphors, allegories and teachings either born by their own example orcontinuing legends like genii loci related to the magic and mystery of aspecific location. A saint is notsomething Christian, a saint is also something dead, something vibrant, andsomething that holds a particular virtue and in the case of St. Cyprian wespeak of the virtue of necromancy and magic. The magic of the Eucharist, ofsacred and barbarous words, the virtue resting in plants of healing and how toraise the dead to speak, in the manner of Ieshua himself allowing Lazarus toraise from the grave in the manner of St. Cyprian rising the dead and causedeath to speak. Beneath theChristian veil, a saint will always carry a naked truth, a virtue that can berecognized for what it is, no matter if the virtue is dressed in a bishopscloak, the rags of a beggar or the leaves of nature. A saint can be ancestry,virtue and genii loci, metaphor, allegory and memory. For more about this,please do read the article about Sorcerous Saints. And so,