The Occult Rejects
The Mechanics of Magick: The Spell of Repetition Episode 1- The Operative Word
Links For The Occult Rejects https://linktr.ee/theoccultrejects Occult Research Institute https://www.occultresearchinstitute.org/ Substack https://substack.com/@theoccultrejects?r=7auau0&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page Cash App https://cash.app/$theoccultrejects Venmo @TheOccultRejects Buy Me A Coffee buymeacoffee.com/TheOccultRejects Patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheOccultRejects Bibliography Primary and Classical Sources Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius. Three Books of Occult Philosophy. 1533. Translated by James Freake; edited and annotated by Donald Tyson. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1993. Austin, J. L. How to Do Things with Words. 2nd ed. Edited by J. O. Urmson and Marina Sbisà. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Originally published 1962. Betz, Hans Dieter, ed. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Clarke, Emma C., John M. Dillon, and Jackson P. Hershbell, trans. Iamblichus: De Mysteriis. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003. Faulkner, Raymond O., trans. The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Revised by Carol Andrews. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990. Iamblichus. On the Mysteries. Translated by Emma C. Clarke, John M. Dillon, and Jackson P. Hershbell. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003. Searle, John R. Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman Magic Borghouts, J. F. Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts. Leiden: Brill, 1978. Dieleman, Jacco. Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Faraone, Christopher A., and Dirk Obbink, eds. Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Frankfurter, David. “Narrating Power: The Theory and Practice of the Magical Historiola in Ritual Spells.” In Ancient Magic and Ritual Power, edited by Marvin Meyer and Paul Mirecki, 457–476. Leiden: Brill, 1995. Frankfurter, David. Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Graf, Fritz. Magic in the Ancient World. Translated by Franklin Philip. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Meyer, Marvin, and Paul Mirecki, eds. Ancient Magic and Ritual Power. Leiden: Brill, 1995. Pinch, Geraldine. Magic in Ancient Egypt. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. Ritner, Robert K. The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 54. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1993. Smith, Morton. Jesus the Magician. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1978. Use cautiously and comparatively rather than as a consensus account. Ritual Language and Performative Speech Bloch, Maurice. “Symbols, Song, Dance and Features of Articulation: Is Religion an Extreme Form of Traditional Authority?” European Journal of Sociology 15, no. 1 (1974): 55–81. Finnegan, Ruth. Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance and Social Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Malinowski, Bronisław. Coral Gardens and Their Magic. 2 vols. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1935. Rappaport, Roy A. Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja. “The Magical Power of Words.” Man 3, no. 2 (1968): 175–208. Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja. Culture, Thought, and Social Action: An Anthropological Perspective. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. Oral Tradition, Formula, and Transmission Foley, John Miles. The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. Lord, Albert B. The Singer of Tales. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960. Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Methuen, 1982. Parry, Milman. The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry. Edited by Adam Parry. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Ritual Form, Authority, and Transmission Bell, Catherine. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Bell, Catherine. Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. McCauley, Robert N., and E. Thomas Lawson. Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Whitehouse, Harvey. Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004. Xygalatas, Dimitris. Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2022. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.
