Today on the
feast day of St. Cyprian and Sta. Justina on the 26th of
September Sacred Alchemy Store is offering St. Cyprian of the Black Cat Bone as
our offering in honor of this enigmatic and precious saint, patron of
necromancy and one of many saints dressing well the garments of folk
Catholicism.
The charge
has been made in the course of the nine days of Cyprian, prayers to the left
and to the right along with anointments and fumigations at midday and midnight
hath been done to bring in the Sun at midday and the Sun at midnight to enforce
the feline sorcerous juices resting within this icon balancing the Sun both white
and black equally. And in truth the black cat bone is not a metaphor here, but
the nail that serves as the axis for this sorcerous offering and carried within
the saint.
St. Cyprian
is amongst those powers that those of us from the old persuasion might deem a
‘witchcraft saint’, a terminology that tend to generate a great deal of
resistance amongst contemporary practitioners of occultism and paganism simply
due to a Catholic bias rehearsed in a disenchanted postmodern reality saturated
with opinions and truism that can never hope to be anything but an echo of
lies.
Some would
argue that Christianity is anti-paganism, yet,
a term like ‘the old faith’ or ‘old religion’ was in truth, as Emma
Wilby stated, in her erudite studies about the Cunning folk on the Isle of Albion, a reference to Catholicism in the time of reformation. The Catholic
Church or more correctly The Roman Catholic Church was a continuation of Roman
ways, mediated this ‘new’ vision ascribed to Ieshua then adopted as a prophet
for a particular way of interpreting theology and theophany in a Catholic or
Universalist way. Certainly a lot has changed since then and the Roman Catholic
Church went through several schism and reformations in itself.
Christian
saints might be seen as similar to the sadhus of India and the prophets of
Islam and Judaism pertaining to the Christian mythology, where saints continued
metaphors, allegories and teachings either born by their own example or
continuing legends like genii loci related to the magic and mystery of a
specific location. A saint is not
‘something Christian’, a saint is also something dead, something vibrant, and
something 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, of
sacred and barbarous words, the virtue resting in plants of healing and how to
raise the dead to speak, in the manner of Ieshua himself allowing Lazarus to
raise from the grave in the manner of St. Cyprian rising the dead and cause
death to speak.
Beneath the
Christian veil, a saint will always carry a naked truth, a virtue that can be
recognized for what it is, no matter if the virtue is dressed in a bishops
cloak, 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, it is with great pleasure we offer 2 –
two - St. Cyprians which will be finalized in this night up for sale. This St.Cyprian carries a powerful and unique sorcerous charge utilizing the black at
bone as vehicle for its necromantic potency. Along with the saint comes a guia
of Exu washed in honour of the ‘left’ and a black rosary, this one dedicated to
another sorcerous saint, São Bento, that mimics the mystery and shock embedded
in the icon of St. Cyprian and a secret prayer bringing in a strong Saturnine
river to this Sun at Midnight.
Please visit Our store to browse for this spectacular St. Cyprian and other products and services of interest at sacredalchemystore.com