Talking An Excellent Booke | Dr Alexander Cummins

Rune Soup

Gordon White

Magic, Occult, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Paranormal, Ufo, Spirituality

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Dr Al Cummins returns to the show to talk about his upcoming publication, An Excellent Booke of the Arte of Magick -a 16th century English grimoire written by colonial explorers and navigators, Sir Humphrey Gilbert and John Davis.

Along the way we talk necromancy, spirits and Empire, and scrying. A superb chat.

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0:00.0	Do you have a favorite?
0:02.0	Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.
0:11.0	All the broken and shunned creatures.
0:17.0	Someone's got to care for them.
0:19.0	Who shall it be if not us?
0:45.3	Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from 43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania. My name is Gordon and I shall be your
0:50.6	host. This week we welcome back to the show Dr. Al Cummins.
0:54.0	Dr. Al is an historian, author, teacher,
0:58.0	geomancer, and several other very worthy things to boot.
1:02.0	On this episode he returns to talk about the
1:04.8	excellent book he co-authored with Phil LeGard, an excellent book. I know Gordon
1:09.6	but what's the title? An excellent book. Yes I know but what's the title? Amazing that Al and I managed to
1:16.2	have a chat for 90 minutes and I still didn't get time to crack out that little Dad Jem. Anyway anyway on with an excellent show
1:25.7	Dr. Al a very welcome back. Oh thank you for having me back
1:29.7	Gordon it's great to to hear you and it's great to be back.
1:33.0	Well, one way of doing it, let me tell you, the best way of doing it, is to come out with a fucking excellent book, which I believe is in fact the title.
1:44.2	Yes yes the original authors of it were not burdened with an overabundance of humility.
1:50.6	Yeah yeah yeah yeah and I mean that it's a fascinating manual and obviously we're here to talk about it, but the manual itself is inside a fantastic publication that you and Phil LaGuard have coming up.
2:03.2	Yeah, yeah, it's been a delight to work with Phil over the last couple years on this.
2:08.4	He's a dear pal.
2:10.7	It was lovely to be at his and Lala's lovely wedding a number of years ago up in Leeds.
2:16.6	And yeah, we've just been bouncing manuscripts and ideas about them off each other for a good while now.
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