[Online] Limina IV: Charm of Solomon with Manu Mon Aug 3rd 6:30PM

LIMINA: Thresholds to the Mysteries
IV Charm of Solomon
Mon Aug 3rd 6:30pm PST
Teacher: Manuel Casanueva
Prerequisites: None
Recorded for Absentees: Yes

Solomon became one of the great legendary figures of the ancient and medieval imagination: a king associated with wisdom, sacred knowledge, divine names, and command over spiritual forces.

Limina IV explores THE CHARM OF SOLOMON, PGM IV.850-929, a fascinating rite from the Greek Magical Papyri centered on ecstatic speech and oracular revelation.

Set beneath the open sky and filled with mysterious voces magicae, the rite transforms the human voice into an instrument of invocation and revelation.

Through lecture, textual interpretation, and guided vocal exercises based on selected sound patterns from the text, we will explore how ancient ritual traditions used breath, rhythm, and sacred speech to cultivate receptivity, attention, and altered states of presence.

Speech becomes a threshold through which unseen powers can speak and reveal.

Approached both academically and experientially, these ancient utterances invite us to explore how ritual language shapes breath, attention, receptivity, and presence. Here, the voice becomes an oracle of the unseen.

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LIMINA (Latin for thresholds) is a monthly series exploring the mystery traditions: philosophies and magical practices that have come from the great thinkers and theurgists of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds with Professor Manuel Casanueva.

This open series of conversations is oriented toward the central questions, concepts, and sensibilities of Greek and Roman antiquity which still resonate today, and introduces the modern student of magical arts and science to the roots of their traditions.

These sessions explore how ancient ritual treated the voice as a threshold , a way of crossing the limits of ordinary perception and entering a heightened field of attention, breath, and sacred presence.

No prior knowledge required, only curiosity. These gatherings invite participants to reflect on ideas, symbols, and questions that shaped ancient thought and form the source of a great current in the Western Mystery Tradition.

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Manuel Casanueva is a ritual philosopher and classical philologist at 22 Teachings. His work brings Ancient Greek and Latin texts into living theurgic practice. Through recitation, careful translation, and contemplative training, he approaches language as a sacred, operative act. His teaching presents tradition as embodied, experiential, and alive.

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