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The picture? I'm working my way through photos of my lineage, focusing on the teachers whose work has influenced me and the teachers who influenced them in turn. I'm currently tracing my Martinist lineage. Along with Louis-Claude de St. Martin, last week's honoree, the inner circle of pupils of Martinez de Pasqually included this week's figure, Jean-Baptiste Willermoz. A very active Freemason, Willermoz played a central role in cleaning up the mess left by the implosion of the Strict Observance (the most important Templar order in 18th century Europe) and created a new order with its own rituals, the Rectified Rite, which survives to this day. Much of what became the ritual of Martinism came from Willermoz's hands.

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Good morning Mr. Greer

I'm looking for a way to make talismans, but I have a problem with using Yahweh's names (it's not a matter of hostility, I'm just not comfortable with it) do you know of any book that describes making talismans without using Jewish lore?

There's a lot of information on that subject in books on ancient Greek and Roman magic; I don't recall seeing any book for practitioners, but you should be able to figure out what to do. The most interesting difference is that most Greek and Roman talismans were little statues rather than disks with words and figures on them -- you can see in the latter the impact of the Jewish and Muslim distrust of graven images. Thus to make a talisman of Mars, for example, you'd make a little wax or lead statue of the god Mars, armed and armored, during an appropriate astrological election. Or for vitality and virility...

Do I see correctly - that that's a winged penis *that has a penis*?

No, it's the loop from which the talisman is meant to be suspended. But some Roman penis talismans did have penises:

The other blog fielded a comment with a video of Angela Merkel getting buzzed by one of these - I don’t think that sender meant it in quite the same way…

That's a good point -- maybe it was trying to bless her! ;-)

I can't speak to the contents of this book, but it caught my attention recently, and might be relevant to what your asking, so possibly synchronicitous: https://the3littlesisters.com/catalog_explorer/amulets-stones-herbs-runes-more/

It looks to be a guide for creating amulets/talismans from a mostly Heathen point of view, but seems also to incorporate natural magic and the like. I've gotten some good stuff from Gundarsson in other books, including some very detailed hands-on instruction for making things like hammers for blessing in the name of Thor or drinking horns or the like, so I suspect the "how to" in here should be pretty good.

Fair warning, though, the books I do have from this publisher are not as carefully edited as I would like, so it's possible there are some issues on that front as well.

Anyhow, hope you find something that helps, whether this or something else,
Jeff

The Picatrix which JMG translated also has plenty of examples which don't involve any direct monotheistic symbolism at all.

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