This month, the authoritative website of Magic Mirror, which for years focuses on the fascinating world of esoteric, devotes a book review of Witch Upui. We publish below are proud to have dragged in reading too demanding reviews of the Mirror!
This book is the work of Nicholas Mulè, an artist well known and appreciated in view of Italian neo-pagan, author of illustrations for magazines are very popular, as Athame. The text is edited, introduced and followed by Andrea Armed, writer and editor, and Sarah Bernini, painter and photographer, who will lead us and help us to fully comprehend the thought. We follow
, including novels and essays, the author of human life, from his experience in the Catholic Church as an aspirant to the priesthood and the GRIS (which deals with seven), up to an encounter with Gualina Stabiosa-discovery and "Na Upui "The witch and the demon countryside. Nicholas decides to give voice to Gualina (himself in a woman's body), who died at the stake in 1530, and the demon who for years without knowing this name. It tells the life which, though lacking the documentary evidence, it is possible and likely, is the story of a girl running through the woods and learn about herbs and the rhythms of nature. But for the ignorant and superstitious peasants, knowledge of Gualina can not get from others by the devil. At the "witch", deprived of all his family, his possessions and any security, you just have to escape and, perhaps, revenge.
The art of witch can be seen as the biography of a Magiste, a story of reincarnation poised between a past and a present to remember to be redesigned, a manual of practice witchcraft, an essay on spiritualism, the record of a spiritual experience, but it would be simplistic to try capturing them, because is all this, it is also much more. Without claiming to be a book that teaches something, it ends up being a reference text for all those, and they are many who would like to approach the modern witchcraft, but do not know where to begin, nor are sure to follow a right path for them, or have visions, or sensations that can not interpret. The personal experiences described by Upui, who bravely chose to reveal himself in all sincerity, is based on an "instinctive tradition": in practice, the author did not follow any pre-established tradition, which would be the easiest and faster, but only his inner guidance. The result was a "visual Grimoire" absolutely unique, not comparable to other works, to look at, discover, analyze, full of drawings, symbols, magical alphabets, images, allegories, ideas, insights, suggestions and reflections.
We give you a hint: this is not a handbook for dummies, so do not let it scare you at first sight. There are three hundred pages and not one that has no trace of the artist's drawings, to make a book for the sumptuous visual impact and the density of content, so that should be sipped and pondered, rather than read . Then re-read and, perhaps, if you dare even put it into practice.
The original review can be accessed directly on www.specchiomagico.net .
