Lexicon Thoughts
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jeregenestLexicon of the Firmament has its first round tomorrow and I'm wondering what sort of participation this lexicon will get. Its summer which always makes things difficult to get together and just maybe this Lexicon is a little too narrow-band for most folks. Should be fun no matter what happens.
I really want to do two entries again but I'm trying to be good and limit myself to one. I have this great entry for
Benjamin Franklin, the American Wizard, was a man of prodigious self-education and social connections, intimate with political, social, economic, and scientific power. He was the first to create a public library in the United States, he was instrumental in the development of both electrical study and meteorology (the study of climate and weather), was a member of the Royal Society, and was acquainted with the magical luminaries of Europe including Cagliostro himself.
What makes Franklin a subject of interest for this Lexicon is his invention of the glass armonica, a musical instrument that creates sounds by rubbing water on differently shaped glasses. Franklin wrote "Of all my inventions, the glass armonica has given me the greatest personal satisfaction." With this armonica it became possible to attune magic to specific celestial frequencies in ways that had not been done before. Franklin utilized the armonica in his great Aquila working of 1776 that is widely held to be responsible for mobilizing the eikones behind a new endeavor, the American Republic.
For a period after the invention it was all the rage in ritual working, leading to the Eridanus Conundrum and the Ophiuchus Intervention. After these events the glass armonica faded from popularity, though the role it played in magic is no less and some practicioners of celestial magic still make potent use of it.
Franklin’s own glass armonica is still extant in a museum in Philadelphia.
See Also: Eridanus Conundrum and Ophiuchus Intervention
I really want to do two entries again but I'm trying to be good and limit myself to one. I have this great entry for
Benjamin Franklin, the American Wizard, was a man of prodigious self-education and social connections, intimate with political, social, economic, and scientific power. He was the first to create a public library in the United States, he was instrumental in the development of both electrical study and meteorology (the study of climate and weather), was a member of the Royal Society, and was acquainted with the magical luminaries of Europe including Cagliostro himself.
What makes Franklin a subject of interest for this Lexicon is his invention of the glass armonica, a musical instrument that creates sounds by rubbing water on differently shaped glasses. Franklin wrote "Of all my inventions, the glass armonica has given me the greatest personal satisfaction." With this armonica it became possible to attune magic to specific celestial frequencies in ways that had not been done before. Franklin utilized the armonica in his great Aquila working of 1776 that is widely held to be responsible for mobilizing the eikones behind a new endeavor, the American Republic.
For a period after the invention it was all the rage in ritual working, leading to the Eridanus Conundrum and the Ophiuchus Intervention. After these events the glass armonica faded from popularity, though the role it played in magic is no less and some practicioners of celestial magic still make potent use of it.
Franklin’s own glass armonica is still extant in a museum in Philadelphia.
See Also: Eridanus Conundrum and Ophiuchus Intervention
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Date: 2005-06-09 04:25 pm (UTC)