the Hammer

I've been reading about demonology, Kabbalah, Satanism and Maltheism lately. It's pretty interesting stuff but I always have to wonder how much people really believe in Magic. It started off when I was reading about the Malleus Maleficarum - the book used by Inquisitors to identify witches and heretics and demons and all that. I really want a copy but I doubt they'll have one at the local library. I think I could probably buy a reprint from the internetz but I don't really like buying stuff online if I can help it.

I'm also reading about the Apocryphal texts like the Book of Judas or the Book of Enoch. The book of Judas was pretty predictable in that it makes Judas out to be a cool dude who was just following Jesus plan. It says that Judas was the only one of the disciples who was really clued in and that Jesus liked him the most of everyone. I haven't read about the Book of Enoch (of which there are three) but I really like Enoch anyway so it should be cool. In Genesis it says that "Enoch walked with God 300 years, then he was no more, because God took him away." which is a pretty cool image in my opinion.

With every bit I read it sparks off something else that I need to read and at the moment I have about twenty wikipedia pages to finish (half of which have a bunch of links I already know I need to check out). So I better get on that.