pass over

Passover is said to be protective magic that predates the Exodus - a rite of protection to ensure the safety of a family and home. 

Once conducted wholly within a clan, it has since been integrated with other spring festivals and harvest ceremonies of feasting and celebration. 

15th century Haggadah

When the rites are performed the preparations produce sacred alchemy - a delicate balance of mythology with technology and philosophy. 

Similarly Ganachakra (a Dakini feast) is a sacramental meal and festive celebration invoking an magical transmutation from base matter to heightened vibration. 

In this process, the negative energy of baser emotions or klesha (poison) is transformed into the luminous energy of enlightened awareness or gnosis (jnana). 

Ingestion of such a holy feast is highly intoxicating - causing the physical digestion to lead to a spiritual unfolding and God realization. 

If it is so that we are what we eat, then true magic is indeed manifested.

know thy Self

"Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth." ~ C.G. Jung: Memories,Dreams, Reflections, Chapter 9

0560395  - ALCHEMY - MICROCOSM AND MACROCOSM 
This plate, engraved by Merian for Johann-Daniel Mylius,
Opus Medico-chymicum, 1618, is one of the most complex
and symbolically satisfying from the heyday of learned alchemy.
In essence it is designed to portray the relationships
that subtend between the Higher and Lower worlds,
between the Macrocosm and the Microcosm. 

As we move away from Nature and what is natural - fueled by an insistent drive for "better" and "more" - can we remain in touch with our original being, with who it is we are truly meant to be?