00:35 UTC — Operative questions feasibility of ejection protocols. Mission Control responds: "Ejection is optional. Target obliteration is not. Survival is not a mission objective... but like all good boys - when we're finished with you - you certainly deserve a lollipop."

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It is one of the great ironies of the modern occult revival that Lovecraftian Magic can trace its lineage not to an esoteric tradition, but to the coldly atheistic pen of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, a man who openly despised religion, ridiculed spiritualism, and regarded the occult with suspicion.

The Emerald Tablet (Tabula Smaragdina) is arguably one of the most legendary and mysterious artifacts in Western esoteric lore. But was it really inscribed on emerald?