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Summary for the week ending Apr 9, 2017

Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending April 9th, 2017. Happy Three Days of the Writing of the Book of the Law! This week, and today, has been mostly about posting links to Book of the Law resources at the library. I may have gone a bit overboard. Sometimes these things, they happen! […]

This entry was posted in The Hermetic Library and tagged hermetic library, summary, summary of the week on April 10, 2017 by John Griogair Bell.

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