User:The Lord Reader/Miscellaneous Tasks

Pentagram's meaning
Of little importance, not enough to need an article or a blog post, but still makes me curious. What is the meaning of this pentagram showing up when toaru-project.com is opened.

Especially what does the letter sequences mean: ISCATC HFIMMMP MNIP MNIA ICY ISV. An Easter Egg? Or just random mumbo jambo?

Scarlet Stone of Pexjarva
Find the legend it is from. The Japanese atwiki article states it's from an Hungarian folktale but no luck finding it so far. Other speculationa include the magical properties attributed to red, like guiding Noah's Ark and protecting crusaders.

Six-Location Cut
Seemingly a Japanese torture, from unknown period (same time as harakiri?), but nothing about its actual name.

Sources for Modern Magician and Modern Western Magic
With refs now:
 * Tsuchimikado Motoharu: The term ‘magician’—especially the modern magicians that were established in the 19th century, will carve their wishes onto their souls. This is the magic name. Carving the reason why they want to learn magic or give up their entire lives for the one goal by writing it out it in Latin.
 * Stiyl Magnus: [Aleister Crowley] was active about seventy years ago, but the evolution of magicians during the past seventy years has surpassed the progress gained throughout the history of the past several thousand years. Of all the magicians in the world today, about 20% of them are his followers, and almost 50% of all magicians are affected by him to some extent.
 * Agnes Sanctis: Maybe I’m a bit disrespectful...but I don’t have a good impression of any magicians--it's not just the Amakusa, but especially those modern Western magic societies that appeared at the beginning of the 20th century that twist Christianity or use backdoor tricks.
 * Agnese Sanctis: I wonder if you know that in modern Western magic, there are five elements— fire, wind, water, earth, and ether— that have their own symbolic weapons. A ‘stick’ represents fire, a ‘dagger’ represents wind, a ‘cup’ represents water, and a ‘round table’ [a disk probably] represents earth: these are the so-called elemental weapons.
 * Didn’t I say this before? The basic theories behind modern Western magic that was established in the 20th century were just some backdoor teachings of Christianity- or in the words of the alchemists, ‘these are secrets of Christianity that humans don’t know of.’
 * Oriana Thomson: The five elements form the basis of modern Western Magic. From an alchemist’s viewpoint, anyone can have them, but this is just a prelude.
 * The majority of modern day “advanced wizards” did not build extravagant castles or towers. If you focused all your power in one place, you would lose everything if that place was searched. As such, they would instead prepare numerous places that could be easily abandoned such as an apartment, a rented room, or an RV. Splitting up one’s assets into smaller areas lowered the risk of losing everything.
 * Aiwass: Rather, calling me an ‘angel’ is alright too… At least, it’s closer to the truth compared to the rumored ‘extraterrestrial life form’, ‘holy guardian angel’, ‘the true person who holds the secrets to modern Western magic organizations’ and wild ideas like those.
 * Fiamma of the Right: The modern magician that was established at the end of the 19th century fundamentally hates working in groups. Even a genius group starting with “Golden” had an internal split caused by personality issues. The Roman Catholic Church worked at the goal of creating group fighting techniques with its doctrine at the core, but…well, you know how things are, right? Magicians value the individual.
 * Modern Western magic was a system of techniques set up to give everyone equal access to the mystical, no special talent required. (NT20 Prologue)
 * Make no mistake, human. New magic is not necessarily superior to old magic. If we are simply looking at ease of use, the modern Western magic spread by Crowley may be superior, but right now the focus will be on whether or not is effective against Aleister Crowley. That is the only difference that matters. (Othinus, NT20 Chapter 3 Part 1)
 * Christians called the existence God’s Blessings. Though the model society of modern Western magic, Golden Dawn, calls it Telesma, the nuance is closest to the concept of chimyaku or ryuumaku in eastern feng shui thought. As those names imply, it is myaku, or veins, that that formed blood vessels extending everywhere and run throughout the world. (from Yen Press I think?)(OT2 Chapter 3 Part 1)
 * Most modern magicians did not use only the same materials as had been used in ages past for their magic. Even Stiyl used copy paper and lamination to make his rune cards easier to use. Magic could be activated using only the products found within a convenience store. There was no need to only rely on rare and expensive antiques. One used the most accessible materials to create the most simplified spells in order to wield the most powerful magic. That was the most convenient thing to do for someone who was relying on magic to survive while they fought. (Stiyl SS Part 5)
 * (The symbol of a patron saint often designates where that patron saint received persecution such as a gouged out eyeball or a severed breast. But using the emblem of the decapitated St. Paul to behead another… That just reeks of modern Western magic that loves secret tricks.) (Lessar, Railgun Shopping Mall SS ch. 6 part 7)
 * The theme this time was St. Germain!! He is pretty well-known as far as magic goes, but I had not touched on him yet because of his distance from the leaders of modern Western magic cabals like Mathers and Crowley (Kamachi, NT12 Afterword)