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Nick Farrell’s Books

Where possible, I have tried to keep my books in print, sometimes expanding and updating them. What follows is a list of all of them with links where they can be found, which provide the highest return...

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AI does not mean the death of creativity

No one has more reason to hate AI than me. It has cost me two jobs and made my life difficult. However, I am also a user of it magically and otherwise. This has put me at odds with those who are trying...

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Magic needs religion, but religion is failing

One of the things you cannot escape with occultism is religion. Most magical systems are hardwired into religion in some way. It is possible to change systems of magic, such as flipping the Key of...

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The Theatre and the Veiled Ones

Some gatherings sell themselves as sacred. Shimmering lights and sound that reverberates through the halls, while people feed them with presence and praise. These festivals, whatever their names, live...

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Where occult vlogs go wrong

When I was at a technology press do a few years ago, some of the older hacks like me were talking to the younger types about why we don’t watch vlogs to obtain information. One apparent reason was that...

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Articles arriving on the Lord Manticore’s Occult Training Blog’s 8 October...

https://farrellnick.substack.com/?r=6kbpe7 The Golden Dawn Sphere of Sensation (Part One) paid Nick Farrell examines the Golden Dawn teachings on the sphere of sensation and their practical...

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Lord Manticore Occult Training

For those who haven’t heard, I’ve launched a subscription-based magazine dedicated to serious occult training and thought. This is a curated library of in-depth articles, insights, and practical...

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The rapture was never on the bloody menu yesterday

When I was a born-again Christian, there was a movie which was dragged around the Youth Camps I attended, which was based on the concept that the rapture was a real thing. The film A Thief in the Night...

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Divinatory Methods, Synastry, Projection, and Karma: A Case Study in Esoteric...

After analysing several complex relationship cases, I’ve become increasingly convinced that different divinatory systems do not cancel each other out but complement one another. Each speaks from a...

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Borrowed Halos

Spend enough time around Rosy Cross groups, and the same party trick appears. Facts run out, someone clears a throat, and suddenly the room is told that Leonardo, Mozart, Giordano Bruno, Victor Hugo,...

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Why Magicians Cannot Be Atheists

Some modern magicians do not believe in gods or spirits. Sometimes it is because they do not view them as necessary to explain the workings of magic, other times it is because they are Atheists who do...

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Yapping in Black Robes: Documentary Notes on the Occult Bully’s Psychological...

(A Brief Guide to Recognising the Noisy but Hollow Species) David Attenborough voiceover, with Saint-Saëns’ Aquarium from Carnival of the Animals in the background And here we see the Occult Bully in...

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Sesso, droga e musica scadente: il vuoto patinato dell’occultismo contemporaneo 

Un tempo l’occultismo richiamava alla mente visioni di stanze in penombra, rituali solenni e iniziati intenti a strappare il velo che separa dal mistero dell’esistenza, vagando nel proprio mondo...

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Old Spells, new scams: occult courses fleece punters

The modern occult scene is drowning in sparkle and stupidity, and nothing proves it more than the rise of the overpriced online course. Click on one of these overdesigned horrors and you’re greeted...

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Sex, drugs, and bad music: the glittering vacuum of the modern occult scene 

Once occultism conjured images of dimly lit chambers, austere rituals, and initiates genuinely trying to pierce the veil of existence, wandering in their inner underworld, in a long quest to find their...

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John Heyden: The force behind modern occultism and rosicrucianism

When people rattle off the big names of the occult world, it’s always the same predictable list. Crowley, who never met a press release he didn’t like. Mathers, who loved dressing up in more robes than...

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The Geomancy of Christopher Cattan: A Medieval Divination Manual out now

The Geomancy of Christopher Cattan: A Medieval Divination Manual is the definitive English edition of one of Europe’s most powerful yet long-neglected magical texts. Translated directly from the...

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Theomagica: A Temple of Wisdom  a lost Rosicrucian Classic is now available

Lost Rosicrucian masterpiece Theomagica: A Temple of Wisdom returns to print after three centuries John Hayden’s seminal 17th-century work was edited into modern English by Nick Farrell and the team at...

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The fire that commands: Magic as dominion, not submission

Recent in-depth, intensive spiritual initiatory work prompted me to write this article. Some valuable insight came from this extensive personal inner work, dreams, divination (mostly tarot and...

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Geomantic Glitch: Why Some First Mothers Can’t Become Daughters 

 Recently, someone pointed out something in geomancy that no one else seems to have noticed, not even the heavyweights like Christopher Cattan or Thomas Heydon. It turns out that, mathematically, some...

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