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Mixing religions in Magic
When I was first training it was drilled into me that you should never mix the godforms of different traditions. I saw the concept in a Ritual 101 book written by Murray Hope. Some godforms could...
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Ritual Offerings : Feeding Your Spirits, Empowering Your Magick book review
Ritual Offerings is a book you need. I have just been cataloguing my books for the first time and it made me aware that there were books that I used all the time, those that I read once, and those...
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Paypal security glitch might kill off my Lulu books
For a while now I have been selling my books on Lulu which pays me through Paypal. Unfortunately since Paypal split from Ebay there has been a security glitch which stops me spending any of the money...
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BAD OCCULT GROUPS DO NOT MEAN OCCULT GROUPS ARE BAD
Aaron Leitch has been venting about Lodge haters who believe that magic has no place in groups. First law of journalism is that if someone says something then you have to work out why. Aaron has been...
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NITA HICKOK HAS DIED
Nita Hickok died yesterday. For those who didn’t know her, Nita was a self-taught eclectic magician who placed herself at the hard business-end of exorcism work and psychic self-defense work. We worked...
View ArticleHEROES IN MAGIC
In the Geometric Greek period (8th Century BC), there was an interesting development from Ancestor Worship to the worship of Heroes. This was inspired by the rise of Homer and other poets. The belief...
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TEN REASONS WHY PUBLIC OCCULTISM IS DYING
The writing is on the wall for Public Occultism. Its glory days are over and even those who are trying to keep the lights on are finding it hard to pay for the power bill. I have been quiet lately...
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WHY OCCULT FUNDAMENTALISM FAILS
Since the 20th century we have seen the rise of fundamentalism in the religious world – the idea that you can only understand God through a literal interpretation of what has been written down in...
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Sharing real occult information with everyone is impossible
I appear to have created a stir with this blog in which I said I had a series of realisations lately and suddenly lost the urge to try sharing serious occult information outside my group. The move...
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Dr Who and the problem of immortality
Dr Who and the problem of immortality Last night’s episode of Dr Who got me thinking about the nature of immortality and humanity’s relationship with Gods. In the “Girl who Lived,” the Doctor created...
View ArticleOpen letter to the Grandmaster of A.M.O.R.C.
Ave Julie Scott It is with some concern that I note that your order is issuing cease and desist letters against those esoteric orders using the words the “Rosicrucian Order” The latest case was The...
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Discounted Winter Edition of the Hermetic Tablet
Today is your last chance to get a heavily discounted edition of the Winter Edition of the Hermetic Tablet. At midnight US time the 30 per cent discount comes off. Order your paperback here ($31) or...
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Magic, the hero and the others
For a while it has nagged at the back of my mind that the magical path tends to focus on the needs of the individual rather than wider society. It was not that most magicians did not care, it is just...
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Review: Ephesia Grammata
Review: Ephesia Grammata: Ancient History and Modern Practice is a little book by P Sufenas Virius Lupis which is printed by The Red Lotus Library. It is a little book (115 small pages) which covers...
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Tiphareth consciousness in daily life
Living from Tiphareth and communicating with your Higher Emotions is a useful skill which can have physical benefits. One of the aspects of the Golden Dawn technique of placing the tree of life into...
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Golden Dawn evolves
The Golden Dawn is evolving and there there is no right or wrong as it changes into what ever direction its teachers take it. When we look at the Golden Dawn system there appears to be a big pile of...
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“Traditional” Golden Dawn groups
After the closure of Whare Ra bought to an end the old Golden Dawn lineage, their have been numerous groups started by those either using Israel Regardie’s Golden Dawn books, or old papers and...
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Invocation to Nergal
Hero, majestic, awe-inspiring son of Enlil, battering like a storm and roaring against the rebel lands!, After you take your place, your immensity goes before you and behind you surging as a flood....
View ArticleOccult personality types
Occultism is full of some strange personality types and if you are part of a group you are almost certain to have met them. The following list is not meant to be an attack, I I have been several of...
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The conspiracy of conspiracy theories
When I was a kid I loved a good conspiracy theory, from Aliens to JFK. They promised a world which nothing was true, which unfortunately turned out to be a lie. Conspiracy theories slipped away as I...
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