Pat Zalewski signs up to Lord Manticore House magic by Nick Farrell - September 18, 20210 Noted Golden Dawn writer Pat Zalewski has signed up to Lord Manticore House to publish an exclusive second edition of his Secret Inner Order Teachings of the Golden Dawn. Lord Manticore House is a 21st-century author-driven print-on-demand publishing house for occult and esoteric titles. It has a unique vision in that it specialises in advanced magical books, non-commercial titles or books that have been abandoned by commercial publishers and are challenging to find. When it was first released, Secret Inner Order Teachings of the Golden Dawn was a significant addition to the Golden Dawn corpus and made available second-order Golden Dawn magic material which was unavailable to those who at that point considered Israel Regardie as the only source of Golden Dawn magical material. The
Star and Stone is out book by Nick Farrell - September 18, 20210 Astrological Geomancy was once the mainstay of the Western Mystery Tradition as a form of divination only matched by Astrology. For centuries, court magicians used Geomancy to advise the crowned heads of Europe on matters related to war, marriages, foreign and economic policy. Most of the top magicians of the Renaissance and Cunning people used Geomancy as a quicker and more easy-to-use form of divination. Sadly, Geomancy, along with Astrology, fell from widespread use in the 19th century. While Astrology was restored to prominence and modernised in the 20th century, its Geomancy council remained an esoteric curiosity. Even within the 20th century, magical groups like the Golden Dawn and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) rarely enthusiastically embraced Geomancy. The feeling was that
Mathers Last Secret gets 10th anniversary edition magic by Nick Farrell - August 27, 2021September 1, 20215 The second edition of Mathers Last Secret is out ten years after the first edition was released. For those not in the know, Mathers Last Secret contained all the rituals and teachings of Sam Mather's AO temple in London which was run by the sex magician Dr Edmund William Berridge. The temple was formed after the schism with the Order of the Golden Dawn and was briefly the spiritual home of Alistair Crowley. The material was collected by a member of the group and kept until his death, where they were mislabeled and end up in a Wiccan museum. The book is important because it contains the actual rituals of the AO which turned out to be surprisingly close to the original
Behold: The Art and Practice of Gematria by Bethsheba Ashe book review by Nick Farrell - August 21, 20211 Gematria is a little like Geomancy in that it is a side of the Western Mystery Tradition which has fallen from favour mostly because it requires students to think. If you look at the 19th and Early 20th centuries, magicians were fascinated by number codes and using them to solve spiritual questions. This was possible because, before the development of Arabic numerals, letters like Greek and Hebrew meant numbers and were used instead. To the Hebrews, who saw the letters of their alphabet as sacred and created by God, it meant that texts could be interpreted through the meanings of their numbers. Of course, this led to huge abuse and murders of the text to get meanings that were suitable for
The difference between visualisation and invoking invocation by Nick Farrell - August 14, 20212 With the rise of New Age thought, the concept of visualisation has taken prominence within magic which it does not completely deserve. One of the Facebook groups I was involved with had someone who insisted that there was no need to do all this messy innovation and set up physical circles with expensive equipment, all you need to do is visualise. In some ways he was correct. There is a long tradition of using visualisation in magic and some in the Western Mystery Tradition have walked away from physical work in favour of techniques such as pathworking and inner work. In other ways, he was wrong, because like most things in an argument of extremes, both dualities are correct and the truth
Christopher Cattan Traditional Geomancy reading geomancy magic by Nick Farrell - July 4, 2021July 4, 20211 Should the French King make peace with the Holy Roman Emperor? On 21 July 1536, Cardinal Agostino Trivulzio visited France to broker peace between Francis I "le Roi Chevalier" (think Henry VIII with a big nose) (pictured) and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. The Geomancer Christopher Cattan was asked, “should peace be allowed to happen?” The two countries were headed into the Italian Wars, so we know that peace did not happen for several years. The court is negative. While there was some optimism for peace, the Left Witness was Tristitia, and the Judge was Carcer which at the very least pointed towards a delay. Cattan said that with Conjuctio being in the first house and moving to the third talks could begin
Root of the Prayer of the Salamanders magic by Nick Farrell - July 3, 20210 Prayer from Delphi (became the Prayer of the Salamanders) Ineffable father of the immortals, eternal, adept, lord, borne upon the ethereal widths of the ever-changing worlds, where the might of your Power is established, you who beholds all and hears all with your beauteous ears, hear your children, whom you bore when the time was right. For your great, golden, eternal Power lies above the world and the starry heaven. Above this Power you are exalted, raising yourself in light, by ceaseless streams nursing Nous, your equivalent, who then conceives all, elaborating the imperishable matter, which appears to be its creation, for Thou bound all with seals. From Nous flow the generations of the holy lords around you, o you almighty king and sole father of the mortals and of the blessed immortals. Other generations come
Amduat: The Great Awakening by Diana Kreikamp Review book review Egypt by Nick Farrell - May 9, 20212 Esoteric books based on historical documents need to tread a fine line between informing and revealing their esoteric reality. Too much towards the history, and you end up with a review of established knowledge that is only of use to the armchair occultists. Too much towards esoteric practice, and you lose the intellectual bedrock and drift into what could be just fantasy. Amduat: The Great Awakening by Diana Kreikamp carefully walks that fine line with what is commonly called the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Hidden Chamber, an essential ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom Egypt for Pharaohs or favoured nobles. The book is carefully researched, profusely illustrated and ensouled by Kreikamp' s magical practice. Firstly, this is a beautiful
Solo Magicians do not say what they mean either magic by Nick Farrell - May 5, 20211 Occultists have a habit of embellishing stories. Thoth-Hermes, the patron god of magic, is also the patron of words, stories, lies and thieves. One of the qualities of Odysseus, who was closely linked to Hermes, was his diplomacy, his ability to tell stories and to lie through his teeth. I have done one list that was mostly about what Golden Dawn people tend to say and mean. Those not in groups used it as an excuse to bash those that were… so here is a list of things solo magicians say alongside what they mean. I don’t need to belong to a group to teach me magic: I can’t find a group that would let me join. Even AMORC would not let
Quantum cats and the death of synchronicity magic by Nick Farrell - April 4, 2021April 4, 20210 Quantum theory might have killed off Jung's theory of divination which was based on the random nature creating a "meaningful coincidence" or synchronicity If you go online you will find lots of sites that will do you a tarot, geomancy, rune, or iChing reading at the touch of a button. There used to be software to do the same thing, but the code was so basic you can fit it into a webpage without too much difficulty. I don't mean sites that do the donkey work out of calculating a geomancy reading, or tell you what each card might mean, I mean sites that generate a reading using its own random code and presents it as a reading for the user. Besides the
