One of the reasons I have insisted on my secret chiefs test is because it is very important that there is some form of scientific testing of the concept. One of the reasons I have kept banging on about it is to knock a particular problem on the head. If you are running a group […]
Everyone who follows this path wants to believe that they are a real occultist or a magician. It is a bit like those people who tell you at parties that they are “writers” and when you ask them what they have published it turns out that they have been sitting on their autobiography for 40 […]
There is a myth in esoteric orders that the teacher of any esoteric order is perfect and knows everything.To prop up the fantasy when it is fairly clear that teachers do not know anything, or even can’t tie their own shoelace, there has come about backup plans. These plan b’s include things like secret chiefs, […]
Mike Godwin (thanks Wikimedia) In 1990 Mike Godwin stated the Internet adage that as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches.Although he was mostly talking about Usenet groups, he thought that given enough time, in any online discussion—regardless of topic or scope—someone inevitably makes a comparison to […]
The Egyptian Papri provide us with very important authentic magical techniques. The only difficulty is that they are hard to approach from a modern mindset. The biggest issue, besides having to drown some unfortunate street cat, or endangered species, are the names of power which are a mixture of Coptic, Middle Ancient Egyptian, Greek, and […]
Jake Stratton-Kent Today the Goetic magician Jake Stratton-Kent posted an interesting statement on his Yahoo group where he derided ritual magicians tendency to form masonic style groups. Like many of us he find the ‘Masonic’ model a dead loss in the many, areas of modern magic where it applies. He said that the masonry was […]
One of the dangers of having a system based on Secret Chiefs, either internally or externally, is that you are able to offend them. In this respect they certainly are similar to Godforms. There are cases where people are said to have lost their contacts or Secret Chiefs often for the strangest of offenses. Dion […]
Needless to say no physical secret chief has knocked on my door or arranged any appointment. Still the door is open for the supermen to prove they exist. One of the statements that relate to the concept of physical secret chiefs is that they may not be supermen. They may simply be adepts from outside […]
The idea of secret chiefs is in evolution. In some cases they have become more involved and more complex, with Secret Chiefs being obliged to develop ever more difficult rules. In other cases they have become completely dumbed down to the point where their role is meaningless in comparison to other similar constructs such […]
Since I still have not met any secret chiefs in the flesh, I am continuing my series on how the idea of secret chiefs evolved. Dion Fortune The ideas of secret chiefs evolved under the British mistress of magic Dion Fortune into something which was more elaborate than had been seen even under Theosophy. Fortune […]