For the last few weeks I have been busy on a non-occulty project called Sodthe.net (STN) It is a news for nerds site but it is entirely humour-based and satire. It covers tech news, but also science and archeology. If I am honest it covers the sort of non-occult stuff, rants and humour that interests […]
Few of the diagrams of the Golden Dawn are used in the Modern Golden Dawn initiation rituals. This is because many modern Golden Dawn orders were based on the rituals printed by Israel Regardie just before the Second World War in his Golden Dawn book. The Bristol temple was going through a phase of removing […]
Edward Kelly from the rare picture A very rare painting of Dr John Dee’s magic partner Edward Kelley has just been sold at auction. Measuring over 8ft wide (2.49m), it was painted on nine wooden boards and depicted the alchemist (1555-1597) it had been stored in a stable in Warwickshire and then a coachhouse in […]
I wrote this in 2009 and I thought it was time to dust it off now that my new book Magical Imagination, which is reviewed here is out. Since the 1960s the idea of ‘pathworking’ has largely changed the Golden Dawn techniques of ‘Rising on the Planes’. Gareth Knight once told me that he started […]
I read a particularly interesting Kindle book over the weekend called the Seal of the Secrets of the World by Soror ZSD23. The book covers the author’s personal work with the Arbatel and the Seals of the Olympic Spirits. It is turn cheap and can be found on Amazon here. In the way of a […]
Mussolini’s favourite occultist, Julius Evola, is enjoying rehabilitation at the moment. I say “enjoy” – he is actually dead and is not capable of enjoying much. Julius Evola Since the war Evola has been ignored in the wider occult community. There might be some collective embarrassment about him, as he proved quite conclusively that you […]
He was exactly what you would expect from a secret chief. Well, dressed, calm, urbane, and clearly well off. He managed to look younger than he was. He told me he was a Corsican of aristocratic pedigree. We met in a coffee shop close to St Peter’s so that my wife, Paola, who works in […]
The Whare Ra vault The Whare Ra Vault is the last surviving, and certainly the most used vault ever created by a Golden Dawn order. It was built incredibly solidly with secret panels in the Mars Wall which lead to special smaller rooms for the 6=5 and 7=4. It was so solidly built that when […]