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 …
Year: 2015
Open 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
HEROES 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 …
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 …
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 …
HOW PHILOSOPHY HELPS MAGICAL DEVELOPMENT
Humans are extremely bad at learning from the past, yet at the same time they cling onto concepts which are long out-of-date. This is caused …