Having started my occult path before the arrival of the internet I am “old school” and believe that initiation is not something you get automatically. A friend of mine in another school is having problems with a student who felt he should be initiated because he said so. He had shown up, paid his dues, […]
One of the sadder manifestations of the 20th century was the dumbing down of esoteric thought to simplistic New Age mantras like the Law of Attraction. What amazes me is not so much that the Law of Attraction draws in so many muggles, but that occultists try to incorporate it within their practice. Builders of […]
Most people believe that the astrological symbols we use are truly ancient. In fact they were a renaissance invention. This knowledge is rather important when you consider that John Dee’s Hieroglyphic Monad, and several Golden Dawn diagrams depend on these being the correct symbols. In early astrological drawings images of the gods were used to […]