The Hermetic tradition is all about Thoth and so words are really important. However collections of words called stories have a life of their own and and important too. In my novel “When a Tree Falls,” I wrote this about stories, mostly as a joke. However, like many things in that book, it was all […]
The idea that Daemons are partly human-made and partly divine appears to have hacked off those who are religious or that believe that Ancient texts do not support the idea. My goal in making these ideas available is to show how magic works, why it does not, and how it is different from religion. To […]
There is a magical process of connecting to a god, any god, which is nearly scientific and has been a feature of religion without ever being mentioned — a Daemon. In “Making Imagination” I said that all gods exist but are reflections of a central divine unity which divides itself into seven (or nine) different […]
Most modern magical systems feature the use of elements Fire, Water, Air, and Earth without really understanding why. Coupled with the neo-Platonic idea of emanation, which sees creation as the result of an emanation from simplicity to complexity, we appear to have missed something. Yet elements are part of most much even when modern science […]