Spend enough time around Rosy Cross groups, and the same party trick appears. Facts run out, someone clears a throat, and suddenly the room is told that Leonardo, Mozart, Giordano Bruno, Victor Hugo, and Beethoven were all members. It is a conjuring act done with famous names. The awe arrives on cue, but the paperwork […]
Some modern magicians do not believe in gods or spirits. Sometimes it is because they do not view them as necessary to explain the workings of magic, other times it is because they are Atheists who do not really believe in what they are invoking. However, while I don’t think it matters what you believe […]
The modern occult scene is drowning in sparkle and stupidity, and nothing proves it more than the rise of the overpriced online course. Click on one of these overdesigned horrors and you’re greeted with ambient synth drones, mystical fonts cribbed from a Lord of the Rings DVD menu, and the promise of ancient secrets revealed. […]
When people rattle off the big names of the occult world, it’s always the same predictable list. Crowley, who never met a press release he didn’t like. Mathers, who loved dressing up in more robes than an archbishop. Gerald Gardner, who liked being a witch almost as much as he enjoyed being whipped. Perhaps someone […]
The Geomancy of Christopher Cattan: A Medieval Divination Manual is the definitive English edition of one of Europe’s most powerful yet long-neglected magical texts. Translated directly from the original 1550 French and carefully edited into modern English, this edition revives a masterpiece that shaped occult thought for generations. First published in France during the mid-sixteenth […]
Lost Rosicrucian masterpiece Theomagica: A Temple of Wisdom returns to print after three centuries John Hayden’s seminal 17th-century work was edited into modern English by Nick Farrell and the team at Lord Manticore Publishing House. After more than three centuries of obscurity, Theomagica: A Temple of Wisdom by John Hayden is once again available to […]
Recently, someone pointed out something in geomancy that no one else seems to have noticed, not even the heavyweights like Christopher Cattan or Thomas Heydon. It turns out that, mathematically, some geomantic First Mothers cannot become certain Daughters. Which also means they can’t go on to occupy certain houses through movement. This is not a […]
What follows is a list of Tarot meanings used in Mathers Alpha et Omega Order. Although this document is later (about 1915) it uses Westcott’s deck rather than the descriptions used by Stella Matutina, which can be found in Regardie’s Golden Dawn. I am uncertain if there is much that is unusual here, but I […]
The Ceremony of Admission to “The Inner” or “R.R. et A.C.” The following is a Whare Ra document, and its authorship and date are unknown. It was in the collection of one of the members who was still alive after the Order closed. I had not seen it before (which means nothing as there are […]
There’s a common misconception in magical communities—particularly within the Golden Dawn tradition—that once you’ve ticked the boxes of grade progression, memorised the rituals, and performed the elemental workings, you’re “done.” But the most significant leap in your magical journey might come not from pushing forward but from restarting Golden Dawn training Restarting your training in […]