WHEN I first got involved in the GD I thought I would incorporate some of the material I had learnt from the various schools I have been involved with – BOTA and SOL – as well as what the old Whare Ra people had taught me. My goal was to return the GD to its […]
My Novel “When a Tree Falls” has been published and can be bought here Although it is not an occult novel as such it has many kabbalistic ideas and some of my own strange views of the universe. It is pretty silly. The synopsis is: Time is slowing down. Andrew, an English programmer, living alone […]
The Book of the Tomb, which was an AO collection of documents about the vault is now down-loadable on my site. It is previously unpublished and appears to come from the British AO around 1921. It has a lot of interesting stuff in it. A paper from Westcott which was badly hacked in Regardie’s GD […]
IF YOU have read anything on occultism you might find yourself facing terms such as Holy Guardian Angel and sometimes, more rarely, Guardian Demon and the Dweller on the Threshold. These terms have been confused over the years so will try and explain them. In a system of 16th century magic called Abramelin the first […]
The Internet has been seeing a debate about the influence of religion in the Golden Dawn. One person said she had problems with the Golden Dawn work because she had largely “lost her faith” as a result of her experiences with Roman Catholicism. The Golden Dawn makes the claim that it is religion non-specific and […]
Recently I have been looking for an angel with which to do some material wealth magic. For many years I have used the usual suspects of El, and the Archangel of Jupiter and his assorted minions. This generally worked, but in an extremely general way.However I started wondering why there was an Angel of getting […]
Contacts and Masters of Wisdom CONTACTS and secret chiefs have been a mainstay of many different magic systems for ages. Most of my teachers have believed in them in one form or another. In my book Gathering the Magic, I suggested that their use was flawed. This was mostly based on my experience with the […]
HARRY and Nicola have finished another swathe of Tarot cards for the Horus Hathor deck, I thought I would preview them here. You will notice that like Chic and Tabatha’s deck we will be using both the ‘old’ and ‘new’ versions of Temperance in the finished deck. Our colours for the lower arcana follow the […]