Behold: The Art and Practice of Gematria by Bethsheba Ashe book review by Nick Farrell - August 21, 20211 Gematria is a little like Geomancy in that it is a side of the Western Mystery Tradition which has fallen from favour mostly because it requires students to think. If you look at the 19th and Early 20th centuries, magicians were fascinated by number codes and using them to solve spiritual questions. This was possible because, before the development of Arabic numerals, letters like Greek and Hebrew meant numbers and were used instead. To the Hebrews, who saw the letters of their alphabet as sacred and created by God, it meant that texts could be interpreted through the meanings of their numbers. Of course, this led to huge abuse and murders of the text to get meanings that were suitable for
Amduat: The Great Awakening by Diana Kreikamp Review book review Egypt by Nick Farrell - May 9, 20212 Esoteric books based on historical documents need to tread a fine line between informing and revealing their esoteric reality. Too much towards the history, and you end up with a review of established knowledge that is only of use to the armchair occultists. Too much towards esoteric practice, and you lose the intellectual bedrock and drift into what could be just fantasy. Amduat: The Great Awakening by Diana Kreikamp carefully walks that fine line with what is commonly called the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Hidden Chamber, an essential ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom Egypt for Pharaohs or favoured nobles. The book is carefully researched, profusely illustrated and ensouled by Kreikamp' s magical practice. Firstly, this is a beautiful
Book Review Communing with the Spirits book review by Nick Farrell - September 14, 20160 One of the big advantages of print-on-demand is that it opens up the field to practical magicians who are writing on subjects which are too daring for the commercial publishers, like working with spirits. Martin Coleman’s Communing with the Spirits: The Magical Practice of Necromancy is a book written by a bloke who has a system and it works for him. It comes with all the useful advice you need to work his system and gives some interesting insights into the whole business of working with the dead. I want to make this clear that this is not a field of interest for me. When I work with the dead and ancestor’s it is an adjunct to my other work. But it
Shadows of the Infinite Book of Spirits book review demon golden dawn Jake Stratton-Kent Grimorium Verum magic occult Qlippoth review by Nick Farrell - May 12, 20131 Magic once seemed black and white. My teachers made it clear that you should not work with demons or dark gods and only needed to emphasis the light. It pre-supposed that such black magic existed, but it needed to be ignored. Concentrating on such forces was not only unbalanced, but it led you to all sorts of problems and mental instability. Their case was re-enforced by the fact that the only people who apparently wanted to touch such magical systems were kids or those who were desperate to shock their parents. The only notable advocates of such systems, such as Kenneth Grant and Aleister Crowley, were scary. Systems also required the use of techniques which were pretty disgusting, with ritual
Temple of the Cosmos Ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptian book review Jeremy Naydler temple temple oft the cosmos by Nick Farrell - December 11, 20121 I have been reading Templeof the Cosmos by Jeremy Naydler and he hits some rather important points which some neo-pagans might not like much.The book looks at what the Ancient Egyptian worldview would have actually been and how this could have led to many of religious ideas. What Naydler accidently does is put a spanner in the works of would be neo-pagans who wished to create a modern form of Egyptian worship with their worldview.If Temple of the Cosmos is to be believed to get a real Egyptian religion you would have to short circuit many of the modes of thinking of modern life. Naydler believes that the world that the Ancient Egyptians had was one where their myth,
