Sheshat is an important Egyptian goddess from a magical perspective. Sometimes seen as Thoth’s wife, she is the goddess of writing and measurement. Like a lot of Egyptian divine roles Sheshat’s job is more complex than at first appears. Her mundane role as head librarian rapidly becomes something more Stella and her words and writing […]
While people bang on endlessly about the elemental tools, and the god-awful lotus wand, one very important Golden Dawn adept tool is never mentioned or made – the Ankh. The Ankh is part of the 5-6 and is carried in the left hand. There is little paperwork about it, and modern Golden Dawners do not […]
The London Papyrus 122 (PGM VIII) is a magical handbook dating to the fourth or fifth century CE, and on lines 1-63 it contains a crucial theurgical spell designed to “obtain favour” (kharistêrion) from Thoth-Hermes. The Spell was mislabelled as a love spell in the original and was crudely repurposed as a money or work […]
Esoteric books based on historical documents need to tread a fine line between informing and revealing their esoteric reality.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 […]
The purpose of this ritual is to attain a vision of your Higher Self in the form of the God of the Sun. It is based on the so called Liturgy of Mithras and it is a tricky ritual to do. It is a really ancient ritual (which is why some of it is a […]
I am famous for being blunt and the headline statement will get a few people upset. I have said over a number of years that I do not believe that astral initiation into the Golden Dawn work, but have not said why. I would LOVE astral initiation to work. As the head of an order, […]
After much arm twisting I am releasing the Osiris Scrolls as a strictly limited book on lulu. It is a small hardback book and will be limited to 50 copies so it will be a collector’s item. It can be bought here http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Magus007 From the blurb: The Osiris Scroll is a modern magical technique based […]
Someone asked for a magical worldview which did not incorporate re-incarnation, or Karma and yet did the same sorts of things. Here is a basic Egyptian one which can be used to find answers to many different questions and also slots in nicely to the Golden Dawn. There was never a beginning or an end, […]