PGM XIII contains an extensive creation myth that has enormous implications for the use of magic. Creation myths are essential to magicians because their magical formulas tend to follow similar patterns to religious creation myths. A spell is the magician’s way of creating a new universe with their will and needs to follow the same […]
What follows is ancient invocation is to be used each time you invoke Hekate from the time of the full Moon to the day before the new Moon. It is taken from PGM IV. 2241-2358 it can be found in my Helios Unbound book. The translation E.N. O’Neil is from the H.D. Betz edition it […]
The purpose of this article is to produce a simple version of the neo-platonic structure behind the Chaldean Oracles so that they can be understood by modern magicians. I am trying to avoid making it too complex. One of the reasons that the Oracles have been set aside by many is because they been picked […]
The splendid palace of their fire sublime. O best of gods, blest daemon crown ‘d with fire Proculus In 1866 the archaeologist, antiquities “looter,” Prof Athanasios Rhousopoulos dug up a marble ball which was 30 in diameter covered with magical signs similar to what can be seen in the Greek Magical Papyri. The Helios-Apollo ball […]
In the Geometric Greek period (8th Century BC), there was an interesting development from Ancestor Worship to the worship of Heroes. This was inspired by the rise of Homer and other poets. The belief was that the Heroes had been so significant in life that they could act as go-betweens between the living and the […]