Occult groups are supposed to die
Belonging to an old group is not always a good thing. Occultism is supposed evolve and develop, but occult groups can only really reflect the …
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The Astral key to Ritual Magic
For a ritual to work on the material, there needs to be an alignment of the astral between the divine and the matter. Bizarrely this …
Asteria Unveiled: Celestial Mysteries Revealed is now out
A new title from Lord Manticore House This book expands on The Power of Asteria: Applied astrology for magic by probing into little known and …
Gareth Knight has died
One of the most influential occultists of the 20th Century, Gareth Knight (Basil Wilby) has died at his Essex home on 1 March, he was …
Geomancy: What are they thinking
One of the questions readers get asked a lot is “what does x think?” Some refuse to read questions like that claiming that it intrudes …
Inner Order Teachings of the Golden Dawn arrives video
Pat Zaleswki’s much revised full colour verson of Inner Order Teachings of the Golden Dawn arrived today. This is the paperback now available through Lord …
Five reasons PGM is not for noobs
For those who know nothing about magic, the Greek magical Paprii [PGM] appears to arrive fully formed and ready to play with. There is no …
Pat Zalewski’s “Inner Order Teachings of the Golden Dawn” is now out
For more than 100 years secret magical manuscripts from the Order of the Golden Dawn’s inner order of adepts of the Rosae Rubeae et Aureae …
Science and Hubris
The Ancient Greeks had a concept called Hubris ὕβρις, which meant “dangerous over-confidence” or “arrogance” and Hesiod applied it to mean those who thought themselves …
The Magical Dark Night of the Soul
One of the curses of modern occultism is the progressive dumbing-down of terms such as watcher of the threshold, holy guardian angel, pentacle, etc, to …