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 […]
While many neo-pagans have a problem with Jesus and Christian symbolism they need to start applying the same rules that they do with the other religions they use. Ancient magicians tended to see all faiths as something they could use. It didn’t matter what the followers of that religious thought, rather than what that […]
As thought experiment I tried to reconstruct the Golden Dawn ritual with the Christianity removed. I got a few minutes into the process and realised it was totally pointless. The rituals had very successfully created a pagan ritual which could be interpreted in a Christian or pagan way depending on who was doing it. It […]
Poseidon is the Ancient Greek God of Earthquakes. With the recent earthquakes in Italy, I decided to try and find out what was going on and what was a possible cause. Earthquakes were often signs of a God or Goddess’s displeasure (something which are a form of imbalance). This imbalance might be a slight by […]
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 […]
An article was posted on Pagan Wiccan About with the title Ten Things to Stop Doing if You’re Pagan.It has a list of things which Pagans should stop doing, now that they are Pagan and most of it makes a lot of sense. Things like stop trying to fit your new religion into your […]