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 […]
The Golden Dawn cipher manuscripts were used to create the Golden Dawn rituals. They provided the skeleton for all the rituals from 0=0 to 4=7. However Mathers was looking at the ritual through a late Victorian Masons eyes, he could have easily have created a different ritual. What would have happened if the Cipher manuscript […]
I have been out of things for a while I concentrated on my latest book The Shem Grimoire. The book is exactly what it says on the tin. It is a collection of my Kabbalistic notes and essays on invoking the 72 Shem Angels. It is a process that I started to investigate several years […]
Some rituals have the best intentions Although occult books are full of yarns about magic’s success stories there are few tales of what happens when magic goes wrong I have been noticing that a sector of my life is largely immune to magic of late. I have tried a number of different rituals to over […]