One of the reasons why magic does not work is because a person has not understood what they have to sacrifice for the rite to happen. In different systems of magic, there is the concept of sacrifice – of giving something up to achieve a desire or receive something from the gods. Usually this is […]
The top table of chiefs in the Golden Dawn ritual are composed of the Imperator, the Cancellarius and Praemonstrator. The Hierophant is also supposed to sit between them and behind him sits the Past-Heirophant. Throughout the history of the Golden Dawn little work has been done about the magical function of these officers. Instead the […]
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, […]