When people rattle off the big names of the occult world, it’s always the same predictable list. Crowley, who never met a press release he didn’t like. Mathers, who loved dressing up in more robes than an archbishop. Gerald Gardner, who liked being a witch almost as much as he enjoyed being whipped. Perhaps someone […]
The second edition of Mathers Last Secret is out ten years after the first edition was released. For those not in the know, Mathers Last Secret contained all the rituals and teachings of Sam Mather’s AO temple in London which was run by the sex magician Dr Edmund William Berridge. The temple was formed after […]
Gematria is a little like Geomancy in that it is a side of the Western Mystery Tradition which has fallen from favour mostly because it requires students to think. If you look at the 19th and Early 20th centuries, magicians were fascinated by number codes and using them to solve spiritual questions. This was possible […]
Crowlyite followers are celebrating some anniversary of Aleister Crowley at the moment and there seems to be an effort to whitewash some of the Great Beast’s darker aspects. It is well known that Crowley was anti-Semitic, misogynistic, bully who tortured and exploited his students. However, there is now an attempt to paint him as a “man […]
For a while I have considered that the reason Crowley and Waite did not get on was because they shared a common approach to writing — obscure in purple prose the obvious. Fortunately I have found two recipes for sponge cake written by the two occultists for people to compare. In some ways I take it […]
The Daily Mail, conspiracy nut-jobs and the born-again Christians make a big deal about the Golden Dawn because the so-called Black Magician Aleister Crowley was a member. Crowley’s own followers claim that the Great Beast was an influence on the Golden Dawn and was the living embodiment of the system, which only he had the power […]