I heard of Alobar long before I met him. I was at my friend Cliff’s house and I picked up a leatherbound copy of the Necronomicon. It was the first hard-bound edition I ever saw and Cliff had two of them. The one in my hand had all the invocations translated into Enochian in-between the […]
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The photo in this post is not a stock image. It was taken by me in the unfinished church in St George back in 2004. It was where the Black School was born, though I didn’t know it at the time. It was only through Cyprian that I learned why I was so compelled […]
Continue readingIf you already know you want in, just click HERE and come on in. Want to know more about whats happening? Read on…. When i started Strategic Sorcery I ran a forum on my webpage. It sucked. Some people liked it, but I didn’t so I moved everything to Facebook. It was awesome! Participation went up around […]
Continue readingFrom time to time, students note that Divination plays far less a role in my courses than it does in a lot of other peoples teachings. About a year ago I stopped offering divination as a service. After 30 years of doing divination, I have grown to have a lot of reservations about it and how it’s […]
Continue readingThe Black School is at a Four Way Crossroads. From the first road approaches Christ. From the second approaches the Devil. Down the third road comes St Cyprian who negotiates this meeting. The fourth road? That’s you. It’s a neat image, but why would we want to be at this crossroads? Because for whatever reason […]
Continue readingEarlier this week I wrote a very short post answering how I could manage to pray to St Cyprian, Hekate, and Padmasambhava every day. My answer was simply that its two dead Sorcerer’s and a Goddess of Sorcery, so there is no conflict. I have no problem eating an Omlette, Vindaloo, and Shwarma all in […]
Continue readingLast night someone wrote to me and said “I have seen you in different places claim you pray to Padmasambhava, St Cyprian, and Hekate on a daily basis. I don’t understand how you can work with an eastern Buddhist figure, a western Christian figure, and a Pagan Goddess. You are all over the place.” Let […]
Continue readingI am, right now, building a new practice for myself. This practice happens to be centered around Physical Exercise, but it could be anything really. The reason I am writing about it is that: I am building a practice doing a little LESS than I can manage every day. Like many people introduction of quarantine […]
Continue readingLife Imitates Art. That’s what Oscar Wilde said. Its true enough that its become a common expression. I don’t think I know a single writer or artist who cannot name instances of this truth operating in their lives. Noticing the actions of unseen forces is actually at the heart of most great magic,. The only […]
Continue readingWhy did you get into magic? In talking about Pain as fuel for magic, V Jonathan Facile said “personally I suspect that anyone that’s fine with their reality isn’t going to be particularly motivated to dedicate hours daily to practice, a ton of income and other things to maintain the just fine reality, but maybe that’s […]
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