“If I summon a shade of the dead, is this bath and prayer enough protection?” “If I do a spell, is this banishing enough?”“If I make an offering to a spirit, is this exorcism enough?” I get asked variations of this question all the time. Students want to be assured that no matter what they […]
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In the beginning was just Chaos and Darkness. Gaia, the earth emerged from the dark and her presence gave birth to Uranus: the sky. That was it at the beginning: Earth and Sky. Sure there were other powers like Eros (love), Nyx (Night) and so on, but the things that existed were eternal and did […]
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There are a lot of misconceptions about Jupiter and Jupiterian Magic. I wrote a book and teach a course that focus on Jupiter, so of course I get asked about them a lot. I thought it might be helpful to answer these questions all in one place…. ISN’T JUPITER THE GOD OF the 1%? THE […]
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“to appear and shew thyself visibly before this circle, in fair and comely shape, without deformity or guile, ”….. – The Lemegeton to appear under a comely human form, without noise and without terror, to answer truly unto all questions that I shall ask thee. “ -The Grimoire Verum These words and words like them appear in […]
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“The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley’s Ghost; some few (they might be guilty governments) were linked together; none were free. Many had been personally known to Scrooge in their lives. He had been quite familiar […]
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You probably know this story already, but on Christmas Eve 1914 British and German Soldiers stopped fighting and lit candles in the trenches. The candles were followed by the singing of Christmas carols, and because trench warfare was so close quarter, the other side could hear the carols and started joining in. As dawn broke […]
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Every now and then a reader will tag me in a post to say they are reading one of my books. I always enjoy this. It’s nice to know that I am making some impact on the world while I am alive. no matter how small it may be. I then sometimes read the comments […]
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Sorcery is real. We all talk about this, but I think this is worth taking a moment to reflect upon because every week I see people who practice it, talk about it in ways that they don’t talk about other real things. SORCERY DOESN’T HAPPEN IN A VACUUM Sorcery is real, and as a real […]
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If you’ve never heard the term “UPG” it means Unverified Personal Gnosis. Like most terms it is fine in and of itself. It was born of a need to separate serious topics from nonsense. When someone would show up in a space claiming to be the incarnation of Innana and is upset that no one […]
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I recently moved and my new office is about three times the size of my old one, yet I am scaling back on the number of permeant altars I am keeping. I haven’t decided on exactly what I am doing yet, but since it’s on my mind so much, I thought it might be a […]
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