Someone recently noticed that I have not offered any talismans for sale on my blog for over a year now. Most of them get bought up by folks in my course, who get first shot at them. This time though, I made a BUNCH. These bags are special conjure bags that are in the grip of gator […]
Continue readingThere are just 12 days left until the Hekate Global Rite, one of the best times to start the Strategic Sorcery Course. I like to post some testimonials and field reports from students at these times but because of the nature of the Occult, most people cannot put their names to them. I usually don’t even […]
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I have a saying when it comes to divination: “Don’t be afraid of being wrong, be afraid of being Vague”. In other words when you are reading, it is better to commit to an interpretation and be clear than it is to leave room for interpretation by being vague. Real Data can be taken by […]
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In the occult community there is sometimes an uneasy relationship between information received from spirits, in visions, or mystical experience (personal Gnosis) and information received through tradition and historical research. I have written about how these two should interact in older posts, how there should be a firewall between them that allows us to celebrate when they […]
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On Halloween 2009 I started the first cycle of the Strategic Sorcery Course, and since then over 1450 people have taken the course and benefited from an approach to magic that makes real and lasting changes in their lives. In the course there are 5 major global rites we do every year, but the Halloween […]
Continue readingIf you don’t live here, chances are your ideas about New Jersey are formed by its proximity to New York and shows like The Sopranos and The Jersey Shore. Not many people realize that when you get south of the Toms River, it starts to feel more like rural Arkansas than the Crowded over-developed suburban […]
Continue readingWell the Cyprian Days are over, and while personal work and devotion continues for all serious Cyprianistas throughout the year, I think the occult community on the net is just about fatigued with St Cyprian. If only there were other magical Saints…. Oh wait! Today is Michaelmas! Feast of the Archangels! Angels are used in […]
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TODAY is St Cyprians feast day (not yesterday 🙂, and Cyprian inspired me to write a bit about Oil. Perhaps more than any other Saint, Cyprian is associated with the use of oil in his magic. The recipes for his oil are many and varied – ranging anywhere from basic Chrysm to pretty intense mixes of […]
Continue readingToday is the feast of Saint Cyprian of Antioch. Between family and services today I dont have timr for a major post today. Yesterday though Jake Stratton Kent correctly pointed out yesterday that St Cyprian“was *invented* by a Christian polemicist in order to mount an attack on Neoplatonism and Theurgy. The story developed a life […]
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It was 1993, at a pub called The Flask in Highgate London, and I was having a conversation about Mastering Witchcraft with someone I spotted wearing some occult swag. I mentioned that it was strange to me that Huson used Hallowmass, Michaelmas, Candlemas and other Christian names for the Sabbats rather than the Pagan names […]
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