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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We are now thick in the season of Saint Cyprian who has become quite popular. Indeed, if the look the Ursuline Sister gave me in Quebec City last month when I asked for his medal is any indication, word of his veneration amongst Sorcerers is even getting back to the establishment. A few years ago […]
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Crucible is coming on October 1st. One of my favorite events precisely because its small, intimate, and different. This year I am giving a talk called: READ TAROT LIKE A FORTUNE TELLER It specifically focuses on the Tarot deMarseille and the cartomantic style of reading that focuses on plain interpretation of image, folk meaning, and relation […]
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“Back in 2011 I attended your lecture on Financial Sorcery at the NYC Pagan Pride day and you gave a very impassioned speech about the the declining economy. You made the case that we needed to get serious about money and that doing so would enable us to have a positive impact on the world. […]
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