Author: Hadron Templeton

  • Everyone is Correct, Nothing is True

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    There comes a point in groups where we want to allow everyone to feel they are just as valid to have an opinion, but sooner or later someone comes along who is completely wrong and suddenly that philosophy falls apart. In a recent group meeting this Tuesday, one of the members of my coven said…

  • The Unfaithful have no Faith

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    I note when performing rituals with some other pagans, they are always so quick to change all the rituals. When they are handed down traditional Hermetic, Rosicrucian, High Magic, Qabalistic and Grimoiric rituals. So quickly I hear people say “oh let’s get rid of this bit and add this in.” “I don’t like X and…

  • The Power of Nostalgia

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    I don’t know about any of my readers, but I have books I learned from originally which I no longer hold in much esteem. Authors like Silver Ravenwolf, Oberon vel Ravenhart and Ted Andrews. You might not even remember the author. Maybe it was just a purpley-pink coloured cover with what looks like a sphere…

  • Is Magic Subjective or Objective?

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    This is a great question. By which, I mean that I do not know the answer. I hope to explore it and give my view and the possible opinion of a view other people who had significant influences on the coming of our Modern Magic that we practice today. I am going to need to…

  • Don’t like Crowley? He’s still major source material

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    I am going to quote a little bit of Crowley throughout this blog. I know people hate that. Sorry, but not sorry. A lot of people tell me they want someone else as the source of magic. I get it, you don’t like him. He has bad vibes and did a lot of stuff wrong.…

  • What is a Satanist or Setian?

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    So this is quite hard to define since there are many philosophies and many of them are at odds with each other. It is important to understand the significant differences. Also to be aware that many of these groups would not like to see everyone who self-identifies as a Satanist in the same group. Theistic…

  • High Magic

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    Nope this is not smoking pot while summoning demons… but then again it is a difficult to define the term because many people hold misconceptions and they are often more common than the correct opinion. Some people like to imagine that High Magic is good magic that leads to mystic pursuits and Low Magic is…

  • What is a Vampire or Otherkin?

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    Vampires have always stood the test of time in the psyche of the occultist. Due to decomposition, when looking at a dead body in its coffin many days after it was buried, sometimes it looked engorged and it seemed to be full of blood. This led to the idea that the corpse had been feasting…

  • What is a Chaos Magician and Discordian?

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    In the 1970s the philosophy of Chaos magic arose its practitioners are called Chaos Magicians or Chaotes. It was an attempt to strip away most of the dogma and religious mindset around the main occult traditions such as Thelema, Ceremonial Magic, and Neopagan ritual. The forerunners of Chaos Magicians sought to refine magic down to…

  • What is a Daoist?

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    Sometimes spelt Taoist, but always pronounced Daoist, this is a practitioner of Daoism. Daoism is a modern mystic religion based in Chinese philosophy. The renowned yin-yang symbol (more accurately called the Taiji symbol) originates from Daoism. The most famous text that lays out the philosophy of Daoism is the Dao De Jing ascribed to Lao…