Author: Hadron Templeton
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Blue Fire and Skeletal Grounding
In a small online energy-work group, this is a ritual we are going to be working with for a couple of weeks. If you like it you can see more in the following book from which it is mostly taken. As someone who hasn’t read the book, however I cannot promise that it will be…
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My Initiation of Air
Warning: This is UPG. As part of my magical training, I did my Earth degree for around 5 years much of which took me away from magic and I recently moved onto Air. Earth took me to the hard physical reality that you so rarely deal with when practising magic and Air suddenly returned me…
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Occult Celebrity the new Fool’s Gold : Magic is Art or Science
I’ve been making the mistake of talking to people online again! But let’s not start there. Let’s set up some definitions before I get on with my typical rant. Fools gold is an expression sometimes used to describe Pyrite or Iron Pyrite. It’s basically iron with a bit of sulphur attached… as you can imagine…
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Doreen Valiente
Doreen was an incredible character. In the early stages of establishing Wicca as a religion, Doreen Valiente worked very closely with Gerald Gardner to create this tradition. She noted that large quantities of Gerald Gardner’s book of shadows were quite clearly taken from Aleister Crowley, particularly his Gnostic Mass. She stripped this out and replaced…
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Emerald Tablet
The emerald tablet, also known as the Smaragdine Tablet, is one of the most famous Hermetic texts. This has influenced much of magic and occultism going forward. If you ever heard the words “As Below So Above” and “As Above So Below” they are quoting the Emerald Tablet. It’s not that old! It’s only around…
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The Corpus Hermeticum
If you want a video version of some of the information in this, check out Esoterica’s video linked below. They provide an incredible collection of videos that look at the history of magic with real respect to sources, so their videos are incredibly useful to real magicians. Watching the video below might make it easier…
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Hiding of Hermetic Knowledge
This is one of a few articles, which look at philosophy and religion as is seen in the Corpus Hermeticum or Hermetica. The focus of this is actually the Latin Aesclepius which is clearly also a Hermetic text by the reference to the same entities. The original article for which this is a stub can…
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Putsi Bag
In Romani magic this is a talisman of magical power in the form of a leather pouch filled with ingredients. Sometimes the ingredients have natural power by virtue of what they are and sometimes it is “charged” or ritually empowered to have have magical power. A typical example of a Putsi bag is teeth and…
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Elemental Work Table
I am writing this post, because I’m just trying to formulate a good table for the work my new coven will be doing going forward. I am trying to determine good work for each elemental grade to help them choose what they do for themselves going forward. My new coven is in a good place…
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Changing Coven
Sadly I found my previous coven was not very accommodating to my aggressive views on LGBTQIA+ rights. As a gay man, I can be a little bit stubborn when it comes to the rights of my community and let’s say my coven wanted me a bit more mellow and apologetic. They caught me at the…