Author: Hadron Templeton
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What is a mantle?
So I came across someone with whom I was discussing Golden Dawn ritual and we were talking about the clothes of roles involved when I realised my friend, who in every other way was very well informed, did not know what a mantle was. For him, like me when I was younger, a mantle was…
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Which of the 4 powers of the sphinx is associated with which element?
The powers of the sphinx appear originally in Eliphas Levi’s work Key to the Mysteries. Since then they have appeared mainly in the works of Aleister Crowley. There are 4 actions which are associated with the mystery of the Sphinx. The initiate is required to meditate on the mystery of the sphinx and obtain the 4…
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Working with Earth
My personal experience of working with the element of Earth is that my attempts to use earth to cause change directly is often ineffective. Earth is normally perceived as a passive element. It doesn’t act; it is acted upon. How does that work in the real world? We will have to experiment and see. This…
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Relationship with the divine
So many of us, especially me, get stuck in a mindset where we are trying to do the right things in magic. Our focus is on formula. This can easily be blamed on Crowley who wrote extensively about formulae. His Magic In Theory and Practice (which encouraged the name for this site) is full of…
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Opening to Channel – How to connect with your Guide – Review
A leak ship of practices in a sea of UPG and ego masturbation Anyone who knows my opinion of UPG will instantly know this is not a positive review. Most of this book is intended to be channelled from two entities known as Orin and Da Ben and as such is the unverified personal gnosis…
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Chesed – The Forth Sphirah on the Tree of Life and the divine name El
This page is just notes Occasionally the name of this Sphirah is Gedulah. Gikatilla describes El as the name that draws loving kindness (Gates of Light Yesod)
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St Cajetan (saint of the unemployed)
I have prayed to this saint three times. Twice for jobs for me and once for a job for a friend. All 3 times it worked within the nine days that the prayer lasts for. I feel a little blasphemous when praying and as if I am lying. I worry about the effects of any covenant I might…
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Unverified Personal Gnosis and Reality
Knowing the difference between Unverified Personal Gnosis and Historical fact is very important in the teaching of Occult matters. It’s the difference between telling you the opinion of the man on the street about government and a Political Science student’s essay. Every man on the street has an opinion, and some of them are very…
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Geburah – The Fifth Sphere of The Tree of Life and the divine name Elohim Gebor
This page is notes The name of Geburah used by Rabbi Azriel of Gerona in his 1850 work explanation of the sphiroth is Pakhad (which means Fear). The power of Geborah to determine life In Gikatilla’s comments on the 9th Sephirah Yesod, he talks about life forming a pool at the name Elohim which is the main…
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Kether – The First Sphere of the Tree of Life and the divine name Aheyah
The name for Kether given by Rabbi Azriel of Gerona was Rom Ma’alah which means elevated height. In her writing, Dion Fortune equates Kether, Tiphereth and Yesod to the holy trinity of Christianity. Kether being the father, Tiphereth being the son and Yesod is the holy spirit.