Author: Hadron Templeton

Time to take on the great Nick Farrell! Much of this article is written as a response to Nick Farrell’s article Signs that you might not be a real magician. Like a lot of this blog, I comment on the mindsets of being a magician. Mr Farrell and I are social media friends and that’s…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

This is a difficult to define 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 led to mystic pursuits and Low Magic is evil magic that panders to base needs, but that does not seem to…

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…