Author: Hadron Templeton

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…

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…

A yogi (or yogini) is a practitioner of Yoga who seeks to attain a state of unity with the divine through this practice. Yogis use a wide variety of methods to reach the divine such as jnana yoga (learning and wisdom), karma yoga (unselfish action), bhakti yoga (devotion to deity) and raja yoga (meditation). The…

All these are terms for someone able to bring a message from another reality to help us. They can often predict the future, challenge us about the past or provide spiritual guidance. Soothsayer means “truth sayer”. Seer is a more modern word indicating someone who can see for example in Crystal balls or water. An…

The term mystic means someone who seeks unity with the divine and experiences of the divine through ecstatic states of being. The origin of the term is in mystery cults (mysteria) which were spiritual groups that often took initiates through rituals designed to reveal the divine to them in stages. Each initiation ritual functioned like…

This term is rarely used to mean magical. In fact, as much as it means a “barer of burders” and it is a title given to Aaron the helper of Moses in the Qoran. In modern day it is essentially used to mean Royal Court’s secretary for the last 2000 years, sometimes with some devolved…

Someone who doesn’t eat enough and makes me look fat. Okay, jokes aside… A medium is someone who can channel spiritual entities or spiritual energy. They are the medium through which the message is conveyed. They often learn through participation in circles and séances and most frequently they attempt to convey messages from the dead.…

A priest or a priestess is often someone who speaks to the gods. In modern religions such as Christianity, a priest does a lot of the spiritual work for the layperson who then does not need to worry about the spiritual state of their soul so long as they follow their priest’s advice. The role…

Hermetics is the teachings of the Hermeticists. The study of Hermetics often derives from a series of documents referred to as Hermetica. The first of these are from around 0-400CE, which explain nearly everything from Egyptian paganism, to medical science of the time, philosophy, and even the new science of Alchemy. The earliest chunk of…

A qabalist is a practitioner of Jewish mysticism. It is worth noting that there are many large philosophical texts on the teachings of Qabalah. The most well-known text is the Zohar which means the brilliance / brightness. An English translation of this text exists in 10 volumes and is roughly 7700 pages long. While this…