Category: Hermetics
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The Tarot
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For a Brief History of the Tarot click below. Composition of the Smith-Waite-Rider deck This deck consists of 78 cards. 22 of them are called Trumps, Atus or the Major Arcana. The remaining 56 are the Minor Arcana. The Minor Arcana is divided into 4 suits: Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles. Each suit has 10…
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What does Franz Bardon mean by Fluid Condenser?
Okay so Franz Bardon is a difficult read because a lot of what he is writing about as you work through his books is very simple occult subjects but he was writing at a time when qi-gong and simple English hadn’t really impacted the Occult much yet. Many of his terms seem to come from…
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The Four Empedoclean Elements
The four elements, known commonly in many Wicca, Hermetics and Thelema-based practices around the world, are Fire, Water, Air and Earth. These form a powerful way to work with the universe and with the self. They seem on the face of it, to be a massive oversimplification, but that does not stop the idea of…
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Elemental Work
This is a hard training that builds the mental muscles we use to manifest our personality and through that it colours our soul. Trying to work this is very much a large part of Magical Muscles, which need to be built up. Often it gets heavily neglected because it does not seem as spiritual because…
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Elemental King work
So this is a visualisation exercise, which is really designed to help inspire relationships with each element. Make or Practice using your Dreamspace Firstly you need to form a good dreamspace, temple of the self or inner temple. This is a place in your mind that you can go to that is like your happy…
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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…