Category: Religion, Doctrine & Theory
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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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Wheel of the Year
The wheel of the Year is a concept, which represents the repeated year. Let’s imagine a wheel roles along the ground. It has on it 8 spokes. If it starts with one spoke pointing to the ground and in full rotation it would have covered the entire circumference of the wheel, each of the 8…
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Imbolc / Candlemas
This is basically a gathering of notes about Imbolc. I just happen to be preparing for a ritual with my future house mates and Imbolc (a traditional Wiccan celebration) is the excuse to have the rite. There are many inspirations for this ritual including the celebration of Brigid an old Irish Goddess who is remembered…
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Motives for Magical Practice
If we don’t practice from a good place then our practices often fail to bare fruit. If you practice because you believe that there is something wrong with you and you are attempting to attain to that then you push yourself to grow without enjoying the state you have achieved and you don’t firmly using…
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Toxicity of the New Age Community
Anyone that knows me in person, knows I used to be a regular face at conventions: Glastonbury… London… Cardiff… even Cleveland, Ohio and probably in Feb 2022 or so, Detroit, Michigan. I was involved in multiple OTO bodies, I gave an IOT group a try and I did other things which I really can’t talk…
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Magic vs Christianity
Many pagan authors harp on about Christian persecution of witches and pagans. I quickly tire of the long tirades and ask what is the relevance to the practice of magic? I don’t think I have ever noticed a practical magical application to thinking of oneself as repressed. Maybe a magician might see a respectable power…
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The 3 Refuges
You might notice that I notice about Buddhism a lot. A lot of pagans and magicians hold Buddhism with a lot of respect. In the words of Crowley paraphrased from somewhere in the begining of Magick ABA (Book 4), many famous religious leaders achieved attainment: Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha are among them, but the advantage with…
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The Deity Model
In my local group we often work with the deities in a very anthropomorphised form. We imagine them as a separate spirit that we can speak to them like a person. Some people whoever do not think of deity like this they think of them like some sort of power source that can be used.…
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Magic in Islam
So some of you might know that I come from a family that left Egypt in 1950s following the take over of a new conservative Muslim government. My family had some Egyptian and some Mediterranean roots and religiously they were Egyptian Christian (a sect known as Copt) through both my Grandmother and Grampa had been…