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No Ostara Issue – Get Ready for a Double Beltane No Ostara Issue – Get Ready for a Double Beltane

Unfortunately, and for the first time, we have insufficient content to put out an Ostara issue. I guess everyone’s been busy with PantheaCon and late winter/early spring mundane concerns to prepare. But we’ll keep taking in submissions and... [Read more...]

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RTV Now Offering Link Exchange RTV Now Offering Link Exchange

Rending the Veil is now offering a link and banner exchange for qualifying websites. If you have a website or blog on magical topics that you’d like to submit, please email admin@rendingtheveil.com with your url, banner, and a brief site description.... [Read more...]

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The Na’vi and the Fremen: What Science Fiction Teaches Us about Tribalism and the Mystic The Na’vi and the Fremen: What Science Fiction Teaches Us about Tribalism and the Mystic

To begin, I must offer an unqualified spoiler alert. During the course of this article, I’ll be examining the complex and fascinating intersection between tribalism and mysticism, employing for reference points James Cameron’s 2009 movie... [Read more...]

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Anatomy and Organization of the Star Group Anatomy and Organization of the Star Group

Ever since the advent of Masonry, individual occultists have sought to unify and organize themselves into a collective to facilitate group ceremony, study and collaboration, often using the Masonic lodge as a model. A Masonic lodge has temporary... [Read more...]

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On Being a Noble Savage: Neo-shamanism and Popular Culture On Being a Noble Savage: Neo-shamanism and Popular Culture

Christopher Drysdale will join Rending the Veil as a columnist beginning in our Ostara issue. Pasty-skinned, the office-boy who has seen too many days inside the cube-farm slowly makes his way up the mountain path. Trees loom on either side, and... [Read more...]

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Magick

Lesser Wheel of Fortune and Practical Magick Lesser Wheel of Fortune and Practical Magick

We have covered the greater wheel of fortune and how it’s associated with the solar return and the point 180 degrees from the solar return, or halfway in the annual cycle. This greater wheel of fortune is very important to know if one... [Read more...]

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Why Thelema? Why Thelema?

When people hear the sort of work we are involved with in the Order of Thelemic Knights, I am often asked why we believe that something like Thelema, when many of its adherents show a disdain for compassion, respect and hard work, would have... [Read more...]

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Anatomy and Organization of the Star Group Anatomy and Organization of the Star Group

Ever since the advent of Masonry, individual occultists have sought to unify and organize themselves into a collective to facilitate group ceremony, study and collaboration, often using the Masonic lodge as a model. A Masonic lodge has temporary... [Read more...]

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Mysticism

Is It Really Energy? Is It Really Energy?

The word “energy” is ambiguous, used as a cover word to describe a set of experiences and sensations, which may not actually be energetic at all. It’s a convenient word used to conceptualize those experiences, but at the same time... [Read more...]

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The Na’vi and the Fremen: What Science Fiction Teaches Us about Tribalism and the Mystic The Na’vi and the Fremen: What Science Fiction Teaches Us about Tribalism and the Mystic

To begin, I must offer an unqualified spoiler alert. During the course of this article, I’ll be examining the complex and fascinating intersection between tribalism and mysticism, employing for reference points James Cameron’s 2009 movie... [Read more...]

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On Being a Noble Savage: Neo-shamanism and Popular Culture On Being a Noble Savage: Neo-shamanism and Popular Culture

Christopher Drysdale will join Rending the Veil as a columnist beginning in our Ostara issue. Pasty-skinned, the office-boy who has seen too many days inside the cube-farm slowly makes his way up the mountain path. Trees loom on either side, and... [Read more...]

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Culture

Artistic Visions – Bynopar Artistic Visions – Bynopar

About the Artist I started studying in 2004 privately with a studio artist in Maine, then continued with self-study after my arrival in Canada in 2005. In 2008 I began working with my husband, Donald Tyson, illustrating his books, and have continued... [Read more...]

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Poetic Journeys – The Founding of the Black Flame Kaba Poetic Journeys – The Founding of the Black Flame Kaba

Pan was lonely for the chase 
 Moon-white thighs and wine’s embrace 
 But the mood upon the land 
was of cold and Death He chanced upon the Waste in dread 
Dreaming ferns and soft sunlight 
 When into his loneliness came 
 The... [Read more...]

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Poetic Journeys – Entering In Poetic Journeys – Entering In

I am the Bull in the Garden; I am the lightening in the clouds; I am the thunder in the air; I am the rain kissing the earth; I am the whirlwind that crashes from heaven to Earth, that raises Earth dancing to Heaven. I am S/He In whom God is manifest... [Read more...]

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The Na’vi and the Fremen: What Science Fiction Teaches Us about Tribalism and the Mystic The Na’vi and the Fremen: What Science Fiction Teaches Us about Tribalism and the Mystic

To begin, I must offer an unqualified spoiler alert. During the course of this article, I’ll be examining the complex and fascinating intersection between tribalism and mysticism, employing for reference points James Cameron’s 2009 movie... [Read more...]

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Ocular Distortion – Persephone Ocular Distortion – Persephone

About the Artist My interests in photography and film began in junior high school — a fascination leading me to pursue my undergrad and graduate degree from Ohio State University in cinematography. For the last 20 years most of my work has... [Read more...]

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Poetic Journeys: Coming to the Light Poetic Journeys: Coming to the Light

My mind playing tricks on my eyes That golden glow bringing me into worlds of pumpkin coaches. Valkyrie in flight, neverlands that never were, yet so much more real than what passes for day to day. Sadness is beauty brought down by ugliness, truth... [Read more...]

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Columns

The Dictionary of Traditional Magick and Etherical Science The Dictionary of Traditional Magick and Etherical Science

Alembic (Alchemy) In alchemy, the top part of a still. Often used to refer to a complete still. An instrument used for distillation. Archigenitor (Gnostic) The “first begetter”. A Greek reference to Yaldabaoth. Cenobite (Ecclesiastic)... [Read more...]

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The Study of Magic – The Amoebic Cabala The Study of Magic – The Amoebic Cabala

Earlier, I said that every single modern, western magician is responding, in one way or another, to Plato. We are all either Neoplatonists, or reacting against Neoplatonism. The strange thing is, in most of our daily lives, we are not Neoplatonists... [Read more...]

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Reviews

Book Review – The Northern Path Book Review – The Northern Path

Douglas “Dag” Rossman Seven Paws Press (June 30, 2005) ISBN: 978-0964911390 252 pages Reviewer: Soli   At first glance, Norse mythology can be a daunting dragon. Rough living, the world coming into being from a cow licking an ice man... [Read more...]

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