News

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...]

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...]

Featured This Issue

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...]

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...]

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...]

Culture

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

Columns

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...]

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...]

Reviews

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...]