The Dictionary of Traditional Magick and Etherical Science

Air (Alchemy) One of the Four Elements of alchemy believed to carry the archetypal properties of spirit into the visible world. It is linked to the process of Separation and corresponds to the metal Iron. Cassock (Ecclesiastic) A full-length gown with sleeves and collar worn priests, bishops and helpers. Nephesh (Qabalah) Hebrew The animal soul that corresponds to animal/ vegetable [...]

Book Review: Animal Reiki to Go

Animal Reiki to Go by Mary Caelsto The Lotus Circle (February 16, 2009) $20.00 ISBN 978-1419980756 128 pages plus keychain charm and drawstring pouch Reviewer: Lupa There are several books and other resource that cover reiki for animals, either as the entire book or as part of a broader work. However, this one’s nice “to go” as the title says, as [...]

Book Review: Longing For Wisdom

Longing For Wisdom: The Message of the Maxims by Allyson Szabo CreateSpace (June 27, 2008) $15.99 ISBN 978-1438239767 154 pages Reviewer: Lupa “Know Thyself.” This is one of over a hundred maxims carved into a stele outside the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. More than empty platitudes, these simple sayings not only guided Greek society, but were also instruments for teaching [...]

Book Review: The Serpent and the Eagle

The Serpent and the Eagle: An Introduction to the Elder Runic Tradition by Chris Travers BookSurge Publishing (February 2, 2009) $15.99 ISBN 978-0316068024 186 pages Reviewer: Lupa There are a number of introductory guides to the runes on the market. Some of them are well-researched and well-written; others are full of poor scholarship, which negates whatever writing style may have been [...]

Book Review: Encyclopedia of Spirits

Encyclopedia of Spirits by Judika Illes HarperOne (January 27, 2009) $29.99 ISBN 978-0061350245 1072 pages Reviewer: Sheta Kaey I encountered this tome in my local library, which is nothing short of miraculous given the religious climate hereabouts. It was not only in my local small-town-outside-a-big-city library, but it was also in the new nonfiction books section, right up front. I don’t [...]

Book Review: Hand of Isis

Hand of Isis by Jo Graham Orbit (March 23, 2009) $14.99 ISBN 978-0316068024 528 pages Reviewer: Bronwen Forbes When Graham’s first book, Black Ships, was released last year, the publicity materials claimed that the book did for the Aeneid (Virgil’s famous poem about Aeneas — mentioned in the Iliad — and his travels before settling in Italy and becoming the ancestor [...]

The Use of Prayer in the Occult

The Webster definition of prayer is “an address (as a petition) to God or a god in word or thought.1” Let us assume there are two general categories of occultists: those who work with or rely on only themselves, and those who work with or rely on some Other in their work. This Other could [...]

Occult Author Spotlight: Jan Fries

I picked up all of Fries works a few years ago at Edge of the Circle, an occult bookstore in Seattle, which happens to stock these otherwise hard to find books. The main reason these books are hard to find is they are published by a U.K. publisher and have to be special ordered. However, [...]

Wolverine: The War God’s Poster Boy

War is hell — neither pretty nor kind, and it is bringing lamentation and suffering to so many in the world right now. People have hated war ever since there was war to be hated. It shouldn’t be terribly surprising then, that Mars — the Roman God of War — was not well liked around [...]

Guttershaman, Part 4: Authenticity

  “Of course the Chinese mix everything up — look at what they have to work with! Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoist alchemy and sorcery. We take what we want and leave the rest, just like your salad bar.” — Egg Shen in John Carpenter’s Big Trouble In Little China (Disclaimer: I am, to quote Jim Jarmush’s [...]

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