The Purpose of Ritual, Meditation, and Other Practices in Thelema

When doing some practice or ritual, if one is a Thelemite then one must always ask this question: How does this help the fulfillment of my Will? Too many times do Thelemites perform ceremonial rituals and yoga practices for some aim other than the fulfillment of their Wills. Thelema often speaks of Initiation, the Great Work, Knowledge and [...]

The Dictionary of Traditional Magick and Etherical Science

Akashic Record (Yoga, Theosophy) A term invented and popularized by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. The idea is that the Akasha is a thought substance which can be imprinted by experience, making it possible to retrieve otherwise inaccessible information from the past, such as a person’s past life. This is remarkably close idea to the concept of Jung’s [...]

New Aeon Initiation, Part 3

4) Self as Redeemer “There is no god but man” — Liber Oz One common attribute of the Old Aeon systems is their insistence on the baseness, sinfulness, and helplessness of humanity. In this view, mankind is naturally in a state spiritual blindness, deafness, and dumbness; we don’t know what is best for ourselves, and we’re aimless [...]

Poetic Journeys – Kronos

O thou who sails Binah’s black sea Whose term is undefined O thou whose sickle circumscribes The arc of a lifetime O thou who gives but twenty-four Divisions in a day And never grants a moment more No matter how much we delay O thou that mocketh every pow’r That we here on Earth may know From your seat above the Great Abyss Ruling [...]

Book Review: Modern Magick

Modern Magick: Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts Donald Michael Kraig Llewellyn Publications (1988) ISBN: 978-0875423241 600 pages Reviewer: Sheta Kaey   As this book is typically the first book recommended to anyone interested in learning ceremonial or ritual magick, I thought a review here was appropriate, if only for the purpose of having it in our archives. As a primer [...]

Book Review: Real Alchemy

Real Alchemy: A Primer of Practical Alchemy Robert Allen Bartlett Ibis; 3rd edition (May 1, 2009) ISBN: 978-0892541508 224 pages Reviewer: Lupa   Most of the books you’re going to find on alchemy these days talk history, metaphor, or other theoretical concepts. This is one of the very few that goes into the actual practice of alchemy, step by step. Originally self-published [...]

New Aeon Initiation, Part 2

  2) The True Self contains Good & Evil, Upright & Averse “My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells.” — Liber Tzaddi, line 40 Initiation in the New Aeon is “the Child Growing to Maturity” by the slaying of the ego-self whose “death is life to come” for the True Self. [...]

The Dictionary of Traditional Magick and Etherical Science

Agnosia (Gnosticism) The state of not having insight or Gnosis. This is the root for the word “agnostic,” also meaning a person who does not have Gnosis. Barbelos (Gnosticism) A very confusing concept due to plethora of ways it has been used. It is masculine gender, but is used to stand for Sophia as a woman who is [...]

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 [...]