…King Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites… And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines… —I Kings, Chapter 11, The Bible The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon by Edward Poynter Currently on exhibit at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (I searched a long time to find an image in the public domain that didn't show the queen, who is generally believed to have been from Ethiopia or Yemen —although her title implies she may have been from India— without the pale, extremely white skin associated with Europeans. It is far more

One of the things Israel Regardie has written is that all students of magick should get into some form of psychotherapy. Of course, this is supposed to help the student not become ego-inflated. However, there was another reason for this. Regardie told me that working with a therapist would convince students of the reality of the unconscious mind. Today, most people accept the concept that we have both conscious and unconscious minds (or at least conscious and unconscious aspects of our mind). But when Regardie started on his magickal career at the beginning of the last century, many did not believe this. It was only with Freud that the idea became accepted, and that acceptance did not