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What Can You Expect from Ritual Magic?
By Donald Tyson, Truth about Ritual Magic
Those who approach ritual magic for the first time usually harbor wildly unrealistic expectations shaped by their confused and erroneous notions of what magic is and how it works. There is nothing wrong with this—the practice of magic is a learning ...

Principles of Ceremonial
By Melita Denning & Osborne Phillips, Mysteria Magica
Magical ceremonial can be built up and elaborated to forms of great subtlety and complexity, but the initial principles which cause its creation are simple in the extreme. In the first place, ceremonial is a different thing from meditation, and it ...

Enochian Magic
By Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero, The Truth about the Golden Dawn
The Enochian system originated with the ceremonial skrying of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelly toward the end of the sixteenth century in England. Dr. Dee was one of the foremost thinkers of his time—a Hermetic philosopher/magician who was also a ...

Review of the Golden Dawn Magical Tarot
By Donald Michael Kraig, Certified Tarot Grandmaster,
Summary: A brilliant deck that is ideal for practitioners of ceremonial magick and for those following the system of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Will also interest those researching the link between earlier traditional Tarot decks and the ...

Shamanic Consciousness
By Amber Wolfe, Truth About Shamanism
To understand the sacred, other world journey of the shaman, it is necessary to first understand shamanic consciousness. To begin with, consciousness is usually divided into two primary types: The focused, waking consciousness in which we are alert ...

What is the Golden Dawn
By Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero, The Truth about the Golden Dawn
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is an initiatory magical group that was founded in London in 1888. It is a society that is dedicated to philosophical, spiritual, and psychic evolution. The history lecture of the Order states that, "The Order ...

Ayahuasca – the Vine of Souls, the Medicine of Love
By Ross Heaven,
Shamanic healing often employs plants to good effect, though it is rarely about herbalism, per se. Indeed, most shamans are explicit that the pharmacological properties of the plants they employ are of far less importance than the spirit which is ...

Egyptian Magic
By Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero, The Truth about the Golden Dawn
Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex and beautiful balance of monotheism and polytheism, along with a good dose of pure magic. For the Egyptians there was no such thing as a separation between magic and religion. One ancient writer, Clement of ...

Kundalini
By Anodea Judith, Truth about Chakras
What is this strange and mysterious Goddess force? I like to think of Kundalini with a metaphor of connecting gears. In an undeveloped person, the chakras are likely to be small. Each one is spinning in its relative place, but the spinning of one ...

How Is Astrology Different from Psychic Prediction?
By Stephanie Clement, What Astrology Can Do for You
Astrology is a science, based upon the mathematical calculation of the planets’ positions in the sky and their relationships to each other and to the Ascendant and Midheaven. By using the longitude of your birth place, the date and the time, an ...


"The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew…it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) Have you lived before? The answer to that question is yes. As a human soul you have lived before; many of us have even experienced many lifetimes... read this article
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Today's post is more of a long, rambling kind of question rather than tips or ideas.  It's something I've been thinking about for a long time. As an...

On Gematria
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One of the questions I often receive is a request for contact with an occult group, order, coven, etc. As a policy, I don't recommend such...



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