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Today is the longest day of the year. As the wheel of time presses forward we’re told that fairies are afoot. As the fairies dance, Mother Nature provides all manner of fresh foods for our pleasure. In our home we celebrate with a picnic to revel in the sun, have our fire festival (barbecue) and enjoy the company of good family and friends. Veggie Kabob with Cucumber Sauce This entrée was designed especially for our vegetarian guests as a Greek-Chinese fusion filled with fresh seasonal flavors. It’s a perfect way to use up some of your garden harvest too! Other vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes, etc.) can be substituted in this kabob, as can meat ...
The third – this focusing on the Spirit - in a series, By Carl Llewellyn Weschcke (In this third editorial focusing on the spirit, I am not writing as an expert, but rather as a serious student of 70 years and a publisher of Body, Mind & Spirit books. I’ve formed certain beliefs, some are which an amalgamation of what I’ve read, while others are original. My goal is purely to encourage you to form your own beliefs, and to discover more about your self.) SPIRIT – What is it? Where is it? “Spirit” is hard to define, as is “soul.” It’s difficult to discuss matters not well defined. Language is not like mathematics, where ...
Some of the best moments of our lives have been spent with unusual people, in strange places, doing odd things. The unusual people have included Witches, magick workers, Druids, sacred clowns, Fairies, Elemental Spirits, plant devas, animal allies, and ancient gods and goddesses of a dozen distant lands. The strange places? High in the gnarled limbs of a huge old willow tree, under a full moon. Deep under the earth, crawling through dark, narrow, twisted tunnels. Dancing around a blazing forty-foot bonfire while a hundred drums thundered in unison. In a candlelit Temple of Isis, hidden underground in a modern American city. The odd things we do? Rituals. Oh, we enjoy classes and parties ...
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a late Victorian secret society that focused on ceremonial magic, the evocation of god-forms, and divination. Central to the Golden Dawn's esoteric project was the attempt to create a unified system of magic, a way to bring together the various strands of Western occultism that existed in the late nineteenth century. They synthesized Solomonic, Enochian, Theosophic, Rosicrucian, and various other forms of magic, bringing them all together into one unified system. The keystone of Golden Dawn magic, the thing holding their whole system together, was occult Qabalah. Qabalah pervaded everything the Golden Dawn did, including the use of Tarot for ...
