Gordon at Rune Soup has presented a "game" that has been firing up the magickal blogosphere. Here is the idea: Let's say you would like to introduce someone to the world of magick using only books. This person is going to be in a deserted house with no outside communication for a month and they've agreed to read whatever you tell them, in the order that you tell them. Here, quoted from Rune Soup, are the rules: Fiction is allowed. You have to specify what brand of magician you want to build beforehand. (Hermeticist, chaos, etc.) You can’t tell the subject this. You must include books from at least three disciplines. (This is to stop you just giving the Complete Golden Dawn

I really don't like shaving, but I like the feeling of a smooth face, so I do it. I've tried about every shaver, manual and electric. They each seem to do a good job in certain areas and have problems with others. In a nearby shopping mall there is a store just for shaving products, including their own. I love their sandalwood shaving cream in a jar. It's expensive, but it lasts about 15-20 times longer than cans of cream or gel and works better for me (it's better for the environment, too). Recently, I stopped in to pick up a new tube of shaving cream for when I travel. They had on display a new multi-bladed razor that was about to come out. I asked about it and they told me its

Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Aaron Leitch, author of The Angelical Language, Volume I; The Angelical Language, Volume II; and Secrets of the Magical Grimoires. Greetings, faithful seekers!  Since this is my first blog post here, I think I should take the opportunity to introduce myself.  My name is Aaron Leitch, and I am a student and practitioner of the Solomonic Arts.  That is a style of magick that was popular in Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and from whence we get our popular conceptions of grimoires, or magickal spell books.  If you have read my Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires, and The Angelical Language, Volumes I and II,  then you already

As I write this, Apple Inc. (formerly Apple Computer) is about to announce new products. Today they are a focal point of the technology world. But it has not always been so. About 15 years ago I had left my job. The new job I was promised before I moved across the country fell through. I spent time living off the kindness of friends and eventually had to move back in with my parents. I was out of money. At that time the price of Apple stock had fallen, as I recall, to about $12 per share. I was urging everyone I knew (and who had money) to buy Apple stock. The reason for my urging was that I believed only two things could happen. First, the stock would go up in value, in which