Why do magicians coerce the Goetia? Making Goetic offerings is infinitely easier than coercion. Threatening the Goetia with torture and other grisly fates is as unlikely to succeed. When did you ever work well with such a threat? We have all seen the joke office...
A comparative study of Crowley's Liber AL, or The Book of the Law, and his Book of Thoth is an interesting area to study. Those teachers of Tarot who are wedded inseparably to the Rider-Waite persuasion love to put the fear of God into students about Thoth (isn't it...
How many thoughts do you have? Thousands? Millions? Do they ever stop? Do you ever get peace from thoughts? Do you have too many thoughts? Be honest, how random, incoherent, or irrelevant are those thoughts? It can really weird when you step back and analyse them! I...
My Enochian vision at Stonehenge
The war between magicians on Enochian magic
What is Smokeless fire? Smokeless fire is the poetic description of the Sun that blazes fiercely in the Arabian desert, and is doubly significant since there is no suggestion that the Jinn are invoked by fire. The Jinn are born from the smokeless fire in parallel to...
What do spirits look like? The Judaeo-Christian system that inspired kabbalism tells us that angels appear in long robes, with wings if they are related to the air, or seated on thrones. Many spirits will have attributes of royalty, looking like Kings, Queens, etc....
There comes a time when you realise that the spiritual and magical systems do not quite match up to your expectations. There must be more to them, but their limitations become more and more clear. Punditt Maharaj exemplified this extraordinary ability to transcend all...
Being taught by a Silent Sufi Master, who does not discuss Sufi practice has definite advantages. I would regularly go with Pundit to a Christian graveyard in Hove, where, he said, he does a lot of spiritual work. After a while, he instructed me to visit this...
Spiritual experiences, such as states of ecstasy and bliss are tricky. If I was experiencing them, I was certainly never allowed to look like it. None of this swaying, waving hands in the air, or all things people do to make it look like they are in a trance....