So the other Saturday I got into a random conversation about a Very British Tarot (VBT) with darius-of-lancs the criteria seemed to evolve out of the conversation naturally, and while never quite pinned down seemed to be "Epic people of the commonwealth, sort of in the last 100 yearsish, some exceptions". We pinned down most of the Majors and at lunch in the ( Read more... )

I always find this situation a little sad.

I've just been reading June Singer's Seeing Through the Visible World: Jung, Gnosis, and Chaos and marvelling at the way she seems to tie it all together, being as she retrained as a psychologist in her 40s I think and wrote the book in her 70s ( Read more... )

Well the other day I bumped into this thread at random: Location of Golden Dawn's Horus Temple in Bradford, in which someone asks where it is, and someone else produces one of the best "Just google it" answers ever seen.

So I stuck the query into Google, this lead to this page The Desecrated Temple of Horus of the Golden Dawn in Bradford, which ( Read more... )

... but the ancients spake of a divine vision to be attained while we are yet in the body. The religion which does not cry out: "I am to-day verifiable as that water wets or that fire burns. Test me that ye can become as gods." Mistrust it. Its messengers are prophets of the darkness.

From A.E.'s Candle of Vision, chapter 4 - Meditations ( Read more... )

Shuzan, a Buddhist monk of the tenth century, once held up a bamboo stick before his disciples. "Call this a stick," he bellowed, "and you assert; call this not a stick, and you negate. Now, do not assert or negate, what would you call this stick? Speak! Speak!" From out the ranks, a young monk ventured forth, grabbed the bamboo, and, breaking it ( Read more... )

( Recent notes from a talk on The Book of the Law )

So next Monday (26th January) I'll be giving a talk on Thelema and Book of the Law (manuscript, version with revisions, one page summary version: Liber Oz) at Pagan Society. Its an epic philosophy of freedom and mystic potential.

If your at all interested feel free to let me know and drop by.

Love is the law. Love under will.