Yesterday, I listened T. Thorn Coyle's Elemental Castings podcast interview with Ellen Francik of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn.  Part of the discussion included the process of elemental purification.  You spend a month on each element.  She described it as taking yourself apart and putting yourself back together.  She described the ( Read more... )

Unkindness and murders:In Cervantes' "Don Quixote", the hero says that Arthur was not killed at all, but was turned into a raven. Arthur is also sometimes associated with the cult of Mithras, which was popular with the Roman legions. The cult organisation was based upon seven ranks that a worshipper could pass through, and the first of these was ( Read more... )