I will be starting an online occult study group, something that can function and grow regardless of the location of its members. For now it will focus on the basics and the beginning aspects of magick in thelema, the A.'.A.'. and the OTO. As there is quite a bit of versatility in that designation we will likely branch out into things like ( Read more... )

another one of those nights when you're glued to the computer like a moth frozen in a pure, simple electric ecstasy against the bars of a night lamp. More than a distraction the internet serves as something for your eyes and hands to do while you contemplate the vast night. Who was that girl you met at the bar, the one that smelled like raspberries ( Read more... )

"That stage is rotten. The foundation is equally social injustice and moral falsity. The background is equally bad. The scene is set for an obscene farce. The work of this school is at last beginning to tell. A constantly increasing percent...age of Americans are beginning to understand that the vague horror which haunted them is the miasma of ( Read more... )

    for Sunday a little bit of the Beast. But first, some thoughts on Christianity when it first originated. What do you think it meant to the people of the time, to worship an enemy of the state, executed in the manner that thieves were, who purported to preach a doctrine that was centered on man rather than the Gods? It was the ultimate in ( Read more... )

To ill futures
lost and gained
friends that always feel the same
the rewound noun of time
the ill torn gain
that penetrated to the heart of it all
we sensed the dimension
the breadth of space
dug tunnels that revealed it
created a pace for ourselves
the spinning wheel that ebbs and flows
and knows
the glory of it all
we are here
we are here
and we see those that ( Read more... )

Dear Earnest Reader,

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

The "L" in Lateralus is represestative of lamed, the balance. By combining a force with its opposite, balancing it against it we create the movement of force, as with the union of a man and woman, the war that results from opposing viewpoints, and our conscious, architectural ( Read more... )

My take on when occultists hold conventions, especially "inter-traditional" conventions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKXwj7ZrHIc

Not sure why, but when I wrote the post script for that last piece on my motto I heard Silky Johnsan's voice from Dave Chappelle's skit "Player Hater's Ball" saying it. Watch it. It's funny. Now excuse me, I'm gonna go take my throne as a shoe in for Player Hater of the Year.

Dear Earnest Reader,

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

When I orginally took the oath of a probationer in the A.'.A.'. a few years ago I took the motto "Lateralus Ad Baculum" or "L.A.B." for short. For those who know a little about the work of the A.'.A.'. the task of the probationer is to gain "a scientific knowledge of the nature ( Read more... )

    
Dear Earnest Reader,
      I don't know why more people don't study witchcraft and the occult, if only as a passing interest. I mean the world is very big, and it is full of many things you may never get to see unless you go looking. And I can't say for sure if YOU will find anything if you do. ( The odds, as they appear to me, are actually in ( Read more... )