The Magical Witch (Gleamings from the Golden Dawn)

Pirate Kitty would like some rum cooked shrimp for his dinner. Hi everyone! Today be September 19, and that means that it be Internation...

Here is a comment that I made on another blog that I want to expand on: By the extreme rule of secrecy, everything is oath-bound and nothi...

 Vault of the Adept color study Venus Wall 2000 MDE. Some of my readers may be curious about how I realized that the Golden Dawn color...

S.R. just posted an appeal for peace in the Golden Dawn community. Having experienced the Denver Witch War of the 80s and having been an ...

Would you like an antacid with your Mathers' Last Secret book? When Mathers' Last Secret came out, one of my friends joked that...

One of the leaps of faith that occasionally disturbs me is the level of confidence that people place on the Cipher Manuscript. And this incl...

King Over the Water pontential cover. Talking to a Soror from my lodge about the post about Impressionism and the Golden Dawn color scal...

King Over the Water by Nick Farrell. The Book of the Concourse of the Watchtowers by Sandra Tabatha Cicero. The other day, I was rem...

Polygraphiae. Joannes Trithemius (born Johann Heidenberg, 1 February 1462---13 December 1516) was an abbot. During his time as abbot of ...

Page from Polygraphia bearing the GD Cipher. The student at this point of the discussion about the Cipher Manuscript needs to know a few...

Ok, I think that I am done with the numerous disclosure statements that I have had to issue to make everyone happy---which all basically say...

As I noted in yesterday's disclosure update, one of the things that we have learned this past year is that European Third Order cut cont...

JC made a comment about expecting this sets of posts (Adopt a Secret Chief) to be about adopting cats; and I so understand why they would ex...

There are days that I can't help thinking about what my ancestors (both physical and spiritual) would think of my current activities. To...

The Secret Chiefs are not amused There are some things that one does not do on the blogosphere and the forums if one does not want to be ...

The following is from the (London) 1888 Ordinances of the First Order of the Golden Dawn in the Outer (GH Fraters Nom Omnis Moriar (W.W. Wes...

Last week, I was reading a discussion about the unpublished Golden Dawn material. Or rather lack of new stuff. And I have a few thoughts abo...

Were Samuel Macgregor Mathers and William Wynn Westcott actually initiates of the Hermetic Golden Dawn? At first glance, this question seems...

So I finally finished reviewing all the Enochian Chess books in my library. I saved my favorite one for last; it is just too bad that it is ...