The Magical Witch (Gleamings from the Golden Dawn)

Awhile back, one of my friends joked that our experience with dealing with dubious occult leaders was preparation and practice for living in...

One of the things that amuses me is the occasional outpouring of "secrets must be kept" when someone dares to publish something th...

The Secret Chiefs have awesome super-powers. Honest, Mathers said so. I would be amiss in my duties as a wise-cracking Golden Dawn comme...

It took forever for this book to reach print. [File this post under: Morgan's mind is that of a lunatic without a real sense of dire...

Cover for Commentaries on the Golden Dawn Flying Rolls by the GD Community. I can't wait to talk about this book. Yes, I know someth...

Xander Harris reveals the real reason to keep a secret. "The more people who the secret, the more it cheapens it for the rest of us...

Reading the comment section of another blog, I realized that I did not make a certain point clear in my last blog post. (I was bored, and st...

One of the periodic accusations that one hears about the secret societies is that the whole system is a money making system for a few people...

The following is a biased conclusion drawn from a treasury report of the Keystone Lodge (no. 639) presented in 1870 and used in Ronayne'...

Besides the two extremes of the secrecy spectrum  and the numerous points between the two extremes, there is also a point that is completely...

On the exact opposite side of the secrecy spectrum from the use of absolute and total secrecy is the complete absence of secrecy. This is c...

One of the ways to view the entire concept of secrecy is to look at as a spectrum. On one end, we have the most extreme view of secrecy, w...

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...

One of the traditions that the BIORC holds to, enforced by our secrecy oath, is that only the individual member themselves have the right to...

Lately, I have been kicking around rewriting the oath of obligation that my lodge uses in our Neophyte (0=0) initiation. Here are the chan...

In passing, someone asked me what the other reasons were for me not being concerned about HOGD/A&O claims. Part of my reply was that it ...

One of the things that I occasionally have to remind myself is that I am not typical of the majority of the Golden Dawn community. The way t...

Comfort is the only thing that counts when kitty goes to buy books. Being involved in the occult book writing business, I run across all...

This post is part of the Tarot Blog Hop/Blog Round Robin for Candlemas 2012. Therefore, some of you just got done reading Michael Banuelos...

Last night, I was working with *something* and I found myself in the position where I started to debate whether it was an occult blind or si...