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...

Today on Facebook, I was reminded of one of my favorite bugaboos. It came in the form of a conversation. The conversation started out with...

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...

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...

This Viper needs to be taken to the curb. Something that every working magician will eventually have to wrestle with is the question: Wh...

Sometimes, Pat Zalewski cracks me up. Earlier today, or yesterday (depending upon how quickly I type), Pat Zalewski said: "Heck we ca...

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...

If you noticed the number of posts I made today, all concerning the oath of obligation, you may wonder why I am obsessed today with this par...

Here are two quotes by Arthur Goldwag about secret societies (one that I used in my review of his latest book Cults, Conspiracies and Secret...

One of the things that I have noticed over the years is that people gauge the overall condition (state) of Golden Dawn from a very limited p...

I have been thinking a lot about secrecy lately. More than I normally do. I tend to think about secrecy a couple of times a week. It is hard...

Today when downloading and installing the emergency security patch for Internet Explorer 7, I started to think about security and secrecy in...

And while we are considering terms that people assign different meanings to, and then forget that others are using other meanings for the sa...

Many people believe in the abilities of Sylvia Browne, world famous psychic medium, and treat her every word as gospel. But does she know th...