Hermetic Self-initiation Ritual

by João Pedro Feliciano Required materials -Water (with salt in it) -Bread and wine -Censer (incense: frankincense) -White candle or oil lamp (not red) -Flask of holy oil -White robe Continue reading →

Interrogation in Ice and Silver

by Todd Jackson   Best read over champagne.     .   Not Delphi, that survives, Where again, furtively, wild flowers are laid on white stones, But here, round the Continue reading →

Stephen Anthony Orzel & The Theurgy of the Numbers One Through Ten

Here is the math teacher we wish we’d gotten back in school. Stephen Anthony Orzel, founder and guide of Via Mathesis, takes us through a contemplation of the numbers one Continue reading →

Throwing the Phaedo 2: The Case Against Nietzsche

by Todd Jackson In the first part of this essay, I wrote that the problem the Phaedo presented me was that the liberation it describes appears – at a naïve, Continue reading →

The 7 Steles: Daily Hermetic Invocations

by João Pedro Feliciano Sunday I invoke Thee, lord, author of all creation, who spreadest Thy wings over the whole world, Thou, the unapproachable and immeasurable who breathest into every Continue reading →

Poetry and the Gods by H. P. Lovecraft

A damp gloomy evening in April it was, just after the close of the Great War, when Marcia found herself alone with strange thoughts and wishes, unheard-of yearnings which floated Continue reading →

On Daimones

by Zach McVay As with the other organic religious traditions of the world (that is, religions that arose naturally, rather than from the effort of an historical founder-figure), the Olympianist Continue reading →

A Long Hour With Plotinus: Four MP3s

Below, thanks to a tip from Damian Chavez, are four mp3s introducing Plotinus from Peter Adamson, Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at King’s College London. These have the virtue Continue reading →

Hermetism

By J. Pedro Feliciano Hermetism exerted a remarkable influence on western Esotericism, well beyond Antiquity, into the Renaissance and the modern era. Hermes Trismegistus became a role model for magicians, Continue reading →

Beyond “Entarte Kunst!”: Modernism and the Essence of Soul

by Todd Jackson   Here begins the struggle to drag a bunch of you pagans – you know who you are – into just the 20th Century. I will accept Continue reading →