Can we ever truly explain the Philosopher’s Stone? Is it just a myth, some fantastic, legendary artefact beloved of the alchemists of history, or is it something real? Our story begins with the Caliph of Bagdad in AD 830, who was passing through the ancient Islamic city of Harran, Mesopotamia. Here, whilst being received by […]
Spellworking: The Power of the Moon Goddess
Here is another sneak preview of my forthcoming book, Astro Magic (How to Use the Magical Moon and Lucky Jupiter to Manifest Your Dreams), due to be published in the Autumn of 2022. Once upon a time, every society had their Moon Goddess, or mythical Earth Mother. In Greek Myth, the original Mother Nature was […]
Moon Magic – How To Use the Lunar High or Lunar Low
AstroMagic (How to Use the Magical Moon and Lucky Jupiter to Manifest Your Dreams) is the title of my forthcoming book (due Autumn 2022), but you can start right now with a very simple Moon Magic technique. This will determine your Lunar High or Lunar Low – just look for when the moon occupies your […]
Real Magic vs The Law of Attraction – Rhonda Byrne’s Birth Chart
If you want to perform Real Magic (which starts with the correct attitude) then study this in-depth article by my guest blogger, the US astrologer/magician Bob Makransky: One of my pet peeves about New Agers is their naive reliance on grossly oversimplified homilies like the famous Law of Attraction (“Ask – Believe -Receive”) to get […]
Who were the Druids? The Mistletoe and the Secret Tradition
Who were the Druids? Well, when Roman armies set about the conquest of Iron Age Britain in AD 43, they later attacked Anglesey under the command of Suetonius Paullinus. The Romans’ Celtic enemies appeared at the shore, among them women in black with torches aflame, resembling mythical Furies. Suetonius – ultimately victorious – took […]
The Secret Frankenstein – Was Mary Shelley an Alchemist?
‘It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical …’ Mary Shelley – Frankenstein THE night sky is dismal, […]
The Knights Templar – Separating Fact from Fiction
The Knights Templar are those medieval warrior monks, that infamous ‘militia of Christ’ of popular imagination. And yet, they were the subject of speculative fantasy long before the more recent spate of books connecting them to secret knowledge about Jesus, or the Freemasons, or the alleged Lost Treasure of Jerusalem. On this latter, the Knights […]
The Rosicrucians and the Priory of Sion – Who Were They?
Just who were the original Rosicrucians? And what about the Priory of Sion? Apart from being so-called Secret Societies (which can mean just about anything) just who were they? And what ‘secrets’ (if any) were they withholding from the world? Isn’t it time to uncover the truth? In this article I will be laying bare […]
What is the Tarot – Fortune Telling or Divining Your Spiritual Path?
Just what is the Tarot? Is it some vestige of the Occult that should have died out – a bogus type of fortune telling? If so, how do we account for its popularity among serious students of magic and psychology? Could it be more like a sublime archetypal system of Divination in pictorial form? A […]
Hypnosis and the Power of the Mind – A brief history
Someone is invited on to the stage, where they are asked to sit down on a chair which awaits. The host who has summoned them snaps their fingers at one point and, for comic effect, declares them unable to leave their seat. The audience roars with laughter as the unfortunate guinea pig cannot remove the […]
