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 […]
What Is The Philosopher’s Stone? An Alchemical Fable
Does anyone know what the Philosopher’s Stone is? Not even the alchemists would reveal its secret. Morienus once wrote: ‘This thing is extracted from you; you are its mineral … if you recognise this the love and approbation of the stone will grow within you.’ Notice how Morienus doesn’t actually tell us what the stone […]
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 […]
What is Alchemy, Part Three – The Hermetic Code
‘The works of the Mythographers and inspired poets are permeated with the … language of Ancient Mystic Theosophy. Homer, Hesiod, Orpheus, Virgil, Ovid, teach us mystic myths. Empedocles, Pythagoras, Democritos, Heraclitos, Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, Proclus, Plotinus, and many more, teach a veiled Theosophy.’¹ In part two of this series we looked at the Alchemical axiom […]
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 […]
Positive Thinking and Ancient Magic – How to Overcome Your Fate!
(This is an excerpt from my book You and the Conscious Universe: Science, Spirit and the New Positive Thinking, published by Perrault and available on Amazon.) Positive Thinking is as old as the hills – it just looked a little different in days of yore. Itis simply a modern type of ancient magic. Greek philosophers […]
