Magic is a Western philosophy of great depth that incorporates a practical approach to self-realisation that is workable in everyday life. Whilst it has misty ancestral links to the ancient world, and particularly Egypt, it is more firmly rooted in Alchemy, Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, and other similar hermetic disciplines. Magic has been described as the mysticism [...]
In Magick the process of transforming INRI into LVX is very important. Magick is the ability to manipulate and control the Astral Light to affect change in accordance with Will. The INRI to LVX formula describes the process of the elements, arising from spirit, and via a purification process, being brought into harmony to once [...]
The pentagram is one symbol heavily associated with magick and wicca. It is a very ancient symbol with the first known drawings of a pentagram dating from 3500BC at Ur in Ancient Mesopotamia. The Hebrew people considered it to be a symbol for the truth and representative of the Pentateuch (the first 5 books of [...]
The use of elemental pentagrams in ritual works on the three laws of suggestion, sympathy, and analogy. When inscribing an elemental pentagram in a particular manner within a ritual or ceremony, the magickian is invoking, within her mind, a formula that draws on the relationships and correspondences between the magickal elements. The various elemental pentagrams [...]
The Prima Materia or First Matter, called Hyle by the Greeks, is the astral light. It is from the Prima Materia that the four alchemical elements (Earth, Air, Fire and Water) are divided. This first matter has been described in various ways. It has been described as water, but not in the sense of the [...]
The magickal world is divided into four elements or basic principles: air, earth, fire, and water. These elements are a basic component of magickal symbolism used in ritual and magickal practices. The magical elements are also of some importance in astrology and tarot. As the nature of magick is about using natural powers, symbols, and [...]
Frater Levavi Oculos, a member of the Golden Dawn wrote that the “Will is the grand agent of all Occult Work; its rule is all potent over the nervous system. By Will the fleeting vision is fixed upon the treacherous waves of the Astral Light, but, as it is said, you cannot pursue the Path [...]
In the late 16th century, Dr. John Dee along with his seer, Edward Kelley, recorded an angelic language that has since become known as Enochian. Dee wrote extensively about the language, offering translations of some texts. The most well-known facet of Enochian are the 48 “calls”, commonly known as the Enochian Keys. Dee believed that [...]
“Nothing is true; everything is permitted.” Popular lore has it that the 11th century ascetic Islamic fundamentalist Hassan ibn Sabbah, who purportedly was a mystic and mastermind of an assassin squad, said it right before he bit the dust at age 90 years. The phrase, as it stands as a Chaos Magick slogan, was actually [...]
In contemporary Western Occultism, the Northern quarter represents the womb and tomb, the dark moon, night, winter, earth, and form and potentiality. Whereas the Southern quarter is associated with assertiveness and action, the Northern quarter is associated with the vehicles of action: the body and will. In it is the will and potential to exist. [...]
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