Personal reflections on the Hermetic Tradition
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Tempus Fugit
Read more: Tempus FugitSomething like nine months has passed since my last update and I had an enquiry wondering if all was well…
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C. S. Lewis: The Planets
Read more: C. S. Lewis: The PlanetsA few posts back I briefly reviewed The Discarded Image by C.S. Lewis. As a world-class scholar of medieval literature…
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A History of the Tarot
Read more: A History of the TarotIn November of 2018 I gave a talk at the Bristol Theosophical Society on the History of the Tarot. I…
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Dion Fortune / V.M.Steele
Read more: Dion Fortune / V.M.SteeleOver the years I have given the literary output of Dion Fortune a goodly share of my time. I have…
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HGA
Read more: HGAI have found my Holy Guardian Angel to be sly and subtle. As I cannot be instructed in what I…
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The Discarded Image
Read more: The Discarded ImageIt happens that occultists are rarely good historians. Often they are dreadful historians. They receive an occult tradition like an…
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The Extended Tree
Read more: The Extended TreeMost students of the Hermetic Kabbalah will know (sometimes obsessively) about the Golden Dawn and various splinter offshoots that carried…
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Tree of Life (“Ilanot”) Database
Read more: Tree of Life (“Ilanot”) DatabaseMy friend Sally Annett has been kind enough to point me at this database of Kabbalistic diagrams, many of which…
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Paradise Lost/Gustave Dore
Read more: Paradise Lost/Gustave DoreI have spent months reading Paradise Lost, and because I tend to deep-dive into topics, I have been reading around…
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Sola Busca Tarot
Read more: Sola Busca TarotI was browsing Amazon and saw that Lo Scarabo had published a limited-edition print of the Sola Busca Tarot deck.…
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Basilique Saint-Epvre de Nancy
Read more: Basilique Saint-Epvre de NancyIt is common for a tympanum to show a throned figure (usually the Risen Jesus as divine king, sometimes God…
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Twin Peaks/Paradise Lost
Read more: Twin Peaks/Paradise LostI have been studying Milton’s Paradise Lost while watching Season 3 of Twin Peaks (and subsequently re-watching Season 2). Like…