Becoming an adept in the black arts is something that takes time and patience. You just can’t wake up one morning and decide to become a successful black magician and then expect to have mastered the arts by setting sun. It doesn’t work that way. The Power or Force that we associate with magick is…
DetailsFolklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The academic and…
DetailsThe Sermon to the Hypocrite Do Thy Will l Magickal currents pass as the Great Wheel swings endlessly to and fro driven by words of power whose origin is inestimable. Spare was a watcher on the threshold. AGAPE of the Christos had spent its force. It laid upon the land as a shroud when once it had been…
DetailsSigils: The means used and the way it happens are simple, the inverse of scientific. I use a formula, created by instinctive guess and *arbitrarily* formed, not evolved by hypothesis and experiment. The law of sorcery is its own law, using sympathetic symbols. – Austin Osman Spare If you get nothing more from this book than…
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A natural questions that arises when one attempts to map the ideas and philosophies of the Qabalah is to what degree the Qabalah is something specifically Jewish. The Qabalah was developed in Europe and has its roots in the Hellenistic sphere of thought. The pre Qabalistic thoughts arose in the same environment as gnosticism and…
DetailsASTROLOGIA. This word is occasionally employed by the best Latin writers (e.g. Cic. de Divin. II.42) to denote astronomy in general, and indeed is found in that sense more frequently than astronomia, which is of rare occurrence. In the present article, however, we confine ourselves to what is strictly termed judicial astrology, and treat of…
DetailsAleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley (October 12, 1875 – December 1, 1947), was an English occultist, writer, mountaineer, poet, spy and yogi.1 He was an influential member of several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn, the A.A., and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.),2and is best known today for his occult writings, especially The Book of…
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Thomas Karlsson Dragon Rouge often describes itself as an esoteric order exploring esoteric knowledge. What then is esoterism and how is it connected to the left hand path? Antoine Faivre, one of the leading scholars on occult research and esoterism, writes in his book Esoterism that esoterism is not an area like art, philosophy or…
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At one point during the compelling documentary, “As The Palace Burns”, Lamb Of God’s vocalist, Randy Blythe reveals that the band’s original idea about making the film was to focus on the lives of the fans and the importance of heavy music for them. At the same time he laments that, because of the mind-boggling…
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The term Clairvoyance (from 17th century French with clair meaning “clear” and voyance meaning “vision”) is used to refer to the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses,12 a form of extrasensory perception. A person said to have the ability of clairvoyance…
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A ghost has been defined as the disembodied spirit or soul of a deceased person, although in popular usage the term refers only to the apparition of such a person. Often described as insubstantial and partly transparent, ghosts are reported to haunt particular locations or people that they were associated with in life or at…
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“Alive!” changed everything for America’s favorite masked band, KISS. In fact, this mega-successful double live album, provided the quartet a definitive god-like status as part of the American Hard Rock scene. Furthermore, it paved the way for their subsequent iconic recordings, “Destroyer”, “Rock And Roll Over” and “Love Gun”. The album’s cover sleeve featured a…
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To name the best albums of the year has not been easy, and to rank them to top 20 was even harder. After a year of pounding our eardrums with devastating metal, it should be safe to say that metal in 2013 is richer, more creative and ever more eclectic. 20 Rob Zombie – Venomous…
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Set was one of the earliest Egyptian deities, a god of the night identified with the northern stars. In the earliest ages of Egypt this Prince of Darkness was well regarded. One persistant token of this regard is the Tcham scepter, having the stylized head and tail of Set. The Tcham scepter is frequently found…
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SACRIFICIUM. Sacrifices or offerings formed the chief part of the worship of the ancients. They were partly signs of gratitude, partly a means of propitiating the gods, and partly p999also intended to induce the deity to bestow some favour upon the sacrificer, or upon those on whose behalf the sacrifice was offered. Sacrifices in a…
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When creating metal album art it is assumed artist will use more black/red than light red/beige. All the darkness, blood and monsters are known as the conventions of metal but taking a closer look to the colour palettes of famous metal albums gives a slight different result. I took some classic metal albums from Black…
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The Runes are not merely alphabetical symbols, used in ancient Germanic alphabets. The history of the Runes stretches back quite a distance and while it is true that the symbols themselves likely find their origin in many cultural sources, the inner essence of the Runes is something truly arcane and Otherworldly. The first hint to the…
DetailsThe 14th century was an era of catastrophes. Some of them man-made, such as the Hundred Years’ War, the Avignon Papacy, and the Great Schism. These were caused by human beings, and we shall consider them a bit later. There were two more or less natural disasters either of which one would think would have…
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There are many parts of the soul in Nordic Mythology. The lyke [lik ON, lic(h) OE] is the physical body itself. The hyde [hamron] is the quasi-physical part of the soul which gives shape and form tothe lyke. It can be formed and mutated by human will and what happens to the hyde happens to…
DetailsSince we can remember serial killers have been a popular topic in today’s world, dating back all the way to the 1400’s. A simple definition for a serial killer is person who murders usually three or more people with a “cooling off” period between each murder and whose main intention for killing is mainly for…
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