Announcing the 2014 Diotima Prize Selection Committee
I am pleased to announce the members of the 2014 Diotima Prize Selection Committee: Rev. Dr. Bonnie Dlott, Christina Gargiullo, Christine Hoff Kraemer PhD, and Hayden Reynolds, PhD. Their bios can be found here. Along with myself as chair, they…
My father is the intrinsic awareness…
My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra. My mother is the ultimate sphere, Samantabhadri. My lineage is the union of intrinsic awareness and ultimate sphere. My name is the glorious Lotus-Born [Padmasambhava]. My country is the unborn ultimate sphere. I…
the Star Ruby, with a GD hack
Never being one to leave well enough alone, when I learned the Star Ruby some thirty years ago, I noted some variations in it from standard GD procedure. Mainly, dropping the Godforms at the quarters and doing them at the…
Epiphanies in Iamblichus
Happy Wednesday! Some discussion on the sundry grades of Epiphanies on the OSOGD site: When we successfully invoke, the Being who we call comes. Sometimes it is very internal, sometimes we go the distance and work for an very dual…
Golem: a Pagan view of Corporations
My latest post on The Wild Hunt— Have you heard about the GM ignition switch recall? It was a long-standing problem that resulted in a number of deaths but ignored by the executure. Rightly, many are horrified but few have…
The Book of the Great Queen
Delightfully, I get to tout Concrescent Press’ latest project: The Book of the Great Queen by Morpheus Ravenna She is kicking off a Indogogo Campaign to fund her writing, book creation and art for the book. Come join us and…
Taking Place…at The WIld Hunt.
In case you did not see it, my latest post ran Saturday May 24th on The Wild Hunt. It was a exploration of how we Pagans relate to sacred locations. Here after I will have a column on the 4th…
Building the Priesthood of Hermes
Part of the on-going project of rebuilding the Cults of the Many Gods is to re-establish their priesthoods. Since all those lineages were destroyed so many years ago,the only choice before us is to rebuild. Those of us who have…
Nine Refuges
I take Refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Shangha I take Refuge in the Guru, the Deva, and the Dakini-Daka I take Refuge in Shunyata, Tathagatagharba, and Magic itself This refuge formula is suitable for contemporary magic-users, and…
The Place of the Mage in Cosmos
Given that the main tap-root of the Golden Dawn is in Neoplatonic theurgy, we can start there to ask questions about the place and nature of the individual soul, and especially that of the mage, in the architecture of the…