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The Reënchantment Project
Copyright 2012 () Freeman Presson, all rights reserved I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the...
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Review of The Everyday Psychic
Review copyright 2013() Freeman Presson, all rights reserved Cover of The Everyday Psychic This new Weiser title is a well-made paperback in the familiar 6″x9″ 240-page format. Adrian Morgan is...
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Review of Dramatic Ritual (Best of the Equinox, Volume II)
“… it is no secret that the falling away of all nations from religion… is due to the fact that the fire no longer burns in the sacred lamp.” – Aleister Crowley Review copyright 2013 () Freeman...
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Best-Loved Books
Review copyright 2013() Freeman Presson, all rights reserved While I’m waiting to finish something else from my to-be-reviewed pile, I thought I would emulate Polyphanes and write about the contents of...
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Astrobabble, bad and good
copyright 2013() Freeman Presson, all rights reserved My favorite piece of egregious astrobabble, of course, is from Hair: When the moon is in the Seventh House, And Jupiter aligns with Mars; Then...
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Review of The Qabalah Workbook for Magicians
Review copyright 2013() Freeman Presson, all rights reserved The Qabalah Workbook for Magicians aims to be a follow-on to Lon Milo DuQuette’s The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford, serving as...
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Sigils, History, etc.
In my exploration of magic, I did some things backwards. Actually, by some standards I’m doing the whole thing from the middle to the beginning and back out again. Chaos Magic, and in particular, the...
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I Dream of Tarot: Three Reviews
Review copyright 2013() Freeman Presson, all rights reserved It seems there are always more turns, climbs, and switchbacks on the initiatory path. I’ve recently read and enjoyed two books on Tarot. One...
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Review of _The Best of the Equinox III: Sex Magick_
Review copyright 2013() Freeman Presson, all rights reserved Cover ArtMaestro Lon Milo DuQuette has again made selections of articles from Crowley’s Equinox, with a fascinating Introduction. The...
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Review of The Witches’ Almanac #33 is up…
…on Spiral Nature! Yes, I have joined Psyche’s review team. I will still be doing reviews and other posts here, but I’m thrilled with the new venue as well.
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Amazon drops Picatrix price!
OK, this is amazing. I HAPPILY paid almost 3x this price when it came out. The Complete Picatrix: The Occult Classic Of Astrological Magic Liber Atratus Edition
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One more Stonehenge clue
copyright 2013() Freeman Presson, all rights reserved Stonehenge has probably pulled ahead of Atlantis in the race to inspire the most speculation. The latest article, complete with audio files,...
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Detailed Response to @paulhb
I have been doing a pretty good job at staying out of the kinds of intramural conflicts that Magicians and Pagans get up to fairly frequently. This was not always the case; I had to learn this lesson...
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Review of A Little World Made Cunningly
Review copyright 2014() Freeman Presson, all rights reserved I have studied just enough Gnosticism, early Church history, and Mathematics1 to have a keen appreciation of what Scott D. Finch is doing in...
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Review of Stones of the Seven Rays
I reviewed Stones of the Seven Rays: The Science of the Seven Facets of the Soul on Spiral Nature! Also recently bought: the deeply annotated edition of the Timaeus: Plato’s Cosmology: The Timaeus of...
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Notice of Paganism 101
Review copyright 2014() Freeman Presson, all rights reserved I see that Paganism 101: An Introduction to Paganism by 101 Pagans just went up on Amazon. Apparently, this book is going to do rather well....
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Review of Chemical Serpents
My review of Anton Channing’s Chemical Serpents – Silver Edition is up on Spiralnature! I enjoyed the book, as you can see, and I especially like that once the review was posted, I didn’t find “one...
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Review of The Theban Oracle
My review of The Theban Oracle is up on SpiralNature! I tracked down the first printed mention of the Theban alphabet for your viewing pleasure. This is p. 597 of the 1613 Zetzner edition of...
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Pens for Talismanic drawing?
I’ve been using Pilot V5s (like these: Pilot Precise V5 Stick Rolling Ball Pens) because Poke Runyon recommended them, now I see these ultra-fine pens (Sakura 50075 16-Piece Pigma Micron 05 Assorted...
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New review: The High Magic of Talismans and Amulets
My review of Claude Lecouteux’s The High Magic of Talismans and Amulets: Tradition and Craft is up on Spiral Nature. “[T]he Faustian current which arose in early modern magick didn’t just appear...
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