I’ve uploaded a new essay entitled “Fundamentals of Thelemic Practice”. It is available in HTML format and in PDF format. HTML format will be available presently. It’s also available from lulu.com in printed form or as a free PDF download.

I’ve published a new essay today examining the solar aspects of Thelema, its connections with sun-worship, and a discussion of natural religious practices conducive to success in its system, including an identification of the Khabs with the physical Sun. The HTML version and the PDF are available from this web site, and a printed copy [...]

The Small Cards of the Tarot is now available on this web site in HTML format.

I’ve today published The Small Cards of the Tarot, an extended essay analysing the small cards of the Tarot in terms of the framework presented in A Qabalistic Framework (that essay being included in the print version), and in terms of their astrological and elemental attributions. It is available from lulu in a 116 page [...]

(This essay is also available in printed form) Will is, clearly, the fundamental concept of Thelema. It is what the Greek word Θελημα literally means, and it figures in all three of the core statements of Thelemic conduct: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. (AL I, 40) So with thy [...]

In his introduction to the Book of the Law, Crowley writes: Every event is a uniting of some one monad with one of the experiences possible to it. “Every man and every woman is a star,” that is, an aggregate of such experiences, constantly changing with each fresh event, which affects him or her either [...]

“Divination”, according to American Heritage, is “the art or act of foretelling future events or revealing occult knowledge by means of augury or an alleged supernatural agency.” Almost all current and ancient systems of magick stress the importance of divination, and rightly so. This essay will examine the theories on which divination does — or [...]

The Qabalistic Cross (QC) is a simple ritual with two ends in mind: To expand the magician’s sphere of consciousness; and To bring down the divine light. We shall examine what both of these mean below. Much has already been written about the QC, so we will not reinvent the wheel here. We shall outline [...]

The Negative Veils The Tree of Life exists within the negative veils, so called because they necessarily hide whatever is behind them, being not in existence. The outer veil is Ain, “nothing”, and represents nothing in its most positive form. Ain is the absence even of space. The next inner veil, Ain Soph, is “limitless”, [...]

AL I, 8 is the first verse of many we come to in the Book of the Law that frankly looks odd. “Every man and every woman is a star” we can grasp. “Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue!” is obscure, but parses without much difficulty. But “The Khabs is [...]