True hidden meanings

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

I recently received the following questions via private correspondence: I want to ask you some detailed questions about the Trumps & the hebrew letters if you don’t mind? Do the hebrew letters play any part in Tarot readings? Ok for example the Chariot is assigned Cheth/Fence well we know that a fence can keep people/things […]

The problem with occultists and a reminder

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Over on LAShTAL.com, a discussion thread has been started by a fellow calling himself/herself “PropriaDeus93” asking “what Thelema says about animals or what happens to them in death”. The following bizarre response was received: My condolences for the loss of your feline companion. He/she will be with you always, so long as you are bound […]

The occultist’s worship of gaps

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

John Crow has just posted an interesting new entry on his blog, to which I responded with the following comment to one of his points, reproduced here for reference. John Crow wrote: Empiricism? As Crowley points out, our senses are very limited and in many cases, we only know of phenomenon by the results or […]

Go-go-Godel! (or What I did on my hols)

Friday, April 25th, 2008

In the old days, occultists with a high school education and a penchant for misunderstanding and misapplying science would wax lyrical about quantum mechanics. It offered – for those not willing or able to take the time to learn anything about it – an alluring prospect of “probability waves” which gave the occultist the delusion […]