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 [...]

M.H. Benders wrote: I’ve read a good deal of the essay [The Small Cards of the Tarot - EH] last night. It’s pretty good, exact and precise. There is one thing that suddenly caught my attention and which I have been pondering over. Why is it that the fire & water trumps From your comments [...]

I have published some rough notes on the Planets in the resources section of the site, including description, correspondences and commentaries.

As the Sun enters the cadent decan of Capricorn, the winter solstice is approximately twenty days behind us, and the days are slowly beginning to lengthen. Because of seasonal delay – the fact that the ground gives off more heat than it absorbs for a period after the shortest day – the coldest day of [...]

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 [...]

“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 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”, [...]