Mapping the Great Circle – My Threefold Way of Western Esotericism
How does my personal spirituality and esoteric practice align with Dion Fortune’s conception of the Threefold Way of the Western Mystery Tradition?
Month: February 2017
“Follow the custom of the country…”: Reflections of a Nightwalking Occultist
The first time I left my Golden Dawn temple to take the train back to New York City, I had just been initiated into the Neophyte Grade of the Order. It was a powerful spiritual experience. Though the details of the ceremony are easily available in this day and age, only a few Google searches …
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Slaves to the Elements: Notes on Galatians 4
For many orthodox Christians, the Bible is, of course, the largest hurdle to the idea of accepting occult practices and esoteric theories. I spent a long time reconciling my interest in the occult with my understanding of the Bible, only coming to a holistic view of Scripture and occultism in recent years. In this short post, I …
The Light Invisible – Towards a Manifesto of the Church Magical
The Light Invisible is a blog that will touch on diverse traditions of Christian Esotericism — traditional Rosicrucianism, Christian mysticism, Christian Hermeticism and Cabala, European alchemy, Renaissance magic, the Golden Dawn tradition, the legends of the Holy Grail, and folk magical traditions. The lens through which I will reflect on these esoteric traditions is primarily …
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On the Papal World-Tree, or, An Esoteric Meditation on the Papacy
Originally posted as a part of my column, The Blooming Staff, on the Agora, the group blog of the Patheos Pagan Channel. — Next Sunday, a new show premieres on HBO — “The Young Pope.” The show stars Jude Law as an ultraconservative Archbishop of New York who is elected to the Papacy, and who …
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Prisca Theologia, Pansophy, and Integral Truth – Some Notes on Universal Reformation
Originally posted as a part of my column, The Blooming Staff, on the Agora, the group blog of the Patheos Pagan Channel. — 1. In 1947, Protestant theologian Karl Barth introduced the phrase Ecclesia semper reformanda est — “the church is always to be reformed.” Barth used the phrase to express the Reformed conviction that the Christian …
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The Curious Conversion of Frater Achad
[2020 Note: Now that there has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Frater Achad, especially with the upcoming publication of The Incoming of the Aeon of Maat by Starfire Publishing, I’ve been revisiting this essay. I’ve learned a great deal about Frater Achad, the Universal Brotherhood, and the Maatian current since the …