Showing posts with label Occult. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Occult. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Who Was Aleister Crowley, Really?

Aleister Crowley is one of the most misunderstood individuals of his time.  His philosophy challenged orthodoxy for the sake of Love and True Will.  To this day, his message continues to be warped to by those it challenges.  In researching Crowley and reading some of books, I have found his message to be one of truth and light.  I strongly encourage the open minded exploration of Crowley's works.  Here is a small sampling of quotes to get you started!




Crowley Top 10 Quotes:

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.


Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.


The people who have really made history are the martyrs.


Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.


The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.


Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.


Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.


Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.


The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.


Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations.

Monday, February 10, 2014

Jason Louv: Magick in the Aeon of Horus

Jason Louv delivers one of the best discussions of magick I've encountered.  I believe that his message is salient to occultists and pagans a like.  What direction will magick and spirituality take in 2014 and beyond?  Check it out!


Friday, February 7, 2014

Is the occult evil?



Etymologically, "occult" mean hidden. This typically mean of two things:

  1. The information has been intentionally hidden. 
  2. The information is innately obscure or hidden (such as the saying "Dao that can be named is no the true Dao".) 
In western society, matters concerning religion or ultimate reality are guarded by clergy. Gnosis(spiritual insight) or distribution of information threaten clerical structure. Occultism threatens the clergy who claim to be the only source of ultimate or divine knowledge. If your truths are not the truth's I preach, you must be evil/heretical/etc.

The only inherently evil thing about occultism is it's representation in western society. Nothing you read in any book (occult related or otherwise) is ultimately true, good, or evil. Books can only contain ideas; they do not contain knowledge or action. Knowledge and action must be produced by the reader.






Ideas themselves are not dangerous. It's the people they effect that can be dangerous. Is Islam or Christianity evil because religious ideas have inspired historical massacre? The same religious ideas have also also promoted a lot good in the world. It's the people who use those ideas (often for misguided or egotistical reasons) that are dangerous.

A responsible seeker distills knowledge structures (conceptual paradigms) from a variety of resources hidden or apparent and material or divine/psychological/magickal/etc.

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Magick Resources

Many texts from various Buddhist schools, Daosim, Ancient Religions, Shamanism, occultism and other traditions.

Lots of articles on magick and full esoteric texts.

The Gnostic society Library

The Definitive Online Resource for Texts from a variety of World Religions


Huge Collection of Chaos Magick Resources

Friday, January 31, 2014

"The Occult Experience"

A 1985 documentary, "The Occult Experience," is available for free streaming on Vimeo.  The film features classic footage of Margot Adler, Selena Fox, Janet Farrar, among others.  Plus, Alex Sanders accidentally lights his crotch on fire mid ritual.  Check out this retro documentary HERE.


Friday, December 20, 2013

Kabbalah of Peter Carroll

To all those psychonauts with whom I have stood in midnight forests, 
in temples, in subterranean chambers, and atop mountains,
invoking the Mysteries . . .


Peter Carroll


The Alphabet of Desire

The Alphabet of Desire from Pater Carroll's "Liber Null" depicts the 21 principle emotions.  The root of each emotion is in its opposite.


Desire is a circle
Desire is a wheel
Desire is a menu
Of things that we feel
Pleasure, sex, love, pain
Round and round and round again
Break, O break the chain
Quit the rim
Spiral within.

A rite of illumination