Crowleymas

Happy Crowleymas to you all! In the trickster spirit, I thought the Beast might appreciate some joking. Here is poking a little fun at AE Waite, a favorite pastime of his: And a joke: How many Thelemites does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Two, if they fit. For tonight, I hope to toast Uncle […]

from Beauty to Splendor

    October Ode to Pan, Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!   blue black grapes purpling fragrant, fallen high the devil lived hickory nuts, swollen   white gold crystals as yet unlived potential existence is pure joy honeycomb, torrential  

The Number 4

The number 4 gets little glamour. It’s rep is stability, squareness which isn’t all that exciting on the face of it. But really it is everything there is, come forth from the One. Four is the number of wholeness and completion of a created thing, in that nearly every complete thing can be divided into […]

Totems and Tarot

Someone asked me an interview-type question the other day about sacred animal symbolism in the Tabula Mundi tarot. Specifically, they said, “You use a lot of symbolic/sacred animals – bees, snakes. Would you say they’re part of a personal cosmology?” It’s true, they are part of a “personal cosmology” system and always have been. As part […]

23 Skidoo

  ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚΓ (23) SKIDOO What man is at ease in his Inn? Get out. Wide is the world and cold. Get out. Thou hast become an in-itiate. Get out. But thou canst not get out by the way thou camest in. The Way out is THE WAY. Get out For OUT is Love and […]