Tag: mysticism
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The Heart of the Matter: Hermekate and Hieros Gamos
One powerful function of eclipses is said to be that of revealing secrets, and I’ve also written in an earlier post that I’d be elaborating on the connections between Hermekate and eclipses; as such, it should come as no surprise that the recent Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio–sign of secrets, intrigues, and occultism per se–brought with […]
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Of Chalices and Chariots – Part III: En Oino Aletheia
I used to sit and look at lists of Qabbalistic correspondences and wonder at the relevance of at least half of the pieces of information I was looking at. What was I supposed to actually do with all of these connections? You’re telling me all of these things correspond with one another, and I’m quick […]
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Following the Fire – Part I: Initiation and My Personal Myth
I know it would be absolutely lovely, from a certain point of view, if I were to simply sit down, write my magical biography from birth to the present, and be done with it so that at the very least, the reader had a chronological telling that they could easily wrap their mind around; however, […]
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Hermekate as Sigil – Part III: Semiotics
This post owes a great debt to Toby Chappell’s book Infernal Geometry and the Left-Hand Path: The Magical System of the Nine Angles by broadening the horizons of my relationship with the V-Sigil. The thought had once occurred to me to look into the structure or form of the sigil for clues to its deeper […]
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Hermekate as Sigil – Part II: Evolution of Meaning
There’s a lot I hope to accomplish in this post, and it’s possible I’ll need to break its two main objectives down further into two separate posts to make this a series of three, but we’ll see what happens. The post covers a time span from 2012 to the present, so roughly 10 years, so […]
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Hermekate as Sigil – Part I: Origin
In this post, I laid the groundwork for much of this blog’s future content by framing Hermekate as a product of personal gnosis; I also introduced the sigil that began as a representation of my “magical identity” and which I later came to identify with Hermekate. In this post, I’ll begin to explain how that […]
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Of Maps and Territories
Talk about putting carts before horses: I gather many people pursue the study of things like occultism, mysticism, transpersonal psychology and the like because, however they might have been exposed to such literature initially, they’re intrigued by the potential realities under discussion and, in the case of occultism particularly, happen to have found an area […]
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