Scandinavia has a complex history, and while people usually just of Vikings, it has 1000s of years of evolution and culture before there Viking Age. While I would to outline the Prehistory and evolution of the cultures here, very little evidence remains in Scandinavia of the Stone Age, Bronze...

A Brief History

According to the early Church Fathers of Christianity, Gnosticism was the arch heresy of all heresies. More modern interpretations of this fascinating current of Christian thought paint it in one of two ways, either: as a kind of esoteric & mystical cult or deluded...

A Brief History

Believed in the Renaissance to be the source of all wisdom, the body of papyri now known as the Hermetica are a complex but beautiful admixture of Platonic & native Egyptian philosophy. 

Despite coming from the 4th century BC -at the earliest, the Renaissance scholarly...

A Brief History

Alchemy stands as a forerunner to modern Chemistry & holds a significant place in the history of Western Esotericism & modern laboratory science as a whole. As a term, it encompasses several philosophical traditions spanning 4000 years and three continents. 

These...

Theosophy was a New Religious Movement that appeared in the 1870s, largely invented by a Russian émigré Madame Helena Blavatsky and draws its teachings predominantly from her writings. 

The vast majority of New Age & pop spirituality has its origins in Theosophy, from...

A Brief History

Next to the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM), which stands at the origin of Western ritual practice, the philosophy, worldview & cosmology of Western Esotericism find its origins in Hellenic Culture, most notably the works of the Greek Philosopher Plato & his generations of...

In the realm of occult praxis and mythology, the boundaries of reality and imagination often intertwine. But as we saw on May 31st 2014 when two 12 year old girls in Waukesha Wisconsin lured their friend into a forest and brutally stabbed her in an act of ritual sacrifice attempting to contact...

Coming from the Latin "occulere", meaning "concealed", the occult as a term is inherently tied to ideas, concepts or images that are hidden, under the surface or secret. It is the study of that which is unknown & mysterious by its nature.

Often interchanged (somewhat incorrectly) with...

As part of a working course and training I'm going through right now, these Axioms of Magic came up in recommended reading and I've been getting a lot out of contemplating them.

They come from Bill Whitcomb's The Magician's Companion. They really encapsulate and explain the...

Planetary Magic forms one of the core pillars of the Western Esoteric Tradition stretching back to the Greek Magical Papyri and has its roots in Babylonian Astrology. The construction of planetary kameas and talismans is an entire practice in and of itself that forms the practical application of...