I want to talk about curse tablets & how they were supposed to work. Curse tablets were the most popular and common type of magic used in the Graeco Roman world, attested by the sheer number of them that have been found, and copious references in ancient literature, and as we can tell were...

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...

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...

Discernment is a funny thing. Just when we think we have life figured out, it shows us how little we really know. Just when we think we know what we want or need, something comes along to show us a different option. Just when we think we have a plan for how our lives will go, some part of us...

The Seven Platonic Principles

In his overview of Plato's thought, Gerald Press provides a beautiful outline of the illusive Elder's worldview:

"The core of his philosophy is a vision of reality as having two levels or aspects: we register the lower level of change and materiality via sensations...