Lon Milo DuQuette’s Low Magick ?>

Lon Milo DuQuette’s Low Magick

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Title: Low Magick Author: Lon Milo DuQuette Publisher: Llewellyn Release Date: 2010 Pages: 206 Low Magick is another autobiographical work from Lon Milo DuQuette, written about 12 years after My Life with the Spirits. In this volume, each chapter starts with a quote, often one by Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford, a very learned qabalist. We move from the Law of Attraction (see my review of Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich for more on the Law of Attraction) through some serious Goetia and…

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Lon Milo DuQuette’s My Life with the Spirits ?>

Lon Milo DuQuette’s My Life with the Spirits

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Title: My Life With the Spirits Author: Lon Milo DuQuette Publisher: Weiser Books Release Date: 1999 Pages: 191 My Life with the Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician is an autobiography of Lon Milo DuQuette, one of the 21st century’s most famous magickians. DuQuette is a prolific author and lecturer, an Archbishop of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica, and the United States Deputy National Grand Master of Ordo Templi Orientis. This is a fast-paced, enjoyable read, with DuQuette’s characteristic humor that begins with…

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Making Geomantic Dice ?>

Making Geomantic Dice

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Background In Lesson 7 of The Nascent Magician course, we learned about geomancy, a kind of earth divination. The geomantic figures have various astrological (and other) correspondences and generating the figures when doing a reading can be done in many different ways (including poking holes in the ground!). Another way is to use dice. Sometimes the dice are attached together on a rod so that you can rotate them to form a figure. These are occasionally for sale but are very expensive. Lind…

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Indian Gap Trail (5-18-09) ?>

Indian Gap Trail (5-18-09)

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At the Crossroads- Suspended a moment in time- Pathway as wide as my gait Ribboning outward, forward With no sight beyond the gap; Silence creates a buzz in my ears Too loud, too quiet At the crossroads. Always planning ahead But taking the jump unknown Never knowable And hoping to land safe- The buzz, the adventure- All the dreams dissipate In the clarity of the bird singing In cold mountain air on my legs In rocks and pine under my…

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The Top of Mt LeConte (5-19-09) ?>

The Top of Mt LeConte (5-19-09)

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Exhaustion has its own poetry Muscles mildly mutinous Demanding rest right now- Thought falls away Too tired to sustain it. Immense vistas present themselves Nothing else to do but look, feel, smell; Shaking legs, sore knees, There is nothing else But the purple flowers with yellow hearts And the scent of pine.

Edward Bernays’ Crystalizing Public Opinion ?>

Edward Bernays’ Crystalizing Public Opinion

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Title: Crystallizing Public Opinion Author: Edward L. Bernays Genre: Propaganda Publisher: Ig Publishing Release Date: May 2011 Pages: 204 Edward Bernays published his first book on the new profession of “public relations counsel”, Crystalizing Public Opinion, in 1923. The First World War had ended; his uncle, Sigmund Freud had published A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis a few years prior (in 1920); and the US Post Office was destroying copies of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Bernays used the phrase “public relations counsel” because he wanted to imply…

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Augury ?>

Augury

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“In the corner of my eye She reared up A gale, a storm wind, Owl wings banking- She turned Her face to me- Relentless gaze- Chaos, or Holy Wisdom.” What does it mean when the world around you speaks and you begin to hear? Arcane messages reach you, from whom do they come? Does the Earth itself speak in a never- ending stream, in the language of dreams and symbols? Do the Gods speak to those who invoke their names…

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Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich ?>

Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich

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Title: Think and Grow Rich Author: Napoleon Hill Genre: Self-Help Release Date: 1937 Pages: 294 [In Lesson 4 of Kevin Trent Boswell’s The Nascent Magician course, the student must pick a book from a list of recommended reading and write a “book report” about it. This turned out to be one of the longest writing assignments in the course so far, and I ended up picking a book that I probably would never have read otherwise.] Napoleon Hill wrote Think and Grow Rich…

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When does the journey begin? ?>

When does the journey begin?

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When does the journey begin? Surely, when the first steps are taken, we are already past the beginning. Consider the words of the Sphinx: “To know, to will, to do, and to keep silent.” When we take the first step on the journey, we have already acquired knowledge and we have already crystalized our will. The first step is only the beginning of the “to do” part. We took the first step and signed up for The Nascent Magician course…

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