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Tag Archives: Paganism
Liber Nox: A Traditional Witch’s Gramarye by Michael Howard
“Many traditional witches regard themselves as the stewards or guardians of ancient sites near where they live, such as stone circles, burial mounds, standing stones and hill-figures. They meet for rituals at remote crossroads or near the prehistoric trackways, ‘green … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric, New authors, New books, Recommended reads, Reviews
Tagged Arthuriad, Arthurian Tradition, Covens, Cunning Folk, Dion Fortune, esoteric, Faeries, Faery Lore, Gemma Gary, Gramarye, Heathen, Magic, Michael Howard, Neo-Pagan, Occult, occultism, Paganism, ritual magic, Ronald Hutton, Sacred Landscape, Seasonal Rituals, Spells, The Cauldron, Trad Craft, Traditional Craft, Traditional Witchcraft, Triumph of the Moon, Wheel of the Year, Wicca, Witch, Witchcraft
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Michael Howard on Skylight Press
Michael Howard is an Anglo-Irish writer, historical researcher and editor. His work has become well-known and much respected after some 38 books on witchcraft, paganism and western occultism, including various tomes on the Norse-Germanic runes, folk traditions, angelic magic, faery … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric, New authors
Tagged Angelology, Ben Fernee, Cunning Folk, esoteric, esotericism, Evan John Jones, Faery Lore, Feri, folk, Folklore Society, Gerald Gardner, History, Julia Philips, Magic, magic ritual, Magick, Michael Howard, Modern Wicca, Museum of WItchcraft, mythology, Nigel Jackson, Norse, Occult, occultism, pagan, Pagan Dawn, Pagan Federation, Pagan Front, Paganism, Pan Pacific Alliance, ritual, Robert Cochrane, Robert Cochrane Witchcraft Tradition, Ronald Hutton, secret societies, The Cauldron Magazine, Traditional Witchcraft, Tubal Cain, Wicca, Witchcraft
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A De-fencing of Agnosticism amid the Imprisoning Structures of (Ir)Religious Semantics
There is a certain well-known social media site where one is asked to declare ‘religious status,’ giving one the opportunity to ‘come out’ in a spiritual sense and hoist a particular creedo flag in all its splendour. Of course, many … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric, Essays, Recommended reads
Tagged Absolute Truth, Agnostic Pagan, Agnosticism, Agnostics, atheism, Atheists, Belief, Buddhism, Buddhists, Church, Daniel Staniforth, Deism, Deists, doubt, Enlightenment, Epistemology, Escapism, esoteric, Facebook, Faith, Fence, Gnosis, gnosticism, Gnostics, God, human existence, humanism, Humanist, Knowledge, Labels, Occult, Ontology, pagan, Pagan Agnostics, Paganism, Paradox, philosophy, Pragmatism, Rationalism, Realism, Reason, Religion, Science, Secular, Secularism, Semantics, Spiritual, Theology, Thomas Henry Huxley, Truth
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Skylight Press to publish a series of William G. Gray Books
“Magicians are not made, they make themselves.” Skylight Press is pleased to announce that it will be publishing a series of out-of-print and possible new books by William G. Gray over the next three years. The series will commence in … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Esoteric, New books
Tagged Alan Richardson, Aleister Crowley, Ceremonial magician, Dion Fortune, esoteric, esotericism, Gareth Knight, Gerald Gardner, Magic, Magician, Marcus Claridge, mythology, Occult, occultism, Paganism, qabala, Qabalah, ritual magic, Robbie Cochrane, Rollright stones, Sangreal Sodality, Skylight Press, tarot, Victor Neuburg, western mystery traditions, William G. Gray, Witchcraft
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Elizabeth Guerra & Janet Farrar on Skylight Press
Born in New York City, Elizabeth Guerra grew up with a family from varying ethnic and spiritual backgrounds. Her father was born in Puerto Rico, as was her paternal grandmother, who was an Espiritista (Spiritualist) specializing in exorcisms. Her maternal grandmother … Continue reading
Posted in British History, Esoteric, New authors
Tagged Alex Sanders, Alexandrine Tradition, Book of Shadows, Craft, degree initiation, Drawing down the Moon, Ecstatic ritual, Elizabeth Guerra, esoteric, Espiritista, Gavin Bone, Gerald Gardner, Goddess, Healing, janet farrar, janet farrar and gavin bone, Kabbala, Magic, magic ritual, Magick, Margot Adler, Maxine Sanders, Neopaganism, Occult, pagan, Paganism, Progressive Witchcraft, Prophesy, qabala, R.J. Stewart, spiritualism, spiritualist movement, Stewart Farrar, Teampall Na Callaighe, Trance, Trance Possession, Wicca, Witchcraft
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Magical Imagination by Nick Farrell
“Imagination is our inner vision, our human skill to see different realities. It can take us to the throne of God, it can connect us to the stream of infinity and enable us to see the universe for what it … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Literature, Esoteric, New authors, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Astral Plane, Chic Cicero, Druidry, Druids, esoteric, esotericism, Gareth Knight, Golden Dawn, hermetic order of the golden dawn, hermeticism, Imagination. Western Mystery Tradition, Inner Kingdom, inner landscape, Magic, magic mirror, magical pathworking, meditation, mystery traditions, Nick Farrell, Occult, pagan, Paganism, Pathworking, Peregrin Wildoak, qabala, ritual magic, Shamanism, spirituality, Tabitha Cicero, Talismans, Visualization, Western Mysteries, world dimensions
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Conversation with Alan Richardson
As my conversation with Gareth Knight was so well received last month I decided to try and have a similar confab with his friend and somewhat younger colleague, Alan Richardson. Alan has written extensively on Paganism, Celtic and Faery lore, … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, Reviews
Tagged Alan Richardson, Aleister Crowley, Arthurian Traditions, British Fiction. Literature, Celtic, Charles Seymour, Christine Hartley, D.H. Lawrence, Dion Fortune, esoteric, esotericism, faery, fiction, Gareth Knight, great war, Literature, Magic, Magician, Magick, megaliths, mythology, Newcastle United, novel, Occult, Paganism, qabala, Skylight Press, Sting, Templars, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, William G. Gray, Wiltshire, WW1
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Nick Farrell on Skylight Press
Nick Farrell is an esoteric author and journalist who has dedicated his life to the Western Mystery Tradition. Joining the Builders of the Adytum in New Zealand at age 17, he started to read everything he could find on the Golden … Continue reading
Posted in Australian Literature, British Literature, Esoteric, New authors, New books
Tagged Aurora Aurea, Chic Cicero, Colin Robertson, David Goddard, Dion Fortune, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, Druidic order, Druids, Eqyptology, esoteric, Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn, esotericism, fiction, Golden Dawn, Great Britain, hermetic order of the golden dawn, HorusHathor, Israel Regardie, Journalism, Journalist, Lupa, Magic, Magick, mysticism, New Zealand, Nick Farrell, novel, Occult, occultism, Paganism, Pat Zalewski, Pendragon, Peregrin Wildoak, Pharos, Rome, Samuel Mathers, Servants of the Light, Shamanism, Skylight Press, Tabatha Cicero, Talismans, tarot, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, Whare Ra, William Wynn Wescott
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Through the Skylight 