There She Blows! – Well, this is going to suck.
Including what began on Ash Wednesday, we are now the third day into Lent. What began with a certain gravitas, ecclesiastical pomp and circumstance is finally beginning to set in. Preparing for the...
View ArticleEntering into Lent: Part One
“The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” – Psalm 51: 17 For many of us, Ash Wednesday marks the entrance into a season of fasting,...
View ArticleRepentance and Paradox: Using Opposites to Attract
The early Christians observed with a great degree of devotion the days of Christ’s passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and...
View ArticleRemember that You are Dust
You are dust, and to dust you shall return. Genesis 3:19c Today in the Western liturgical calendar we now embark into Lent, explained in the previous post as a period of forty-six days of fasting,...
View ArticleThe Voice Crying in the Desert
This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, “I am not the Messiah.”And they...
View ArticleThe Divine Feminine in Johannine Scripture
This morning I finally had a moment to read my colleague Rhyd’s most recent post for the Wild Hunt titled, The Multitude and The Myriad. It’s truly an amazing text for many reasons, particularly his...
View ArticleLight and Dark
Last night, I celebrated the Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified at my apartment and gave Eucharist to a brother in Gnosis. What struck me during the service, in light of recent happenings, were the words...
View ArticleIs ”public occultism” dying? Kicking a Dead Horse with Mr. Farrell
I know, it’s been a month. We’ve all weighed in. It’s tired. I promised I wouldn’t write about it. Well, I lied. Back in September Mr. Farrell wrote another top ten list titled, “Ten Reasons Why Public...
View ArticleShop is Open… sort of.
After some time of being inactive, I’m pleased to report that Uncle Abrasax Curio Co. & Services is back online for a while in order to help with my attendance at Many Gods West. At Uncle Abrasax...
View ArticleTen Tips of Frater Michael Sebastian Lux
A week has passed since the flare up over the initial ‘Ten Tips for Young Occultists’ debacle with many prominent and up and coming occultists putting their own lists up. I think by and large this has...
View ArticleΤετέλεσται
“[Let] me advise you never to ridicule or cast obliquely upon the form of religion professed by another, for what right have you to desecrate what is sacred in his eyes?” – Neophyte Ritual of the...
View ArticleNick Farrell and Spiritual Abuse
Disclaimer: It has come to my attention that some people may have willingly misinterpreted my post as being specifically a smear campaign against Mr. Farrell. I would like to adamantly state that this...
View ArticleAn Interlude for February Twenty-Fourth: Lent
Христос в пустыне (Christ in The Desert)Ivan Kramskoi, 1872. Oil on canvas “Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God....
View ArticleTemptation on the Road to the Heavenly City
“I was glad when they said to me,”Let us go to the house of the LORD.” Now our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem.” – Psalm 122 I didn’t get to writing this until late last night, and it...
View ArticleKeeping Covenants
Another weekend has come and gone. Lest one think I was slacking in my commitment to write, the simple fact is, is that I wasn’t near any reliable internet where I could make my posts. That said, today...
View ArticleCome and See
“Attract them by the way you live.” — Saint Augustine Many of us are familiar with the old adage, “If you build it, they will come” made famous in the film, Field of Dreams where in the opening...
View ArticleRepentance and Paradox: Using Opposites to Attract
The early Christians observed with a great degree of devotion the days of Christ’s passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and...
View ArticleRemember that You are Dust
You are dust, and to dust you shall return. Genesis 3:19c Today in the Western liturgical calendar we now embark into Lent, explained in the previous post as a period of forty-six days of fasting,...
View ArticleThe Voice Crying in the Desert
This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, “I am not the Messiah.”And they...
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