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A Thrifty Saint
Born of Christian parents near Seville in 76 AD; died near Baia in 138. Disciplina was the daughter of a leather maker and personal maid to Domitia Paulina, from whom Disciplina learned how to write...
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Quicumque Vult
Whosover will be saved? And finds it necessary to say, “That without doubt no faith remains” Yet himself perishes everlastingly The faith of Our Fathers has passed away, Striving to understand God who...
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Profezia
La Forza “Haec est tonus fortitudinis fortitudo fortis: quia vincet omnem rem subtilem omnemque solidam penetrabit.” Tabula Smaragdina, 9 Il Bagatto “Into this happy night in secret, seen of none....
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Dāl
He caused the letter Dalet to reign over Wisdom, and He tied a crown to it, and He combined them with one another, and He formed through them: Mars in the universe, the third day in the year, and the...
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Thursday of Mysteries
“When the glorious disciples were enlightened at the washing of their feet before the supper, the impious Judas was darkened by the disease of avarice, and to the lawless judges he betrayed You, the...
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Good Friday
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. - Paulo Coelho ILLE mi par esse deo uidetur, ille, si fas est, superare diuos,qui sedens aduersus...
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Easter Is Not Named After Ishtar, And Other Truths I Have To Tell You
Reblogged from The Belle Jar: If there is one thing that drives me absolutely bananas, it's people spreading misinformation via social media under the guise of "educating". I've seen this happen in...
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A Vigil Rite in Times of Disaster
Following the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings I, like many people around the world, was filled with a sudden sadness and loss of words (and thoughts!) about the immensity of the...
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An End to the Crisis of God
Jesus is gone. Forty four days ago we all conspired to shed his blood and put him to death. Some of us conspired through betrayal, some through denial, and others through inaction, false witness, and...
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Wild Gnosis
In ancient Greece and in the Hellenic world, the operative title for most magicians would have been pharmakós, literally ‘one who delivers (drugs)’. At the time of the classical pharmakoi, the...
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The Way of the Heart and the Way of the Cup
Handed down from master to disciple in an unbroken chain of succession, the prayer of the heart as a spiritual discipline was fixed in writing by the eleventh century Byzantine, hesychast monk Symeon...
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Musings on Angels, Daemons and Working With One’s Personal Pantheon
In Chapter twenty six of the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, the great expositor of esoteric wisdom, Henry Cornelius Agrippa, provides us with one of the most complete modern variations of the...
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Assumption of Mary
Today we commemorate the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, celebrated in the Orthodox and Eastern Church as the solemnity of the Dormition. Throughout the history of Christianity, Mary has been an...
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Christianity as Theurgy
In a recent post my colleague Rufus Opus recently discussed his experiences as a Christian and a magician. For myself, I have been frequently met with the same essential question, “How can one be a...
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Christianity as Theurgy: Christ the Initiator
In my previous post, I stated in no uncertain terms that Christianity is, at its root, a theurgical mystery religion. Although I did explain a bit of the context for that, I present the following as a...
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Protected: Thundering Power
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Christian Theurgy
This past Wednesday, yours truly was interviewed by the wonderful people of GnosticNYC, Bishop Lainie Petersen and Bishop Kenneth Canterbury on the topic of Christian Theurgy. For those of you who may...
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Easter Is Not Named After Ishtar, And Other Truths I Have To Tell You
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A Vigil Rite in Times of Disaster
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