I is for Isis

I is for Isis

Isis was a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs. She was worshiped as the ideal mother and wife. She was the friend of slaves, sinners, artisans, and the downtrodden. She listened to the prayers of the wealthy, maidens, aristocrats, and rulers.
Isis is the goddess of motherhood, magic and fertility.

The goddess Isis was the first daughter of Geb, god of the Earth, and Nut, the goddess of the Sky, and was born on the fourth day. At some time Isis and Hathor had the same headdress. In later myths about Isis, she had a brother, Osiris, who became her husband, and she then was said to have conceived Horus. Isis was instrumental in the resurrection of Osiris when he was murdered by Set. Her magical skills restored his body to life after she gathered the body parts that had been strewn about the earth by Seth. This myth became very important in later Egyptian religious beliefs.

Students of mythology will recognize the close resemblance between the myth of Aphrodite and Adonis and that of Isis and Osiris, but this may simply be due to the fact that they represent the same natural process


In the Egyptian Sacred Rites of Isis, the temple hierodules and melissae were actually in charge of and initiated the proceedings which were designed to stimulate the flow of the ‘netters’, the Egyptian chi or prana. Added to that, there were (and still are) certain advanced stages of the process that cannot happen without the woman’s agreement — she actually precipitates it. I’m thinking of the most important stage called the Opening of the Magnetic Floor which takes place during the "adoration of the beloved". If the woman does not feel adoration for the Beloved and from the Beloved, her ‘floor’ cannot open, and the resulting implosion of elixirs does not take place between them. So the feeling of love between the two souls is paramount …

But it is also vital that total trust and honesty exists between the two partners for the love to arise in the woman’s heart. And this is also where all the aforementioned spiritual practises and rules come into play. By living in truth, goodness and beauty, the Hara line remains straight, chakras become clearer and balanced and the djed, which is the energetic column that contains the ‘serpent flow’ which runs up the spine, remains healthy and maintains its integrity. Otherwise, there could be “burn out”. (part of a series of writings by Emeth)

Rihanna tattoo

Various authors speculate on the fact that Mary as a young girl was most likely sent to Egypt and the Temple of Isis to become initiated into the ways of the sacred Priestess (as is also thought of Jesus’ mother Mary who was also trained in the sacred ways of the Priestess).  Here, she becomes Qadishtu and is taught the practice of sacred sexuality where she becomes the living vessel for the Goddess to enter in the ancient rite known as ‘hieros gamos’ or ‘sacred marriage’.

H is for Hag

H is for Hag

In Fairy Tales featuring a Hag, she is the crone and a symbol of transformation.
In the Middle Ages the Crone Goddess became the Wicked Witch and Hag Archetype of our fairy tales. Her knowledge and wisdom was persecuted by the Church's fear.

Fairy Tales Mentioning the Hag
(Some of these are sort of disturbing if you're thinking of children reading them...try and focus on the allegory)

Fairy Tale with Unknown Name
As you can probably guess, I do not know the name of this fairy tale.
I do remember that in it a fairy disguised as a hag seduces a prince by telling him that he must make love to her in order to be blessed with riches and what not. He is appalled by the sight of her and can't get it up but she finally persuades him and he bears through it. After the deed is done the hag transforms into a rare beauty, becomes his wife and they live happily ever after.
If you know the name of this story, please tell me, I can't find it online.

Snow White
We all know the story of Snow White, at the very least we've seen the Disney movie. Snow White's wicked stepmother/evil queen sends a huntsman after her to take out her heart. She is saved by 7 dwarves. Is tricked into eating a poisoned apple. A kiss of true love awakens her and she is saved and marries a handsome prince.

Snow White’s original age was 7. Also, she was forced to undergo 3 tricks of the Evil Queen. The first being a corset that is tied over-tight and cuts off her breathing. The second is a poisoned comb that puts her to sleep. The third is the poisoned apple that puts her into a magical coma.
She still wins over the evil queen though, who was then punished in a pretty creative fashion. She was forced to step into red-hot iron shoes and dance until she fell down dead.
In their first edition, the Brothers Grimm published the version they had first collected, in which the villain of the piece is actually Snow White’s jealous birth mother. In other versions, the step mother is a cannibal and wants to eat a part of Snow White’s body, usually her heart.


The Old Woman Who Was Skinned Alive
A king mistakenly believes that two hideous, smelly, deformed old women are actually the most delicate, beautiful and scrumptious of young tender maidens.
He has never actually laid eyes on them, since they’re hidden behind a large wall – but he becomes so passionately aroused after kissing one of the old woman’s fingers through the keyhole in the gate, that he begs to be able to spend the night with her. She agrees to bed him, but only if he will take her in the dark – since, according to herself, she is ‘far too modest to expose her nakedness to him’. The king rushes home to wait in anticipation for night to fall and his love to come to him.

In an attempt to make herself feel more youthful to the king’s touch, the old woman takes all her loose, sagging skin and ties it behind her back with string. She then covers herself with a long shroud, and limps in the dark to the king’s chambers.
After he has finished ‘the deed’ and she’s fallen asleep, the king discovers the secret his ‘tender maiden’ has hidden behind her back, and after lighting a candle he finds that his bed-mate is actually a disgusting old hag. He freaks out and throws her out the window.

Luckily the old woman has so much loose, sagging skin that she gets caught in the branches of a nearby tree and is left hanging there. Some fairies fly by and find the sight of the old woman so funny that they endow her with gifts of wondrous beauty, intelligence, and youth as a reward; she now has the body and face of a 15 year old! The king looks out his bedroom window in the morning, discovers a stunningly beautiful girl sitting in his tree, and immediately takes her for his wife.

The new queen, not wanting to reveal her beauty secret to her sister, tells the old hag that she has had herself skinned alive. The remaining old woman – presumably not wanting to be left out – takes herself quick-smart to the nearest barber shop, and requests that she also be skinned alive. When the barber has removed her skin down to her navel, the old woman dies of blood loss and pain (letting out a big fart as she does so) and her sister and the king live happily ever after.

The moral of the story? Something to do with the vanity of aging women I guess – but regardless of the moral, that is one damn bizarre fairy tale.
-(Giambattista Basile – Il Pentamerone (Entertainment For The Young) 1634)

G is for Goat

G is for Goat

I first heard of the Goat in reference to a ritual as a joke - it was when my husband became a Mason and when initiated it is jokingly called 'riding the goat.'

Witches Sabbat by Francisco de Goya

Witches' Sabbath or The Great He-Goat is generally assumed to be a satire on the credulity of the age and a mocking condemnation of both popular superstition and the witch trials of the Spanish Inquisition.

Two figures in Paganism use the Goat figure prominently; Baphomet and Pan or The Horned God.

Baphomet
The figure most people associate with an image of the Judeo-Christian Satan or Devil.

Baphomet is the god who is called Lord of Perversions, because He takes those things that others consider perversions and redeems them into holy acts. (Welcoming to the Temple of Baphomet)
Baphomet first appeared in 11th and 12th century Latin and Provençal as a corruption of "Mahomet" the Latinisation of "Muhammad," but later it appeared as a term for a pagan idol in trial transcripts of the Inquisition of the Knights Templar in the early 14th century.

Since 1855, the name Baphomet has been associated with a "Sabbatic Goat" image drawn by Eliphas Lévi. It represents the duality of male and female, as well as Heaven and Hell or night and day signified by the raising of one arm and the downward gesture of the other. It can be taken in fact, to represent any of the major harmonious dichotomies of the cosmos. However, Baphomet has been connected with Satanism as well, primarily due to the adoption of its symbol by the Church of Satan.

Lévi called his image "The Goat of Mendes", presumably following Herodotus' account that the god of Mendes, the Greek name for Djedet, Egypt, was depicted with a goat's face and legs. Herodotus relates how all male goats were held in great reverence by the Mendesians, and how in his time a woman publicly copulated with a goat.
Historically, the deity that was venerated at Egyptian Mendes was a ram deity Banebdjed, who was the soul of Osiris.
The concept of a downward-pointing pentagram on its forehead was enlarged upon by Lévi in his discussion (without illustration) of the Goat of Mendes arranged within such a pentagram, which he contrasted with the microcosmic man arranged within a similar but upright pentagram.

Baphomet features in the Creed of the Gnostic Catholic Church recited by the congregation in The Gnostic Mass, in the sentence: "And I believe in the Serpent and the Lion, Mystery of Mystery, in His name BAPHOMET."
For Crowley, Baphomet is further a representative of the spiritual nature of the spermatozoa while also being symbolic of the "magical child" produced as a result of sex magic. As such, Baphomet represents the Union of Opposites, especially as mystically personified in Chaos and Babalon combined and biologically manifested.

I am Baphomet 

Lord of Perversions 

What they throw away I save 

What they devalue I hold holy 

What they tread underfoot I raise up 

What they cast off as ugly decorates my holy raiment 

What they fear becomes my weapon 

I am both man and woman 

I am filled with lust for both man and woman 

I am only as cruel as your own repressed desires 

    and only as hard on you as you are on yourself 

I will prey on your mind, legions of sterility! 

Here I stand with horns and hooves and hair 

    and I cannot be made pure and heavenly. 

Here I stand with goat's beard and woman's breasts 

    and I cannot be made simply man or woman 

Here I stand with hard cock and wet cunt 

    and I cannot be made into a safely sexless androgyne 

Here I stand with whips in my hand 

        --those whom I love I chastise with many rods-- 

    and I cannot be made to kneel and serve 

Here I stand, Mr. Falwell, Mr. Robertson-- 

    are you ready for me? 

Pray to me for the perversion of your enemies 

    for I shall turn them upside down 

        and dangle them in the filth of their own making. 

Excerpt from Hymn to Baphomet

from Hermaphrodeities by Raven Kaldera

The Horned God
Also known as Pan, Hern, Cernnunos, Dionysis, etc.


The consort of the Goddess and symbol of male energy, he is the personification of the Sacred Masculine. He is the lord of the woodlands, the hunt and animals. He provides for the tribe through the hunt. He is honored for his deed by joining with the Goddess through the Great Rite.

The Horned God is is the lord of life, death and the underworld. He is also the Sun to the Goddess' Moon. He alternates with the Goddess in ruling over the fertility cycle of birth, death and rebirth. He is born at the winter solstice, unites with the Goddess in marriage at Beltane  and dies at the summer solstice to bring fertility to the land as the Sacred King.

Paintings discovered in the Caverne des Trois Freres at Ariege, France provides evidence of the first views of the Horned One. Depicted as a stag standing upright on hind legs with the upper body of a man, the figure is celebrating what appears to be a hunt and wooing a woman.

To the Celts as Cernunnos, the Horned God was more than just a fertile being. He is found throughout the Celtic lands and folklore as the guardian of the portal leading to the Otherworld. The name Cernunnos is known only through damaged carvings found at Notre Dame. In these carvings, a deity with short horns carries the incomplete inscription 'ERNUNNO'. In his earliest of days he was probably the fertility god to the Gauls. But as time progressed and his legends grew, he became associated with wealth and prosperity.

As the Greek deity of pastures, flocks and herds, Pan was half man and half goat. With the legs and horns and beard of a goat. He is the offspring of Hermes, but his mothers lineage is in question. Either he is the result of Hermes and Dryope daughter of King Dropys, who's flocks he tended. Or Hermes and Penelope. His cult is centered around Arcadia where he is reported to haunt the woodlands, hills and mountains. Sleeping at noon and then dancing through the woods as he played the panpipes, which he is credited with inventing. He is the lusty leader of the satyrs (woodland deities), and continually chases the nymphs (the beautiful nature goddesses). During rituals, his essence is invoked to for fertility of the flocks or for an abundant hunt. Associating him with the legends of the Horned God.

E is for Erotomancy

E is for Erotomancy

Erotomancy - Sex Magic

According to Gnostic Teachings, "Sexual magic refers to an ancient science that has been known and protected by the purest, most spiritually advanced human beings, whose purpose and goal is the harnessing and perfection of our sexual forces. A more accurate translation of sexual magic would be "sexual priesthood."
Skye Alexander of Llewellyn, "Sex magic is a means to an end, a way to mobilize the amazing creative power of sexual energy to generate a desired result. Basically, you do sex magic for the same reasons you would do any other type of magic: to cause something you desire to happen. Your goal might be to promote healing or attract money or achieve spiritual enlightenment. When you add sexual energy, you increase the intensity of a magic spell. It’s like adding more octane to gasoline."

Misunderstandings
Anyone can participate in sex magic, no matter what magical practice you associate with. It is a misunderstanding that only tantric and high magic practitioners can participate in sex magic. Practitioners of low magic, Hoodoo, and Wicca as well as other practices can also benefit from sex magic.

Another misunderstanding is that you have to have a partner or even a group to practice sex magic. Erotomancy can be done solo through masturbation much like other forms of magic can also be done alone or with others.

Books I recommend
These are books on magic and sexuality I have used in my studies so far.

 I Love Female Orgasm
An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide by Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller

 Secrets of Sex Magic
(Also titled Secrets of the German/Western Sex Magicians)
A Practical Handbook for Men & Women by Frater U. D.

Goth Craft:
The Magickal Side of Dark Culture by Raven Digitalis

Nocturnal Witchcraft:
Magick After Dark by Konstantinos

Pagan Polyamory:
Becoming a Tribe of Hearts by Raven Kaldera

D is for Deviant

D is for Deviant

Deviant Title by Jason Lightner

I thought I would take a moment to list a few Famous Sexual and Magical Deviants


Marquis De Sade 

Marquis De Sade was a French aristocrat, revolutionary, and writer. He's most famous for bringing porn/sex to people in a time where showing off your ankles was slutty.
A great movie depicting the Marquis is Quills - warning, it is most definitely not for the faint of heart...the same goes for his writing.


Aleister Crowley 

Aleister Crowley was a British writer, prophet and magician. He was also the father of modern sex magic. To read more about Crowley, please read my A is for Aleiter Crowley post.


Paschal Beverly Randolph


Paschal Beverly Randolph was a free man of color born in the state of Virginia in 1825. Randolph is thought by some modern authors to have been the fore-runner who paved the way for the ceremonial sex-magic practiced by members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Ordo Tempi Orientis, and related groups.

Anton Lavey

Anton Szandor LaVey (born Howard Stanton Levey; April 11, 1930 – October 29, 1997) was the founder of the Church of Satan as well as a writer, occultist, and musician. He and his followers wrote several essays and articles on neo-tantra, karezza, sex magic, and sex worship.

Helena Blavatsky

In 1875, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky established a research and publishing institute called the Theosophical Society, to form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color. She participated in other secret societies and was a participant in sex magic rituals including tantra and kundalini yoga with a sexual intent.

C is for Chymical Marriage

C is for Chymical Marriage

Chymical Marriage or Chymical Heirogamy
The concept is from Christian Rosencreutz (see. The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz, 1495)
The Chymical Wedding is often described as the third of the original manifestos of the mysterious "Fraternity of the Rose Cross" (Rosicrucians). It is an allegoric romance (story) divided into Seven Days, or Seven Journeys, like Genesis, and tells us about the way Christian Rosenkreuz was invited to go to a wonderful castle full of miracles, in order to assist the Chymical Wedding of the king and the queen, that is, the husband and the bride. The invitation to the royal wedding includes the Monas Hieroglyphica associated with John Dee.

"Much of the alchemical literature of Europe now appears to be a coded tradition of drug-and-sex programming.....This code is especially notable in The Chemical Marriage of Christian Rosycross (1615), which forms the visible link between traditional alchemy and modern Rosicrucianism. The mystical rose and cross from which the Rosicrurians take their name are, in fact, no more or less than the vagina and the penis, respectively...(For the curious, here is the rest of the traditional symbolism, as given by Louis T. Culling in his Manual of Sex Magich Cucurbit—the vagina; retort—the same, during copulation; eagle—the vagina, or the female mouth, depending on the context; lion—the penis; transmutation—the sexual "peak experience"; elixer of life—the semen; quintessence—the semen as transmuted by ritual and ecstasy.)" ----Sex and Drugs by Robert Anton Wilson p66

According to Frater U.D. the Chymical Marriage is the body of Western Sex Magic (even though, as U.D. states, there is only a vague, allegorical mention of sex mysticism in the work).

In his book, Secrets of Sex Magic, Frater U.D. offers 2 rituals of Chymical Marriage, one for couples and one solo or inner marriage.

photo by Narn

In both rituals, the Chymical Marriage is a distinct combining of the Solar and Lunar, Masculine and Feminine, Yin and Yang energies between the couple or in the body of the magician. This act is also seen in the Wiccan Great Rite, in face, U.D.'s couple ritual even resembles the Great Rite in the action of inserting the God's athame into the Goddess's chalice and combining the solar and lunar energies therein.

B is for Babalon

B is for Babalon

Their eyes on my body become 
hands on my flesh. 
Grabbing, panting, 
hungry for more than simple release. 
Their body speaks to my body 
desperate longing 
starvation 
alienation 
shame, fear, hate. 

My body speaks back, 
fulfillment, abundance 
connection 
acceptance 
lovelustdesirefire 
Yes yes honey, you are sick and twisted and broken and wrong 
  and oh boy do you make me hot 
Come, share some of that pain with me. 
Come on. 
Come in. 
Come for me. 

And they do.

~ a segment from 'Whore' A poem for Babylon, by Raven's Boy

Wikipedia explains Babalon (not to be confused with Babylon, the city):
Babalon (also known as The Scarlet Woman, The Great Mother or The Mother of Abominations) is a goddess found in the mystical system of Thelema, which was established in 1904 with English author and occultist Aleister Crowley's writing of The Book of the Law. In her most abstract form, she represents the female sexual impulse and the liberated woman; although she can also be identified with Mother Earth, in her most fertile sense. At the same time, Crowley believed that Babalon had an earthly aspect in the form of a spiritual office, which could be filled by actual women—usually as a counterpart to his own identification as "To Mega Therion" (The Great Beast)—whose duty was then to help manifest the energies of the current Aeon of Horus.

Her consort is Chaos, the "Father of Life" and the male form of the Creative Principle. Babalon is often described as being girt with a sword and riding the Beast. She is often referred to as a sacred whore, and her primary symbol is the Chalice or Graal.
As Crowley wrote in his The Book of Thoth, "she rides astride the Beast; in her left hand she holds the reins, representing the passion which unites them. In her right she holds aloft the cup, the Holy Grail aflame with love and death. In this cup are mingled the elements of the sacrament of the Aeon".

The following correspondences are from Thelemepedia, which connect Babalon with Binah:

Qabalistic Attributions
Key Scale: 3
Name: Binah (Understanding)
Astrology: Saturn

Godforms
Thelemic: Babalon
Egyptian (selection): Maut, Isis, Nephthys
Egyptian (practical): Nephthys
Hindu: Bhavani (all forms of Sakti), Prana (as Force), Yoni
Scandinavian: Frigga
Greek: Cybele, Demeter, Rhea, Heré, [Psyché, Kronos]
Roman: Juno, Cybele, Hecate
Christian: The Virgin Mary

Colors
King Scale: Crimson
Queen Scale: Black
Emperor Scale: Dark brown
Empress Scale: Grey flecked pink

Material Correspondences
Animals: Woman [Bee]
Plant: Cypress, Opium Poppy [Lotus, Lily, Ivy]
Precious Stone: Star Sapphire, Pearl
Perfume: Myrrh, Civet
Vegetable Drug: Belladonna, Soma
Mineral Drug: Silver
Alchemical Metal: Iron

Magick & Mysticism
Element: Root of Water
Magical Weapons: Yoni, the Outer Robe of Concealment [The Cup, the Shining Star] (#)
Chakra: Visuddhi (Larynx)
Forty Buddhist Meditations: Compassion
Magical Power: The Vision of Sorrow [Vision of Wonder]
System of Taoism: Kwan-se-on, The Yin and Khwan

An amazing article about Babalon and the Thelemic - Pagan connection was written by Ankh af na Khonsu:
Babalon, Scarlet Women and the White Goddess
I had used Babalon’s symbol of the seven pointed star of even points inscribed with name באבאלענ as a portal to her astral plane and the passage quoted above was only a small portion of my communication with her. The vision made certain prognostications about my progress on the magical path that later came to fruition and it was for these results that I had primarily recalled this particular operation, until the conversation mentioned above.

The feminine principal that is revered in both Thelema and by witches is the cycle of the feminine lifespan from the virginal Artemis, through the potently fertile Mother Goddesses and finally the crones that mark the approach of the dark moon and the potential for rebirth. This cycle is also replicated in the four feminine forms that are represented in the Thelemite feminine spiritual hierarchy as Nu is purely feminine and precedes the appearance of the male principal of Hadit which is the first emanation from the Ain Soph Aur.

Miscellaneous

Babalon Rising Festival 2013 - speakers this year include Donald M. Kraig, David Campbell, Frater Usul, Mgdlyn M.

A is for Aleister Crowley

A is for Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley (Oct. 12, 1875–Dec. 1, 1947)
An English occultist, ceremonial magician and author, who was responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema.
As a young man he became a member of the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. He would go on to found his own occult society, the A∴A∴ and eventually rose to become a leader of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), before founding a religious commune in Cefalù known as the Abbey of Thelema, which he led from 1920 until 1923. After abandoning the Abbey, Crowley returned to Britain, where he continued to promote Thelema until his death.
Crowley was also bisexual, a recreational drug experimenter and a social critic. His writings on sex magic paved the way for many magicians of the art after him. Crowley wrote extensively on the topic of sex magick. Some of these works were published and made available to the general public, others were secret and could only be obtained by initiates of Ordo Templi Orientis.

Despite being denounced in the popular press of the day as "the wickedest man in the world," Crowley has remained an influential figure and is widely thought of as the most influential occultist of all time.


Timeline of Crowley's Metaphysical Experiences and Activities
Articles taken from Encyclopedia Thelema

1896 - December 31: First mystical experience on a visit to Stockholm. He writes: I was awakened to the knowledge that I possessed a magical means of becoming conscious of and satisfying a part of my nature which had up to that moment concealed itself from me. It was an experience of horror and pain, combined with a certain ghostly terror, yet at the same time it was the key to the purest and holiest spiritual ecstasy that exists. At the time, I was not aware of the supreme importance of the matter. It seemed to me little more than a development of certain magical processes with which I was already familiar, it was an isolated experience, not repeated until exactly twelve months later, to the minute.
1897 -  Begins reading alchemical and mystical works and books on magic.
1898 - is introduced to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. November 18: Pays 10 Shillings to be initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
1900 - Obtained 33* (33rd and last degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry) in Mexico City.
1903 - June 11: After having moved his bed into the Temple constructed for the Abramelin Operation he was "afflicted by dreams and visions of the most appalling Abramelin devils...."
1904 - March 16: Performs the Preliminary Invocation of The Goetia in a futile attempt to amuse Rose with the sylphs. She could not see them. Instead, Rose, in a strange state of mind, began repeating, "They are waiting for you." March 20: Invocation of Horus with "startling" success. He was told that, "The Equinox of the Gods had come" and that he was to formulate a link between the solar-spiritual force of the new epoch and mankind.
1907 - Records being able to do automatic writing at will
1910 - May 9: Evocation of Bartzabel
1912 - June: Is Communicated the techniques of sex magick and the Royal Art of the 9* O.T.O.
1914 - the more specific diary of sex magical workings is started this year, entitled "Rex de Arte Regia." This record was kept until 1918.
1939 - January 2nd - has lunch with Lady Frieda Harris, the artist of his Thoth Tarot deck. January 5th recorded a late night sex magick operation
1941 - December 14: Writes a letter to Lady Frieda Harris from 14 Lassell Gardens, Maidenhead. AC is describing tarot card attributions to her- in particular the Prince cards which she was currently working on. He also discusses the Yi King and its magickal forces stating, ""It is at least not impossible that there should be intelligences greater and subtler than our minds (these should control blind forces as our minds do our muscles) ... The best prospect of human progress is to discover, and communicate with, these intelligences...it is the particular task of the magician to accomplish this."
1942 - July 2: Writes a letter to Lady Frieda Harris while she was undertaking a Great Magical Retirement and he was unhappy with recent behavior. He writes, "When you formulate an aspiration to the G[reat] W[ork] you are placed under observation; and, if chosen as a likely candidate, come automatically under discipline. Rule No 1 is that any person, thing, or idea that you allow to come before the G.: W.: is removed without anaesthetics ...... Now the whole conception of "sacrifice" is foreign to the system of Thelema. ..."
1947 - May 1: Meets Gerald Gardner for the first time
December 1: Crowley dies in Hastings at 11.00am of myocardial degeneration and chronic bronchitis.
December 5: Funeral service and cremation - The Brighton Council afterwards delivered a protest in regards to the contents of the Last Ritual: “We shall take all necessary steps to prevent such an incident occurring again”.


His Literary Work

The following list encompasses both Libri and other works, including those compiled or edited after Crowley's death by others.
777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley : Including Gematria & Sepher Sephiroth. (1982).
Aha! : Being Liber CCXLII. (1996).
Aleister Crowley and the Practice of the Magical Diary. (2006).
Amrita : Essays in Magical Rejuvenation. (1990).
"The Blue Equinox" (Equinox III:1). (1992).
The Book of the Law (Technically called Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX as delivered by XCIII = 418 to DCLXVI). (1997).
The Book of Lies, which is also falsely called Breaks. (1981).
The Book of Thoth : A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians (Equinox III:5). (1981).
Clouds without Water. (1909).
Collected Works of Aleister Crowley 1905-1907. (1974).
Commentaries on the Holy Books and Other Papers (Equinox IV:1). (1996).
The Confessions of Aleister Crowley : An Autohagiography. (1979).
Crowley on Christ. (1974).
Diary of a Drug Fiend. (1970).
Eight Lectures on Yoga (Equinox III:4). (1985).
Enochian World of Aleister Crowley : Enochian Sex Magick. (1991).
The Equinox (I:1-10). (2006).
The Equinox (III:10). (2001).
The Equinox of the Gods (Equinox III:3). (1992).
Gems from the Equinox. (1982).
The General Principles of Astrology (Liber DXXXVI). (2002).
The Goetia : The Lesser Key of Solomon the King. (1995).
The Heart of the Master. (1973).
The Holy Books of Thelema (Equinox III:9). (1983).
Khing Kang King : The Classic of Purity, Being Liber XXI. (1980).
Konx Om Pax : Essays in Light. (1990).
The Law is for All : The Authorized Popular Commentary of Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX, The Book of the Law. (1996).
Liber Aleph vel CXI : The Book of Wisdom or Folly (Equinox III:6). (1991).
Little Essays Toward Truth. (1991).
The Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley : Tunisia 1923. (1996).
The Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley, 1914-1920. (1972).
Magick : Liber ABA, Book Four, Parts I-IV. (1997).
Magick Without Tears. (1982).
Moonchild. (1972).
The Qabalah of Aleister Crowley : Three Texts. (1973).
The Revival of Magick and Other Essays. (1998).
Rites of Eleusis: As Performed at Caxton Hall. (1990).
The Scrutinies of Simon Iff. (1987).
Shih Yi: A critical and mnemonic paraphrase of the Yi King by Ko Yuen (Equinox III:8). (1971).
The Stratagem and other Stories. (1929)
Tannhäuser : A Story of All Time. (1974).
The Tao Teh King : A New Translation (Equinox III:8). (1976).
The Vision & the Voice : With Commentary and Other Papers (Equinox IV:II). (1998).
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Pagan Blog Project

Hello all,
Since this is a new blog, I am a little behind on the Pagan Blog Project.

What is The Pagan Blog Project? (The Short Answer)
This project is a way to spend a full year dedicating time each week very specifically to studying, reflecting, and sharing your spiritual and magical path. The project consists of a single blog post each week posted on your blog each Friday for the year of 2012 that will involve a topic that relates to Paganism, Witchcraft, magick, spirituality, and so on. You can use your posts to share your views on a topic, to talk about your own personal experiences, or to act as a catalyst to research a subject that you may not know much about and then share what you learn and how you feel about that. Each week there is a specific prompt for you to work with in writing your post, a prompt that will focus on a letter of the alphabet each week providing you a framework for your writing as well as a common thread for all participants to share in.


Great, I love it! How do I sign up?
Click on the 2013 Pagan Bloggers tab to list your blog for the Project.  Follow the simple instructions in the link generator to add yourself to the Project.
Join the Forums.  Introduce yourself and your blog to everyone in the group.
Grab one of the buttons or banners and post it to your blog!
Right click and select “Save As” to save the picture to your computer. Then upload it to your own website or blog and link it back to this page (http://www.paganblogproject.com).
Tag your posts! When you post your weekly post as part of the Pagan Blog Project, be sure to tag it as “Pagan Blog Project”. If you share your posts on Twitter be sure to use the hashtag #PaganBlogProject.



The following are topics I will be playing catch-up on:

A is for Aleister Crowley

B is for Babalon
(I'm cheating a little on this one and taking the Pagan Blog Project post I did on my other blog, Hedge Wife and using it here)

C is for Chymecal Marriage

D is for Deviant

E is for Erotomancy

F is for Female Magicians