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My little side-business in selling my crafts and ebooks has gotten off to a modest start since opening up my Etsy shop earlier this year, which is awesome. Still, what I really want to focus more on...
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I’m going to make a terrible, terrible admission to you all that may ruin my oh-so-high and noble standing in occulture: I don’t like H.P. Lovecraft or his universes, and it’s not for a lack of trying,...
View ArticleA Cyprianic Love Spell
Back in May, I moved into a beautiful new house with my fiancé and another of our friends, which is why there were no posts all during that month; it was a busy, busy time. The end of the month was...
View ArticlePSA: Religion and Public Actions
As many of my readers in the United States might be aware, June of every year is commonly held to be Pride Month, in the same way that February is African American History Month. This a month when the...
View ArticleSearch Term Shoot Back, June 2014
I get a lot of hits on my blog from across the realm of the Internet, many of which are from links on Facebook, Twitter, or RSS readers. To you guys who follow me: thank you! You give me many...
View ArticleTowards a Greek Kabbalah: First Swirlings
A few weeks ago, I made a post about an idea about working with a Greek style of Hermetic qabbalah, tentatively calling it kambala (Greek way to write out qabbalah from Hebrew) or to Paradedomenon...
View ArticleTowards a Greek Kabbalah: Why the Alexandrian Tree Isn’t Really a Thing
So, let’s clear up some naming terminology before we continue this thread of thought. Because there are different traditions of qabbalah depending on religion, I’m going to differentiate between them...
View ArticleNew Divination Reading Offers Available!
My little side-business in selling my crafts and ebooks has gotten off to a modest start since opening up my Etsy shop earlier this year, which is awesome. Still, what I really want to focus more on...
View ArticleLovecraft and I Don’t Get Along
I’m going to make a terrible, terrible admission to you all that may ruin my oh-so-high and noble standing in occulture: I don’t like H.P. Lovecraft or his universes, and it’s not for a lack of trying,...
View ArticleA Cyprianic Love Spell
Back in May, I moved into a beautiful new house with my fiancé and another of our friends, which is why there were no posts all during that month; it was a busy, busy time. The end of the month was...
View ArticlePSA: Religion and Public Actions
As many of my readers in the United States might be aware, June of every year is commonly held to be Pride Month, in the same way that February is African American History Month. This a month when the...
View ArticleSearch Term Shoot Back, June 2014
I get a lot of hits on my blog from across the realm of the Internet, many of which are from links on Facebook, Twitter, or RSS readers. To you guys who follow me: thank you! You give me many...
View ArticleTowards a Greek Kabbalah: First Swirlings
A few weeks ago, I made a post about an idea about working with a Greek style of Hermetic qabbalah, tentatively calling it kambala (Greek way to write out qabbalah from Hebrew) or to Paradedomenon...
View ArticleTowards a Greek Kabbalah: Why the Alexandrian Tree Isn’t Really a Thing
So, let’s clear up some naming terminology before we continue this thread of thought. Because there are different traditions of qabbalah depending on religion, I’m going to differentiate between them...
View ArticleTowards a Greek Kabbalah: Mythology of the Greek Letters
If we’re to really get anywhere with this Greek kabbalah, or kampala, then we need to start from the basics. And, as an engineer, for me the basics often consist of the tools I’m going to use in order...
View ArticleTowards a Greek Kabbalah: Meditating on the Greek Letters
So, if the gods reveal themselves by signs and omens, and those signs are the basis of the Greek letters, then the gods reveal themselves by means of the Greek letters. This isn’t that big a stretch;...
View ArticleTowards a Greek Kabbalah: Symbolism of the Greek Letters
From before, a letter has four parts: a name, a glyph, a sound, and a meaning. The first three were discussed last time, along with a basic set of meditations to get us familiar with the first three...
View ArticleTowards a Greek Kabbalah: Tetractys as Cosmic Framework
Alright, so now we understand the Greek letters as symbols of many things: zodiac signs, planets, elements, numbers, body parts, and any number of gods, images, and other concepts. All this is in...
View ArticleTowards a Greek Kabbalah: Emanations of Creation on the Tetractys
Realizing that the tetractys is pretty much the glyph I want to use for kampala wasn’t an immediate realization. I know I wanted something like the Tree of Life from kabbalah with its ten sephiroth so...
View ArticleTowards a Greek Kabbalah: Plotting Paths on the Tetractys
So now we have a basic map of creation based on the tetractys, using a combination of Pythagorean numerology, Neoplatonic cosmology, and Renaissance alchemy to describe how things come to be. In the...
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