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Towards a Greek Kabbalah: The Divine Name IAŌ on the Tetractys
We’ve come a good way in developing a cosmic framework and map for ourselves based on Pythagorean principles, as well as coming to understand the mysteries of the Greek letters in their roles as...
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Towards a Greek Kabbalah: Letters on the Paths of the Tetractys
Where do we stand on our system of kampala, or Greek kabbalah? We have letters, we have spheres, we have paths. We’ve combined the paths with the spheres, and now we need to combine the paths with...
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Search Term Shoot Back, July 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...
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Hermetic Prayers to the Aiōn
Lately, I’ve been going back through some of my texts digging for more information on Hellenic and classical Mediterranean prayers to the One, sometimes known as Aiōn, the God of gods, ineffable and...
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Now Available for Occult Consultation!
In addition to my divination services, which you should totally spread the word about especially since you get free readings from doing so, I’ve decided to open myself up a little wider for full-blown...
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Emanation in Qabbalah versus Mathesis
So, in the meantime of developing the Tetractys of Life and starting to use more Pythagorean and classical Neoplatonic ideas in my studies of the occult, I think I’ve finally found a word that...
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Shopping Around: Online Occult Suppliers who Aren’t Lucky Mojo Curio Co.
One of my colleagues recently asked me to spread the word on a topic involving two well-known names in the online occult community. The post I had written up was going to get preachy and I wanted to...
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Plato’s Timaeus and the Tetractys of Life
At this point, it’s becoming plain to see that the occult system of mathesis, including the Tree of Life, goes beyond Neoplatonism right into the teachings of Pythagoreanism. While I’m not annoyed at...
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Pythagorean Correspondences to the Tetractys
As many of my readers know, as well as those in Western occulture generally, correspondences are a big thing for us. Based on our shared philosophical and educational lineages, we like to say that “A...
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Pondering the Dyad
I think that, of all the numbers I’ve encountered in the occult, and especially lately with my meditations on the Tetractys, the Dyad has to be the most confusing and hard to understand for me. I...
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The Charm of Arktos
Tonight, as most celestially-minded people are aware, is the end of the peak period for the Perseid meteor shower. It’s one of the more famous meteor showers, given the brightness of the meteors as...
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Get Off Your Ass and Work: Magic and Politics
One of my colleagues on Twitter, Joseph Magnuson of Candlesmoke Chapel, made a few tweets over the past few hours that struck a nerve with me describing a general reluctance for magicians and...
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Tetractys and Magic
Alright, alright, I can hear some of my readers mutter in the distance. “Yes, polyphanes, we know you like the Tetractys. We get it. You’re on a huge Pythagorean kick lately. You’ve been on this...
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Crucible Convention 2014!
Of course, October’s second-biggest event in my life (the first being that noble and highest holiday of my own birth) is still happening: Crucible Convention, as always held by the generous and amazing...
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Internumeric Relationships by Addition on the Tetractys
It’d be rude and vulgar of me to leave the Tetractys as some simple geometric diagram used for plotting paths or meditations. I mean, the Tetractys is a meditation tool, yes, but to use it merely for...
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Geomantic Revelations of the Tetractys
The last post on the arithmetic subtleties of the Tetractys got me to thinking. If I have four rows of things I can select or not select for a collection, I end up with so many results. The overall...
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Pronouncing Generated Greek Names
In my quest for working more with the Greek alphabet in my practice, there’s one thing that Greek doesn’t do too well that Hebrew does excellently, and that’s the pronunciation of generated names. Not...
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Mathetic Analysis of Agrippa, the Elements, and the Planets
When I got my start in Hermetic magic a few years back, I began with Fr. Rufus Opus’ texts, which basically took Cornelius Agrippa and ran with it. To be fair, this is an excellent way to start a...
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Geomantic Meditative Music
It’s rare I do anything but share words and the occasional graph on this blog, so let’s try something different. I was on the train not too long ago and going through my music library trying to find...
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New Ebook: Handbook of Saint Cyprian (and a lot of links!)
A while back, I was at my local botanica and looking through their baskets of prayer cards, pamphlets, and prayer books. To my surprise, I found a small booklet written by Father Eliseo Porras Rojas...
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