Due to “CIRCUMSTANCES,” last week’s reading has become this week’s reading:

We will continue discussing Jason Miller’s classic Protection and Reversal Magick: A Witch’s Defense Manual. Please read chapters 3, 6, and 7 – pages 61-89 and 119-174.

We continue with Jason Miller’s Protection and Reversal Magick: A Witch’s Defense Manual! For Wednesday’s discussion, please read chapters 3, 6, and 7 – pages 61-89 and 119-174.

This week, we discuss a selection from Jason Miller’s well-reputed Protection and Reversal Magick: A Witch’s Defense Manual, courtesy of Hermafetes con Harrow. Please read the first two chapters – pages 19-59.

A few readings on goetia and the Grimorium Verum. From Jake Stratton-Kent’s presentation of this grimoire, we’ll look at pp. 57-59 and 101-121, and — optionally — 139-147. Then take a look at his essay on the necromantic roots of goetia, “Necromancy: The Role of the Dead in a Living Tradition”, pp.11-16 of At the Crossroads. Perhaps another look at this body of ritual in the coming weeks! Til Wednesday!

Hail, all!

This week, at the suggestion of our old pal Smelly Hermes, we vary our routine. We will be viewing a very odd film, depicting experiments in magic by the US military. No preparation is required; just bring your brain and eyes.

Hermafetes on the film:

This week we have a few morsels of Buddhist anarchism,  courtesy of Dysnomia. From Zenarchy by Kerry Thornley/Ho Chi Zen (you probably know him by his other other nom de plume) we’ll discuss “The Birth of Zenarchy” (pp. 16-34). Then take a look at Camden Benares’ Zen Without Zen Masters and just let yourself ramble thru its miniatures however you like. You might do a few of the “Meditations and Exercises” (pp. 98-123) and give us a taste of your experience, or just read the group a few of the fragments elsewhere in the book that you find funny, profound, or asinine. It’s all in there, I swear, dharma on the up and up… honest!

This week we’ll look at Michael Bertiaux’s description of the inner experience in his book Cosmic Meditation. Begin with “Mentation, or How to Meet your Spirit-Control” (pp. 38) and go through to the end. It’s a bit long, though not particularly dense reading, so just do your best.

This week’s reading, suggested by our own local necromancer Skeue Euphemeo: Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century by Richard Kieckhefer.

Please read the introduction (pages 1-21).

Then, pick a branch of magic to specialize in for the evening!
Please read either:
* Illusionist Experiments “Banquets, Horses, and Castles,” (pages 42-68) or
* Psychological Experiments “Love, Favour, and Madness” (pages 69-95) or
* Divinatory Experiments “Learning Hidden & Future Things” (pages 96-125)

(If you’re feeling indecisive, the chart on page 38 gives you an overview of each of the main magical themes.)

This week, we discuss Baal Kadmon’s Samael: A History at the behest of Frater-Sorer Hermafetes con Harrow. Please read pages 38-51 and 58-70 to synchronize with us.

Optional: Read elsewhere in the book as suits your sovereign whim.

Because there is no easy entry into Kabbalism, we will take an oblique spiral. A preliminary step: In this strange oration, delivered in 1965, the famous Gershom Scholem accuses some early computer scientists of creating a golem.