The Flying Scrolls of Logos

Underpinnings      Throughout my life, I have questioned the economics of gift giving. What aroused my interest initially was the economics of gift giving during the winter months. Why would a family risk exhausting their resources during the most barren and trepidatious times of the year? For me, it would make more sense to give gifts to members of the community during times of plenty, such as mid-summer, or the end of harvest season. In my search for an answer to the problem of "Black Friday," I have found that the term is used anachronistically; the spirit of gift giving during those long winter months has long been forgotten.      A wide array of information could (and should) be covered in our analysis of gift giving, specifically why it was traditionally done on or around the Winter Solstice. For my purposes, I will elucidate those issues which are core to my argument that America's gift giving culture is no longer rooted in the deep th...

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.      I have noticed a terrible disturbance in the nature of how the work of the initiate is portrayed, since I started practicing about eight years ago. There is a philosophy that is proving to be a bar to noble results and occult understanding within the modern magical current. Too often, I see novice magicians electing Enochian and Goety as introductory works, lest they be labeled as "armchair magicians." This faulty logic--where if the magician lays down a solid edifice of understanding before going on to do advanced work--gives the novice the erroneous impression that results are more important than the understanding of the system with which they are working. And what do we consider a solid result anyways? Many of the great practitioners I have come upon claim that they lack the visionary experiences associated with, say scrying the Aethers, calling Ourabas, or scrying on the Tree of Life. This is a problem! ...