Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's almost midnight, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. The picture is of William Quan Judge, an influential American Theosophist of the late 19th and early 20th century and author of several Theosophical classics. 

Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. Any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer, though it may be Tuesday sometime before I get to them all.

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With that said, have at it! 

***This Magic Monday is now closed to new questions. See you next week!***

Comments

Anger as a result of magic

[(Anonymous)]

Whenever I try to practice spirituality, I find myself feeling a lot of anger, about a very wide range of things. I want to be spiritual but find the anger that comes up when I pursue it too disruptive of my life. What options are there for handling this?

Re: Anger as a result of magic

[ecosophia]

Nearly always when that happens, you've got a lot of anger that you haven't dealt with, and it's bottled up below the surface; the moment you go into yourself, there it is. What makes this complex is that anger, according to esoteric psychology, is usually a secondary emotion; what that means is that there's some other emotion that's more difficult to bear -- fear, grief, and shame are the most common -- as the primary emotion, and you've taught yourself to feel angry instead because that's less painful than feeling the primary emotion.

The best way I know of to deal with this is journaling. Get a notebook and a pen, and for fifteen minutes each day, have a written conversation with your anger. Ask it questions, and write down whatever it says in response, no matter how uncomfortable that makes you; don't censor anything. Keep this practice up day after day, letting your anger find its voice in the harmless context of words in a notebook. Eventually you'll start getting glimpses of the primary emotion under the anger, and then you can dialogue with that and work through it. It's not a fast process, but many people find that this is an effective way to get in "under the hood" of your emotional life and let the stuff you've been bottling up rise to consciousness and release the energy locked up in it.

Berkeley Psychic Institute

[sea_spray]

Do you have any idea if the energy healing and other practices taught by the Berkeley Psychic Institute are compatible with your DMH? I know I'm not able to tell this myself and I respect your warnings about mixing systems without sufficient knowledge.

I'm looking forward to your book on energy healing. How advanced would one need to be in the DMH to work with what you're putting in it?

Thanks

Re: Berkeley Psychic Institute

[ecosophia]

I'm not at all familiar with the Berkeley Psychic Institute, so have no idea. As for The Dolmen Arch, it's not simply a book on energy healing; the energy healing is one of numerous things taught in it, and it'll take you a couple of years of work with the other material in the Dolmen Arch system before you get to that. The Druid Magic Handbook gives you a head start on the Sphere of Protection and the workings that unfold from it, which are also central to the Dolmen Arch, but there's a lot more -- the Dolmen Arch is a pretty comprehensive system of old-fashioned occult training in a Druid Revival framework, wholly compatible with but not at all identical to what's taught in the DMH.

Life-force research

[(Anonymous)]

Are there any books out there of the same quality as Ian Stevenson's research on reincarnation but with regards to Chi/ki/prana?

I'm not asking to be convinced it exists, I've tried enough of your exercises/rituals to experience it for myself, I'm just really curious if there is anything like Stevenson's case studies/birthmark evidence but for the life-force.

Re: Life-force research

[ecosophia]

I wish! The life force is very nearly the ultimate taboo in modern science; you can reduce distinguished scientists to incoherent spluttering by talking about it. Baron von Reichenbach's research on what he called Od is dated but useful, and there's a certain amount of good material from research into yoga, on the one hand, and east Asian martial arts on the other, but I don't know anybody who's really pulled the whole picture together.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm about six months into serious practice, using the heathen rituals. Soon after adding in the middle pillar ritual, my wife became pregnant. This is extremely welcome, but is this a manifestation of the watcher?

[ecosophia]

No, it's a manifestation of something considerably more primal! You and your wife now have a far more important magical working to do; think of it as a nine-month ceremony by which a spirit is evoked into material manifestation. ;-) That takes absolute priority over your own personal magical work. You can certainly keep up the banishing ritual and Middle Pillar exercise, and of course natural magic, meditation, and divination are fine, but more intensive magical workings need to be put on hold until your child's well past infancy.

Congratulations, by the way. I trust you've made appropriate offerings.

[booklover1973]

Hello, J. M. Greer, I have a question: When one feels alienated and different from most other people, is this solely a property of a certain single lifetime, or is it a more fundamental property of the individuality, which may be generally somewhat peculiar?

[ecosophia]

It really depends on a case by case basis. It can be the result of psychological or neurological issues within this life; it can be the result of experiences from one or more past lives; it can be a property of the individuality that hasn't yet found its proper relationship to the universe, and thus feels out of place; it can be other things as well.

[(Anonymous)]

If a mundane Aries ingress chart is cardinal (as for the U.S. this year) but subsequent quarterly ingresses are fixed or mutable, do we still have to go quarter-by-quarter for the year (i.e. is the Capricorn ingress significant this year, since Libra's was mutable)?

[ecosophia]

I typically take it an ingress at a time. This year, the Aries ingress was cardinal and so was the Cancer ingress, thus I gave them six months each; the Libra ingress was mutable, so I treat it as governing the following six months, and don't plan on casting the Capricorn ingress.

[(Anonymous)]

How does one determine whether two systems of magic are compatible or not? I feel very drawn to the system of magic you've outlined in the DMH, but I've also been reading several books on witchcraft (not specifically Wicca, though they have a fair bit of Wiccan influence) and feel drawn to that as well. The magic described in the witchcraft books I've read is primarily natural magic; while there is a ritual component as well, it doesn't seem as intensive as anything described your books. Do you think these systems are likely to be safe to combine, or should I pick one to focus on and leave the other alone for now?

[ecosophia]

In my experience, you should learn one and only one system of magic at a time. That doesn't mean you should only learn one system of magic -- I've learned upwards of a dozen -- but the best way to do it, and in many cases the only safe way to do it, is to take up one course of study, follow it from beginning to end, and then start on another. So I'd encourage you to pick one for now, and leave the other for a couple of years from now, when you've got the first one down pat.

balancing the planes

[(Anonymous)]

Dear John Michael,

You wrote on a recent Magic Monday about astral (dreaming) experiences and also the dream-less spiritual plane 2018-11-26 04:30 pm (UTC).

Can I offer some data points and ask for your thoughts?

I meditated on your comments, as I've lived a life full of vivid and memorable dreams that have influenced me greatly, and then had an unusual three-dream-morning.

Three-dream-mornings are not uncommon for me when "pay attention" messages are coming through but this one included some simple music after waking. I stayed still and listened carefully, editing out other noises until I was left with a sound the color and texture of G-d when He appears in my dreams and visions. A pleasant sound, in my opinion, low tone and gentle tempo. Unnervingly infinite, yet calming.

(Also, the impish lights that tell me stories when I'm conscious in the spiritual plane every couple of years made an appearance after the three dreams and did their usual "you only need to remember the last thing we say" act. Always a joy to be in their presence! Like blindingly white flashes of laughing wisdom.)

So, my normal astral plane experiences are intense; include taste, smell, touch and intoxication; and offer me a better social life then what I have on the physical plane. And now, they are also returning with me via four-dimensional G-d music.

Your thoughts are appreciated, as how much time I should spend asleep and visiting the astral and spiritual planes vs. being awake on the physical plane is a major life theme at this time.

Sincerely,
Ms Chris

Re: balancing the planes

[ecosophia]

I have no idea. I'm on the other end of the dreaming spectrum from you -- my dreams are odd but not especially spiritual. (The dream I woke from this morning, for example, featured a highly affectionate, five-foot-long porcupine, who kept on nuzzling me and rubbing its face against my legs, while I stood very still and hoped not to get poked with the quills. It then went in through the kitchen door to beg for treats.) Thus I'd encourage you to seek advice from someone who does a lot of astral work in their dreams, and is therefore competent to advise you on a subject where I have no relevant experience.

[(Anonymous)]

Jumping off from the discussion of emerald engagement rings, I’m curious about green emeralds vs white (goshenite) or white vs blue vs other colors of sapphires in the same role. White emeralds and sapphires are sometimes marketed as more honest budget alternatives to diamond vs cubic zirconium. Are diamonds safe if they are the wearer’s birthstone, as discussion indicated might be true for opal?

Also, you mention a dearth of mages able to work out the natural magical properties of newer materials like platinum, cubic zirconium, titanium, tungsten, etc. Would discursive meditation be a valid mode of inquiry or would the results be too specialized, gnosis of individual intricacies relating to the material but lacking universal applicability?

[ecosophia]

1) All of these are excellent questions to which, as far as I know, the traditional lore offers no answers. Your second question is therefore highly relevant.

2) Discursive meditation is a beginning, but it's far from sufficient in itself. To work out the properties of a material substance when these are unknown, it's necessary to gather any folklore, traditional or modern, that may have gathered around the substance; to use discursive meditation to explore the material and its folklore, then to use some means of directly contacting spiritual realities, such as scrying or evocation, to get more information. Then, once a hypothetical set of correspondences and properties has been worked out, those have to be put to the test of magical practice -- for example, does a ring made of platinum effectively resonate with (say) the planetary energies of Uranus, and does it (say) have the property of helping the wearer preserve his or her independence of mind and will? That's something that has to be tested repeatedly before such indications can be treated as standard.

Mixing training books

[(Anonymous)]

1) I know each book should be worked through completely and exactly "by the book" for best results! However, I have a specific question about adding (or temporarily switching to) Geomantic Practices while slowly working through the Ovate grade of CGD. After reading once through GP I think the more specific meditations on the geomantic figures might help me establish more effective meditations over the next year or so.

What advice would you give regarding integrating or switching practices with these two handbooks, specifically the divination part (which looks pretty compatible with CGD) and the meditation part, and specifically excluding the quite different magical practices in GP?

2) Your allusion in Geomantic Practices to the binary relationships of the geomantic figures left me wishing for more information but I was only able to find confirmation of the assignments in a few Reddit threads (one of which also pointed out that the Geomantic Figures are a hexidecimal system :). Do you have other sources on their binary meanings, or is that something better left to "unpacking" through meditation?

Thank you!

Re: Mixing training books

[ecosophia]

1) One study program at a time! In The Celtic Golden Dawn, the Druid grade is where you bring in other source material and start personalizing your practice. I'd encourage you to apply the same energy you'd have put into working with my geomancy book into finishing the Ovate grade.

2) The reason it's not explained is precisely so that you'll be irritated enough to unpack it in meditation. ;-)

Druidy Flavors

[filthywaffle]

How would you describe the different "flavors" or "personalities" of the AODA, OBOD, and ADF, as you've experienced them?

I really enjoyed your description of the different "personalities" of various divination systems a while back and wondered if you might venture the same type of description for the above organizations?

Re: Druidry Flavors

[ecosophia]

I'm not really in a good position to comment on two of these. I was active in OBOD from 1994 through 2004, and worked through the older version of the correspondence course, which has now been replaced by a considerably different one; as organizations do, OBOD has ripened and changed in various ways over the years, or so I've gathered from my brief interactions with it since 2004, but you'd have to talk to someone who was active in it now to get a balanced view.

That's even more true of ADF. I was a member for a few years in the early 2000s, and found it a major disappointment, mostly because, shall we say, "These aren't the Druids you're looking for." I have no idea what they're up to these days.

AODA? There I can offer something. It's very much an order for the quirky, the independent-minded, and the solitary. It's got very specific requirements for its various degrees and other training programs, but nobody's going to mind if you don't do those -- you just won't get the degrees, or what have you. I liken AODA to one of those eccentric maiden aunts you find in British fiction sometimes, who has strong opinions, bizarre interests, and decidedly weird hats, who serves a really great lunch but won't coddle you.

[(Anonymous)]

What are the most powerful forms of magic cleansing and protection, and under what circumstances would you use them?

[ecosophia]

Nobody knows them any more. Remember that magic is still in the early stages of being recovered after the dark age that began with the Scientific Revolution; we've lost a fantastic amount of knowledge -- and what mages had during the Renaissance, the last great era of magic, was only a fragment of what was known in ancient times.

Fortunately, enough good workable methods of magical cleansing and protection are known that pretty much every tradition of magic has at least one. Thus your best bet is not to worry about which is "best" in some abstract sense, but learn whatever working is provided in the tradition you're studying, and get really, really good at it through relentless practice.

[(Anonymous)]

John--

How does Daath figure into the sequence of emanations? As the sephirah with no number, is there a tradition as to where it comes into being along the regular sequence? Or is it a separate emanation from the Unmanifest distinct from the other ten? And is there any literature addressing the fact that we side-step the number eleven by assigning that sphere no number?

David, BTL

[ecosophia]

Daath isn't an emanation; that's why it doesn't have a number of its own. It's not a reality in and of itself. It didn't come into existence until the Abyss opened up, at which point it emerged in the void -- a downward reflection of the Supernal Triad in the waters of the Abyss, to put things poetically. You'll find plenty more about it in old Cabalistic literature.

Apologies :/

[(Anonymous)]

Please accept my apologies for the previous comment serially mistitling your book, "The Art and Science of Geomancy: Divination, Magic, and Earth Wisdom of the Renaissance". Fantastic book, really helpful as always!

Vervain

[(Anonymous)]

I'm near the end of working through the ovate grade of the cgd. I thought I was being wisely patient in not reading ahead, but now I will need dried vervain to do the initiation. It is too late to grow or find any locally, so does anybody know of a source for the dried herb. I have looked around on the website of the mail order herb suppliers I use but they carry mostly culinary and the widely popular medicinal herbs. I have ordered seed for my garden but would like to perform the initiation sooner than 9 months from now.

JMG,I am interested in writing the ovate examination: is the order of the cgd still a going concern?
Thank you,
Wooler

Re: Vervain

[ecosophia]

1) Do a search on your favorite search engine with the following search string --

dried verbena officinalis for sale

-- and you'll get dozens of vendors that have it for sale.

2) Very much so. Visit http://www.druidical-gd.org and you'll find the contact info.

Magic and belief

[(Anonymous)]

Dear Archdruid,

I've been pondering the following lately:
Say a ritual is being practiced by a number of people, yet there are a handful of observers present that don't believe in magic (say, on a pagan festival or the like). Does this disrupt the ritual, rendering it less effective? Is this something which is used in counter-magic? Is magic more effective in general in countries where the majority of the populace believes in it?

(Quick update: The bobileth and luis-beth-non cards have been made. I'm not quite ready to scry on them yet, until the books I've ordered arrived - I want to read Lewis Spence's material on Druidry first to give my subconscious more to work with.
As for the other project; I've gone through the ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian pantheons. It does seem they move from purely animal / natural, to animalistic-anthropomorphized, to human-esque gods, but in the course of the research I've gone down some interesting tangents.. not to mention that their transitions usually (predictably?) involved extensive contact with other cultures, so it's a tricky business, but very informative and enjoyable.)


Yours under the Sacred Oaks,

Brigyn

Re: Magic and belief

[ecosophia]

Yes, yes, and yes. This is one of the reasons why public rituals so rarely produce anything but a warm fuzzy feeling among the participants, and why so many serious magical schools and orders do their work purely in private. Glad to hear the projects are coming along!

Mars = Diamond Correspondence

[(Anonymous)]

In your recent fascinating insight into diamond engagement rings, you mentioned that diamonds are under the rulership of Mars. That makes total sense and with the history of that particular gemstone I can definitely see the martial energy (I love that that word is an anagram of "marital"). However, I just recently have been reviewing my planetary correspondences and often get frustrated when coming across different systems. In my qabalah classes I teach diamond for Kether (and ruby for Geburah, probably both attributions I learned from 777 or from Regardie), while Denning and Phillips (in their book "Planetary Magick") assign diamond to Saturn. What is the source of the Mars correspondence? Also, is there some primary source text that lists correspondences like this, or is it best to simply go with the flow for different associations and find what works best for you in practice? As always, thank you so very much for your time and insight. I always learn so much from everything you share! -- Joy Vernon

Re: Mars = Diamond Correspondence

[ecosophia]

I generally consider 777 (and, really, anything else Crowley left his grubby fingerprints on) to be unreliable at best; how Denning and Phillips stack up I don't know, as I haven't worked with their system. The material I use comes from medieval sources, mostly in Latin, which I got from a couple of university libraries in Seattle; that's where I got the Mars correspondence. I seem to recall, though don't cite me on this, that Kunz'

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I generally consider <i>777</i> (and, really, anything else Crowley left his grubby fingerprints on) to be unreliable at best; how Denning and Phillips stack up I don't know, as I haven't worked with their system. The material I use comes from medieval sources, mostly in Latin, which I got from a couple of university libraries in Seattle; that's where I got the Mars correspondence. I seem to recall, though don't cite me on this, that Kunz' <i<>The Curious Lore of Precious Stones</i> has a good deal of this material, too.

Where to from here

[(Anonymous)]

I'm finishing up Learning Ritual Magic, finally, and would appreciate your advice on how to proceed.
I'm very happy with the results so far and would like to continue to improve strength of character and will.
One unexpected result has been an introduction to The Olympians, with whom I seem to have a natural rapport.
Which of your works would you recommend as step 2?
Many thanks as always.

Re: Where to from here

[ecosophia]

Congratulations! Of the people I know who've started the course of study in that book, fewer than one in twenty complete it. The vast majority of them went on to become serious, capable operative mages -- so you're in good company.

The book of mine that follows directly on Learning Ritual Magic is Circles of Power; you should also pick up a copy of Paths of Wisdom, which covers the Cabalistic philosophy basic to the entire system in some detail. Those two taken together will keep you busy for the next seven to ten years, at which point you'll know enough to be able to find your own path onward from there.

[(Anonymous)]

Question about enchantment:

For the past few years I've noticed this interesting phenomenon concerning many people, especially those who watch television and identify with "the system". There is a curious tendency for men to play at being jollily incompetent genial dullards with barely concealed rage and women to play at being compassionately overwhelmed shrewish nags with barely concealed rage. Over and over again going about the world I see these same gendered caricatures worn like masks, enough that it turns me into a recluse!

What I find so odd about this is that these sorts of behaviors consist of exactly what get you turned into an animal in old school fairy tales. What I mean is that these are clearly unattractive and destructive ways of being in the world, and yet they form basic gendered archetypes for, at least, the well-to-do. I sincerely wonder, what gives? Why do people act like such cartoonish versions of unbearable people? What's your take on this JMG?

[robertmathiesen]

Those are old entrenched media patterns, older even than the rise of TV. (But compare the dynamics between the principal characters in "I Love Lucy.") Now that TV is doing mroe to raise chidren than many sets of parents, it stands to reason that the pattern is becoming more common. Also. rage (and any anger) is hugely addictive, maybe even more so than anxiety.

One of the things Elva and I noticed right after we got married and had our oldest child (1967 and 1968), was how much the women's magazines in the supermarkets played with these two things, and suggested as the only possible relief that their readers should devote more and more of their energy to consumer behavior.

For example, nearly every issue would have at least two articles clearly designed to produce major anxiety in a woman reader about her physical attactiveness to her husband (and her weight issues), and at least three articles offering ways to cook rich meals and deserts in the interest of satisfying their husbands in ways that don't require a woman's being physically attractive--usually meals that required high-end ingredients from the supermarket. So ... your anxiety leads you to shop for such meals and cook them, which doesn't help with your weight problem, which makes you even more anxious, which starts the whole vicious cycle over again. And you get angry about being trapped in the vicious cycle. Pretty soon anxiety and anger cause the cycle to become a highly addictive pattern of weekly behavior, which greatly increases the profits of both supermarkets and publishers of women's magazines.

This sort of toxic marketing seems to be everywhere now. Ugh! That was what really got me to stop watching TV back in the '80s. I am old enough to remember when we were first of all citizens, not consumers, and I watched the change from the first to the second happen. It made me a passionate anti-consumer ... though a somewhat inconsistent one, as I still buy far too many books for our groaning bookshelves.

Tarot

[(Anonymous)]

1) Is Knapp-Hall deck a good choice for a beginner?

2) Any recommendations on a good source for the cards' meanings? (For decks that like Knapp-Hall, where the LWB was designed mostly to raise questions, not no answer them. I can see the value of this approach but it makes it rather difficult to start.)

Thank you!

Re: Tarot

[ecosophia]

1) That depends entirely on you. Does the imagery appeal to you, and do you find it easy to extract meanings from it? If so, it's a good choice.

2) There are a lot of beginner's books on the Tarot that give canned meanings, and any of those should work. (When I was first learning Tarot, Eden Gray's Mastering the Tarot was the standard beginner's book, but I have no idea if it's even still in print.)

black onyx

[(Anonymous)]

Dear Archidruid,
I was offered a black onyx, claiming to be a protective stone providing power a clarity of the mind. But in your natual magic encyclopedia inform us that onyx brings melancholy and is generally unlucky. So should ir be weared only in particular situations or skipped altogether?
Thank you very much for the magic mondays!

Re: black onyx

[ecosophia]

You can certainly use it for specific purposes, but only wear it when you want to use its energies for those purposes. Otherwise, keep it in a silk or linen bag and you should be fine.

Banishing versus invoking pentagram pattern

[(Anonymous)]

Aron Blue here. I have what i call righty lefty issues but what the internet calls directional dyslexia and i think i'm drawing this pentagram all over the place. This is good practice for me to boost up a weakness, but for spiritual purposes among others I want to make sure I'm getting it right. So if you could recommend a link with a visual that has your endorsement I'd appreciate it very much. Or if you want I can find a link and post it in a reply, whatever is easier.

Also, I have to release a video for my song Atlantis before the end of the year (a soft release, clearly) and I was wondering if you could recommend some general astrological guidelines for setting the date. My astrology is somewhere around educated layperson so I can follow instructions as for how to find the best day but it's hard to figure out myself from scratch. My instinct is to go full moon winter solstice because it's the two planets I know best - I'd love your thoughts and advice. Thanks for all you do as always :)

Re: Banishing versus invoking pentagram pattern

[ecosophia]

1) If you mean the specific way of drawing the pentagrams I've included in the rituals posted here, the only source I know right now is in my book The Celtic Golden Dawn. I'll see if I can find an image and post it here sometime soon.

2) Start with your birth chart. Find the signs on the cusp of your first, second, fifth, and tenth houses; find the planets ruling each of these signs; and choose the planet that has the best astrological dignity -- that means (a) in the sign of its rulership or exaltation; (b) in the first, fourth, seventh, or tenth houses; (c) receiving a trine or sextile from at least one other planet, and not receiving a square or opposition from any planet; or (d) better still, more than one of these.

Now look at the ephemeris for December, and find a date when the Moon is applying to a trine or sextile with the position where the planet you've chosen is in your natal chart. (Not where it currently is in the sky. If your natal Jupiter, let's say, is in the 14th degree of Pisces, find the Moon making trine or sextile to that degree, not to wherever Jupiter happens to be at the moment.) Make sure no other planet is applying to a square or opposition with the planet you've chosen on that day. That's your day for the release.

Astrology and Physical Health

[(Anonymous)]

If someone wanted to look at their astrological chart to find a form of physical activity they could take up for their health that they would be best suited to (let's temporarily bracket all other factors that go into determining what's the best form of health maintenance for an individual), are you aware of any reliable correspondences based on the sign or ruler of the 6th House, or other applicable areas of a natal chart?

If such correspondences don't exist, I imagine one could try looking at it through a mythological lens? Mercury for running or gymnastics, Saturn or Capricorn for rock climbing, Jupiter for two-person aerobics, etc.

-Jean-Pierre

Re: Astrology and Physical Health

[ecosophia]

Hmm! A good medical astrologer could probably help you there, but that's a branch of astrology I haven't explored yet. You could try the mythological approach, certainly.

Moon paths

[(Anonymous)]

So is Elen, Goddess of the old straight tracks, also the Goddess of the moonpaths in The Weird of Hali: Innsmouth? Ley lines?

Just started The Weird of Hali: Kingsport, and it's even more absolutely delicious!!!

Fav passage so far:

"It smelled of resins from gnarled trees that grew in secluded valleys between gaunt gray mountains, brought by caravans along winding desert tracks that were old beyond memory when Babylon was young. It smelled, in a way she couldn’t begin to define, of time itself, of long ages cascading one after another back beyond thought to the uttermost beginning of things."

Just, wow <3

Re: Moon paths

[ecosophia]

I'm delighted you like it! As for the moon paths, nah, in the fictive universe of The Weird of Hali, Nyarlathotep -- who is the Hermes-figure of the Great Old Ones, and also the crossroads devil of blues legend -- is the ruler of the old straight tracks.

I've worked out the fictive pantheon of the Great Old Ones -- my version of them, to be sure, since I treat Lovecraft as an unreliable narrator -- in quite a bit of detail. You probably won't be too surprised to learn that they fit quite nicely onto the Tree of Life. ;-)

[(Anonymous)]

Which of your occult books are available in a high-quality version and where can I buy them?

[ecosophia]

I've had two occult books so far published in high-end editions, The Blood of the Earth and my translation of Giordano Bruno's On the Shadows of the Ideas, and both are currently sold out -- you might be able to get them on the used book market. Forthcoming from Miskatonic Books next year will be fine and deluxe editions of a new occult work of mine, The Dolmen Arch, a comprehensive course of study in Druid occultism in two volumes; I'll post something when it's available for preorder.