Gornahoor

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Category: Magick

  • Hermetism and Esoteric Christianity Rise to Converge

    Gornahoor has conducted a number of thought exercises, designed to aid the aspirant in “mental fasting”, a discipline of dropping old thoughts and thought-patterns or memes (compulsions). These exercises involve recovering a sense of Self that is already there, or (as it was put), laying aside the chain-mail of discursive thought, which often (merely) functions…

  • Gold, Jupiter, & Wine

    Gornahoor quotes Evola here, regarding the possibility of theurgy and true astrology: In his The Hermetic Tradition, Julius Evola suggests that what he did for alchemy, needs to be done also for astrology and theurgy. This post is a possible beginning for whoever would like to take on that task. One possibility is the use…

  • The Lamp of Trismegistus

    The Lamp of Trismegistus

    The Hermit is not really a misanthrope. He loves humanity, but objectively and intellectually, not sentimentally. But humanity prefers sentiment, or the illusion of love, to real love.

  • The Wise Man rules the Elements

    In Transcendental Magic, Eliphas Levi quotes from a “Hebrew manuscript of the 16th century” regarding the powers and privileges of the Mage. They are grouped in three septenaries, with a conclusion, corresponding to the 22 Hebrew letters of the alphabet. First Septenary He beholds God face to face, without dying, and converses familiarly with the…

  • This is our Gold

    Alchemically, Solarity is represented by Gold. The path to solarity is given in the piece titled “The Hermetic Caduceus and the Mirror” by Abraxas from Introduction to Magic. It starts off with this claim: Every teaching of ours is illusory until it is translated into a practice and an action. This distinguishes Hermetic philosophy from…

  • Fundamentals of Sex Magick

    Fundamentals of Sex Magick

    The Beast explains why you should dislike what you should like and like what you should dislike.