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Tetragrammaton - the four letter name of God is a blueprint for working across the four stages of manifestation: intent, imagination, planning, and taking actions. These letters code the four elements of fire, water, air and earth, and operate in an intricate ecology of four "worlds" unified by a fifth. This four plus one structure also resonates with the observations made by Jean Gebser - that human history is identifiable in five key structures: the archaic, the magical, th

"An “occult” magical system is typically a taxonomy of possible events, ordered and arranged with a hierarchical element, and also with a method by which components of the schema can be randomly selected, as in divination. It is in a sense a random-access ontology. Because the taxonomy comprises a whole, it serves to provide interpretations for virtually any event that can arise. It is not a taxonomy of specific things or objects; it is not exact, but rather loose. Each level

"Language is the first, most fundamental magic. It reveals worlds, just as it conceals them. Consider this: words themselves, once we know them, appear to come out of nothing, fully formed and granting their meaning to our thought as if it were always, already there. Linguistic meaning arises as fiat and epiphany, after which we cannot imagine the prior state. The archetypal creation ex nihilo begins with a word. Order is brought to chaos by means of a vibrating breath. Once

Think this- the Tarot is an oral tradition, delivered by cue cards. The pictures on the cards suggests modes by which the imagination can compose forms - forms which on one vector of development distill into intentions, and on another - evaporate into concepts. Intentions and concepts co-mingle to birth physical objects that preserve the visions, and actions that unify the Tarot as a circuit of temporal becoming. This is how it goes - so turns the wheel TARO.

"When we consider that worlds of meaning (nationalities, identities, social narratives, calendrical devices, metaphors, idioms, etc.…) are crafted rather than discovered, we are thinking as magicians. When we accept them as natural, we are essentially fools, in the sense that a fool is the audience, the innocent, the enchanted. There are no pure magicians, and there are no pure fools: life is a turbulence of guile and belief. We need folly on one level to entertain the idea t

The Four Aces are seated in the Crown. They are the seeds of the whole system, the letters of the divine name Tetragrammaton. This week, meditate on how you would like to shape the course of your life over the next 32 week. Form an intention (wand), and visualize it vividly coming true (cup) in the next 8 months. Next list 10 things you could do to get closer to that reality (sword). Knock three of them off that list by Thursday of this week (pentacles). Magick helps us reali

The week of Kether initiates the seeds of what is to come.

In the Renaissance, it was dreamt that a person could become an enlightened generalist - a master of universal knowledge. This dream was...