Author: A Solitary Pagan
The Seven Hermetic Principles
Here are the seven classic Hermetic principles. I kept them as straightforward as possible. The Principle of Mentalism This is the first principle. It states that “all is mind”—that everything exists in the mind of the God/dess, or the divine consciousness. In her book Power of the Witch, Laurie Cabot writes of the first principle that “all creation is composed by the Divine Mind.” In other words,...
Hermes Trismegistus and the Hermetic Principles
Truth be told, a lot of magick is founded on philosophy. Case in point: the Hermetic principles. The Hermetic principles are a set of philosophical beliefs based upon the ancient writings of Hermes Trismegistus. According to folklore, these principles or laws were originally inscribed upon emerald tablets and were discovered by Alexander the Great when he opened Hermes Trismegistus’s tomb. After t...
LUCK BRINGER
Any of the following items you can acquire from occult supply shops. You will need: 1. Bottle of perfume, new, not used before. 2. Some Devil’s Shoestring. 3. Some Jerusalem Root. 4. Some Adam and Eve Root. After acquiring all items above, put 2,3 and 4 in the perfume. Make sure to cut them in small enough pieces before attempting this. Once every day, for nine consecutive days, hold bottle ...
A Solitary Sunrise Ritual for Success and Prosperity
Timing: Work this solitary ritual on a Sunday at sunrise. Supplies: a yellow or gold votive candle a straight pin or boline (for inscribing the candle) a votive candle holder a plain, small plate or saucer magnetic golden sand matches or a lighter the Sun and Strength cards from your tarot deck fresh solar flowers such as sunflowers, yellow carnations, marigolds, and fresh oak leaves a vase filled...
PROSPERITY SPELLS
Purpose and Focus: Be clear with your intention. What is the purpose of the ritual? Are you focused? Did you take a moment to ground and center and to put aside all negativity? Do not focus on fears or wants. Focus on abundance happiness, positive change, and prosperity. Now ask yourself if your intention is pure. Are you sincere? The phrase “know thyself” was inscribed on an ancient temple at Del...
Plant Magick, The key to understanding the Old Ways
Plants are an integral key to understanding the Old Ways. Our ancestors attached symbolism to different plant part such as flowers or leaves because of what their shape resembled, or even what the nature of the environment in which they grew suggested often something of their physical nature indicated magickal power such as the sunflower always turning to face the sun, or the moon flower only...
The Incomplete five senses of Witchcraft
Fundamental to magick is a belief that the phenomenal world of the five senses is incomplete. Witches believe that we live in a world quite different from the one our five senses show to us – they believe that every living thing possesses, because it is living, certain energies which we as individuals can sense and ‘see’ if we become receptive to them. This receptiveness is one of the aims of magi...
BOOBACH
The Bwbach, or Boobach, is the good-natured goblin which does good turns for the tidy Welsh maid who wins its favour by a certain course of behaviour recommended by long tradition. The maid having swept the kitchen, makes a good fire the last thing at night, and having put the churn, filled with cream, on the whitened hearth, with a basin of fresh cream for the Bwbach on the hob, goes to bed to aw...
PIGMY ELVES
The Ellyllon are the pigmy elves who haunt the groves and valleys, and correspond pretty closely with the English elves. The English name was probably derived from the Welsh el, a spirit, elf, an element; there is a whole brood of words of this class in the Welsh language, expressing every variety of flowing, gliding, spirituality, devilry, angelhood, and goblinism. Ellyllon (the plural of ellyll)...
FAERIES- DO YOU BELIEVE OR NOT
Fairies being creatures of the imagination, it is not possible to classify them by fixed and immutable rules. In the exact sciences, there are laws which never vary, or if they vary, their very eccentricity is governed by precise rules. Even in the largest sense, comparative mythology must demean itself modestly in order to be tolerated in the severe company of the sciences. In presenting his subj...
The Chaos of the divine feminine
“The reason that they felt ill at ease was that by eating and drinking they laid themselves open to Az-concupiscence: their bodies were no longer self-sufficient but depended on nourishment from outside, and this in turn ultimately led to their own wastage and death when they themselves are devoured by Az, for Az is not only the demon of gluttony and lust, she is also the demon of death who is nev...
The Blood of Wolves
In the ancient witchcraft religion (Yatuk), Persian Sorcerers used blood of wolves (who are sacred to Ahriman) to call upon darkness. Ahriman was probably in this sense, one of the first Vampyre forms of ancient history. While similar to other fallen angels such as Azazel/Iblis or Lucifer, there is a strong separation of Ahriman from such fire djinn. The reason for this is that Ahriman is of death...