The Knight of the Royal Art On the Splendor Solis, Crowley’s Art, and the vertical cosmology of VITRIOL. The Knight on the Fountain Splendor Solis Plate 3 is one of the most densely encoded images in Western esotericism. A giant knight stands on the rim of a double fountain — silver armor decorated with gold…
Every practitioner of Western magick alive today owes an enormous debt to one man — and most of them don’t even know his name. S.L. MacGregor Mathers in Egyptian ceremonial garbMathers in Egyptian ceremonial garb, from Crowley’s autobiography Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854–1918), known within the Order as S.R.M.D. (S’Rioghail Mo Dhream — “Royal is…
John Dee’s Angels: Ten Discoveries Hiding in Plain Sight For four hundred years, the angel tables of Dr. John Dee have been copied, studied, and occasionally misread. Working with the Enochian Qabalistic (EQ) cipher system and returning to the original manuscripts, we found ten things no one seems to have noticed before — including a…
John Dee The Queen and I SACRARIUM SERPENTIS STELLAE The story of a forty-five-year friendship between England’s greatest magician and the most powerful woman in the world — and what happened when she left him behind. Portrait of John Dee (c.1594, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) “A very handsome man… tall and slender,with a long beard as…