tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49091484739932240082011-05-19T11:12:18.690-04:00The Western Mystery Tradition in the 21st CenturyFrater R.T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16761819306957056246noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4909148473993224008.post-7743831380981261412009-05-20T14:43:00.011-04:002009-05-20T15:14:52.021-04:00

A good friend of mine and fellow librarian, Colleen Harris, also happens to be an excellent poetess. Not only is she a great writer, but she has also been published - A LOT! Up to this point it has been mostly journals and anthologies, but her first book of prose and poetry will hit the presses very soon. Bellowing Ark Press already has God in my Throat available for pre-purchase on their

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It's nothing new to note that the relationship between the more established Orders of the Golden Dawn tradition is strained at best, and more akin to the Set/Osirus relationship at worst. Each side taking on the role of Osirus and casting the other as the Setian villain. Personally, I think there is enough blame to go around and I'd be dishonest if I said I could not appreciate arguments that

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I have been following the latest skirmishes in the Golden Dawn flame wars with some interest lately. One of the latest disagreements relates to a Syriac translation of The Emerald Tablet by Nineveh Shadrach, a scholar, translator of arcane Middle Eastern texts, and practitioner of Rouhaniat. Ninevah has a lot of books and translations of various texts popping up in the market and I hope to read

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English Author, Antiquarian, Freemason & expert on Waite, FRC, HOGD, SRIA and Victorian art and writing spoke at the October 4th, 2008 conference of the Rose Circle Research Foundation where he was awarded the status of FELLOW in the Society.

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A friend of mine who writes at Herbis Orbis visited Dublin last year, and went to a W.B. Yeats exhibit at the National Library and shared these pictures she took of his Golden Dawn Journal.She told me that "In addition to original manuscripts of his poems, plays and other writings, they had much of his Golden Dawn collection -- notebooks, hand-made tools, tarot, sketches, etc. Near the entrance

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This is old news from 2007, but it is likely that you missed it. I think it is interesting to note that the Egyptian magicians drew on the Canaanite magicians' expertise to perfect their funerary protection spells. But, we all knew that there were shared elements in the Mysteries at that time.Ancient Semitic Snake Spells Deciphered in Egyptian Pyramid: "The ancient Egyptians believed themselves

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"Ex Orient Lux" - I do see the irony in having a blog named "The Light from the East" that covers the Western Mystery tradition. In the WMT we understand that, in the literal and mystical sense, our light and understanding is tied to the rising sun, the Golden Dawn of realization and initiation. It just so happens that the path I choose for approaching that Light from the East is through the

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