The Pauline Art of Solomon
You know I love me some Hockley, so I was really happy to see that Alan Thorogood has released another excellent volume. In the tradition of works to date, the book has an introduction by Thorogood, a...
View ArticleOf the Arte Goetia: John Dee?
Next in a series of articles for the launch week of my new book Of the Arte Goetia, I want to discuss the possible role of Elizabethan magus John Dee in the emergence of Goetia into the English...
View ArticleSecret Writing
Trithemius’ crypto-magical work Steganogaphia has been calling to me over the last year or so, but I hadn’t the time to really dig up a copy. This work existed in manuscript form since approximately...
View ArticleA Slightly Overdue Book
When I was a young lad in my college days at Oxford… okay, well, not Oxford, but the University of Maine… I checked out a book of magic titled “A Treatise on Angel Magic” from the Fogler Library (not...
View ArticleObserving the Lunary Sphere
I was doing some research recently that I thought would be interesting to share, and I use the term “interesting” loosely. Several manuscripts on a variety of topics note that operations should be...
View ArticleThe Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee – A Review
Firstly, I would like to suggest that if and when I am named the arch-conjuror of the United States, or a particular state, or perhaps even the local Starbucks, I would prefer it to be done so without...
View ArticleThoth Graecus – An Obsession
What started off as a curiosity with the figure of Thoth (or Toz/Toc) Graecus has become a full blown obsession. The thread I was hoping to pull at is quickly unravelling the garment that is my time –...
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