The Adocentyn Temple Almanac Version 3 (TATA v3), now released and ready for requests!

At long last, and after a good bit of time in development and testing: version 3 of The Adocentyn Temple Almanac (TATA v3) has been completed and ready for ordering, just in time for people to get underway with their 2026 planning! Click here to request your personalized and customized ritual planning almanac, all for just US$20! The Adocentyn Temple Almanac is a fine-tuned one-year almanac…

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Reading the Kybalion: Conclusion and Comparison with the Hermetic Texts

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Reading the Kybalion: Chapter XV ("Hermetic Axioms") and General Follow-up

For this week’s Reading the Kybalion discussion, we’re woefully continuing our reading and discussion of The Kybalion, focusing on chapter XV (“Hermetic Axioms”). This week’s adverb for the reading is “woefully” because we still (somehow) have more to read, but in reality, we should feel a bit of relief; this is the last week we have to read anything we haven’t yet from the Kybalion, since we’re…

Reading the Kybalion: Chapters XI ("Rhythm") and XII ("Causation")

For this week’s Reading the Kybalion discussion, we’re deplorably continuing our reading and discussion of The Kybalion, focusing on chapters XI (“Rhythm”) and XII (“Causation”). Last week, we discussed two of the Kybalion’s principles, vibration and polarity, complete with all the bad science and worse understandings that WWA proliferates in his work. WWA is taking an incremental approach where…

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Reading the Kybalion: Chapters IX ("Vibration") and X ("Polarity")

For this week’s Reading the Kybalion discussion, we’re grievously continuing our reading and discussion of The Kybalion, focusing on chapters IX (“Vibration”) and X (“Polarity”). Last week, we finally got into the second half of this damnable mess of a book, having wrapped up a prolonged delving into the maze of twisty little passages (all alike, of course) of the Kybalion’s definition and…

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Reading the Kybalion: Chapter VIII ("Planes of Correspondence")

For this week’s Reading the Kybalion discussion, we’re dismally continuing our reading and discussion of The Kybalion, focusing on chapter VIII (“Planes of Correspondence”). Last week, we finally wrapped up our sojourn into the Kybalion’s exploration of mentalism and how it constructs (however sloppily and vaguely) its notion of “The All”.  The Kybalion spent so much time on this because, being a…

Reading the Kybalion: Chapter VII ("'The All' in All")

For this week’s Reading the Kybalion discussion, we’re despondently continuing our reading and discussion of The Kybalion, focusing on chapters VII (“‘The All’ in All”) and VIII (“Planes of Correspondence”). Last week, we continued our multichapter (and thus multiweek) sojourn into the Kybalion’s definition and understanding of its own principle of mentalism, the idea that all is Mind and thus…

I was on Pythian Priestess' show talking about AI and spirituality (and the yikes of it all)!

It seems like every new day brings with it some new reminder that the Butlerian Jihad is one of those sci-fi ideas that really actually should be employed at some point soon.  Nowadays, every company, every search engine, every social media network, every software update is trying to push some variant or other of whatever they mean by “AI” down everyone’s throats, whether they want it or not, and…

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Reading the Kybalion: Chapters V ("The Mental Universe") and VI ("The Divine Paradox")

Reading the Kybalion: Chapter IV ("The All")

For this week’s Reading the Kybalion discussion, we’re remorsefully continuing our reading and discussion of The Kybalion, focusing on chapter IV (“The All”). Last week, we began our multichapter (and thus multiweek) sojourn into the Kybalion’s definition and understanding of its own principle of mentalism, the idea that all is Mind and thus everything that exists (physically and mentally and…

Reading the Kybalion: Chapter III ("Mental Transmutation")

For this week’s Reading the Kybalion discussion, we’re ruefully continuing our reading and discussion of The Kybalion, focusing on chapters III (“Mental Transmutation”). Last week, we were each of us personally aggrieved by putting ourselves through Chapter II of the Kybalion, wherein WWA introduces and briefly describes (accompanied by a slew of pseudo-quotes from the non-existent ur-Kybalion)…

Reading the Kybalion: Chapter II ("The Seven Hermetic Principles")

For this week’s Reading the Kybalion discussion, we’re wretchedly continuing our reading and discussion of The Kybalion, focusing on chapter II (“The Seven Hermetic Principles”). Alright, fellow masochists and those addicted or conscripted to inflicting anguish (mental and otherwise) upon themselves!  This week, God and gods save us all, we pick up with chapter II (“The Seven Hermetic…

Reading the Kybalion: Title Page, Introduction, Chapter I ("The Hermetic Philosophy")

For this week’s Reading the Kybalion discussion, we’re regretfully starting our actual read of the book itself, focusing on the title page, the Introduction and chapter I (“The Hermetic Philosophy”). Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate. Welp! Now that we’ve gotten ourselves acquainted with the lamentable state of occulture and modern esotericism regarding the Kybalion, let us descend into…

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Reading the Kybalion: Prologue, History, Overview, and Perceptions

They say “if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself”. They also say a lot of other dumb things, but here we are anyway. So, on the Hermetic House of Life Discord server, while we were going through the weekly discussions that gave rise to my own Reading the Hermetica blogpost series (which we just finished up here last week!), wherein we covered all the classical Hermetic texts…

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Reading the Hermetica: Consecration, Ensoulment, and Sacrifice in Hephaistion of Thebe's "Apotelesmatics"

For this week’s Reading the Hermetica discussion, we’re wrapping up our look at technical Hermetic texts (and the series generally!), focusing this time on a section from the Apotelesmatics of Hephaistion of Thebes (book III, chapters 6 and 7). For this (last) week, we’ll talk about the Apotelesmatics of Hephaistion of Thebes, specifically book III, chapters 6 and 7 (and a bit of chapter 8 that…

Reading the Hermetica: the Sacred Book of Hermēs Trismegistos to Asklēpios

For this week’s Reading the Hermetica discussion, we’re continuing our look at some technical Hermetic texts, focusing this time on the Sacred Book of Hermēs Trismegistos to Asklēpios. One of the reasons why I like turning to the PGM so often is because it’s such a rich resource of Greco-Egyptian spiritual tech.  It’s got everything: talismans, amulets, phylacteries, exorcisms, divination,…