alt.magick.serious

Pages

  • Apple and Pair of AngelsThirteen poems by Pieira dos Lobos, apparently Steve Kane, posted to alt.magick.serious in April 2004: elegy, dream encounter, rural Portugal, winter theology, and household ritual imagery.
  • Because — On the Three Roots of MagicSteve Kane's proposed threefold classification of magical practice into Domestic, Forest, and Text magic, with practical instructions and a closing poem on Mary Magdalene and Easter symbolism.
  • Introduction to alt.magick.seriousA source-critical introduction to the Good Works Library's alt.magick.serious shelf: seven selected Usenet artifacts on ceremonial magic, Thelema, Illuminati history, practitioner ethics, domestic sorcery, and magical poetics.
  • On Sorcery — A Practitioner's CodeSteve Kane's 2004 practitioner manifesto from alt.magick.serious: nine precepts for a magical life, including truth-telling, responsibility, rejection of power-seeking, and warnings about madness and spiritual performance.
  • The Aeon of the Double Wanded One — Thelema, Zen, and the Middle WayJason (Rehru Gazib) reads Thelemic cosmology beside Zen Buddhism, Daoism, and Madhyamaka, arguing for a relationship between Crowley's Double Wanded One and the integration of consciousness states.
  • The Bavarian Illuminati — A Historical FAQA Usenet historical FAQ on the Bavarian Illuminati, compiled from Coil's Masonic Encyclopedia (1961) and German-language scholarly references, covering Adam Weishaupt, Baron von Knigge, the Order's structure, its suppression, and later conspiracy legend.
  • The Book of the Law II,76 — Solution to the Riddle ALFrater Nothing's qabalistic exegesis of the cipher in Liber AL vel Legis II:76, reading its numbers and letter-groups through Hebrew Gematria and Crowley's Sepher Sephiroth.
  • The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram — A Kabbalistic Practitioner's GuideCeremonial magician Kakkab explains the Kabbalistic structure underlying the LBRP: the assignment of Divine Names, Archangels, and Elements to the four cardinal directions, and practical methods for projecting light, tracing pentagrams, and vibrating Divine Names.