Renaissance Hermeticism (more precisely Hermetic Platonism) as advanced by Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), provides an interpretive key through which the Order’s methods of Initiation, practice of meditation, and discipline of silence can be understood. This framework is not an adjunct to our practice; it is one of the fundamental philosophical and ethical keys through which theContinue reading “The “Hermetic” in the Hermetic Order”
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Reverence is Important
I have mentioned this in part elsewhere in reference to the importance of writing Hebrew letters correctly, through careful and conscious writing of their forms, “magically” turning mundane letters into Sacred Symbols. The purpose of making that point was, however, more to stress not to bring a casual attitude to magical work as the subconsciousContinue reading “Reverence is Important”
Sacred Symbols
Hebrew is used extensively throughout many of the various O. manuscripts from Ceremonies to KL’s to side papers and private notes and rituals. It’s use is almost always exclusively to do with the Sacred and associated with the Tree of Life and other Qabalistic concepts including the many Divine names of Gods, Angels and theContinue reading “Sacred Symbols”
