Hey folks,
Just wanted to let you all know about this Societas Magica event coming up next week. Please register if it's something that interests you. We'll be discussing quest... 2024-02-09 16:14:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi friends,
It's been a while since I've posted here and I wanted to keep all you fine folks in the loop. Over the past couple of months my health has not been so great. Whether as a lo...
2024-01-22 14:04:49 +0000 UTC View Post
A discussion between myself and Vajra Reagan on Lapidaries, Magic Stones, and Hermetic Talismans in the Medieval Latin West. Vajra Reagan is a PhD student at the University of Toronto’s Centre fo...
2023-12-18 15:53:16 +0000 UTC View Post
An introductory exploration of 'The Golden Age of Saturn' in ancient Greek and Latin literature. This video delves into the popular mythological concept that symbolized a period of peace, prosperit...
2023-11-22 23:41:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a significant but little-known work in the history of astrology: the infamous Dominican Friar Girolamo Savonarola's 'The Futility and Superstition of the Traditions of Astrology' which is a ...
2023-10-25 21:54:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I looked around to find that such a thing did not already exist on YouTube, so I decided to make a short video on The Emerald Tablet, read in both Latin and English interlineally, using Thomas Tayl...
2023-10-24 01:04:20 +0000 UTC View Post
An excerpt from M. Tullius Cicero's De Legibus, on the laws of Roman religion.
2023-10-12 19:38:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Preserved in Eusebius of Caesarea's Praeparatio Evangelica, the Theology of the Phoenicians by Sanchuniathon presents a euhemerist account of the creation of the world and the birth of the gods fro...
2023-10-05 12:30:52 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, I just wanted to write a quick message to let you all know that I've finally broken the 100k subscriber mark on YouTube which is pretty awesome. My account has even been verified (tho...
2023-10-03 20:23:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been a bit under the weather lately, but I've managed to down enough cold medicine to bring you a reading of "On the Gods and the World" by Sallust, a work of pagan theology from Late Antiquit...
2023-09-21 23:43:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In the 12th century Medieval Latin West, long before there were "Seven Hermetic Principles," there were only six. But what were they? Let's unveil the Hermetic Book of Six Principles of Things to f...
2023-09-14 00:52:46 +0000 UTC View Post
"Summa fratris Raynerii de Catharis et Leonistis seu pauperibus de Lugduno" or THE SUMMA OF BROTHER RAINERIUS OF THE ORDER OF PREACHERS ON THE CATHARS AND THE POOR OF LYONS (1250 AD) is one Dominic...
2023-09-03 00:43:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's what will probably be the final installment of my series of videos on Francis Barrett's The Magus (1801), this time focusing on more practical aspects of astral magic, viz. aspects, fixed st...
2023-08-24 18:45:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Adapted from Pliny the Elder's The Natural History (c. 77 AD)
Translated by John Bostock and H.T. Riley. London (1855)
You can read the full text here: 2023-08-07 19:50:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The true secret of the philosophers' stone; or, Jewel of Alchymy wherein the process of making the great Elixir is discovered; by which base metals may be turned into pure gold; containing the most...
2023-07-20 18:44:15 +0000 UTC View Post
From “The Ante-Nicene Fathers” (1903)
Translated by Alexander Roberts
In "Against the Valentinians," the early Latin Christian writer and theologian Tertullian sardonically addresse...
THE NEW BIRTH EXPERIENCE IN HERMETICISM
From “Pagan Regeneration” by Harold R. Willoughby, 1929.
The Religion of Numa (Part 5/5): The Augustan Renaissance
Written by Jesse Benedict Carter (1906)
PDF available here: 2023-06-22 00:59:20 +0000 UTC View Post
These introductory remarks are by Louise Schutz Boas (1965) and are important for understanding the context in which this text was written:
"A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes is an...
2023-06-09 00:58:50 +0000 UTC View Post
What is the role of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus in Picatrix? Can we really call the Picatrix "Hermetic?" This video examines all instances of Hermes' presence in the Latin Picatrix, the medieval ...
2023-05-29 11:45:31 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks, just a heads up that I've got a new video coming down the pipeline. It's a bit on the long side so it's taken me a bit longer than usual to get all the video edited. You can think of it ...
2023-05-28 12:58:15 +0000 UTC View Post
A video of "The Study of Natural Magic: Of the Influence of the Stars," excerpted from Francis Barrett's magnum opus, 'The Magus' (London, 1801).
2023-05-15 15:30:54 +0000 UTC View Post
The Religion of Numa (Part 4/5): The Decline of Faith
By Jesse Benedict Carter (1906)
2023-05-02 15:01:49 +0000 UTC View Post
An account of the the 42 Hermetic Books of the Egyptians by Clement of Alexandria (Stromata, or Miscellanies, Book 6, Chapter 4). The number breakdown of the 42 books was drawn from G.R.S. Mead's t...
2023-04-26 18:35:20 +0000 UTC View Post
An interview with the astrologer and astral magician Michael Ofek about his personal practice.
2023-04-10 13:34:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a lightly edited and remastered version of a series of two discussions originally livestreamed on Esoterica with Dr. Justin Sledge back in November of 2022 as "Commentary on the 1398 Condem...
2023-04-07 12:58:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The Religion of Numa (Part 3/5): The Coming of the Sibyl
Written by Jesse Benedict Carter (1906)
PDF available here: 2023-04-02 01:44:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a lecture introducing Dionysus and his divine mysteries to my class on Roman religion. Enjoy!
2023-03-21 22:26:02 +0000 UTC View PostHere's a lecture introducing the figure of Orpheus to my class on Roman religion. Enjoy!
2023-03-21 22:24:37 +0000 UTC View Post
The Stoic Cosmos (Excerpt from Cicero's On the Nature of the Gods - w/ English and Latin Text)
An account of the world and its divinity according to the Stoic philosopher Quintus Lucilius Bal...
2023-03-09 01:34:02 +0000 UTC View Post