The concept of a Patron Deity is more or less a modern one, and suits contemporary Paganism because the relationship tends to be an individual, solitary, private dynamic rather than a community-based public practice. It is not without precedent though. I tend to look to the Medieval Irish culture of Continue Reading
Grimoires
The Passion of Ceridwen – A Vision
I saw proud Ceridwen, great Queen and Goddess, Long blond curling hair and pale skin, a red dress, Alone in the fort on the lake, an evening of storm and silvery light. Her Lord rode hard to hounds and shouted, far away, Full of the joy of freedom and male Continue Reading
Leabhar Draíocht – The Grimoire Diagrammaton
These are the collected Diagrammaton of the Hollow Collective, from 2000-2012. There are others, of course, and in due course, as we excavate the archives of the Hidden Library, they will be added au fur et à mesure. Venus in Furs, Mars to Measure. DIAGRAMMATON : appeared as one of Continue Reading
THE HIDDEN LIBRARY
Devlin’s Account of The Long Night Nov. 1st 1894 So it begins. The Game is underway, the seeds are sown, the dice are cast. And, despite some rotten looking bruises around the face and head, I’ll hazard that I’m winning already. Crowe can stuff it in his pipe. He told Continue Reading
LEAVES FROM THE LEABHAR DRAÍOCHT : SAINT SWITHIN’S DAY – HIGH SUMMER, 15 July 2012
We had come to the Lost Domain, leaving as the last of the night leaked from the sky under the last wedge of the Waning Moon. I carried with me a glyph of Will-Working, charged in an intense ceremony in which the Dark One-Eyed Wanderer stood before me, covered me Continue Reading
Leabhar Draiocht – The Grimoire
PARIS 11 July 1972 In the beginning was the WORD … That’s all there is to know about magic, all there is to know about most things really. On the very off-chance that anyone else ever reads this book, this book of magic and strange experiments, writings, dreams and diagrams, Continue Reading