Holy Daimon

I suggest four different stages to uncloak the voice and presence of your holy daimon. It would be wise to follow these stages in sequence, and work through each chapter in the order given. The work within each of these four stages is cyclical and will never end. Once we have finished the first cycle, we return to where we began, only in a slightly

As it replied to the last question, I saw a closed circle of black-feathered angels with red eyes all around me. They stood in complete silence, like a living wall or chain of darkness that concentrated all life and light in itself. The outer skin of creation.

We have to learn how to put our power into the service of something greater than ourselves.

Because your daimon is a raw, pure, essential reality: it simply occupies a different realm. So let’s mirror this in our work. Walking this path is not about our personal dreams, dramas, desires, or preferences. It is about the work that has to be done. Nothing else. That work is to turn your senses into vehicles for, rather than obstacles to, the

This particular kind of extended ritual practice is taught as part of the curriculum of the magical training organization IMBOLC. This organization was founded in 1992 by Roland Gabler in Kempten, Germany, as an independent study institute, and it offers an in-depth magical training for the solitary practitioner in all aspects of Western hermeticis

Objectivity – the deliberate elimination of every subjective aspect of an experience – has become an unquestioned and seemingly universal standard in every field of research. While objectivity is certainly necessary in, for instance, medicine and some fields of physics, it causes real problems when it is applied to all modes of human enquiry. Today

Whether he is happy or unhappy is not something which lies in man’s control; the happy man is the one who has a good daimon, eudaimon, in contrast to the unhappy man, the kakodaimon, dysdaimon. (…) A general belief in spirits is not expressed by the term daimon until the fifth century.25

The magic of creating communion with our holy daimon is one of the most powerful forms of serving life

Both Xenocrates and Aristotle attended Plato’s Academy in Athens. But whereas for Aristotle mathematics and science were unquestionably the correct basis for philosophy, having little time for his mentor Plato’s old-fashioned mysticism, Xenocrates worked on investigating the mystery cults and traditional religion of the ancient Greeks and integrati