Because just as your holy daimon believes in you, so do I.

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.

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

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

Socrates always used a particular Greek word to denote this supporting inner agency: he called it his daimonion, never his daimon. The difference lies in the gender of the noun. Socrates chose a neuter gender, indicating that he viewed it as a daimonic something or even a divine sign, and not necessarily a conscious entity in itself.29 We can only

As we have already seen, in the early stages of Greek philosophy there is little if any evidence to be found of the concept of an evil daimon: the daimon was considered an undifferentiated occult force that struck from the darkness and which had the power to alter a person’s fate in all manner of directions. This force was beyond human control:

In many aspects the eros, or epithumetikon as opposed to the thumetikon, can be imagined as the complete opposite of the thumos. Whereas the thumos rules over the positive (social) emotions, the eros yearns to set free the (biological) desires and urges. Whereas the thumos represents the vitalizing force of spiritedness, the eros reveals our basic

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.

Traces of this line of thought appear several centuries later in the Safed school of Kabbalah, out of which Lurianic Kabbalah developed, in the concept of the breaking of the vessels that set divine forces free in an uncontrolled manner which thus gave birth to the origin of evil as the Qliphothic forces. This cosmic accident was caused by the