Last Saturday morning my wife Holly and I drove from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to attend the Pagan Pride day celebration. It was small, but diverse, and there were some great workshops. The area was covered for shade, but still hot and very dry. I hope next year the attendance will be even better. After the event my wife and I went to a party being held by some friends we hadn't seen in years. Sunday morning we got up early and took the drive home. As I wrote, the weather was incredibly hot and dry, and with stops (such as in the city of Baker where one shop is decorated in an alien—from outer space, not terrestrials from outside the U.S. borders—motif and they sell a wide variety of

When Aleister Crowley was initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, he was initially impressed with the intensity and seriousness of the vows he took never to reveal any of the secrets of the Order. He quickly became disappointed, though, when those "secrets" were revealed to be relatively mundane—or at least well known—things like the Hebrew alphabet and the signs of astrology. Aleister Crowley Giving the "Sign of Pan" The title of the book next to him, Perdurabo Magister, means "Master Perdurabo" Perdurabo, "I shall endure to the end," is the magickal name Crowley took in 1898 when he was initiated into the Golden Dawn It's true that the Hebrew alphabet and basic

Even though billions of people around the world believe in reincarnation, and the belief in reincarnation has existed for thousands of years, it remains a highly controversial subject. Personally, I believe that's a good thing. We should examine our beliefs to determine whether they are based in reality rather than fantasy. Most occultists, but definitely not all of them, accept reincarnation as a "given." Aleister Crowley, for example, thought he was the reincarnation of famed French occultist Eliphas Levi. He also thought that in a life previous to that he had been Edward Kelly, the assistant to Dr. John Dee, discoverer of the system of Enochian magick. Why don't more people accept

Why is it magical people are so interested in the Tarot? There are numerous forms of divination. Currently, I'm beginning to study palmistry. Here are a few great resources if you're interested: You Can Read Palms by Richard Webster Instant Palm Reader by Linda Domin Palmistry Quick & Easy by Peter Hazel Palm Reading for Beginners by Richard Webster and The Hand from A to Z by Judith Hipskind There is a good reason for palmistry's popularity: you don't need any props. You don't need cards or runes, tea leaves or crystal balls. All you need is your hands. But it's not the Tarot. For magicians, the Tarot has far more uses than divination. The great occultist, Eliphas Levi,