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August 2013

August 21, 2013

Goddess Murder, 13: The Other Two Gospels

XV. The Work Continues, 4 As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay...

August 20, 2013

Goddess Murder, 12: Awakening

XIV. Awakening [From The Gospel According to Mary, as translated by C.T. Edwards, A. Healy,...

August 17, 2013

Goddess Murder, 11: Aphrodiphobia

XIII. The Work Continues, 3 Andy spoke up. “What you’re saying, Alan, is that even...

August 15, 2013

Goddess Murder, 10: Dinner

XII. Dinner [From The Gospel According to Mary, as translated by C.T. Edwards, A. Healy,...

August 12, 2013

Goddess Murder, 9: More Discussion of the Gospels

Megan asked, “Don’t most people believe he could be the Messiah only because he was...

August 11, 2013

Goddess Murder, 8: Wedding

X. Wedding [From The Gospel According to Mary, as translated by C.T. Edwards, A. Healy,...

August 04, 2013

On Not Buying into Ancient Propaganda

In this passage from Epiphanius, we see that a young woman explained her sincere beliefs...

August 03, 2013

Goddess Murder, 7: Talking About Gnostic Gospels

IX. The Work Continues "Okay," I said. "Has everyone here had a chance to read...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

Goddess Murder, 6: Beginning the Gospel of Mary

VIII. The Beginning of the Gospel According to Mary [Excerpt from the translation by C.T....

July 29, 2013

Goddess Murder, 5: The Work Begins

VII. The Work Begins To Zeus all things are beautiful, just, and good, but...

July 27, 2013

Goddess Murder 4: The Redemption of Sophia

VI. The Redemption of Sophia [Excerpt from The Gospel of Simon and Helen, as translated...

July 25, 2013

Goddess Murder (Episode 3)

V. Burgled By the will of Fortune all things are conscious. . . . At...

July 22, 2013

Goddess Murder: A Tale of Love, Witches, and Gnostics (Episode 2)

II. Destruction [From the Poetic Epistemologies of Apollo.] They tied her to the tree, and...

July 19, 2013

Goddess Murder: A Tale of Love, Witches, and Gnostics (Episode 1)

Flames leaped up around the accused witch. Suddenly she shouted, "Ubaldo Allucingoli, hear me! The...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

On My Love for Sophia, Our Lady of Wisdom and Mercy

It is common to suppose that knowledge is not wisdom, but just what is the...

May 2013

May 22, 2013

The Queen Who Is Hidden in the Gospels, Part IV

In Part III of this series, I pointed out that Mk (The Gospel According to...

May 03, 2013

On Gnosticism, the Book of Shadows, and Sex

I received a few days ago my monthly statistical report from Patheos on how many...

April 2013

April 03, 2013

On Jesus as a Gnostic

Why write about him at all? Because, like it or not, he is the protagonist...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

On the Necessity of Awakening

I have settled on the term Awakening as the best label so far for this...

March 25, 2013

Knowledge Rather Than Faith

When the ecstasy hit, I gasped and looked up at the ceiling above my desk,...

March 06, 2013

A Request and Previews

A request for positive reviews of this blog, and some previews of upcoming posts.

March 05, 2013

On the Nature of the Gods

The passion of the Gods is not a calm and boring bliss. It is a...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

A Dialogue of Angels

What existed before the beginning? “Before” and “beginning” are irrelevant. Time is not primordial, nor...

February 25, 2013

On Being Outside All the Boxes

Having been working (for a long time) on a novel about the same alternative universe...

February 20, 2013

“History” — Part III

Canon 15. Innocence: The Sorceress Blake told you and told you: you never heard....

February 19, 2013

“History” — Part II

[For an overview of this poem and its complete title, please see the previous blog.]...

February 18, 2013

“History” — Part I

In December 1963 I had a spontaneous series of altered states that lasted for about...

January 2013

January 26, 2013

Imagine Jesus Holding Hands with the Goddess

One cannot talk about both Christianity and the Craft in the same breath IF if...

January 21, 2013

Post-Doctoral Witchcraft (or something like that)

I am thinking about how to teach what I actually know, which is far more...

January 03, 2013

The Letter to Theophilus, Part III

As followers of Kharpocrates, we celebrate our bodily pleasures, unlike the heretics, and teach our...

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