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December 2014

December 30, 2014

Prologue to a Story of Jesus and Mary

Two beats of God’s heart ago, two thousand years as we feel time, the Awakened...

March 2014

March 23, 2014

On Karl Popper, George Gurdjieff, and Nondisprovable Hypotheses

Whenever I have mentioned “Gurdjieff’s Partition,” which is the concept that disprovable hypotheses are the...

May 2013

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 23, 2013

On the Soul and the Elements, or, Farewell to the Tripartite Anthropology, Part I

“Tripartite Anthropology” is a standard, although pompous, name for the concept held by the pre-Socratic...

March 2013

March 25, 2013

Knowledge Rather Than Faith

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

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 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 25, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: California and Councils, 1967 to 1973, Part I

More history of the Craft in California, plus the OTO, a fraternal magickal order associated...

December 2012

December 25, 2012

The Gnostic Bible: A Review

I think it logically impossible for Rabbi Joshua (commonly known as Jesus) to have believed...

June 2012

June 13, 2012

A Very Strange Novel About Witches and Gnostics

As a writer, I have always been fascinated by historical puzzles, about how various religions...

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