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August 2017

August 10, 2017

All the Prophets Say

All the prophets say we are deluded. We think we understand our selves, our minds,...

May 2017

May 23, 2017

The Word Creates the Thing It Names

Not ex nihilo, out of nothingness, For nothingness does not exist. The word selects what...

January 2017

January 17, 2017

Announcing: Songs for the Gods and Witches

As I have said before, I am primarily a poet, not a preacher or prophet....

July 2016

July 17, 2016

Diana, Bathing

Soon after my abrupt and spectacular expulsion from being a Catholic at age 14, I...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Deducing the Nature of the Gods, Part II

Interestingly, the problem of good and evil exhibits the same structure as the problem of...

February 23, 2016

On the Primacy of Nondisprovable Hypotheses, Part II

The eccentric Russian philosopher George Gurdjieff, thinking about the contentious interface between “science” and “religion,”...

January 2016

January 01, 2016

Announcing: Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage

Finally, after 45 years of working on the raw materials, and twenty of thinking of...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

About Fragments as Materials for Art

Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage, which I have now released through the...

November 13, 2015

Announcing: Aradia and the Books of the Sacred Marriage

It’s done. After 45 years of working on the materials that went into it, it’s...

September 2015

September 06, 2015

Announcing: The Books of the Sacred Marriage, with an explanation

It has been quite a while since I posted on here. I've been busy writing,...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

Please Join the Aidan Kelly Book Club: Help Me Get My Books Written

My previous post on Patreon, proposing a journal to be called Mythopoiesis, was putting the...

April 2015

April 12, 2015

From the Diary of St. Allogenes

Before anything came into being, the Mother alone existed, before the worlds in the heavens...

April 01, 2015

The Second Letter of Diana

This is a discrete unit from my ongoing Books of the Sacred Marriage. Should I...

March 2015

March 21, 2015

The Hymn of the Eternal Marriage

I enjoy finding fragments of lost treasures and piecing them together to see what they...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

Trekking Toward Nineveh, Mile One

I have finally, step by step, been forced to realize what I must do. Since...

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...

August 2014

August 16, 2014

In the Name of the Goddess, I Say to You . . .

All saints revile her, and all sober men Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

A Choice for the Erinyes of Victimhood

A reader recently commented on one of my blogs dealing with sexuality that I was...

May 2014

May 11, 2014

What If Witches Are the Genuine Christians? — Goddess Murder II

I had completed much more writing linked to my Goddess Murder project, and it was...

May 04, 2014

Blindsided by a Rabbit, Again

Just finished Paulo Coelho’s Eleven Minutes. Every one of his books is like seeing through...

April 2014

April 20, 2014

Pagans and Christians and Mark, Part I

Some people ask whether one can be both Pagan and Christian. If you think of...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

Retrieving the Myth of Jesus and Sophia, Part II

Understanding what the actual theology of the classical Gnostics was about depends on understanding what...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

Goddess Murder, 31: First Night in Avalon

XXXIII. Avalon I As all men are alike (tho’ infinitely various), so all Religions, and...

October 22, 2013

Goddess Murder, 30: Aradia in Hades

XXXII.  Hades She is walking along a path through the forest, wearing a white robe,...

October 14, 2013

Goddess Murder, 26: The Sermon to the Prostitutes

XXVIII. The Sermon to the Prostitutes  As Aradia was speaking, a young woman in 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...

June 08, 2013

A Prayer That I Hope Many More Can Say

I’ve tried before to rewrite the “Lord’s Prayer” into a prayer for Pagans. This morning...

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 21, 2013

The Queen Who Is Hidden in the Gospels, Part III

 As I discussed in the previous blog, that rather humorous passage about the Queen of...

May 16, 2013

The Queen Who Is Hidden in the Gospels, Part II

At the end of Part I, I asked, Would the people in Jesus’ time have...

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