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September 2013

September 06, 2013

Goddess Murder, 16: The Preaching of Mary

XVIII. From the Acts of Mary [An excerpt from The Acts of Mary as translated...

August 2013

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 04, 2013

On Not Buying into Ancient Propaganda

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

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...

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 08, 2013

The Man Who Falls in Love with Goddesses

He never wants to fall in love; it's just / That every once in a...

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 04, 2013

Of Infinity, Divinity, and the Big Bang

In the beginning there is no beginning. / There is only the Goddess and her...

February 02, 2013

A History of the Craft in America: California and Councils, Part III: The Council of Themis

As described in previous blogs, the attempt to create an umbrella, church-like organization for...

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...

January 02, 2013

The Letter to Theophilus, Part II

Mark prayed to the Goddess Charis to drop her sacred blood into the cup that...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

The Letter to Theophilus, Part I

My dear Theophilus, all the brothers and sisters send you greetings in the name of...

December 30, 2012

Preview of “The Letter to Theophilus”

The "Gnostics" were radically dualistic and radically ascetic, but they were not the only variety...

December 26, 2012

Marvin Meyer, 1948-2012

Going looking for old friends on the Net and discovering that they have passed on...

December 25, 2012

The Gnostic Bible: A Review

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

December 16, 2012

Goddess Murder

My novel Goddess Murder is essentially a love story, about the romance between a college...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Aphrodiphobia, Part V: Toward the Divine Sexuality

In one of the preceding essays, I said that a totally committed couple, in the...

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