Category: Feature

Right or Left, Republican or Democrat, Americans are a very sick people, and the only proof you need are the innumerable posts rushing to blame the other side in a case where no one yet knows what motivated the murderer. Of the two groups

So far, we have learned that the Renaissance, while it certainly celebrated human reason, also witnessed the revival of neopagan, anti-Christian magic.  This Hermetic movement, which takes its name from the writings written under the name Hermes Trismegistus, aimed at finding the secrets of making gold, creating living creatures, liberating men from the Christian religion and Christian morality,

Fame is not everything: It probably comes after money and power, but once you have money and power and hot and cold running blonds, what else can the apemen want?

Unfortunately, neopaganism does not merely have a dark side.  It is the dark side of the classical revival in general and of Hellenism in particular

One thread connecting Renaissance magic with our own New Age magic is the belief in secret brotherhoods and utopian  societies ruled by adepts in Hermetic magic, such as the lost continent of Atlantis.