If you woke up this morning with Queen Elizabeth II as your head of state then you probably have an opinion about rugby. Or if you woke up this morning in a country we have repeatedly trounced in battle (France) then you also probably have a rugby opinion. Kiwis, Australians, English, French, Welsh, Saffas....
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Not for nothing is my darling Bruno in the header image for this website. He’s one of my all-time heroes. The combination of a passionate, brilliant spiritual seeker and a boisterous, obstinate Italian is intoxicating and unrivalled. Only a certain kind of person has to flee in the night when he finds out the...
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It amuses me how strong the tendency is among corners of the magical world to throw the baby out with the bath water. Almost as if, should you find one idea in a book or a blog post you disagree with then the whole lot has to go. You could -and I do- make...
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The first Darwinian biologists -eager heads brimming with notions of natural selection- observed a startling amount of same-sex pairings in the wild. A lot more than they were expecting. Mother Nature, it appeared, was the first fag hag. For instance, giraffes are very gay. (But you can tell just by looking at them. They...
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I bought this delightful little book from a discounted bookstore on my local high road. The bookstore itself is amazing -one of the benefits of witnessing the complete collapse of the publishing industry is that there are bargains to be had for ghouls like us. All you need to do is find a remainder...
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Centred in Florence, the Renaissance was a time of great achievement in art, music and architecture. Intertwined with these world-changing achievements; and of equal or greater significance; the city was also the epicentre of one of the biggest leaps forward in Western magic. Picture the scene. It’s night time in Florence in 1461. A...
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Been re-reading a little Hermetica to go with some of the Gnostic history I have been researching. (Just finished a great book on the Gospel of Judas. Great for the content… The writing is absolute rubbish.) One of the reasons I ended up in Chaos Magic is it is one of the few systems...
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