Many spiritual and magical traditions distinguish between the Left-hand Path and the Right-hand Path. This can be interpreted as a metaphor for the two approaches to magic, or it can be taken more literally to mean that there are different ways to perform magic. The Left Path is frequently associated …
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is a spiritual group founded in the late nineteenth century. The order promotes occult and esoteric knowledge study, and its members engage in a variety of magical rituals. The Golden Dawn has had a significant impact on modern witchcraft and magic, and its …
Aleister Crowley was a controversial figure in the early twentieth century. Crowley, a prolific writer and occultist, was dubbed “the wickedest man in the world” by the British press for his teachings on Thelema, a new religious movement he founded. Despite, or perhaps because of, this, Crowley had a large …