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Greetings everyone, The Theurgic school I am a part of just opened its applications for its entry level 'Probationer" class that starts in the next couple months. The ~10 week class is completely free, and focuses on understanding the ancient Graeco-Egyptian tradition of Theurgy, with an emphas...

True peace comes when the various forces in man become reconciled within himself. This, really, is the work of Theurgy, and Peace is one of the five goals or aims of the initiate. In the popular Hermetic traditions, one first balances the elemental energies within himself, then the zodiacal energies...

On the contrary, the meditative states are very real, as thousands of practitioners can testify. They take many years of training to achieve, depending on the technique used. Some students can catch a glimpse the first state, Pratyahara, within a couple years. Others take several years. Most people ...

Might have been a somewhat distorted past life memory of the Yogic mantra "Hamsa," or its equivalent form, "Soham." It means roughly, "I am He." The "Ham" sound is said while exhaling, and the "Sa" or "So" part is said while inhaling. If yo...

The book sounds sketchy. Jehovah can be transliterated as YHVH, IHVH, or JHVH because the Hebrew letter "Yod" can equally be seen as Y, I, or J. Referring to the Tetragrammaton as "Jehovah," however, completely strips it of its meaning. The tetragrammaton only has meaning as YHVH...

This question is absolutely fundamental to mysticism, and in my opinion, if a tradition or teacher cannot define this accurately for you, you should have nothing to do with them. You shouldn't have to follow anyone mystically who has not at least attained union with God in consciousness, the bare mi...

I don’t see jumping into ritual work as particularly slower, as far as progress goes, than meditation. On that matter I feel like we must define what we consider “progress”, but that sounds like another thread. The reason I disagree with you is my personal experience with it, and the experience of ...

Thanks!! I am still working on the ritual with limited levels of success. I think continued practice will get me more defined results. In my limited experience I have found that it takes me doing a ritual a few times before it is successful. Beginning with ritual work does work, but it's terribly s...

When I think of “Magus,” I do not think of the standards presented by modern occultists, the vast majority of which have accomplished very little in magic. I instead turn to the ancient tradition of Theurgy, Hermetics proper, and its definition of a magical Master, a true Magus. From this perspectiv...

Ritual is not absolutely necessary in the hands of a thoroughly trained magician, but it is very helpful. Many so-called magicians, who have not undergone thorough training, cannot evoke or affect any magic without ritual. When Iamblichus revived Theurgy, which is the basis of almost all modern cere...