The Invisible College

A fruitful Beltane to you all, Heathens.

Pretty things; endless cigarettes and caffeine drips fueling all-night magical midrash; a cabal of the power-elite, not fatcat illuminati wallowing in their moloch game, no, the elite who hold the keys to heaven and hell, the arbiters of taste and joy, me, you, us.

—http://the-invisible-college.blogspot.com/2011/08/pretty-things.html

The divisions in magic are false, in that the information that we’ve previously been talking about is freely available. When Crowley was initiated into the Golden Dawn, there’s an anecdote where he talks about being sworn to absolute secrecy and then being given the Hebrew alphabet. Even then, Crowley is mocking the stupidity of this amazing degree of secrecy over a piece of information which is absolutely available. Occult groups really need to be aware of the fact that all of the secrets are out, and so it’s probably time to stop playing the game of ‘we’ve got a secret’ or ‘we have initiated knowledge.’ Because quite frankly you can tell if people have connection, and connection is what we find counts, rather than lineage or initiation. People have either done the work, or they haven’t done the work. They have contact, or they don’t have contact. They either have physical practice or they don’t have physical practice. That’s what we’re interested in.

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Peter Grey of Scarlet Imprint (via an interview with Occult of Personality)

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