Tour Boleskine House! Boleskine house, the Scottish mansion once owned by Aleister Crowley, has been restored. Not only that, it has made the list of top ten tou...

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Fake News Media Consolidation After more than a year of legal back-and-forth , it finally has happened. In the biggest fake news consolidation deal probably ever, The O...

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Arkansas Ten Commandments Law Struck Down Last month, in a win for religious freedom advocates, a federal judge struck down a law passed in Arkansas requiring the Ten Commandments t...

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Impersonating a Wizard Detective SFGate reported Monday on a bizarre story in which a man claiming to be wizard detective Harry Dresden of urban fantasy fame threatened the...

Off to jail for impersonating a wizard detective.

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AI Religion Has a Name And that name is apparently "spiralism." Researchers have found that when individuals who get sucked into religious beliefs related to AI c...

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Via Solis Aries Elixir Rite - Year Ten Today's post is a full script for the Aries Elixir Rite that we will be performing on Tuesday, April 14th, at the ritual workshop starting a...

The Aries Elixir Rite is tomorrow evening!

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The Cabal is not Shadowy Over and over again, I keep hearing online conspiracy theorists go on about the "shadowy cabal" of "satanists" who run the world. Some peopl...

The people running the world are not lizards, Satanists, or occultists. They're billionaires, and there's nothing shadowy about their cabal.

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The Mystery of Easter One of the lingering unanswered questions surrounding the Easter holiday is its continuing association with rabbits, chicks, and colored egg...

It's that time of year again. Happy Easter!

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Not April Fools For quite awhile the tradition here on Augoeides for April Fools Day has been to find an article with some relation to religion, spiritualit...

April Fools? I've got nothing on both these stories.

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No More James Arthur Ray I am pretty late to the party on this story , which actually took place January of last year. Self-help author James Arthur Ray passed away ...

Self-help author James Arthur Ray passed away last year. His story is a cautionary tale for spiritual seekers of all kinds.

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Waffle House Teleportation According to online memes, Denny's is Waffle House for people who don't know how to fight. Living in Minnesota where Waffle House does not e...

Waffle House teleportation is apparently a thing.

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All Hail the Prophet! The prophet in question, of course, being me. Last week I posted my prophetic prediction that the current war in Iran would not bring on Th...

My prophetic track record remains perfect.

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Office of the Readings for 2026 Happy Thelemic New Year, everyone! It's that time again, for the Office of the Readings. Like last year, the Office of the Readings will ...

The Office of the Readings starts tonight at 7 PM.

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No Rapture for You Since the United States attacked Iran at the end of February, I have been seeing statements like the ones in this article floating around t...

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AI Devil Worshippers? There are lots of reasons to hate AI. As a writer, it really bothers me that large language models were trained on content for which their c...

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Via Solis Pisces Elixir Rite - Year Nine Today's post is a full script for the Pisces Elixir Rite that we will be performing tomorrow, February 24th at the Ritual Workshop starting ...

The Pisces Elixir Rite is tomorrow evening!

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Still Not Occultists I have talked a lot over the years on Augoeides about the almost complete non-existence of "occult crime." Time and time again, occultism w...

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Mineapolis Witchcraft? It is no big secret that I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Yes, that Minneapolis, Minnesota, the site of the administration's big "Metro ...

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Cognitive Dissonance? In the past I have been highly critical of "meltdown stories" involving Enochian magick. The story goes that there is something specific ab...

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Via Solis Aquarius Elixir Rite - Year Nine Today's post is a full script for the Aquarius Elixir Rite that we will be performing tomorrow, January 20th, at the Tuesday Ritual Workshop...

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Via Solis Capricorn Elixir Rite - Year Nine Today's post is a full script for the Capricorn Elixir Rite that we will be performing tomorrow, December 23rd, at the Leaping Laughter Rit...

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Auto-Talismanic Ritual for 2025 We will be performing the Auto-Talismanic Ritual for the 2025 Winter Solstice this Friday evening, December 19th. Doors open at 6:30 with th...

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Via Solis Sagittarius Elixir Rite - Year Nine Today's Magick Monday post is a full script for the Sagittarius Elixir Rite that we will be performing tomorrow, Tuesday December 9th, at th...

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Magick Without Fears Hermetic Podcast Interview This afternoon I sat down for an interview with Frater RC at the Magick Without Fears Hermetic Podcast. We discussed my latest Enochian boo...

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Review - Modern Hermeticism by Erich and Alannah Brown I originally met Frater Barrabbas back in 1999 when he was living in Minneapolis and coming around to Leaping Laughter OTO events. At that ...

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Kim Davis Loses Forever Poor Oppressed Christian icon Kim Davis has been rejected by the Supreme Court. Her bid to overturn same-sex marriage in the United States ...

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Via Solis Scorpio Elixir Rite - Year Nine Today's Magick Monday post is a full script for the Scorpio Elixir Rite that we will be performing tomorrow, Tuesday November 11th, at the R...

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Review - Glamour of the Spheres by G Antra Glamor magick is usually thought of a niche discipline that involves projecting illusions into the minds of others in various situations. Wh...

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Slapping Down The Simulation I have written previously on what I consider to be the extremely dumb "simulation argument," the contention that the universe we live in c...

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Liber Shemesh Liber Shemesh is a solar invocation combining elements of Aleister Crowley's Liber Resh vel Helios and liber V vel Reguli . Crowley explai...

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