As I come toward the end of translating Papus’ book “Treatise on Practical Magic”, I am struck by how earnestly he wants Magic to be taken seriously and sit alongside the other sciences. It is unfortunate that Hypnosis will suffer the same fate as Psychology in trying to get a seat at the scientific table. […]
When I was in school in the late 1960s I came across Worlds In Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky. I was totally hooked! Born in Russia in 1895, he published a number of books which rocked the scientific world from 1950 onwards, eventually settling in Princeton, NJ, where he died in 1979. If he had been […]
For those who found A Bohemian Ghost (Part 1) interesting, here is the conclusion, which is included in the 1893 book by Papus entitled “An Elementary Treatise on Practical Magic”, in a section about the use of the magical sword: The fluid accumulations formed by the union of astral powers acting like a soul […]
The story below appeared in one of the 1893 editions of L’Initiation, Papus’ magazine on esoteric subjects. It is a letter written by a reader concerning his experiences with a ghost in Czechoslovakia. While the tale is entertaining in itself, I reproduce it (in English) here as one of a number of background articles to […]
It seemed an appropriate place to launch my translation of Saint-Martin’s “Of Errors & Truth”. If truth be told, it wasn’t the most auspicious place! The city of Rochester didn’t exactly come up trumps for the event. Main Street, the focal point of all the activities, was little more than a ditch. The hotels didn’t […]
Amazing what you can get done while lying in bed with a hacking cough, a temperature, a glass of water and a laptop! As a service to those interested in Pasqually, Saint-Martin and the like, this is a sort of public service announcement regarding a much-desired book by the early 19th Century German Philosopher, Franz […]
Very happy indeed to see my new baby out there at last! My translation of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin’s 1775 book “Of Errors & Truth” is now available in hardback and paperback versions on amazon.com, and already appearing on other websites and global Amazon sites. For a fleeting moment of fame it was listed on the […]
On Saturday I finally had an opportunity to visit the magnificent Salon de la Rose Croix exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum with a few like-minded friends. I was lucky, too, as the day was offering free entrance to those who could produce a Bank of America card! The Guggenheim is a very approachable Museum of […]
