Names, vowels and the gods of late antiquity
The working magic of Roman Egypt and the philosophy that lifted it: the Greek Magical Papyri, words of power and the seven vowels, the Headless Rite that became the Golden Dawn's Bornless Ritual, lamp and dream oracles, Iamblichus' theurgy and the tokens of the gods, and protective amulets.
6 lessons · about 86 minutes of reading · 1 free
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Not required — but the lessons build on what these teach.
The working spellbooks of Roman Egypt — what they contain, how they reached us, and why every later grimoire owes them a debt.
The "barbarous names", the Ephesian letters, wing-shaped words and the seven vowels of the planets — and how to sound them.
The Stele of Jeu the Hieroglyphist, its journey into the Golden Dawn as the Bornless Ritual, and Crowley's Liber Samekh.
Lychnomancy, the seer and the lamp, requests for a dream written on a wick — and a safe modern version of each.
Iamblichus, Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles; tokens of the gods hidden in nature; and a solar devotion in the theurgists' spirit.
Rolled metal amulets, the ouroboros, the charaktêres with circles at their ends, and making a phylactery of your own.
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