Generally speaking four main pathways, with a fifth rarely seen variant, represent the approach most people take as serious practitioners. Keep in mind that none of this is scripture and […]

The nature of practice changes as we age. When I was younger the practices linked to the power center in the lower abdomen, the lower dantien as espoused in Asian […]

Finally the subject of Franz Bardon’s system of metaphysics comes up. For those not in the know, Bardon was a Czech, of German extraction, who practiced from the 1930’s until […]

The first article on this topic delineated how the two most prolific schools in the West, the Golden Dawn and Bardon, survived in the face of the Inquisition when all […]

Serious practitioners of metaphysics largely fall into one of two camps: students of traditional systems and people who reject their own societies. The weaknesses and advantages of both approaches are […]

Training Timelines Training timelines for Bardon’s three books are an interesting conversation for most people involved in the Hermetic arts. Some speak of the first book taking ten years, other […]

Few things are more rarely discussed than the many downsides of the planetary, or spheric as Bardon sometimes calls them, energies. For the record, Golden Dawn practice divides the two […]