I begin this pseudonymous blog after both many years of blogging and a history of magical or theurgical workings going back into the late 1980′s. Over time, I had found my desires and interests shifting as I went from teenage Wiccan through other forms of neopaganism and into a number of modern occult fraternities of a more Hermetic sort.

A number of years ago, I quit doing magic entirely. I felt that I had moved on, that I was done with it. I continued with spiritual and mystical pursuits but they had little to do with the kinds of active mysticism and ritual work that one finds in the Western Mystery Tradition and its derivatives.

After a few years had passed, I still felt the pull of it, of god working or theurgy, and the more interesting and sophisticated ends of magical practice. While I felt little desire to go to community full moon rituals or similar social endeavors, I missed both the kind of workings that I had done in the past and the hacker’s ethos (or that of the tinkerer) that gave one license to take a ritual form, either modern or ancient, take it apart, and try to see what made it work or whether it could be changed and improved to give better or different results. Traditions outside of those of the Western mysteries do not often give free license to do this sort of thing and, in fact, look down upon even the idea of doing so. That does not stop it from occurring but it seems to me that rather than working in that mode within my current primary path, I could easily return, quietly, to some of what I had done previously.

This blog is created to service my explorations and to create a place to dialogue and share with others as I do so. My identity is obscured but not really hidden. With enough work, anyone can find out who anyone else is on the Internet. Being pseudonymous simply allows me a certain freedom to talk about things without potentially shocking some of the parties that I work with in other contexts.

I look forward to posting here in the future and speaking with others engaged in similar practices.

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