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Archetype of Love

Archetype of Love

by Rhys Jones. As we enter the spring holy season, I would like to bear witness to a profound love displayed during the Passion of Jesus by Meriam Magdalena. The...

Archetype of Love

by Rhys Jones. As we enter the spring holy season, I would like to bear witness to a profound love displayed during the Passion of Jesus by Meriam Magdalena. The...

Outside the Paradigm

Outside the Paradigm

by Rhys Jones. Early on in Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, one of the titular characters established the difference between "books of magic and books about magic."  This isn't...

Outside the Paradigm

by Rhys Jones. Early on in Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, one of the titular characters established the difference between "books of magic and books about magic."  This isn't...

Convocation 2025: Thirty years of gatherings

Convocation 2025: Thirty years of gatherings

by Rhys Jones. Convocation is an annual gathering of magically-minded people in the Southeast Michigan area.  It has been ongoing since 1995 and has conducted thousands of classes and rituals. ...

Convocation 2025: Thirty years of gatherings

by Rhys Jones. Convocation is an annual gathering of magically-minded people in the Southeast Michigan area.  It has been ongoing since 1995 and has conducted thousands of classes and rituals. ...

Author Biography

Author Biography

Russ Jones (Rhys) is a third-degree metaphysician, which is to say he is a doctor of philosophy: My academic career is marked by advanced degrees in philosophy and history.  While...

Author Biography

Russ Jones (Rhys) is a third-degree metaphysician, which is to say he is a doctor of philosophy: My academic career is marked by advanced degrees in philosophy and history.  While...

Dion Fortune and Aleister Crowley

Book Review: Richardson on Fortune & Crowley

Richardson, Alan.  Alistair Crowley and Dion Fortune: The Logos of the Aeon and the Shakti of the Age.  Woodbury, MN: Lewellen Publications, 2009.  by Rhys Jones. One topic that often...

Book Review: Richardson on Fortune & Crowley

Richardson, Alan.  Alistair Crowley and Dion Fortune: The Logos of the Aeon and the Shakti of the Age.  Woodbury, MN: Lewellen Publications, 2009.  by Rhys Jones. One topic that often...

The W.I.T.C.H. protest and hexing in 1968

Social - Spiritual Activism

How esoteric practices can affect social, political, and economic change. Some new books in social, political, and economic activism using spiritual, mystical, and occult tools and practices, like astrology, tarot,...

Social - Spiritual Activism

How esoteric practices can affect social, political, and economic change. Some new books in social, political, and economic activism using spiritual, mystical, and occult tools and practices, like astrology, tarot,...