Articles Index

Here is a selection of articles from many sources (including SOL's former house magazine Solomon).

W E Butler

• The Egregore of a School
  In his inimitable style, Ernie Butler explains all about an Occult School's Eggregore
• Keys in Practical Magic
  A comprehensive outline of the art of practical magic
• Notes on Ritual Training
  Good, practical, advice to old hands and beginners alike
• Personality
  We've all got one, but what is it really and how is it used in occult development?
• One Kind of Ghost
  On hauntings, astral images and helping the departed
• Esoteric Government
  On how Occult Societies organise and run themselves
• What We Are
  How and why the SOL came into being, what it is, and about the work it does

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

• Your Unseen Power
  An interview with Dolores and Sounds True on the topic of the Western Mystery Tradition
• Illuminations
  An article by Dolores advertising her book "Illuminations" for the Watkins catalogue, 2003
• The Western Mystery Tradition
  On the origins of the occult schools in the West, and what to expect when joining one
• Coming Home
  A true tale about the Washington Memorial, a painting and soldiers marching into the Light at last
• Real Magic
  Real Magic And The Servants Of The Light Course
• Which Witch?
  An interview with Dolores
• Rites of Passage
  Myth speaks to us of human destiny.
• The Faerie Tradition
  The opening lecture of the Taliaris workshop, Beltane 2001
• To Serve the Light
  About Service to the Light

  POETRY by Dolores

• For Those In Need
  A prayer via the Opener.
• The Creed of the Light Bearers
• Coming Up to Ten
• Daughter of Solomon
• Listen to the Wind
• Ode to a Witch
• The Gate of Moon
• The Unknown Lover
• Spells in the Kitchen
• The Answer

Herbie Brennan

• Conjuration
  Even occultists, by and large, consider spirit conjuration a Mediaeval superstition...

Michael Nowicki

• Priests of Darkness
  What you must consider and do, when tempted by the dark side

Giles Holcroft

• The House of the Net
  In the S.O.L. we are asked to do the House of the Net linkup at every new moon but what exactly is the House of the Net?

Robert King

• The Christian Mysteries
  A lecture by Robert King, W E Butler's first teacher, on the Christian Mysteries
  
  
  

Salomo Baal-Shem

• The Fire of the Mind and the Athanor
  An article by Stefan Fiebig on The Mythological Symbolism Of Fire. It is based on a short lecture, that he gave on the Apollo-Workshop in Holland, 2000
  

Lindsay

• Death
  The three things in life that you reasonably can expect: Marriage, taxes and death!
• Drama Queens
  Pre-programmed patterns and the stories we tell ourselves
• Evil, the Devil and Lucifer
  According to Cabalistic philosophy, there are two types of evil: negative and positive - some thoughts
• God, gods, Jesus Christ
  Thoughts on how it is often easier define what is wrong and that which we don't want rather than that which is right and what we aspire towards.
• Control Freaks
  The most frightened people on the planet?

Simon Court

• The Law of Ubiquity
  About interpermeability between the incarnate and evolving selves
• The Occultist in Action
  No matter by which door you enter the Mysteries, you will sooner or later realise that you are required to actually do something with all your studies and training.

Clive Harper

• A Student's Guide to Conference-Speak
  Discover what occult jargon really means. (Humour)

Billie Walker-John

On the symbolist interpretation of the Egyptian Mysteries

• The Egyptian Neters, part 1
• The Egyptian Neters, part 2
• The Egyptian Neters, part 3
• The Egyptian Neters, part 4
• The Egyptian Neters, part 5
• The Egyptian Neters, Epilogue

Dian McLellan 'Vox Clamantis'

• The Way of the Wise
  An article on the Wiccan Way and the persecution of pagans, with a reply from a Christian priest.

Michael Neal

• Reflections on Western Magic
  On Native and Hermetic traditions

G.E. & L.P.

• Contact with Isis
  A magical experiment that changed the lives of the couple that performed it

Pat Schneider

• The Drones Club
  Building an electronic Rainbow Bridge

George Eckett

• A Tarot for Today?
  "The cards never lie, dearie..." (humour)

Tim Keen

• The Four Planes of Manifestation
  Ancient knowledge must be given new forms in the New Age

Marie Fornario

• The Immortal Hour
  An essay on a modern Celtic Faery-Play

Frater S.A.

• The Magic Flute
  The soul's advancement through initiation as outlined in Mozart's occult opera

Andy Cooper

• Personal Development
  What you must do by way of your personal development should you choose a life in the occult.
• Ritual Magic
  Reflections on using the Tarot in Ritual Magic

Ioannis Marathakis

• Thoughts on Geomancy
  Thoughts on Elemental Correspondences of I-Ching & Geomancy
• Incense: From Papyri To Grimoires
  A treatise on Incense through the Ages from Ancient Egypt to modern times with detailed component descriptions and Bibliography

John Barbiero

• Following the guiding thread through the Labyrinth
  Seekers upon the Path of Return, the path to find one’s True Self and meaning in existence.