Scourge of the Blibd God

The Shadow Crucible: The Blind God by T.M. Lakomy
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Gripping story that grabs you and won’t let go until you are through with it. Taking place in Europe the story serves as a crossroads to various streams of spirituality. At he heart of the story is sort of a three way spiritual war between God, Samael and Lucifer. Each one vying for their own position of kingship.

A major pawn in all of this is Estrella or Tsura. She is of twilight people, gifted with special magic abilities, they also follow the old gods. Estrella is a countess who owns a family manor. Back when she was a little girl her family was killed at the same time a certain little girl was . Estrella took her place . Up until now the ruse worked.

In comes Mikhail, a Templar night from royal birth, who acts as a guide and protector for Tsura. Love can complicate things and it sets up a sort of triangle between Mikhail, Tsura and Antariel. Antariel is a fallen angel. In the midst of this war Everyone is after her and her abilities. The church is capturing and torturing the twilight people in order to obtain their gifts, the church has been taken over by Lucifer.

Tsura goes on many adventures to escape the clutches of these demons. Plenty of action and suspense. Story line could use some Improvement and the ending was a bit flat.

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Ethneogenic Spells

Microdosing Magic: A Psychedelic Spellbook by TOM Hatsis
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Surfing in on the movement to reinclude psychedelics into magic and spirituality comes a fun little book by Tom Hatsis that is pact with information. Ethneogenic spirituality involves the use of such substances as Cannabis,Mushroom, DMT and LSD among other such substances. Ethneogenic spirituality is nothing new but rather it is something that is being reintroduced into spiritual paths. The author in this case prefers to use psylloscibin mushroom for his spiritual work.

Carl Sagan , avid cannabis user , once said that we are all. Made of star stuff. Since we have star stuff that means we have magic. You can summon deities or you can use your own star power. The author gives a good explanation on mushrooms. He discusses their benefits, how to find then and other supplements that can further their healing impact. When it comes to how much you take the author has a table of different dose sizes . Micro doses are the smallest acting like vitamins they help to enhance our day or our ritual. Threshold hold doses allow you to stand in the proverbial doorway with one foot in this world and one foot in the other world. Psychadelic doses are larger and place you in the magical realm. But you are not so dosed out that you cannot do magical work. The Hero dose leaves you flat on your back and you are in a state of total surrender.

The first chapters discuss meditation and visualization giving both definition and when to use them in your spiritual practice. Usually you meditate first and then you visualize. Magic itself is work and it is not like the laws of attraction as preached in the “Secret” Magic is not miracle is setting the intention for an improved and better future.

The spells are unique and simple. The author has you make a chart with the days of the week. Depending on your intention you will place a design in the chart with dots. On those dots is when you dose and do your spiritual work. Many of the spells are based on self improvement like breaking addictions, increases creativity , how not to be a jerk etc.

A very fun and informative book, Tom Hatsis has knowledge and he has more books coming which I cannot wait to read. Wish this book was longer cause I want more.

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The Art of Fluff

The Art of Sigils: Discover Your Own Creatiivity Using Ancient Magickal Symols by Gina Leslie
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book was a disappointment. It was short and rather limited on content matter. Being close to only 50 pages, I am glad I did not pay to read this book. The author uses sigils in this books for opening the creativity of the individual. Sure as such sigils can increase creativity. The author is quite proud of her artwork and displays it on almost every page of her book. The sigils look nice and they are creative. Yet the book lacked substance. I did not learn anything new from this work. When it comes to sigils I would scour the tomes of Chaos Magick and Austin Osman Spare. I learned nothing from this book.
Perhaps if the author was to do a rewrite she might want to make it longer. She also might want to show her readers how she design sigils or makes them. The book would have been better if there were some techniques on how to use sigils for creativity were thrown in. Of course most people who read this book are into magic and want to manifest something in their lives . Perhaps some of those techniques should be included as well.
I started this book wanting to like it but instead I walked away feeling rather disappointed. I know her community and wanted to leave a more positive review.


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Utred of Bebbanburg

The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Made famous by the Netflix series of the same name. This great work of historical tells the story of England before it became the England as we know it today. Back in the day like in the 700's or 800's the Island of England had been divided into kingdoms, among them were Northumbria, mercia, East Anglia and finally Wessex. These were mostly Saxon kingdoms. The Danes during this time period were coming over for two purposes one for conquest and rading and other times to do business. If they were coming for conquest they put a dragon head on their prow to pacify the land spirits.
The story starts out with the Danes just arriving at Bebbanburg. Bebbanburg is a fortress set high on a hill overlooking the sea and it is almost impossible to conquer. The Danes at this point are greatly feared. Utred is the warlord of Bebbanburg, and he sends his oldest son and some warriors to check it out. The oldest son gets killed in battle and his head delivered to Utred. This leaves Osbert as the next their in line. Immediately he is baptized by father Beocca and given a new name, utred.
This idyllic scenario does not last long. The Danes attack Eofric and warlords are called in to fight.In the ensuing battle utred of Bebbanburg is killed and his son captured by Ragnar the fearless. First Utred is a slave but then becomes an adopted son. Living among the Danish Viking young Utred picks up their ways and almost becomes like them. The kingdom's one by one Get overthrown by the Danes. Whilst growing up under Ragnar , the fearless, Utred is bullied by Sven . Sven is the son of a rival warlord. Sven bullying tactics cost him an eye and this sets the stage for vendetta.
The turning point in the story happens when Khirtan, father of Sven massacred Ragnars family. Left to his own devices Utred hires himself out to different warlords and finally ends up in Wessex, the Last Kingdom. From there it is fighting Alfreds wars and commanding his growing Navy. Plenty of intrigue.

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The Apocolypse of the Witch

Apocalyptic Witchcraft by Peter Grey
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Impassioned is the call for nature. This is no spellbook or pie in the sky philosophy. Rather it is a call for Magical action to defend nature. Right now corpoarate greed is shrinking our forests, polluting our water, and wiping out animal life.this is not the time to shrink into our own little fantasy world it is time for action and that is what the path of the witch is about.

Corporate greed is taking over nature and it also taking over our mind. They tell us what we should be dreaming and thinking about. We have to take back nature and we must reclaim our mind. The Shabbat takes place in dreams and it occurs in the physical realm. Both must be protected.

Witchcraft is the set of relations between menstrual blood, the moon and nature. The Sabbat has been sanitized to make it more palatable but this only serves the interests of the enemy. Neon pagans gorge themselves on THe fluffiness. The sabbat and the wild hunt were savage bloody affairs. Time to stop living in denial. Witches pray to the goddess and her consort the devil. The devil was recourse for the powerless peasant against thr corrupt church and the tyrannical rich.

The wolf is the hunter, the one who balances the population by killing off the weak stragglers. The hunt initiates men into male mysteries with rituals and donning the wolf skins. This book is a call to the witch from the depths of the forest.

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