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Month: January, 2007

Nonviolence and the Dharma

The issue of nonviolence is one that I struggle with, at least in my thoughts, when it comes to the Dharma. I am not a violent person by nature. I have no struck anyone in anger in probably a decade and I haven’t been in a physical fight since I was in high school. I [...]

Egyptian Reference Materials for the Golden Dawn

I have been having a difficult time figuring out which texts on Egypt, Egyptian religion or mythology, or Egyptology in general that the founders of the Golden Dawn, Westcott and Mathers, would have had available to them. For the Kabbalistic material, it is relatively straightforward with Ginsberg, Franck, Levi’s work, and a few others along [...]