The Arkmage's Tower

"We need to do more here than regurgitate the same sign posts and warnings of our predecessors. We need to expect more of ourselves. Magick, enlightenment, power. It is a strategy, a path taken to the future. Though we carry the seeds of the past with us, we must strive for more, much more. We must soar higher than those who wrote the books that gave us our knowledge. Where they dreamed, we must dare. And where they dared, we must risk it all."

Arkmage

"We are singers to the underworld, spirits of persuasion unmasking little conceits in the deflowering of our days. Lies unfolding like the lotus and revealing strange new worlds. The bliss of savage pleasure tattooed on our flesh, sending shivers of need through the tantric pulse of our desire. In these days that become like nights we are drunkards entwined on the bedroom floor."

Myr-Ansala Ω

"The sight of hideous objects and of deformed persons must be avoided as far as possible; the Magus should not eat with those whom he does not esteem, and must live in the most uniform and methodical manner. He should have the most exalted self-respect, and should consider himself a dethroned sovereign, who consents to existence that he may uncover his crown. Being amiable and well-behaved towards everyone, he should never permit himself to be absorbed in social relations, and should withdraw from circles where he does not possess some initiative."

Eliphas Levi

On the hard path of being a magician. Words like these get forgotten as we make of our magick a social occasion, a religion, a blog. Discipline can slip like sand in the closed fist. Wonder can become addiction. Truth can become a cult. Sometimes hard words are all that bring us back to seeing we live in a world of pyrric victories and only being stronger in the face of such adversity are we truly working to become free.

"The dream of love is the vitriol of our personal philosopher’s stone. It is the crucible for our passion and wisdom. As we transmute solitude and despair into a synergetic truth that stays with us throughout all our days, like an old friend."

Arkmage

"There is a deep intelligence to darkness. A genius in the folds of that stifling cold abyss waiting in every closet, alley, and basement. As humans we visualize our lives as dynamic never ending games in which we are the Kings or Queens unmanning the machinations of the dark. But in truth we aren’t even pieces in the game between real darkness and light. The darkness that smiles at our idyllic fantasies will devour us all one day, body and soul, like crumbs of a cookie left on our pants. From darkness we come and to it we shall return."

Arkmage

"The spirit of our understanding is transcendental, but to burgeon the spirit and make it strong enough to attain such higher planes of truth there must be a discipline that bleeds us dry and makes of us like lightning scarred oaks. There must be the fast, and long hours of meditation, and relentless study into topics we love as well as those we find beneath us. There can be no wall too steep to climb or when we see the greatness of the ascended realms we will whither to nothing, whisked away on the winds of our weaknesses."

Arkmage

"She slaved over every rite and rote with the discipline of desperation. Fashioning her fast to the rigors of communion with her Holy Guardian Spirit. A neon noir non-euclidean entity with piety for eyes and the words of a Hosanna carved into its eternal embrace."

Making Magick

"We are all pregnant with power, hungry for unexplainable snippets of clarity, aching with the stress of new worlds we have not yet seen. It is by an indefinable word, like a song in the bird filled void that lives in your mind, like a Christmas carol beckoning you to war, that we align ourselves to the pain and breath of rebirth."

The Arkmage