The Sepher Bahir remains to this day one of the principle Kabbalist texts ever created. Ascribed to ancient times, it was first compiled in its general form in the 12th century in Provence, compiling disparate texts which had been part of a loose and sometimes oral tradition in times prior to that same era. It contains five sections, expounding (through rabbinical scholars it is in turn ascribed to) various scriptural truths regarding the nature of the cosmos, of the deity spoken of, and explaining its way through parts of the Torah by virtue of both metaphor and scriptural comparison. The...

The Universal Fortune Teller of 1790 is the forerunner to a long tradition of oracles and works on dream interpretation, simple divinatory tricks, and astrology. Supposedly deciphered from a manuscript found in the thatched hut of a witch, the work includes everything from the Zodiac to palmistry. With an elaborate back-story to proclaim its pedigree, the Universal Fortune Teller of Mrs. Bridget is one of the most bawdy and folkish manuscripts in the entire pre-modern occult tradition.

The Neoplatonic statements of Pseudo-Dionysius on the topic of theosis and the heavenly hierarchies form one of the major texts of the Corpus Areopagiticum. Written in antiquity, although not at the early dates sometimes ascribed to these works, the philosophy professes to become godlike through ones' daily practices. Even the structure of the human body is, here, likened to the divine. Through these concepts one is said to be able to draw closer to, and become more a part of, their deity.

For those involved with the study of Kabbalah, the Sepher Yetzirah is, along with the Sepher Bahir, one of the key works of note within this genre of mysticism. Involved with both the Hebrew alphabet and numbers systems, it ascribes all major aspects of creation (literally, formation by divine force) to three classes of Hebrew letters, with three numbered classes thereafter; the three mothers, the seven pairs, and the twelve elementals. Further, to this is added the ten Sephiroth and their representations. The work contains what are very likely to be Gnostic elements as well, for the...

From the inner workings and ruminations derived thereof of human decomposition, a quasi-satirical view towards the infernal and blasphemous, and more than a slight interest in the mad and depraved, Morbid Stories promises a little bit of everything within the most extreme circles of horror subgenre, from the outright violence of splatterpunk to the horrifying chill of the macabre. Herein are short stories ranging from the deliberately repulsive to the intentionally heretical, with a warped fondness for Satan, and an appreciation for decay and mortality that few may truly understand. Beyond...

The western world has been stricken with the same malady it once fought; that of statism, of oppression and surveillance, censorship and the police state. Examining some of the social and political movements decried and opposed by the western world through the last century, it becomes clear that the government of the United States, and those of the rest of the west, have fallen victim to the same mentality which they once opposed- from the Nazis, to the communists, to modern islamofascism, each foe we have destroyed or attempted to destroy has stained our own so-called representation with the...