But our focus is on the synthesis found within certain crypto-Shia and Hermetic gnostics (arifs) from Persian, Syrian and pre-Islamic paganism that persisted within certain brotherhoods and Sufi orders. These groups understood their wisdom as coming from the Greek Philosopher-Shamans, even calling their medicine Unani (from the Greeks). They were forced to conceal or contextualize their practices of ‘pagan’ theurgy and astro-theology in various strategies of concealment. Islam allows the reverse scenario, of hiding one’s beliefs for security (“dissimulation” is kitmān, related to the term taqiyya.)

This is all to preface our choice of the term Wird for this daily book of Hermetic hymns and prayers, or rather, invocations to be more precise. These are poetic renderings of longing and Remembrance, theurgic devotions of pathworking through the Spheres of the Gods. We could have used a term such as breviary, but the Arabic wird captures the sense of an esoteric manual, one that is like an elixir to the soul and a medicine to the heart. This ancient term of “wird” (litany) comes from the word “a watering place” (warad), to which humans and other creatures had to find in the vast desert. It is the oasis in the wasteland, and the perfect term for the daily practices of Hermeticism that invokes terms of water, liquid and drinking, baptism in understanding Gnosis. It is a fluid form of numinous wisdom, of Nous (divine and immortal mind/intellect/memory/vision). Those that do not have a daily spiritual practice are subhuman to the True Human Being that labors continually in the Great Work. Thus, this is an empowerment and self-initiation, a priming to the true ascension. It is a polishing, The Removal of Obnoxious Traits, the catharsis and concentration of power needed to engage in the higher visionary Rites.There is only the validation of the Pure Vision of the Ennead and Ogdoad.

Our method is of the direct visionary beholding of the Light, those that do not witness this are not of the Way.

As we honor Traditionalists, our members pursue initiations into certain Sedevacantist Catholic secret orders, into certain monasteries of Orthodox esoteric Christian sects, into Buddhist/Daoist, Vedic in immersive studies for decades. This is to piece together the puzzle of the Mysteries that were scattered into the ancient world and retained in specific lineages. We trace alchemical teachings, each one hidden within so much rubble and false methods. Our members bring back these understandings, the essence and essentials as we reconstruct a viable Way in this dying world age.

Having trained in the wird of select Traditional tariqa, we have crafted a daily practice and select readings, theurgical invocations for the Theoi each day, to provide a basic template for the structure of a Theurgical and Philosophical investigation into the Classical Mysteries. This is a form of re-appropriation as these practices are from Greek theurgic rites and Neoplatonic influences, esoteric orders that discreetly persisted through the religious and occult wars. The open invocation should be considered the bare minimum invocation, as some days are simply to overcome tasks and arising issues, especially in the modern world and certain phases of life. One can expand into the various other readings through the day, though they are best timed with certain celestial considerations, explained in brief in the Notes section. These are foundation practices for the visionary rites, healing retreats, laboratory and medicine making/harvesting. These are to calibrate to the alchemy of the seasons and to create the flow and cohesion of a theurgic practice across the days of the week corresponding with the incenses and hymns to the Planetary Immortals. There are no secrets, but simply organized sacred Hermetic and Orphic prayers to create a ritual praxis for Remembrance of the Way. The beginning invocations are silently whispered within to the True Monad and ineffable Theos whose only beloved method of prayer is unadorned, quiet gratitude from the heart.

There are contemplative Hermetic readings that are the Key of the Way. There are methods of empowering the specific power items of our Theurgic way, the obelisk of quartz and the solidified mercury (al-zā’būq) pyramid. The true power and empowerment of these items is only truly understood in the Philosophical dosage of the authentic wine of light. This is the liquid Nous, the Phaos or light” (nur). These are, together, a refinement of the exoteric and esoteric aspects of self, the lesser and greater distillations and theurgic link to the Mysteries. The manual to meditate upon during the fasting, as the visionary elixirs surge through the body, as one prepares for the rituals, the ordeals, the healing retreats, the Black Rites and magical operations.

All proceeds (in the spirit of the terms sadaqah and hadiya) are invested into manifesting a true Hermetic Temple and Sanctuary, a House of Life to be a repository of certain esoterica. We then document our own lifelong quest and wandering on the Way, that others may use it as foundation to pierce the barrier of the Mysteries.

As part of our Temple function, we are able to instruct those who want a personal Hermetic Wird, the secret Names of the Gods and practices, the elixirs and specific holy days when the veil thins for the celestial fruits and anodos (ἄνοδος).Support us and gain membership and filiation through obtaining the monographs, practices and holy items.

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Careful attention to the correspondences, the diet, the colors, the sounds, the aromas, the indulgences, the ascetic refraining all engage and focus the Mind. The visionary sacraments unfetter the consciousness, the poetic invocations engage the tonal resonance and silences the inner whisperer. The sacred fumes calm and stimulate, their smoke carrying the intoned words like prayers to the Gods.

Such attention to ritual detail, the proper paraphernalia, the proper timing, the proper garb, the proper incense and timing, the fasts and purifications, securing the herbs all are magical acts of intention, of investing, of integrity and resolute action. They are contracts of the self with the self, dedications, deeds that beget deeds done in the singular purpose of unified thought and word and action. The deep purifications must be conducted, the vapors cleansed, the katharis of psyche and body purging malignant residues. The ambience and atmosphere must be saturated in the intent encoded and patterened within the sigils. The air must be perfumed, the taboos and solemn rites strictly observed. This extends to every detail, including every item that is brought within the proximity of these rites.

Especially the ritual texts must be of a certain feel. They must feel organic, without the gloss of being mass produced and with barcodes and such to spoil the aesthetic. We have long collected the old alchemical pamphlets, slim folios, commonbooks and herbals that have the feel of being handmade, the intimacy of a practitioner and disciple of these Arts. Visual cues and invocations to infuse and saturate the consciousness while sacraments pulse throughout the blood and prime one for a true theurgic encounter. Thus the order, the images function as a noetic and theurgic reader, an entheogenic prayer and prompt book to the oldest Mysteries.

We always write we are a Cult of Memory, and these secrets are encoded within the Hymns. The first, for example, is to the Muses, the daughters of Mnemyosne and the key to the Orphic mysteries in being free of the cycles of death and rebirth. The key of immortality is then to Remember, to taste of the springs of Memory, just as the Philosophers remember the Primordial, Original Light. Working through the hymns in the sequence of days over the corresponding alchemical seasons rekindles that Light within, and brings the true Hermetic Silence that allows for Memory and Mind to endure beyond the Abyss.

Our goal is always to produce subtle items of beauty, humble lights on the path that we that we use within our rituals. Magus Publishing’s simple mission began in filling in gaps in occult, esoteric and alchemical subjects for our Research Society. This is to create a heuristic invisible college, a think tank of these related subjects, and a means to render aid, resources and assistance to those seeking a similar path in the Wolf’s Age. This text is simply the pure translation of the Orphic Hymns by our favorite classical translator, with commentary and subsequent essays in the series.

In volume 2 we offer a commentary and outline of the Orphic Mysteries from our worldview as an entheogenic and theurgic cult of Memory. But consider the order of the hymns, the repetition of certain divinities, in different forms, or those that have consecutive invocations, such as the Furies. All of this is patterning, psychic and spiritual driving of these ancestral Narratives using the symbols, forms, icons of multivalent meaning. A true initiatic disclosure will reveal microcosmic knowledge from cosmology, to the structure of reality, to the soul’s journey and life’s essential meaning as expressed in a Mystery that the initiate must work a lifetime to solve.

Though there is guidance, one is ultimately alone, cast into the dark and in such silence and shadows one can behold the Light. Consider then that the Hymn to Aurora comes just after the one for Mnemosyne, and let this guide the climax of the rituals. Let the theurgic lanterns light hold the vigil till dawn, when the darkness comes and behold shadows, the ghosts and visions until the coming of the dawn. Then once again one encounters Justice, and deeper the testing and ordeals that follows with the invocations of sleep, dreams, and death. It is within this eternal gloom, across the threshold of realms where Memory must endure.

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Our focus in this writing is of the Orphic origins to an initiatory understanding that echoes with this same consistency in various heritage and legacy cultures. This is of a cult of Memory, of magical or sacred springs of Memory, of oracular heads, and purification rites to Recall one’s divine race through specific ordeals and rituals. Such initiatic traces remain in the lore and cults of Odin and are templates and encoded skillful means of a profound Way. We personally feel these are some of the most important insights of the true esoteric path, the true alchemical Way, the Great Work and essential prerequisites to a true presencing of the Mysteries.

This will be an going series of research of Hyperborean, Scythian and Orphic/Thracian sources of the Mysteries, the cosmology, the herbal sacraments, the initiatory Master Narrative, the techniques and shamanic practices that are the true origins of the Western and Northern Tradition as well as the Vedic, Siddha and related alchemical, Tantric lineages.

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The purpose of this monograph is to present the inner rites and rituals of our Hermetic Temple. The many false anti- and counter-traditions have appropriated the name of the Way of Hermes. They offer at best some New Age platitudes dressed up in some academic quotes. Most are far worse, luring the naive into deeper and deeper traps of the soul. These are both the unwitting and willing dupes and minions of the anti- and counter Traditions in the Occult War. It is called upon some to shoulder this burden, to engage in this esoteric combat and to raise the banner, create the compound and temple as a repository of certain alchemical knowledge. This is a distilled articulation of the Way of the Immortals and the Gods, the Mysteries of the Hermetic Arts.

Hermes as the Messenger of the Gods is a divine sage that transmits and is the corresponding link between the Orphic, Pythagorean/Hyperborean and Greco-Egyptian Mystery Traditions. These theurgical and alchemical arts were the intimate, personal and private means for individuals to engage in the Mysteries.

This is the most concise manual and template for a heuristic, solitary self-initiation and training in the Hermetic Path of Immortals. The dream, visionary, theurgic, alchemical, erotic, abysmal, and ascension rites of the Seven planetary Gods reveal the theophanic vision of the Ogdoad and Ennead. Each phase of ritual and training builds upon and incorporates the previous until the highest and final levels that one must strive beyond all measure to the full exaltation that endures across the abyss. These are the Philosophical Rites of Rebirth, the model and Way to begin the lifelong refinement and theurgic Rites that ignites the Memory of the Celestial birthright. These are the inner instructions and Master Narrative, the skillful methods to endure beyond the outer darkness. Once one fully commits to this Path, the Path will never abandon you. Sudden twists of fate, destiny, inexplicable adjustments and corrections will constantly burn all bridge of retreat, destroy distractions and guide the wandering, strangers of the world to the Immortal Abode.

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This issue is also an essential prerequisite to what we consider the most important forthcoming publications. We are honored and inspired by the loyal support of our readers. We take this as a humble responsibility to strive and produce the most distilled, dynamic and Traditional articulation of the Mysteries, of Mastery, and the Great Work. Your purchase allows us to obtain rare texts, to undertake painstaking translations, and to secure the ingredients for the essential medicines.

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The true religion of the ancients, the ancestors is found in the Hermetica that is distilled from the late distortions of the kabbalists, New Age, and other such viruses of the Western Tradition. We submit, with minimal editing, some old entries from collections of mythological lore, essential items for contemplation and meditation for those seeking Hermetic Wisdom. We thank you for the support from our readers to grow and evolve and to constantly refine our craft and the quality of our offerings.

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We practice a radical Hermeticism, distilled from the late intrusions of the counter- and anti-Traditions. Radical, meaning both extreme and to the roots, of alchemical practices of the Philosopher-Shamans. These are the combined esoteric currents of Hyperborean, Orphic, Pythagorean, and Neo-Platonic Mysteries that were destroyed in the Occult Wars that eclipsed the Classical Period. What arose to compete in this vacuum of the destruction of the intiatory centers was a spiritual war, a weaponization of the Mysteries. It is the pursuit of this Lost Wisdom, this Grail-like quest, through the labyrinth of traps and deadends, that is the Trophy of the Hermetic Way.

The temples were scattered, the libraries burnt, the Masters assassinated, and the lore and mythos, the Master Narrative, was cast to the winds as fragments. The Way of Hermes arose again as a personal, intimate, solitary means of recovering from the amnesia-inducing spell of the Occult Wars. The Gnostic cults arose sensing this alien intrusion in this realm, this archonic enchantment that profaned, seduced, and obliterated all in a parasitic corruption of the Way of the Gods. Nearly all that could not be destroyed was appropriated, inverted, stolen, distorted, used as bait to lure into ensnaring, toxic systems (kabbalah, masonry, pop-occult, New Age, and most left hand, neo-pagan derivatives that claim to be the Western Tradition) that open one up to be a conduit for such forces.

The Traditionalists articulate this crisis of the modern age with the concept of anti- and counter-Tradition, the manufactured traps that lure the naive, the ignorant, into such rituals and rites, tethering them to entities and intelligences that corrupt them like a virus or a parasite. The Hermetic path is personal, there is no one to tell you lies other than the ones you might tell yourself. There is no master, no secret texts, no hubristic titles or grades, but the encounter and confrontation of the alone with the alone, the self to Self. It is simply a guide of ancestral knowledge, of a thread of Hermetic seeking of the Memory. There is no hatred of the body, nor extreme of hylic materialism, but an integrated and balanced pursuit of the immortal gnosis. It is the Master Narrative to allow one to engage thought, word, and action into the Great Work.

Gods in exile, entombed in the body, confined in matter and longing, yearning for Return. All true Philosophy is concerned only with immortality. The adept, seasoned as a wayfarer and wanderer, thus aids those in exile, estranged and forgetful of their meaning and lost in purpose. The adepts give the maps and point the way, but the path is reclusive, solitary and later with a partner or trusted few. Thus, one becomes a living repository of ancestral exoteric and esoteric knowledge and wisdom to counsel or assist, perhaps, those certain few.

One must emerge changed, transmuted from an initiation or it was a failure. It is a Rite of Rebirth, a true preparation for confronting and enduring the Abyss. This is a personal manual, a glimpse into theurgic Hermetic rituals used to heal, used to aim and guide the visionary ordeals and training and as the catalyst for alchemical operations. Some aspects seem overwhelming, but let no excuse allow you to penetrate to the essence and core of these practices and strive with every effort to begin the practices and evolve into their perfection over a life time or whatever remains of your precious incarnation.

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The Hermetic literature was also preserved in the Arabian lands, where the Sufi and Gnostics, and the Sabians preserved the ancient texts. Unlike the Kabbalists, they preserved the essence and authorship, not daring to have the hubris of claiming this knowledge from any other than Hermes, the Thrice Great.

The Hermetic, initiatory astrology and astronomy is much different in many ways from the modern and deviated methods. The lower methods and understandings of common astrology are necessary preliminaries to study a higher, celestial astro-theology of the planetary Gods and the Way of Immortality, in the astral gates and alchemical timings for the Lesser and Greater Mysteries, Ordeals and Rites. These are essential lessons to internalize for finding auspicious times and to contemplate the interactions, the transits, the ruling aspects of the Gods and Spheres as one works the Path.

This is a slim volume to begin our Starry Heavens Monograph series of Hyperborean and Hermetic Astrotheology. This will include many distilled studies and original essays as well as elegantly reproduced essential ancient primary texts. This is part of a great esoteric action of the House of Life, the Hermetic Paideia, and other such initiatives. We thank you dearly for your support.

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A perfect example is a group like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which has virtually nothing Hermetic about it. It is quasi-Masonic, Victorian occultism and kabbalah. These groups are either composed of naive fools, willful minions or those that know and chose to be part of such metastasized spiritual disease. The true Greco-Egpytian Hermetica is incompatible with the kabbalistic systems, as the Old Testament is a complete war on the pagan worldview, especially the Gods of Egypt. To put a finer point on it, the Old Testament and Solomonic Traditions are against the Mysteries of the Gods, and waged war on them. The Old Testament is literally a testimony to hatred and war with Egypt and absolute hostility to the Classical pagan worldview. With a paltry few exceptions, there is virtually no after life or immortal path within these texts, which most were invented for an Egyptian audience in the Ptolemaic period long after the language of the Old Testament had ceased to be used. Thus, it was lost and reinvented, copying the Arab gnostics and Sufi who inherited true Hermetic wisdom from the Greek masters who fled to Harran in Syria. Thus, crypto-Hermetic cults do exist within these, as the originally they were the Sabians and protected as “People of the Book” in a claiming Hermes as a Idris/Enoch to dissimulate from being destroyed in purging religious wars.

But this is a false equivalency, and one that we rectify in the forthcoming texts on the Discourse of the Eighth and Ninth and the Azoth trilogy. But here we present essential devotional readings for Hermetica distilled and purified from the above intrusions and inversions. These fund our future projects, our alchemical revival and true Hermetic missionary for those who sense deep within that the Way has been sabotaged, appropriated by a parasitic cult in these Occult Wars. We thank you for your support.

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