Monthly Archives: January 2010

Fairies – Angels

Since my last blog on fairies and grimoires, I have received a lot of enquiries and comments about the relationship between different spiritual creatures.  For anyone interested in the links between angels and fairies, there is an excellent article entitled … Continue reading

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Fairies and Grimoires

Fairies, like angels, are a topic on which there is a huge diversity of views.  I was re-reading The Fairies in Tradition and Literature by Katherine Briggs, which covers a great deal of ground, considering the origins of faeries in … Continue reading

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Secrets Never to be Told

When friends came to visit over the weekend, we talked about many different subjects, and one of the ones which came up was the idea of secrecy in magical traditions.  Aleister Crowley famously complained after being initiated into the Hermetic … Continue reading

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