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One of today’s most important representatives of Ceremonial Magic (and more) on Episode 11: NICK FARRELL
Nick Farrell was
Nick moved to Hawkes Bay where he hooked up with the former members of the last surviving temple of the Golden Dawn, Whare Ra. In
In 1997, Nick visited the US where he carried out a few workshops and renewed his friendship with Chic and Tabatha Cicero and joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn forming a Temple of that Group in Nottingham. He followed the Cicero’s orthodox Golden Dawn curriculum from Neophyte to ZAM and passed all the practical and intellectual tests required by that order.
Around that time Nick wrote his first book Making Talismans which has turned out to be an esoteric classic. He moved to Sofia in Bulgaria where he wrote Magical Pathworking, The Druidic Order of Pendragon (with Colin Robertson), Gathering the Magic and Egyptian Shaman. He also began to work with the artist Harry Wendrich and his wife Nicola Golden Dawn Temple Tarot deck which is soon to be released.
In 2007 he wrote his first novel “When a Tree Falls“, which is
In 2010 he decided to take his order out of the Golden Dawn
He is the Editor of the “Hermetic Tablet” which is a quarterly journal dedicated to ritual magic.
The music played in this episode is by
THE BUTTERFLY WHEEL :
The Butterfly Wheel unravel wisdom through their weaved songs and sounds. Theatrically and sensitively performing their attunements to the deep feminine, drawing on their inspirations from esoteric philosophy and their own core intuition. Their sound has been described as ‘wildly intriguing and haunting’.
Click here for their website
Yay Nick!
Loved this episode, as usual, wanted to say The Butterfly Wheel’s website is broken/dead, but they have a Bandcamp! https://thebutterflywheel.bandcamp.com/
Hi Rudolf! Thank you for the extraordinary episode. In the description you mention Nick Farrell is the editor of Hermetic Journal, but the proper name is Hermetic Tablet. Hermetic Journal is published by Adam McLean.
Thanks for your comment, and yes, you are absolutely right! I just changed it now.