Mermaids and Disk-Headed Gods

This article is about a powerful synchronicity I had at the end of December. If you find hearing about other people's synchronicities equally boring to having to listen to their dreams, just stop here. If you find such things weirdly interesting...

Three Wise Kings

(version 2.0 updated 6/01/2020) The Three Magi, or Drei Könige as they are called here in Germany, were my favourite characters in the Christmas tale when I was a kid: their names seemed so foreign and exotic and hey: they followed a star and...

Flogging a Dead God

Version 2.0 (19/10/2026: update with Egyptian sources on the head, the heart and the serpent after the conclusion) Version 1.2 (29/10/2018) In my last article on the Headless Rite I drew some conclusions about its function according to my...

Ophiouchos

or Conquering Shai-Hulud (Version 1.2 - 29/10/2018) Last week's New Moon has been a very special occasion for me. Having Followed a suggestion by my occultist pen-pal Len W. to perform the Stele of Jeu rite on New Moon every month (the night sky...

Akephalos Redux

(Version 3.0 - 19/10/2026: update with Egyptian sources at the end) (Version 2.3 - 28/10/2018) After half a year of monthly practice of the Stele of Jeu in different variations I have come to a different understanding of it than when I started....

Preisendanz' Headless God

For my research about the headless one that got way beyond my initial goal of simply translating the text for personal praxis I stumbled upon a publication by Karl Preisendanz, the first translator of the PGM into German in the 1920s, called...

The Six Names

Updated version 4.0 During my work on a functional version of the Stele of Jeu for ritual use based on the German translation by Preisendanz1 and his monograph Akephalos - The Headless God2 I hit a massive roadblock. The ritual requires a formula...

Die Stele des Ieû

Graeco-ägyptisches Exorzimus Ritual aus den Griechischen Zauberpapyri (PGM V 96-173), auch "Headless Rite" oder "Bornless Rite" genannt, von Aleister Crowley in modifizierter Form "Liber Samekh". Der hier abgedruckte Text basiert auf der...