The Western Gate

Toing and Froing, Up 'n' Down in the Earth


Contents

About Me :
Down the Rabbit Hole


1/Book Reviews

Witchcraft:In Theory and Practice

The Horn of Evenwood

A Deed Without a Name :Unearthing the Legacy of Traditional Witchcraft

The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum

ONE: Grimoire of the Golden Toad

Techniques of High Magic

Hekate, the Witch

Britain’s Folklore Year

The Truth About Witchcraft

The Morrigan

T.Lobsang Rampa and Other Characters of Questionable Faith

Astounding Secrets of the Devil Worshippers Mystic Love Cult 

Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance

This Is Chaos

The Tarot Architect

The Library of Ancient Wisdom

The Secret Life of a Satanist

The First Female Pharaoh ~ Sobekneferu

Layla~ The Biography of Leila Waddell

Solomon and Sheba

The Black Raven

Tubelo’s Forge

She Of The Night

The Faceless God

King Solomon The Magus

Crystal Gazing~A Study in the History, Distribution, Theory and Practice of Scrying

The White Magic Book

The Craft of Tubal Cain

Delinquent Elementals

The Owl’s Eye

Haqel D’Ma : Accursed Lore and Magic from the Field of Blood

Summa Sacre Magice: the Compendium of Sacred Magic

Zadkiel’s Dream Book and The Popular Fortune Teller

Invisible Fire: Traditional Themes in Western Mysticism and Sethian Gnosticism

Lang’s Fairy Books ~ based books reprints

A Stranger In the Elemental Temple: The Rituals of the Ancient Order of Ishmael

The Book of Forgotten Witches

This Is Why You Dream

Piercing The Veil

The Complete Initiation Rituals of the Golden Dawn

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

The Psychic Art of Tarot

Lilith: A Novel

The Search for Truth

Metatron’s Ladder

The Search For Odin

Opening The Akashic Records

The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic

Crystal Gazing

A Complete System of Magic

Ars Goetia

De Natura Rerum

The Magical Art

The Secret School of Wisdom ~ The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati

The Secret Freemasonry: Of a Priest in the Temple of Nature

Santa Muerte ~ Liber Tenebrae Magna

The Mephistophelian Trilogy
(An autobiography of Thomas Karlsson)

A History of Irish Magic

The Mystical Qabalah

The Complete Flying Rolls of the Golden Dawn

IAO – An Ophite Iconography

Under The Dragon Root

Night School ( i. The Sworn and Secret Grimoire – ii. Cyprian’s Office of Spirits)

Betwixt God and the Devil

Terrors of the Night

Avalon Working

Diabolical Gnosticism

The Witches Bible

Dreams of Witches

Binding The Devil~ Satanism and Witchcraft reflected in 20th century tome

Spell Bound~Exploring Witchcraft and the occult through vintage paperbacks

Debauched ~Witchcraft and Devilry

The Complete Encyclopedia of Egyptian Deities

The Grimoire of the 72 Angels of the ShemHampHorash

The Vision of the Crossroads

The Green Mysteries

Theia Philosophia

Hermeticum Arcanum

Magickal and Philosophical Commentaries on the Book of the Law

Sefer Ha Sitra Achra

The Art of Conjuration ~ Oscar Tusk

Eye Of The Sun ~ Kerry Wisner

Liber Tiamat ~ XI/XIII

The Hekataeon ~Jack Grayle

Muses No More: Portraits of Occult Women ~Ùna Maria Blyth

Astral conversations ~ An Occult Investigation- AKA ~ A Listener


2/ Short Stories and Tales

The Sword of Iusticia(Themis)

The Stang of the Elphame Queen

The Staff of Demeter

The Wand of Brigid

The Articles of Witchcraft ; The Witches Oracle

The Herdiatary Tale of the Horned God and the Goddess

The Three Fates and the End of the Knights.

The Birth of Existence

Lucifer

Snow White ~ The True and Ancient Tale

Challenging the Lucid Dream Enigma

The King Who Wanted All The Knowledge Ever Known

The Spectre in the Window

Samhain, the Occult and the Blues

The Horrid Tale of the Samhain Cat

What is Traditional Witchcraft

The Rite of the Trickster

The Kingdom of the FAe

When Rumi and Jerome Met

The Synchronised God Attenuator

The Glue Sniffing AntiChrist

Red Riding hood ~ A Tragic Tale at Imbolc

The Coveted Teddy bear

The Man With No Face

The Golden Arm

In The Days Before Christmas (The Devil and The Crowman)

The Ghost of Hare Street

The Perfumed Ponce of Mayfair

The Boardroom of ‘Cain and Sin’

The Diary of the Determinist

The Maypole of Bathory

The Genesis of the Demonic House

The Night of Ghost Stories

The Strange Quirk Of The Fortune Teller

A Ghostly Encounter ~ Barking

A Dream Within a Dream and Prelude to Dream Within a Dream

The Peacock Angel

The Narcissist and the Prey

Of Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (LAM)

The Tale of the Jinn

The Man Who Knew Everything And Wrote It All Down

How Time Travel is a Fallacy

Channelling Aleister Crowley ~ The Mute Masquerade

Facing The Nemesis

The Curser and His Means

Archaeological Vandalism

The Chimera


3/ Full Books

The Fallen Angel

Anna Manners (Why Love Spells don’t work)


4/ Magazines and Articles

Brief Encounter at MAbon

The Exorcist

Spell 125 ~ The Book of the Dead

The Ladbroke Grove/ Harrow Road Crossroads Enigma

The Trickster ( A Rite of Ascension- Full Moon August 2024)

Yama ~ the God (dess) of Death, being Yami

Sitra Achra~ Notes of Analysis

Elsewise Magazine

The Art of Blowing Your Own Trumpet

Grimoires

The Chaldean Oracles ( An Akashic Translation
)

The Solar Eclipse on Crowleys Birthday ~ Looking At Old Work

The Art of the Montage

Astral projection to a Liminal Enviroment

A Short Essay On Encounters With Deities

An Article Regarding Qabbalah and the Otz Chiim

Humans Vs A.I.

All Fools Day


5/ Poetry

A Ludicrous Poem on Awakening

Psychopomp

The Seed Of Babylon

The Good Ship Sails

The Four Boons of Lakshmi

King David and Abishag

For The Lady of the Lake

I Want a Gun

Mabon ~ the Harvest Moon

Ode to the Bookshop

Liber Pennae Praenumbra ~ Sonnet

Thrice Great Hermes

To St.George

The Balance of Equilibrium

The Akashic Records

Discourses of The Goddess and the Horned God

The Scene Before Me (Perfection in a moment)


6/ Writing Prompts (WordPress challenges)

What One Thing would I change about myself

Three jobs I’d do v2.0

The Origin of my Name

Design a City

What Brings Me Peace

Ten Things That Are Absolutely Certain

The Genre of Music I Like

Memory of Childhood Food

Do I Practice Religion

How I cope with Negative Feelings

What Animal Am I ?

Letter To My 100 year old Self

My First Computer

Am I A Morning Person, Or a Creature of The Night

What First Impression Do I Want to Give ?

What Time Do I Need ?

Create A New Holiday

What is it that I Put Off

When I Felt Grown Up ?

Am I A Leader?

Words Used in Vain

What Am I Passionate About?

Three Influential Books that had an Impact On Me

What Is Freedom, What does it mean to me ?

What Gives Me Direction ?

Taking risks, When and What Happened

Decisions that have helped me learn or grow

Has technology changed my job?

Life Experiences That Helped Me Grow.

What Bores Me ?

What Law Would I Create/Change ?

Five Things That I Do for Fun

What Makes A Good Leader?

Hoarding and Clutter

A Crazy Business plan !

What Do I Need To Do More Of ?

Time and the perception of it

Nostalgia, Reminiscent, Remembering

What is my perfect space to read and write?

First Day at Work

Three Top peeves

Current Most Favoured People

Favourite Subject at School

If I Were Given Three Wishes ?

What Everybody Should Know

Of Exercise to Take

What Am I Working On

Things Not Known About Me

What Denotes Success

Life Without a Computer

What Skill To Learn

Alternative Career Choices

Am I Proud of Culture and Heritage

What Could I Do More Of

Life Without Music

What Do you Love About Where You Live

What Positive Emotion Do you Feel The Most

How To Unwind At The End Of The Day








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Wot’s this all about then Guv’nor ?;-
The Random musings of a nobody. “Dagenham Dave”, is slang for someone one stop short of Barking (mad), though more contemporarily refers to any wayfaring and carefree person. Dagenham is a town to the eastern side of London (Luds Dominium) that was first recorded in a Barking charter in 666a.d. as the town of Daeccanham. Daecca is an ancient man’s name meaning ‘bright’ or ‘famous’ . Ham is short for Hamlet.
Dave is short for David, Hebrew for ‘Beloved’, My Surname ‘Wenborn’ derives from old English meaning of the Winding Stream.

Contents:-
1/ Book Reviews.

They’re not reviews as such- to recommend or asway, I neither seek to promote nor condemn, more my personal reflections on the books I read. In that respect it’s a subjective thing.
2/ Short Stories and Tales

Short stories borne from imagination, dreams, thoughts and wanderings. Too large to be written in my journal of shadows.
3/ Full Books
Books that were once published elsewhere, I have full copyright on these, and of course given here freely.
4/ Magazines and Articles

Small snippets and articles that may or may not have appeared elsewhere, and information not included in Journal of shadows.
5/ Poetry

A small selection of poetry. Like song, I create as a means to an artistic diary.
6/ WordPress Challenges

Wordpress (where this website is hosted) offer up a daily prompt for people to answer, sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t.



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yoniḥ vikalpaḥ;
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