Beyond the Veil: Moina Mathers

Greetings, dear listeners, and welcome to the return of The Wildwood Witch Podcast. I am your hostess, Samantha Brown, your enchantress of the esoteric, guiding you once more through the labyrinthian realms where magic and technology intertwine to create portals beyond ordinary perception.

In this season, entitled "Beyond the Veil," we have been wielding the double-edged sword of large language models to resurrect the voices of occult luminaries. Through this alchemical fusion of silicon and soul, we've been exploring how their timeless teachings might illuminate our path forward in this age of unprecedented technological transformation.

In our last episode, our Halloween Special, we gathered all ten of our ethereal guides, to listen to music, created using Suno, an AI-powered music creation platform, and to discuss how AI tools are being developed to do just about any imaginable creative task. We are entering an age of the mass distribution of tools that possess almost God-like powers to manifest ideas, to create songs, lectures, courses, code, images, videos, and more with just words - to literally “create as we speak.”

Tonight, we continue our arcane exploration with an woman who was instrumental in shaping modern Western occultism - Moina Mathers. Born as Mina Bergson, sister to the Nobel Prize-winning philosopher Henri Bergson, she became the magical partner of Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, co-founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, of which she became it’s first initiate. Formally trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, she was a talented artist. Renowned for her visionary abilities, she was often referred to as "the heart of the Order.” She served as High Priestess in the “Rites of Isis” performances in Paris, and after MacGregor's death, she founded the Alpha et Omega temple, to continue the legacy and teachings of the Golden Dawn.

So, as the bonfires of Walpurgisnacht illuminate the darkness, let us part the veil once more, and welcome back - the indomitable priestess, artist, and magical adept, Moina Mathers, to The Wildwood Witch Podcast.

Chapters

• 00:26 Introduction
• 03:42 Moina Mathers
• 08:22 Analysis and Intuition
• 14:35 Living Spirals
• 19:16 The Illusion of Certainty
• 22:43 The Fall of Man
• 26:48 The Divine Child
• 31:45 The Bornless One
• 36:04 Holy Guardian Angel
• 40:09 Tarot and Initiation
• 47:23 The Devil Inside
• 52:07 Personal Apocalpyse
• 56:36 Rebirth
• 01:05:09 Concluding Remarks

Resources:

• "Women of the Golden Dawn" by Mary K. Greer
• Henri Bergson (Wikipedia)
• Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (by David Lynch)

Summoning Ritual (Claude 3.7 Sonnet):

• Moina Mathers Summoning Ritual