In the Shadow of This Branch

by Robert Podgurski

90 pages, Paperback

Published April 10, 2024

About the author

I have been doing poetry for well over 20 years. I emphasize the term "doing" as writing is only one dimension of poetry, the root from the Greek poeia, meaning "to make." I consider magick to fall under that same rubric in terms of an Orphic tradition wherein magick is considered a chanted / intoned form of poetry that makes things happen. My recent book The Sacred Alignments and Dark Side of Sigils is enveloped in this tradition literally and figuratively. In fact, the book starts off with Robert Duncan's "Where it appears."

Sacred Alignments is a work of visionary magick, however, the book is somewhat of a hybrid grimoire / scholarly study of sigils, Enochian magick, geomagnetism, etc.. And even though Enochian magick figures largely into this picture it is but one component. And it is important to bear this in mind as practitioners interested in dowsing, ley-lines, power zones and the like stand to benefit from this study even if they are not drawn to Enochian magick per se.

To reiterate, I view magick, poetry, yoga, as all part and parcel of a consanguineous process. I view the visionary experience, stripped of its outer trappings and external components as just that, a vision devoid of a verbal overlay. The challenge therein is finding an adequate means, through language, ie turning the process on its head, to elaborate upon the sublime aspects of the visionary experience, bringing Kether in view of Malkuth, etc.. Whether or not I have achieved this end result will be solely up to the reader to discern.