On Thursday November 15th 2018, the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon

will review "Son of Chicken Qabalah" and interview its distinguished

author Lon Milo DuQuette. This 2018 book is a sequel to Lon's popular

"Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford" (2001). Lamed Ben Clifford

is Lon's fictional creation. Lon thought all of us Hermetic Qabalists

needed our own Rabbi, who would not sneer at our Tarot cards and pagan

correspondences on the Tree of Life. Ben Clifford's Qabalah was for all

of us and it was presented in a humorous style that made the otherwise

dry subject come alive. It became one of the best introductions to the

subject at least from a Hermetic perspective. The fictional Ben Clifford

has passed away but he has left a legacy: a three degree Qabalistic

initiation system based on the Sepher Yetzirah's Cube of Space and the

Golden Dawn's Hermetic Hebrew alphabet correspondences. Starting with the

Three Mother Letters in the first degree (the original tetragrammaton)

the candidate next internalizes the Seven Double Letters attributed to

the planets, and finally, in the Third and last degree, he or she,

installs the Twelve Simple letters internalizing the entire Hermetic

Qabalistic universe. This is all accomplished with mudras, flashing

colorsm a pitch pipe and geometric mandalas. What we did with a  yoga

system in "Hermetic Yoga, Beyond the Middle Pillar" (2015) Lon has done

in a Temple initiation format. This little book of his is a treasure and

will make Hermetic Magick come alive for everyone who conscientiously

studies it.