Dr Robin Douglas

I wasn’t quite happy with the existing translations of the Mithras Liturgy, so I made my own. The text can be found here. Here is an audio recording of it.

Fr Calvin Robinson and the strange world of ‘wandering’ clergy There are several different models of Christian priesthood – the good, the bad and the ugly. The good is based on the idea that the priest is a living presence of Jesus Christ. A servant of their community: a pastor, teacher and friend. The bad……

This is an article on the contemporary Pagan community in England and Wales, based on what the census results can tell us. How many Pagans are there? Where do they live? What do they look like when broken down by age and sex? What is a Pagan? Pagans are difficult to count, for several reasons.…

It was never about God Blasphemy is in the news again following the overturning of Hamit Coskun’s conviction for burning the Qur’an. “There is no offence of blasphemy in our law”, declared the court near the beginning of its judgment. This is true, but the history here is more complex than is generally realised. England…

This is the last in my series of posts making available the writings of Colonel Charles ‘Griff’ Seymour, one of the most important esotericists of the twentieth century. May to September 1938 Part 1. The Gods of the Mysteries In these articles an attempt will be made to show what the gods of a Mystery…

If you are reading these words after 24 September 2025, there is a chance that you have missed out on the fast track to Heaven. Predictions have been circulating online that an event known as the Rapture will take place today or tomorrow. These claims seem to originate from a South African clergyman, Rev. Joshua…

A further post in my series republishing The Folklore of Herbs (1946), a book by Katherine Oldmeadow, who was a significant figure in the British pagan revival. CHAPTER IV SOME OF THE OLD HERBALISTS Adam might be called the first herbalist when he was put into a garden made by God. The people of Biblical times and…

A further post in my series republishing The Folklore of Herbs (1946), a book by Katherine Oldmeadow, who was a significant figure in the British pagan revival. CHAPTER III WITCHES: BLACK AND WHITE The housewives of the past were learned in the use of physic herbs and capable of doctoring their households. But some of them, not…

Today is the anniversary of the demise of the last clerical government in Europe. On 20 September 1870, the army of the Kingdom of Italy entered Rome and put an end to the anachronistic entity known as the Papal States – in modern terms, a kind of western Iran. * From the eighth century CE…

A further post in my series republishing The Folklore of Herbs (1946), a book by Katherine Oldmeadow, who was a significant figure in the British pagan revival. CHAPTER II HERBS AND THE STARS The virtues of herbs were known to the ancients and books on them were written in England in pre-Christian days, but mixed…