Prophetic dreams are a commonplace experience even for those who do not practice the occult. However, the role of prophecy is not to predict the future, but to reveal what has been true the whole time by speaking on behalf of what is silent by nature. As such, many features of such dreams may not become clear until years later.
This is a look back on the dream which started my descent into the occult, with explanations of each part from insight I’ve gained over the years since it happened.
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A Lost Me
When I look back on my initial post on this blog, over 5 years ago and already 2 years into my occult practice, I’m reading the words of a different person. To me now, they feel naive. There is a search for answers and a compensation in that writing, as if by explaining the state they were in and how they got there it would legitimize the actions being taken and provide a sought-after presence which was apparently absent.
This person and everything they’d said was ephemeral. They already were beyond what they were writing, yet before they had finished the article they would already be someone else. Nearly every way they thought about everything would change in short order.
However one part of it remains feeling solid. Real.
This is because it did not come from me.
Part 4 of that article described, in summary, a dream I had. The article treated it as an important step on my journey, but at the time I had no idea of the significance, nor how much meaning it contained.
We’re going to discuss each part of it, using my original notes, as well as some info on times I returned to this same place. And we’ll see what has been revealed since then.
Timing
Despite my original article stating that this happened at night, at the time I was quickly summarizing in what felt to me like a very long article and I did not think it necessary to explain the exact situation.
According to my notes, this actually happened during an afternoon.
I was in fact taking a nap, somewhere between 12:30pm and 1:30pm. The date was May 24, 2019. I was 33 years old.
The original Magia retreat, held by Alan Chapman, took place from May 19th-24th 2019. Noteworthy, as Magia is the tradition which has called to me, which I now teach, and within which meaning will be found regarding this dream.
Not only was this prophetic dream on the final date of the Magia retreat, when Alan was speaking the words of the Mountain Cosmology,
The time is almost upon us when we must withdraw back into silence.
But before we do, the incantation needs to be finished.
there is also a 7 hour difference between East Coast USA and the time in Greece at Mt. Pelion. Meaning, my dream occurred when it was Sunset in Greece at the final day of the original Magia retreat.
Sunsets are thematically inherent in Magia, as it is the point when two worlds meet.
Location
The dream starts with me standing on the top of a mountain.
It was Sunset at the time. The mountain had a dip on the top, a lower peak and a higher one. There was a temple on the higher peak, and ruins on the lower. People were walking between them. Behind me was the sea. Before me, where the sun was setting, was a long valley with a river, flanked by mountains, leading to a lake. Small towns filled the valley.
The first thing I can say about this is that esoterically I now know where this is located.
The is the True Earth. The 5th stage of the Mountain Cosmology. The 14th Aethyr. I’ve returned multiple times. This is Eternity, as experienced via an Expression of the Divine given appearance. This is the prior, that which comes first, the place of Ideal Life before it is reflected within the darkness of the Underworld.
The 14th Aethyr is VTA, which is similar to “vita” or “Life” in Latin. The place from where life comes. The angel of the Aethyr also identified it as Eden, the locations of the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge.
It makes sense that a prophetic dream is one that speaks for this place.
In 2024 I experienced a shock while playing around with my VR headset.
Something pulled me to start up Google Earth and fly around the world. A further pull said “Hey, I wonder what the place they had the original Magia retreat looks like.” So, I typed in Mt. Pelion, Greece, and set the date to May 2019.
And then, in full 3D, my dream was present before me.
The top of Mt. Pelion in Greece is the exact same geography as the mountain in my dream. There is a dip at the peak, around which are two separate “humps”, and a road connecting them. There are structures on both of them. Then I tilted the camera.
Looking West from these peaks, where the Sun would be setting, there is a valley flanked by mountains, further mountains in the background, with Lake Karla and the rivers feeding it, and little towns filling the area.
Behind, to the East, is the Sea. This area directly matched
Mythologically, Mount Pelion is where Chrion the Centaur, tutor of Heracles, Theseus, Achilles, and Jason, lived. Its also where the first event that started the Trojan War took place. At its base is Lake Karla, the only lake on the plain of Thessaly, on the shores of which the god Apollo was married.
Geography, timing, and cosmological position has my dream placing me in the True Earth at the actual geographic site of the original Magia retreat at the same time it was happening. On a mountain as the Mountain Cosmology was being discussed. Looking at a shining road made from the sunset on the water as these words were being spoken.
Having captured your heart,
and if such a heart truly belongs to the lover of the divine,
and should you let it,
the snake will become a shimmering road,
golden on the surface of the waters,
that will take you back to the setting sun,
where the light vanishes in the west and the two worlds meet to dissolve in the mystery of the divine human being.
We should be very clear, I had never heard of Magia (especially since it was just being created!) at the time of this dream. Nor had I ever heard of or seen Mt Pelion, nor any of the surrounding area of Greece. I did not know of Alan Chapman at all, did not know a retreat was happening there, did not know of retreats in such a fashion at all. I had no occult practice, nor even any true religious practice.
The entirety of my occult knowledge at this time was “tarot cards exist”.
Structures
I have been in this place multiple times, having returned here while scrying the Aethyrs.
I always knew what the temple on the right side was, though for some reason at the time I was about identifying it as such.
This was Solomon’s Temple, also known as the First Temple. I recognized it from descriptions and images growing up in Catholic school.
I only peaked inside on my visit during the initial dream, and did not describe it in my initial article. However, when I unexpectedly returned while scrying the 14th Aethyr, I got a closer look inside and found that it contained the Ark of the Covenant. You’ll simply have to trust my word that at the time I did not make any mental connection that within that temple was the appropriate place to find it.
The second structure, the ruins, remained a mystery until June of this year (2026). I was cleaning my snake’s cage, a ball python, when I accidentally spooked him and he bit me. Only for a moment, he immediately let go without drawing blood. Later that day I read something mentioning “Python and Apollo”, and a google search led me to the myth of the god slaying a dragon at a particular place.
This is the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Obviously, we are 150 miles away in Pelion, not Delphi. However, the structure is the one that was present on this mountain within the dream.
Looking at the symbolism here, I am having a prophetic dream in which I find myself drawn to the temple of the god of prophecy, and specifically the one where his oracles (the Pythia) provided their services. In the dream I enter it via a square hole. In this image, it would be near the rear of the structure, before the columns.
This was not the only structure I’ve seen in this place however. In my return via the 14th Aethyr, I describe another temple. Missing columns, but with some still standing and circular.
This is the Sanctuary of Athena, also at Delphi. It was here, during the Aethyr vision, at the sanctuary of the goddess of Wisdom, where it was explained to me by an angel that the place I was currently witnessing was the true Eden, or starting place of life. He also told me I did not understand at the time, but I would in the future and I would remember this.
He was correct.
Further Symbols
Trumpets blared to announce a storm.
If we look at the Judgement tarot card, we see a very similar landscape to the one I’ve described so far.
The Archangel Gabriel announces the Last Judgement via trumpet and the dead arise to meet his call. The Last Judgement is the moment that clarity of truth is seen, and thus we can take it as this being a call to Awakening. Given this dream is directly me being called to Awakening, its quite fitting.
My notes make specific mention of the details of The Storm, and I mention them in a specific order. I describe the dark clouds rolling in, then lightning striking (even as seen in my original drawing), followed by wind and then rain.
These details should be very familiar to Magia practitioners, as only days before I had this dream it was first spoken:
A storm rages over the sea,
all darkness and lightning,
wind and rain.
This is itself a cosmology. Magia contains multiple, as does my initial dream.
To get out of the rain, people chose one temple or the other. I and others climbed down a hole in the ruins of the Temple of Apollo and arrived in a corridor. Here, around a bend, I found two gigantic stone doors. I did not mention this in the original post, but did so on my subsequent return via the 14th Aethyr: they bore a carved lion’s head among the other symbols.
The main conception of Divinity within Magia is the God Aion.
Aion is often depicted with a lion’s head, and this door and its location are clear symbols of relating to and belonging to him. Within Hellenism, He’s the hidden God beyond and behind the others of the Greek pantheon, the esoteric eternal nature of Divinity.
And here he is, hidden beneath the source of prophecy, marking a location for his knowledge to be shared.
Yet another amazing moment for me, as He is intimately tied with my understanding of… well, everything at this point. But I had not heard of him even in passing when this dream occurred, let alone have any idea that he’d be connected with the yet-unknown Magia I would later find.
The Retreat
A blue figure with golden light all through it, larger than life, and many people sat around asking him questions. This should be very clearly understood as what happens on a retreat. I feel apologetic towards my own writings as I do this, but I once again feel the need to stress my ignorance of such things at the time of the dream. Retreats in this fashion were a completely unknown concept to me. I had never heard of one, never witnessed one, never had any clue that it was done by people. Especially not in the occult sense, or even religious sense.
The figure poured through a missing brick like a mist, its essence filling the room until it took specific form. And though I did not understand at the time, it was answering questions perfectly in line with my current Magia-informed understanding.
“Are you God?” asked a retreat member. I did not note the exact words of its answer, as they were confusing, but my notes describe it as saying it was not God in the sense the person asked, but it was of God and the same thing as God in nature. This now makes complete sense to me.
“Is there more than one universe?” asked another scientifically minded retreat member. “Not in the way you’re thinking” it responded. I remember that answer very clearly for some reason. It described a greater existence comprised of a “real” universe and somehow just the ideas of another within it. Again, extremely confusing at the time, yet in retrospect a perfectly coherent description of a cosmology.
In the dream I felt a tiredness come over me, and I asked the figure “can we sleep here?”. We could still hear the thunder outside, and my concern was not for the retreat. In the dream I was only trying to escape the weather and it was just incidental that I was with this gathered group. He responded that we could, and in this moment I incarnated.
Golden light stretched out of him and touched each of us, and one by one we fell asleep. When it touched me and I fell asleep in the dream, I immediately woke up in the “real world”.
This is how we arrive here. We fall asleep to Eternity, as if we’re dying from it, and awake such that the world of Creation is the only thing that we observe and know. This dream was as if it were the culmination of that directly happening. This was my incarnation into this life, and everything that had happened up to that moment was inconsequential except insofar as it took me to that point.
I can certainly say, it all changed after that.
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