- Author
- Alex Sumner
- Published
- Newest post 29 September 2026
- Kind
- Personal blog front page, with reviews, essays and rituals
- Original
- solascendans.com/
- Subject
- Occult, myth and religion
What it is
A WordPress blog by Alex Sumner, billed as that of a novelist and occult writer. Tabs lead to Press, Articles and Contact pages. The sidebar advertises the author's books and an archive running back to 2009.
What it says
- A Gong review notes that support band The Butterfly Wheel draws on alchemy and tarot.
- An obituary says R A Gilbert, publicly hostile to the Golden Dawn, secretly aided it.
- Sumner gives a scrying exercise on the glyph of Mercury, first shown at a conference.
- Another post proposes a Greenland defence ritual adapted from one by Dion Fortune.
- A review calls Light In Extension a triumph of scholarship on a Bradford temple.
- A review says Spirit Builders summarises all ninety-seven degrees of Memphis-Misraim.
What evidence it gives
The posts rest on the author's own reading, attendance at events and personal acquaintance. The obituary relies on an unnamed Freemason acquaintance and a statement credited to Gilbert. It also says Gilbert publicly lent Golden Dawn material to others. The rituals and exercises are offered without any test.
Interests and limits
The author sells occult books and states that Amazon links earn affiliate revenue. The author holds office in a Golden Dawn temple, so reviews come from an insider. Only the front page was read; older archive posts were not. The rituals are presented as practice, not as evidence.