In a series of blogs introducing our authors to readers, we are focussing on Payam Nabarz today – author of Stellar Magic (2009) and editor of the forthcoming ANAHITA Anthology, a collection of essays from academics, practitioners and mystics focussing entirely on this fascinating goddess.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR – PAYAM NABARZ
Author of STELLAR MAGIC
Persian born Payam Nabarz is a Sufi and a practicing Dervish. He is a Druid in the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, and a co-founder of its Nemeton of the Stars Grove. Magi Nabarz is a revivalist of the Temple of Mithras, and is working toward becoming a Hierophant in the Fellowship of Isis. He has also worked with the Golden Dawn system, Thelema, Nath Tantra, Wicca, and the Craft.
He was the founder of Spirit of Peace, a charitable organisation dedicated to personal inner peace and world peace via interfaith dialogue between different spiritual paths.
Magi Nabarz’s writings have also appeared in numerous esoteric magazines including Touchstone (the Journal of the Order of Bards, Ovates, Druids), Pagan Dawn (the Journal of the Pagan Federation), Stone Circle, The Little Red Book, Pentacle, White Dragon, Silver Star, Cauldron, Fezana (Zoroastrian Journal) and the Sufi.
His other published works include:
The Mysteries of Mithras
(The Pagan Belief That Shaped the Christian World)
Divine Comedy of Neophyte Corax and Goddess Morrigan
Mithras Reader – Volume I & 2 (editor)
(An academic and religious journal of Greek, Roman, and Persian Studies)
The Persian ‘Mar Nameh’ (with S.H. Taqizadeh)
(The Zoroastrian ‘Book of the Snake’ Omens and Calendar
& The Old Persian Calendar)
For more info: http://avaloniabooks.co.uk/catalogue/ceremonial-magick/stellar-magic
