Robin Artisson: Folklorist, Man of Letters, Protagonist, Sorcerous Practitioner & Spiritual Ecologist
Robin is our Institute’s founder and Magister of the Arts taught here. He is also the founder of Cylgh An Carow Gwyn, a devotional society which contemplates the old Fayerie Faith in the modern day, and co-founder of Covenant DeSavyok, a sorcerous peerage devoted to the Strange Arts.
Robin’s first published work emerged over 20 years ago, in the form of The Witching Way of the Hollow Hill– a now-celebrated first chapter in Robin’s ongoing quest for the authentic core of western Witchcraft and the traditional sorcerous practices that inhere within historical European and American societies. The refinement of his understandings brought more published works into the public eye, including An Carow Gwyn: Sorcery and the Ancient Fayerie Faith, The Resurrection of the Meadow, Letters from the Devil’s Forest, The Secret History, The Clovenstone Workings, The House of the Giantess, and others.
Robin’s career as a writer has been an adjunct to his fulfillment of the sorcerous and dream-visionary vocation to which he belongs. The tradition of men and women who have devoted their lives to seeking and gaining dream-vision experiences (alongside other ecstatic or extraordinary experiences for the benefit of kin and communities) has always existed within every culture, east or west. Since his 23rd year, Robin has been active in this calling. His vocational engagement has included assuming the role of teacher to those interested in the arcane (and often shunned or forbidden) dimensions of our common cultural heritage.
With the creation of Upon the Rood-Day: The Witchcraft of Christsonday and the Queen of Elphen, Robin’s vision of Witchcraft and of spiritual inter-relationship to the worlds that are Seen and Unseen reached a momentous point. It is an extensive and complete sorcerous system, with a historical and philosophical underpinning of immense depth. It is offered to all who feel compelled to take a deep dive into the occult history and reality of our world.
Serpent Hall Institute of Witchcraft & The Nameless Religion
Our Institute is devoted to preserving and sharing Robin Artisson’s chief spiritual and literary achievement, in the form of the Upon the Rood-Day course and experience. It is also devoted to helping people reconsider the depths of our own history, and why older forms of spiritual and esoteric understanding can be critically important in the face of so many of our modern-day impasses.
Upon the Rood-Day is more than just a course and a mentorship in Witchcraft written by an experienced practitioner; it is also a survey of the Western Esoteric Tradition as a whole (as it relates to Witchcraft) and a treatise and discourse on The Nameless Religion: the hidden heart of pre-Christian Western mysticism and animism which lives on still in folklore, myths, stories, and dreams.
There are those who believe that Witchcraft in its genuine essence cannot be shared or taught through courses like this, least of all courses encountered through modern means such as the internet. Their skepticism is surely understandable; the brokenness and desperation of our modern world has cast a dark shadow upon our virtual communications as well as our ordinary ones.
Our ancestors and forebears never hesitated to use any means of communication they could, to reach out to one another. From the time of brave people carrying verbal messages from place to place over wide landscapes, to the invention of writing and then the printing press, human beings have striven to reach one another with things that were important or precious, and to preserve information for sharing.
We do not accept that the greatest expression of information sharing ever seen by history, in the form of the internet, must be completely condemned alongside our many other social failings. For all the shortcomings of the virtual world, it can still be used to transmit and preserve needful ideas. It has brought people together, solved mysteries, saved lives, and made education and vital information more widely available to countless people. Noble minds can make noble uses for nearly anything.
Witchcraft and other esoteric Arts can be taught through this medium. The virtual medium is another means of connection and sharing that has already defined generations; it has altered the course of history and nations and will continue to do so. Serpent Hall was created to add its own voice to the outflow of this modern reality.
Witchcraft and sorcerous arts were always taught in the past. Whether one human being taught another, or spiritual beings came and taught humans extraordinary knowledge and skills, Witchcraft was taught. Extraordinary sharing is the oldest and chief avenue by which these esoteric matters pass from one to another and take root in human life. Virtual sharing is another passageway for this outcome.
The work of Robin Artisson and the community of people already connected to Serpent Hall are both critical parts of a needful exploration of spiritual understanding. Those who apply here to study our vision of Witchcraft and the Nameless Religion receive direct personal support from Robin himself. He thoughtfully engages with everyone, and does not leave any concerns unanswered. Those who have already engaged with our work know that the experience is not merely “virtual”. It is highly personal as well.
Please contact us at
Magister@SerpentHall.com