André Consciência

André lives in Moita, Portugal and has been a dedicated practitioner of magic and mysticism for more than two decades. He was with the Fraternitas Hermetica (an order based on the works of Franz Bardon) while still a minor and had an initiator that stood even after the order vanished. He also has worked with his old initiator for 20 years. He has experience of other magical systems such as AMORC, Order of Michael’s Grail (with roots on Dion Fortune), Thelemic Golden Dawn, Astrum Argentum and the Typhonian OTO. André teaches neo-shamanism and has his own active group of practitioners. Aside from his shamanic path, which he puts to use as a simple way to reach the uninitiated, he has been through the hermetic magical systems of Franz Bardon, as well as through systems presented by Rosicrucian orders and Thelemic organizations, still being a member of the Chaorder of SilverDusk and a member of the Inner Council of the Horus Maat Lodge. Aside from his magical path, Andre is an accomplished author, poet, playwright, musician and founder of a Theater Company – CIA.Mefisteatro. A published author in a number of writings, notably: Poesis collection, Minerva publishing. Projecto Prometeus, illustrations by Alice Basílio, 2007. Á Beira-Lua, Corpos Editora and World Art Friends, a collection of poems, 2008. ‘A Boca da Noite‘, by Abismo Humano, 2012. A collection of short stories with the adventures of a man who is climbing a mountain in order to marry a star. Gem of Silence and Iomik & The Emerald Woman, Melting Books publishing 2018. Two fictional titles connected to the works of Paracelsus, Trono de Cera e Dorso de Fada, a poetry book published by the City Hall of Moita, 2018 (including photographic works of Eunice Correia). Editor in the Silver Star: A Journal of New Magick. Published by the Horus Maat Lodge. Translatior to portuguese of ‘The Horus Maat Lodge, the Grimoire of a PanAeonic Magickal Tribe’ and ‘The Chaldean Oracles’, to which he writes the commentary. The Way of Abrahadabra, Published by Sirius Limited Esoterica, 2020. The Path to IPSOS Vol I. Published by Sirius Limited Esoterica, 2020. The Path to IPSOS Vol II. Published by Sirius Limited Esoterica, 2021. His work was accepted at The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, an anthology curated by Robert N Stephenson, with the Golden Tooth. He participates in magazines such as Silver Star – A Journal of New Magick and SilkMilk (Inspiralink Productions), Tumzantorum and in the Portuguese magazine Abismo Humano as well as in the Brazilian magazine Mallarmargens, where he began to publish his translations, debuting with T. S. Elliot. In 2010 he formed a therapy program through creative writing and shamanistic performance and this started his career as a performer, using poems unique to the performances and often inviting other artists, from performers to dancers and musicians. In parallel he began working with music (i.e. Babalith, O Culto do Fogo Negro), working on a variety of projects, solo and collective, and created his first play Língua de Fogo, (Tongue of Fire) featuring the dancer Soraya Moon. In 2017 he released O Verão Nas Nossas Bocas, a semi auto-biographical fiction where the life of the character is seen from the lens of the Sun. In 2018 he founded his own Theater Company of CIA. Mefisteatro, with Eunice Correia – debuts with the kabbalistic play, Twilight Circus. As a playwright, he wrote the plays and music for Rumpelstiltskin, Three Strange Stories and the ritual play ‘Sapho’s Bone’. In addition to his Neoplatonic approach to poetry, fiction, music and theatre, he has been a member of various magical orders and has written nonfiction articles to their archives. In The Way of Abrahadabra, he intended to strip the formula from the folk rituals of Thelema and its most religious and popular aspects, presenting it and elaborating it instead through hermetic methods. André Consciência is also president at 3 cultural associations and was the content writer and the ghostwriter at Fractal Mind Lda, a revolutionary company of Gamification working for a better world and a foreseen future.