It is with great sadness that I announce that Donald Michael Kraig took his last breaths last night (3/17/2014) and died. He has crossed over to Summerland and is finally no longer suffering. The type of cancer he had was just too aggressive for us to do any more treatments and his body finally gave way. He did not suffer. He simply slipped away in his sleep.
In lieu of flowers or cards, please consider donating to the fund below to help offset medical expenses and, now, funeral expenses.At a later date to be named, there will be a memorial service celebrating his life and what he meant to all of us.Namaste,Holly Allender Kraig
Last night Don Kraig lost his battle
with pancreatic cancer. He went out fighting with a large number of his
friends, students, and legions of readers alongside him. This is the way it
should have been. Not only do occultists fight for every inch of life, what ever the odds, but Kraig’s books inspired many to start magical work and there
are many of which owe their magical careers to him
There will be some who feel that the
magic that they did to keep Don on this planet failed and they would be partly
right. The magical reservoir which helped him through the last stage of his
illness appeared to allow him to have a peaceful end unlike many who suffer
from pancreatic cancer. It seemed that it really was his time and the fates had
spoken and it was not a situation that magic had a right to change.
However, there was something more at
play here. More than 1000 people that I know of were regularly doing regular healing
workings in many different traditions, for a variety of different reasons. All that energy sat on the astral helping him
through what was a very painful illness.
It was there in such a supply that as he stepped into the Astral he
would have known it and felt it.
It was a magical send off for a modern occult
hero. Over the weeks that Kraig’s friends fought for him, he knew that he was
loved, wanted and appreciated. You
cannot want more from a life than that.
This is the sort of exit that few in
the occult world have received. Many die unknown, unmourned and unappreciated;
their books yellowing on second-hand book shops. The fact that so many gave
their power to help him, is a sign that they wanted him to stay. The fact he went out fighting with so many
alongside him was a sign that this was a special person. Someone who is more than human does not go “gently
to that last good night” if they feel that they have work to be done. Don did
not.
Kraig wrote a book which has been in
every occult bookshop and most occultists bookshelves for more than 20 years. It
will remain an occult classic he probably had more inside him which will be up
to his students to bring through.
We do not learn about how important
individual sparks are until they are gone. The collective grief already
appearing on Facebook is mourning that vacuum inside ourselves that the departing
spark leaves. We all did our best to try to change that, but it was time that
Don left this story to go on to a new one. At least he knew that he was wanted.
