An ancient Mayan text captured the moment when a royal astronomer made a scientific discovery about the movement of Venus across the night sky. The text, called the Dresden Codex, contains laborious measurements of the rising and setting of Venus.… Continue Reading
The BBC reports that exposing men to bright light can improve their sexual satisfaction – with the Sun being the most powerful source of natural light at our disposal this is an intriguing linking of the literal solar to the… Continue Reading
Fox News Online posted a thoroughly evenhanded report about the Satanic Temple getting approval to initiate its “After School Satan Club” — in Portland, OR (figgers). In part the story states: “Finn Rezz, one of two heads of the chapter, told… Continue Reading
Storytelling images on a deer-hide “manuscript” from Mexico have been seen for the first time in 500 years, thanks to sophisticated scanning technology that penetrated layers of chalk and plaster. This “codex,” a type of book-like text, originated in the… Continue Reading
Back in August the Thelema, NOW! podcast posted a two-hour lecture from Joseph Peterson his translation of the Sworn Book of Honorius. Peterson went back and took the podcast and set it to an illustrative slide show and posted it on… Continue Reading
The discovery of a 3,000-year-old pyramid-shaped mausoleum in Kazakhstan has gone viral over the past months, with several media outlets proclaiming the structure to be the world’s first pyramid. But archaeologists say the structure, which contains a series of five… Continue Reading
Last Friday, Stooping Starlight – “Thelemic podcast, by women, for all” – posted its fifth episode; this marks their one year anniversary since the first podcast! Featured this time are: – Sr Madimi interviews Brandy Williams – Reading: “a laying… Continue Reading
ReligionDispatches.org has posted Paul Harvey’s interview with Emily Clark regarding her recently published book A Luminous Brotherhood, a study of the Afro-Creole Spiritualist “Cercle Harmonique” from 1858 to 1877. Clark combed the archives of the University of New Orleans researching this work… Continue Reading
The NOTOCon committee has announced details of NOTOCON XI: For The Chance of Union, to take place August 11-13, 2017 e.v. in the Valley of Orlando, FL: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. We are… Continue Reading
Around 1,500 years ago, at a time when China was divided, a woman named Farong was laid to rest wearing fantastic jewelry, which included a necklace of 5,000 beads and “exquisite” earrings, archaeologists report. Her tomb was discovered in 2011… Continue Reading