HeathenHarvest.org posted an interesting piece by Jason O’Toole about Jeanne Robert Foster aka Soror Hilarion. An excerpt reads: “Who was this Jeanne? Thelemites and sundry other occultists might know her only as one of the pack of Crowley’s ‘Scarlet Women’… Continue Reading
Here’s a long posting from Genesis Breyer P-Orridge critiquing negative coverage of he(r) in England’s Guardian. Firstly, good to hear from Gen reporting on something other then her dire health – not that we’re tired of her sharing that, but… Continue Reading
If anyone still gives a toss, Gizmodo has posted an excerpt of interview with Chaos Magician/media mogul Grant Morrison which appears in Full Bleed Vol. 3: Heavy Rotation about, among other things, his longstanding, pointless rivalry with Alan Moore — I… Continue Reading
Hellfire Club Books is offering s Péladan Centenary Collection: Les Bijoux de Rose+Croix, a collection of fifteen art prints from the original coloured drawings by Sasha Chaitow. The publisher’s site states: “Sasha Chaitow has rendered these designs freehand, adding her own… Continue Reading
The Daily Jstor recently ran a piece about Golden Dawn Adept (much disparaged by Crowley) W.B. Yeats’ involvement with “automatic writing” via his wife Georgie. The article claims that she may have starting channeling these sorts of communications from the… Continue Reading
The New York Times recently ran an Op Ed column suggesting that the United States is moving further and further towards a mass religious stance that believes behind the Christian scriptural narratives. An excerpt reads: “But the secularization narrative is… Continue Reading
Weiser Antiquarian Books announced the publication of two previously unpublished essays by Frederick Hockley via Teitan Press under the name: Metaphysical Spiritual Philosophy. Discourses Through The Magic Mirror With Eltesmo and Emma Louisa Leigh. Weiser’s website says: “The first ever publication… Continue Reading
religiousstudiesproject.com just posted an audio recording of an interview regarding negotiating gender in contemporary occultism with a focus on the influence of Aleister Crowley and the religion he founded, Thelema. Their description of the interview is: “In this interview conducted… Continue Reading
Both theoreticians and practitioners of the the theurgy referred to as “Energized Enthusiasm” might find it worthwhile to spend some time at the Yale University Art Gallery’s “Sights And Sounds of Ancient Ritual” exhibit.In Liber DCCXI Energized Enthusiasm A Note… Continue Reading
Commonwealth Magazine ran a story about the J. Paul Getty Museum’s current exhibit “Heaven, Hell, and Dying Well: Images of Death in the Middle Ages,”that illustrates a number of the views Medieval Europeans had regarding the nature and experience of death.… Continue Reading