One of the many roles played by O.T.O. Cabinet member David Tibet is as a Contributor to the The Coptic Magical Papyri: Vernacular Religion in Late Roman and Early Islamic Egypt project. The project’s website says: “The Coptic Magical Papyri: Vernacular… Continue Reading
The University of Pennsylvania Press, journals division released the 14th issue of Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft earlier this year; this is a triannual publication that comes out in the Spring, Summer, and Winter. The current issue addresses witchcraft in ancient cultures… Continue Reading
Join us for the 12th biennial United States Grand Lodge OTO Conference in the Valley of Cleveland, Ohio over the weekend of August 2-4, 2019!Visit the REGISTER link http://xii.notocon.org/register/. Payments must be paid-in-full by July 18, 2019. Your $265 ticket… Continue Reading
The Harvard Semitic Museum posted video of a lecure by Rita Lucarelli discussing demonology and thaumatury in Egypt during Pharonic and Hellenistic times. Since the Prophet of the Lovely Star was a passionate Egyptomaniac and couched alot of his theological… Continue Reading
Later this year, the UK’s Bloomsbury Academic Publishing will issue The Archangel Michael in Africa History, Cult and Persona edited by. Ingvild Saelid Gilhus, Alexandros Tsakos, and Marta Camilla Wright. It’ll feature appendix written by OTO Cabinet member David Tibet,… Continue Reading
Here’s an interesting article posted at the Coptic Magical Papyri site which includes a prayer for protection from evil that references to Jesus’ storming of Hell during the three days between his death and resurrection – though if he was… Continue Reading
NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently hosting the exhibit: “The World Between Empires Art & Identity In The Ancient Middle East.” This looks at the experience of the peoples caught between the competing superpowers of yore, Rome and Parthia,… Continue Reading
Some years ago openculture.com posted a full lecture and & reading list from our hero Sun Ra’s 1971 UC Berkeley Course, “The Black Man in the Cosmos.” If you don’t understand why this is pertinent – well, I could teach… Continue Reading
Earlier this month, the National Geographic Museum in Washington, DC unveiled a new exhibit, “Queens of Egypt” which is open through September 2019. Do I have to remind you what an Egypt-o-maniac Crowley was? Really? Hey, who are the deities… Continue Reading
Today is the 115th anniversary of the Invocation of Horus in Cairo in 1904. It is also (as of 2158 UTC, 5:58 P.M. EDT) the equinox, and the first day of the new Thelemic Year: Annus Vv. In celebration, here’s… Continue Reading