“Motherhood is holy. Fatherhood is holy. The act of creation is a sacrament.” –Aleister Crowley In the United States, Mother’s Day will be observed this coming Sunday, May 12. In celebration of moms, a number of businesses are offering freebies… Continue Reading
Today is the Feast of artist and libertine Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin. The Invisible Basilica of Sabazius tells us, “The life of Paul Gauguin provides us with an example of a man who flouted convention and abandoned material success in… Continue Reading
Tomorrow, 8 May, is the Feast of Dame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Russian occultist, philosopher, author, and co-founder of the Theosophical Society. Britannica tells us, “In 1877 her first major work, Isis Unveiled, was published. In this book she criticized the science and religion of her day… Continue Reading
Sunday, May 5, is the Feast of James Branch Cabell (pronounced like “rabble”). Cabell was born April 14, 1879 in Richmond, Virginia, to an affluent and well-connected Virginia family. He was named for his maternal grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel James R.… Continue Reading
Noted in the Thelemic Seasonal Calendar as the Feast of Cattle, Little and Big, the first of May is also called Beltane or May Day. All three feasts celebrate life bursting forth in the Spring, some with religious observation, some… Continue Reading
“To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all.” — AL II:22 Today is the feast of Albert Hoffman, who died just 11 years… Continue Reading
Tomorrow, 27 April, is the Feast of Sir Wilfred T. Smith. Wilfred Talbot Smith was born Frank Wenham 8 June 1885, the illegitimate son of a domestic servant and her employer in Tonbridge, Kent. He moved to Canada in 1907, where he began reading about Western esotericism. In January 1915… Continue Reading
Today, April 25, is the Feast of St. Manes. According to The Invisible Basilica of Sabazius, Manes was: Also known as Mani or Manichaeus; Persian philosopher and religious teacher, founder of the Gnostic religion of Manichaeism (see Chapter 201 of Liber Aleph). Crowley’s… Continue Reading
Today, April 23, is the Feast of Gnostic Saint Sir Richard Payne Knight. Wikpedia describes Knight as “… a classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.”… Continue Reading
Today is the 88th anniversary of the death of Dame Mary d’Este Sturges, founder of Desti Beauty Products, BFF of dancer Isadora Duncan, the 2nd Scarlet Woman of Aleister Crowley, mother of American playwright Preston Sturges, and so much more.… Continue Reading