According to Wikipedia, today is Beltane: “…the anglicised name for the Gaelic May Day festival. Most commonly it is held on 1 May, or about halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. Historically, it was widely observed throughout Ireland,… Continue Reading
Sweden’s Carl Abramsson wears many hats including filmmaker. Seven of his films are posted at Vimeo and available for paid streaming or downlod. If you don’t know Carl, here’s the brief biographical sketch posted at his website: “I’m a Swedish… Continue Reading
On April 26, 1911, A.’.A.’. co-founder George Cecil Jones lost his libel case against the Looking Glass, one of the sensational tabloids of the era. In a piece defaming Crowley the preceding year, the paper named Jones and Allan Bennett… Continue Reading
The journal La Rosa di Paracelso is soliciting proposals for articles for its second monographic issue: Diabolus in singulis est: The Devil, Satan and Lucifer. The themes the journal is interested in include: The idea of the Devil in authors of… Continue Reading
Night Of Pan Books in Seattle WA have published their latest catalogue of printed goods on offer: 1) Achad, Frater. Crystal Vision through Crystal Gazing. No date (ca. 1980’s). Yogi Publications. 116 pp. Previous owner signature on the FFEP “PrometuOz… Continue Reading
A few days ago, the Guardian ran a story about biographer Joanna Moorhead who’s book, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington , has recently been published. Carrington, who died in 2011, was a notable member of the Surrealist movement, admired by her… Continue Reading
The “Metropolitan” section of the April 2 edition of the New York times ran a feature on it’s cover headlined “Stranger Things: Chicken Delicious is a campy 74-year-old fixture at a piano bar in Manhattan. How he got there is… Continue Reading
The Members and Officers of Scarlet Woman Lodge have announced the opening of registration for the the seventh annual Scarlet Symposium, to be held at SWL during the first weekend of June. The Book of the Law charges us to… Continue Reading
Henrik Bogdan recently posted a list of papers being presented at the workshop on Literature and Western Esotericism being held May 4-5, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden “Describing the Non-Communicable: Imagination, Dreams and Experiential Knowledge in Occultist Literature” Henrik… Continue Reading
England’s Tartarus Press is now offering an edition of Arthur Machen and A.E. Waite’s mysterious The House of Hidden Light. The publisher’s website says: “The House of the Hidden Light (1904) has long been regarded by occultists as a great… Continue Reading