Thelema, NOW! has now posted part 2 of Harper Feist interviewingo Brother BJ Swain about his book Living Spirits: A Guide to Magic in a World of Spirits. BJ discusses working with many different kinds spirits including ancestral and planetary. https://oto-usa.org/main/podcast/.
Tomorrow, June 29, is the Feast of St. Simon Magus, who lived around 35 e.v. In Christian lore, he’s known as the magician who offered to pay the offered the disciples money for the power of the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:9-24).… Continue Reading
Yesterday, Ordo Templi Orientis announced: “Boleskine House, on the south-east shore of Loch Ness in Scotland, was once owned by Aleister Crowley and is considered by many Thelemites to be a holy site. It was heavily damaged by fire in… Continue Reading
Oxford University Press has announced the upcoming publication of Gurdjieff Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises by Joseph Azize. This is an installment in the Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism series. According to the publisher’s site the book: “Provides a fresh reading of… Continue Reading
Thelema, NOW! has just posted a new episode featuring host Harper Feist talking to Brother BJ Swain about his book Living Spirits: A Guide to Magic in a World of Spirits. BJ discusses working with many different kinds spirits including ancestral and planetary.… Continue Reading
Tomorrow, June 27, is the Feast of St. Andrea. According to The Invisible Basilica, St. Andrea (1586-1654 e.v.) “was a Lutheran pastor, and the author of The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz (1616), a light and sometimes humorous allegorical fantasy of the marriage of… Continue Reading
Here’s an interesting piece about early 20th century Madge Gill artist who said her work was “guided” by a spirit. Her husband consulted a doctor about these visitations and he was advised her to send her to the infamous asylum… Continue Reading
The seventh Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), is scheduled for next week July 2-4 and is being held at the University of Amsterdam. The event’s website states: “The history of Western Esotericism… Continue Reading
Fire in the Reed is a forthcoming book authored by Dionysius Rogers. He describes it thus: “As our Past Patriarch Aleister Crowley wrote of the ecclesiastical sacraments, ‘quite low initiates can do this work.’ Nevertheless, there are many aspects and features… Continue Reading
The College of Psychic Studies in London will be hosting the Art and Spirit: Visions of Wonder exhibition August 11th-20th August, 11am-6pm. The College is located at- 16 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, London, SW7 2EB. Admission is free for members;… Continue Reading