Frater Orpheus recently posted a piece on Lady Frieda Harris the artist who manifested the vision of the Prophet of the Lovely Star for the Thoth Tarot deck in line and color. The intro says: Lady Frieda Harris a talented… Continue Reading
Jimmy Page turns 81 today. Best known as the guitarist, main songwriter and producer of the England rock band Led Zeppelin he’s also the best known devotee of Thelema and at various times owned Crowley’s former estate, Boleskine House, bankrolled… Continue Reading
Today is the anniversary of the passing of ceremonial magician and occult author Dion Fortune who died January 8, 1946. A biographical essay posted on Angelfire starts: Dion Fortune was born Violet Mary Firth in Llandudno, North Wales on 6th December… Continue Reading
Closing after this coming weekend is the exhibition: Mandalas: Mapping The Buddhist Art of Tibet. And why should a Thelemite or ceremonial magician care about this? Well, the Prophet of the Lovely Star considered himself a Buddhist and in fact… Continue Reading
Phil Hine posted a link to his account of ritual experimentation he was involved with in the 1990’s. An excerpt reads: The ancient Greeks created special places – often underground – where visitors could commune with the spirits of the… Continue Reading
The Tate St Ives i mounting Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds February 1– 5 May 5 in Cornwall. It’s the first major exhibition of the visionary artist’s work and features her writings, drawings, paintings, early theatre projects and mural designs, including… Continue Reading
Published Summer of ’23 Andrew Newberg’s Sex, God, and the Brain revisits ideas that were big in the late 19th and early 20th century among authors who propounded theories of Solar Phallic Worship as the foundation of all known religions. This… Continue Reading
Haden Press is publishing Fr. Robert Nixon’s translation of Michael Scot’s Sternutomancy, Augury, and the Art of Reading Faces as part of their ongoing Guides to the Underworld series. The posted description says: The mysterious figure of Michael Scot (1175-1235)… Continue Reading
An Oracle of Kemet: Tarot of the Noutjeru by Douglas Blake was written to provide a guide to the tarot deck he designed, Tarot of the Noutjeru. The posted description says: In a carefully-researched guide designed to be a companion… Continue Reading
Kabbalistic and Alchemical Cartographer David Chaim Smith has published some background on the theory and practice behind his work. It begins: There is a peculiar kind of visionary outcast who is compelled to explore and record their journeys into uncharted… Continue Reading