Jason Miller posted some thoughts on “authenticity” to his StrategicSorcery.net. And of course he discusses how this applies, or doesn’t, to magical and spiritual practice. It begins: “The world is filled with misinformation and propaganda. The world of the occult… Continue Reading
The UK’s Starfire Publishing has released a paperback edition of Kenneth Grant’s Cults of the Shadows. The publisher’s site says: The reprinting of the Typhonian Trilogies continues with the republication in September 2021 of the third volume in the series,… Continue Reading
The Autumn 2021 issue of Agapé, the official journal of U.S. Grand Lodge O.T.O., is now available. This and all previous issues can be found here: https://oto-usa.org/usgl/agape/
Science Advances Magazine has published a paper on the Etruscans, the civilisation that preceded in the Romans in Italy and had a significant impact on the latter. It looks at recent DNA studies to get new insight into this enduringly… Continue Reading
This is cool! An online repository for Spiritualist and Occult periodicals. So, “occult,” you understand why that’s of interest. Spiritualist – well, this is the movement that gave rise to figures like Pascal Beverly Randolph and Emma Harding Britten who… Continue Reading
This Thursday, September 30, Forum Auctions in London will be offering a pencil drawing by the Prophet of the Lovely Star at auction. Their website says: Lot 424 Crowley (Aleister) View of the Tyrrhenian Sea, probably from the hill behind the… Continue Reading
Here’s an excerpt from the latest edition of Jason Miller’s Magick Monday Newsletter. In just two more days, on September 29th, its Michaelmas – the feast of St Michael. Since Michael is an angel he has no date of birth… Continue Reading
Red Wheel/Weiser has announced the November 1 publication of David Crowhurst’s Stellas Daemonum. According to the publisher’s description, this book offers” “an in-depth analysis of the spirits that appear in several late medieval and early modern grimoires. The book unravels… Continue Reading
The National Grand Master of Ordo Templi Orientis in the United States, Sabazius X*, commemorating the Great Feast of Gnostic Saint, Paracelsus today with this pronouncement: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Today we are… Continue Reading
The New York Times recently ran a review of the second book by archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Kindred. The book collects and analyzes 170 years’ worth of research and speculation devoted to the hominid species Neanderthals and presents readers a… Continue Reading