Next month, Simon & Schuster publishes Theurgy in Theory and Practice by P.D. Newman. The posted description says: “First defined by the second century Chaldean Oracles, theurgy is an ancient magic practice whereby practitioners divinized the soul and achieved mystical union… Continue Reading
The Blackthorn School is offering Advanced Scrying Laboratory: A Practicum, being given by Thelema, NOW! host Harper Feist starting November 06. the posted description says: “Welcome to the Scrying Laboratory! This is a newer Blackthorne School class, being offered for… Continue Reading
The Boleskine House Foundation recently posted on their FB page: “Thanks to a grant from the The Dalrymple Donaldson Fund, we are now starting on the render for the building. We will apply their grant toward the first render coat… Continue Reading
Here’s an interesting piece on the origins of Reiki that appeared in Bitter Winter Magazine a few days ago. It begins: “Reiki is a global phenomenon, with more than one million practitioners around the world. However, although it originated in… Continue Reading
UK occult publishing powerhouse Hadean Press announced the release of two new titles in their Guides To The Underworld series: Tools of the Greater Key and Pentacles of Solomon by author and illustrator S. Aldernay. The posted description says: “He… Continue Reading
Unveiling The Digital Occult: Forty Super-Duper Ancient will be an online presentation scheduled for Sunday November 12, 3PM EST featuring artist, magician and technologist, Heather D. Freeman. The posted description says: “Magical practitioners from across time and cultures have used… Continue Reading
Volante Opera Productions in Wales has released a CD of Paul Corfield Godfrey’s “The Nightingale and the Rose, The Sphinx & Hymnus Mysticus.” “Hymnus Mysticus” is a “short cantata entitled Hymnus Mysticus based on poems by Aleister Crowley, another writer… Continue Reading
Noted esoteric author and filmmaker Carl Abrahamsson released a documentary on Church of Satan founder, Anton LaVey a few years ago titled Into The Devil’s Den. It’s currently posted on YouTube and is available for free streaming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kqGhq3-1mY&t=3258s. In 1989,… Continue Reading
Tomorrow marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of Frater Peregrinus aka Theodore Reuss, one of the founders, and the inaugural OHO or Ordo Templi Orientis. Here’s the wikipedia biographahy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Reuss.
Oxford University Press has opened pre-orders for a revised edition of the long out-of-print, hence fairly expensive book by Martin Starr, The Unknown God; W.T. Smith and the Thelemites – an exhaustive history of the origins and early days of… Continue Reading