Aleister Crowley’s personal copy of his three-volume Collected Works–a one-of-a-kind set printed on vellum and bound in red crushed levant morocco by the famous book binder Zaehnsdorf–just sold at Christie’s for $37,500. It was inscribed in Crowley’s hand, “This… Continue Reading
The Scottish Rite Research Society (SRRS) has just published two new titles relevant to those interested in the origins and early history of the Scottish Rite. Freemasonry’s Royal Secret: The Jamaican “Francken Manuscript” of the High Degrees by Arturo de… Continue Reading
Movie directors Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson—whose Spring, which opens today appropriately enough, is described as “a hybrid of Richard Linklater and H.P. Lovecraft”—are working on a movie about Aleister Crowley. As Moorhead reveals in an interview with Nuke the… Continue Reading
On March 13, 2015, Eleusyve Productions released a DVD and on-demand video of its rock opera adaptation of Aleister Crowley’s The Rite of Mars, filmed in Seattle, Washington, during its September 2014 performances. The Rite of Mars is part of… Continue Reading
In 1776–the same year that the United States declared independence from England–the Illuminati Order was founded in Upper Bavaria by Adam Weishaupt (1748–1830), a professor of natural and canon law at the University of Ingolstadt. As a secret society of… Continue Reading
The Cambridge Book of Magic is an edition of the previously unpublished Cambridge University Library MS Additional 3544, a sixteenth-century manuscript of ritual magic attributed to Paul Foreman. While most of the text involves the conjuration of angels and demons… Continue Reading
Jerusalem Press has announced a greatly revised, expanded, and combined edition of William Wallace’s long out-of-print books The Early Work of Austin Osman Spare, 1900–1919 (Stroud: Catalpa Press, 1987) and The Later Work of Austin Osman Spare, 1917–1956 (Stroud: Catalpa Press,… Continue Reading
Writer/director Sonia Bible has released a new three-minute promo for her still-in-production documentary about Rosaleen Norton (1917-1979). The Witch of Kings Cross is a cinema length documentary set in the occult subculture of 1950’s Sydney, which explores the life of… Continue Reading
Volker Lechler, author of 2013’s beautiful and massive Heinrich Tränker als Theosoph, Rosenkreuzer und Pansoph, has just announced the publication of Die ersten Jahre der Fraternitas Saturni (The Early Years of Fraternitas Saturni). To this day, the origins of the… Continue Reading
The latest issue of the academic journal Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft (winter 2014) contains articles on Apollonius of Tyana, a late Medieval Sigillum Dei at Doornenberg Castle, and a version of John Buescher’s entertaining talk from this year’s ASE conference,… Continue Reading