Christie’s auction house is putting THE RIPLEY SCROLL up on the block. This is an illustrated alchemical manuscript, in English and Latin, inscribed on vellum, originating in England from about 1624. The auction house states: A rich and detailed mix… Continue Reading
…forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance… Since 1994 when archaeologists uncovered the 1607 James Fort, researchers have been studying artifacts to learn more about the living conditions in Jamestown. With the 2006 discovery… Continue Reading
When I visited the UK a few years ago, one of my favorite Museums was the Petrie Museum. The Petrie Museum isn’t as well known as the British Museum but it houses over 80,000 artifacts. It is one of the… Continue Reading
Part of a Thelemite’s pursuit of the discovery of their True Will and then subsquently devoting their lives to living it out, is to eliminate the distraction of myriad conditioned prejudices and preconceived notions of how their environment is functioning… Continue Reading
The Eleusinian Mysteries, the most important religious rites of ancient Greece, will be presented in the temporary exhibition titled “Hiera Odos and Eleusis”, which will be shown from December 15, 2017 until May 16, 2018, in the Acropolis Museum. Some… Continue Reading
Using muon particles Physicist Kunihiro Morishima of Nagoya University, Japan, and his colleagues have discovered a previously unknown chamber in the Great Pyramid of Khufu. They set up a device that detects muon particles. If stone is found, there is… Continue Reading
When the Spanish invaders encountered the Aztecs, they made copious notes about their military especially their weaponry. One of the most amazing pieces was the macuahuitl (alternately spelled maquahuitl and in the Taino language known as the macana). The macuahuitl… Continue Reading
London’s Warburg Intitute is renowned among occultists and Thelemites for its collection of books covering the subject of Magick including a major trove of Crowleyana. Our beloved OHO recently pointed out that they’ve begun digitizing their library and making titles… Continue Reading
The Sacred Wood of Bomarzo is a park that was created in the 16th century by Prince Pier Francesco Orsini. The park is a surreal collection of stone sculptures, which includes war elephant, giant fish, two giants dismembering each other,… Continue Reading
For most Romans it seemed that the Metro C line would never be finished. It seemed that the more they dug to create the new line, the more artifacts they found. As a result the construction would have to stop… Continue Reading