Smithsonian Folkways Records posted on their FB page: “Today marks the centennial of the birth of Harry Everett Smith (1923-1991), who was a groundbreaking experimental filmmaker, artist, musicologist, and compiler of folklore. From his collection of 78-rpm records, Smith assembled… Continue Reading
Ever met an occultist who wasn’t even a little bid morbid? Yeah, me neither. After all, we are devoted to exploring the unseen realms which could be seen as including that of some form of afterlife. So, this NY Times… Continue Reading
Ex Voto is an exhibition being hosted at PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth, U.K. trough May 28. The posted description says: ‘Lucy Stein and Sarah Hartnett have been undertaking a pilgrimage along the Mary ley line since 2019. The journey… Continue Reading
If you read this blog regularly, you know we’ve been following the re-discovery and burgeoning appreciation for the seminal Abstract painter Hilma af Klint. So you can imagine how excited we are to find out that a biopic titled Hilma… Continue Reading
A past FB posting from Frater Orpheus, only adjusted to reflect the passing of years: 93! In memory of Frieda Harris who died 61 years ago today, on the 24th anniversary of her joining the Order. Marguerite Frieda Harris (1877… Continue Reading
The Thelema, NOW! podcast has posted a new episode! In this fascinating Thelema, NOW! episode, host Harper Feist talks to friend and colleague Red K. Elders about art and movement, magick and bodies. Red’s perhaps best known for her stellar… Continue Reading
I’m always fascinated by the porousness of the divide between Thelema and Christianity. Here’s the opening of a New York Times piece on Danish art, quoting the philosopher and poet Soren Kirkegaard: ‘“Purity of heart is to will one thing,”… Continue Reading
If you’re interested in art and the occult you’ll likely be aware of Hilma af Klint, a painter active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries whose work was, at least in part, influenced by her practice of meditation… Continue Reading
Yesterday would have been the 101th birthday of artist/occultist Marjorie Cameron-Parsons. Last year, the Cameron-Parsons Foundation posted this appreciation: Cameron (April 23, 1922–July 24, 1995) Marjorie Elizabeth Cameron Parsons Kimmel, known simply as Cameron, was an artist, poet, veteran, feminist… Continue Reading
Spain’s Higher Council for Scientific Research announced that researchers from the Institute of Archeology of Mérida (IAM-CSIC) working at the site of Casas del Turuñuelo (Badajoz) have uncovered the remains of five anthropomorphic reliefs from the 5th century BC, artifacts of… Continue Reading