Both theoreticians and practitioners of the the theurgy referred to as “Energized Enthusiasm” might find it worthwhile to spend some time at the Yale University Art Gallery’s “Sights And Sounds of Ancient Ritual” exhibit.In Liber DCCXI Energized Enthusiasm A Note… Continue Reading
Commonwealth Magazine ran a story about the J. Paul Getty Museum’s current exhibit “Heaven, Hell, and Dying Well: Images of Death in the Middle Ages,”that illustrates a number of the views Medieval Europeans had regarding the nature and experience of death.… Continue Reading
Music Magick and the Muse Saturday 16 February 2019 9:00 am – 5:00 pm AEDT Larry Sitsky Recital Room School of Music Australian National University Welcome to the first of an exciting series of events where Magick and… Continue Reading
Music Magick and the Muse Sat. 16 February 2019 9:00 am – 5:00 pm AEDT Larry Sitsky Recital Room ANU School of Music Canberra, ACT 2600 The first of a projected series of events exploring the esoteric and… Continue Reading
The Guardian recently ran a feature regarding “Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee,” a free exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians which will run from January 18 through July 29.” Among other artifacts the exhibition features… Continue Reading
This passed Friday, the New York Times ran an article on Genesis Breyer P-Orridge discussing Genesis’ life, work and current perilous physical condition. The article starts: “Neil Andrew Megson discovered Max Ernst when he was 15 years old, and it… Continue Reading
Some would say that at least a certain part of magical practice is attaining altered states of conscious and then making use of the information accessed in that state. Henry Boxer is director of Raw Vision magazine, an art dealer… Continue Reading
The scholarly journal Nature recently posted a paper on the world’s oldest-known animal cave art, painted at least 40,000 years ago in Borneo. The paper starts: Figurative cave paintings from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date to at least 35,000 years… Continue Reading
In Magick Without Tears Aleister Crowley suggested that artists engage in gnostic experience during their acts of creati0n: “…all true Art is spontaneous, is genius, is utterly beyond all conscious knowledge or control…” No artistic movements seemed more closely intertwined… Continue Reading
ArchaeologyNewsNetwork reported that unusually high water levels in Venice saw a historical basilica being flooded: “St Mark’s Basilica in Venice was damaged by Monday’s exceptionally high acqua alta in the lagoon city, the First Procurator of St Mark’s, Carlo Alberto… Continue Reading