Atlas Obscura recently ran an interview piece on early 19th century occult writer Jacques Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal a demonological catalogue with illustrations that went on to become the standard visualizations of many of these beings, including the ones… Continue Reading
There is currently a petition up at Change.org asking Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism to restore and preserve the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu. You can sign the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/ministero-dei-beni-e-delle-attivit%C3%A0-culturali-restauriamo-l-abbazia-di-thelema-casa-di-aleister-crowley-in-italia?recruiter=46703682&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_content=nafta_share_post_copy_en_4%3AFB_share_copy_2. thanks to Brother Sacha for… Continue Reading
The New Yorker magazine has always been around my house. This past month much to my surprise, they featured one of the more interesting individuals in occultism, Joséphin Péladan. Below is the first paragraph of the article. In the Paris of… Continue Reading
Atlas Obscura recently posted news that Chicago’s Newberry Library is looking for volunteers to help transcribe and translate a series of rare religious manuscripts written between the 15th and 19th centuries. In part the article reads: “The manuscripts, titled The Book… Continue Reading
On the latest episode of Thelema, NOW! Frater Puck and Carl Abrahamsson GET LOUD, talking in-person at a lively coffee shop in NYC about newest issue of Abrahamsson’s journal Fenris Wolf. You can check out Carl’s works at: carlabrahamsson.com and trapart.net. Order Fenris Wolf at… Continue Reading
William Mortensen (1897 – 1965) – “A Pictorial Compendium of Witchcraft and Demonology” The complete 1924 series. On view at the Museum of Old and New in Tasmania through 2018 courtesy of The Museum of Everything. from LEXICON MAG William… Continue Reading
A Visually Incredible Black Magic Compendium from FULGUR Touch Me Not! Like a Bosch painting, the pages of Touch Me Not! – an Austrian manuscript compendium of the black magical arts – teem with a bizarre host of threatening, misshapen demons. Clad… Continue Reading
If you go to https://www.google.com/ today and click on their banner a quote appears from one Oskar Fischinger saying “Music is not limited to the world of sound. There exists a music of the visual world.” Then a screen pops… Continue Reading
Great to see Joséphin Péladan & Salon de la Rose + Croix get there due in The New Yorker . Finally it seems as the Occult Roots of Modernism are being acknowledged. BWH The Magus of Paris and the Occult… Continue Reading
“CHEAP SUITCASE” is an exhibition mounted by INVISIBLE-EXPORTS (89 ELDRIDGE STREET | NEW YORK NY I 10002 I 212 226 5447) featuring the work of: Ron Athey, Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE, COUM Transmissions, Clarity Haynes, Byron Kim, June Yong Lee, Bob Mizer, Catherine… Continue Reading