A newly translated 19th-century book, written by samurai, describes martial arts techniques designed to help police officers of the time. The highly guarded practices included how to tie suspects up using paper string and fighting techniques that allowed officers to… Continue Reading
This July 7, Oxford University Press will publish Ruben van Luijk’s Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism. This is the first installment in its ‘Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism Book Series’ being edited by Henrik Bogdan. Acording… Continue Reading
Carl Abrahamsson recently announced that a new issue of the annual journal he edits, Fenris, Wolf will be issued this Summer. In the meanwhile you can sign up for his newsletter to be kept up to date on all his… Continue Reading
Weiser Antiquarian Books is announcing the publication of a new edition of Frederick Hockley’s The Pauline Art of Solomon. Their site explains at length: First Edition Hardcover. Small quarto. xxiv + 64p, [+ 144pp MSS facsimile ]. Bound in high quality… Continue Reading
Published by Penguin last month in the U.S. The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment, edited by Brian Copenhaver looks at the birth of modern science and its close relationship and interaction with magical practice. Both in fact were… Continue Reading
Yuval Harari’s Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah will be published in English translation in February 2017 by Wayne State University Press. According to the publisher’s website, “Magic culture is certainly fascinating. But what is it? What, in fact,… Continue Reading
In The Temple of Solomon The King Aleister Crowley recalls details of the writing of Liber AL: “The three days were precisely similar, save that on the last day I became nervous lest I should fail to hear the Voice of… Continue Reading
The Daily Beast published an interview with Chaos Magician and comic/graphic novel superstar Grant Morrision regarding his new take on Wonder Woman. Among other things he says: “I decided to go back to the original version of Wonder Woman written… Continue Reading
Brill Esotericism Reference Library has just published Western Esotericism in Scandinavia edited by Henrik Bogdan (University of Gothenburg) and Olav Hammer (University of Southern Denmark). The publisher’s site says: “This is the first encyclopaedic work on Western esotericism in Scandinavia. Structured… Continue Reading
Three Hands Press, the publishing wing of the Cultus Sabbatai, is announcing the June publication of SYLVAN DREAD by Richard Gavin. They say: “Those who dwell unseen within the hedge, the grotesques emergent in the weave of tangled roots, the writhing… Continue Reading