The University of Penssylvania has just recently acquired over fifty manuscripts from Ralph George Algernon Percy, the 12th Duke of Northumberland. The collection includes many volumes of interest to the esoteric-minded. A portion of the collection is comprised of texts copied… Continue Reading
There continues to be contreversy regarding Ordo Templi Orientis (legally established) claims of ownership of the copyrights to the writings of Aleister Crowely. So I offer these quotes from Crowley himself pertinent to this matter. All these come from a… Continue Reading
Recently “The Horse” took the time to scan his copies of the three volumes of the original 1909 e.v. edition of Thelema. These Libers, along with additional texts were published in 1983 by Samuel Weiser, Inc. as The Holy Books of Thelema… Continue Reading
Tarturus Press is publishing a new edition of The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen this coming March 5. Amazon.com says of this novel: “Unlike most of Machen’s other works, The Secret Glory is not usually considered a work of horror.… Continue Reading
Recently, the Committee of Four of Tahuti Chapter visited Thelesis Oasis, OTO in the Valley of Philadelphia and gave a dramatic reading of Aleister Crowley’s “The Wake World,” Liber XCV replete with multi-media staging. Besides have readers for the roles… Continue Reading
The Cambridge Book of Magic is an edition of the previously unpublished Cambridge University Library MS Additional 3544, a sixteenth-century manuscript of ritual magic attributed to Paul Foreman. While most of the text involves the conjuration of angels and demons… Continue Reading
Well it is Valentines Day. Be sure to read Berenger of the Long Arse for a good laugh. http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/14/sex-in-the-middle-ages/
A text that may be the oldest copy of a gospel known to exist — a fragment of the Gospel of Mark that was written during the first century, before the year 90 — is set to be published. http://www.livescience.com/49489-oldest-known-gospel-mummy-mask.html… Continue Reading
The Warburg Institute in London houses one of the largest collections of Aleister Crowley’s writings in the world, the “Gerald York Collection.” The fate of this institution therefore is of no small interest to many Thelemites. The Warburg recently posted… Continue Reading
Imagine that every copy of William Shakespeare’s First Folio had been destroyed some 350 years ago. We might have heard tell of how great “Macbeth” once was on stage, but we couldn’t perform it ourselves. Without the First Folio, we’d… Continue Reading