Recently, friend and scholar Douglas Ezzy sent me a copy of his new book Sex, Death, and Witchcraft: A Contemporary Pagan Festival. I have only begun reading it, though I have skimmed through the whole of it, and have anticipated… Continue Reading
David J, of Bauhaus and Love & Rockets, discusses his book Who Killed Mister Moonlight? – Bauhaus, Black Magick and Benediction. David also tells host Frater Puck about two new plays he has written, about Edie Sedgewick and the Black… Continue Reading
The discovery of an unidentified text in Hungary has led to more than 200 years of attempts to determine who authored it and to decipher its contents. Many scholars have studied the text, known as the Rohonc Codex, in an… Continue Reading
Santa Sangre Magazine just published a fascinating interview with Carl Abrahamsson, writer, musician, photographer, owner of Edda Publishing and Trapart, member of Cotton Ferox project, head of Highbrow Lowlife netlabel and occult celebrity http://santasangremagazine.wordpress.com/2015/01/07/2014-through-my-eyes-carl-abrahamsson/
David Tibet, a non-initiate member of Ordo Templi Orientis’ International OTO Cabinet recently announced that he’ll have his first academic paper published, this based on his translation of Coptic text: “My first academic paper will be included in a collection of… Continue Reading
Soror Hypatia passed along a link to a interview by Joe Gordon with the great cartoonist/author/magician Alan Moore, originally posted in 2009 at forbiddenplanet.co.uk. Among MANY other things, Moore recommends books for study by aspiring magicians: “Aleister Crowley’s Magick Without Tears… Continue Reading
For those who wish to avoid the opprobrium of being, literally, an “arm chair magician” without indulging in the sports of the profane, we offer the pastime of the “Game of Thelema.” The rules of play were originally outlined by… Continue Reading
from Joe Nolan at http://disinfo.com/2014/12/lynch-burroughs-release-best-photo-books-2014/ In 1963, William S. Burroughs wrote down his photographic manifesto: “Take. Rearrange. Take.” For Burroughs, photography wasn’t an art form so much as it was a weapon he employed to disrupt time. Ideas about the… Continue Reading
Once you’ve checked out BBC Radio 4’s adaptation ofTerry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman‘s “Good Omens” you can tune into the latest episode of “42 Minutes,” where The Sync Book crew interview Doctor Richard Kaczynski about his biography”Perdurabo: The Life of… Continue Reading
Recently, Nephilim Press published Seven Spheres, a book on Planetary Magick written by Rufus Opus. Rufus Opus is a Hermetic Magician who has developed a magical practice based on the teachings of the Corpus Hermeticum, Cornelius Agrippa, works attributed to… Continue Reading