I’m a little behind in my reading and just came across a New York Times Book Review piece on THE MIND AND THE MOON: My Brother’s Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches, by Daniel Bergner. This… Continue Reading
This passed Summer, the New York Times Book Review reviewed a new book about Gnostic Catholic saint William Blake, WILLIAM BLAKE VS. THE WORLD By John Higg. An excerpt reads: “Higgs’s Blake is not the tripped-out proto-hippie of some renderings, nor… Continue Reading
Published by Princeton University Press this past Summer, Kim Haines-Eitzen’s Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks — and What It Can Teach Us strikes me as a book that might be of interest to Thelemites considering the extraordinary mystical… Continue Reading
A recent publication by Three Hands Press is UNDERWORLD GNOSIS Occult Currents in Dante’s Inferno by A.D. Mercer. The posted description says: The Inferno of Dante Alighieri, written in the early 1300s, contains some of the most vivid imaginings of Hell and its… Continue Reading
Being based in the Philly ‘burbs, we’re especially obsessed with the story of erotic martyr Ida Craddock who was raised on Race Street. She was an advocate of sex education, a woman’s right to say no, even to her husband,… Continue Reading
Next month will see the publication of Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art & Magic by Victoria Jenkins. The posted description says: “The word ‘occult’ comes from the latin occulus, meaning ‘hidden.’ The underlying assumption is that there is… Continue Reading
Snuggly Books has announced the Spring 2023 publication of a new edition of the long out-of-print The Hieroglyph by Ethel Archer. The posted description says: The poet Ethel Archer was a long-time associate of the occultist Aleister Crowley and a… Continue Reading
Here’s Weiser Antiquarian Booksellers Annual Bargain List – 2022 https://www.weiserantiquarian.com/searchResults.php?category_id=1914&action=catalog&browseLetter=A&orderBy=author. Among items included are: Vudu Cartography. The Autobiography of Michael Houdeaux; Bibliothèque de Verseau series, No. II London: Fulgur Limited, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Landscape format octavo. xii + 175pp. Original fine brown buckram with black… Continue Reading
UK occult publisher Scarlet Imprint has announced opening pre-orders for Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos: Spiritual Dissent in an Age of Tyranny, Peter Mark Adams’s in-depth study of the esoteric doctrines and spiritual traditions encoded within the Hagia Sophia. The posted description says: “Hagia Sophia… Continue Reading
Hadean press has opened pre-orders for their last title to be published in 2022 e.v. The posted description says: Pre-orders are open now; this special edition is hardcover only, limited to 231 copies. This is a sewn bound hardback, covered… Continue Reading