Running through August 18 at Los Angeles’ GETTY CENTER is Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World, a look at 13/14 century “bestiaries,” basically illustrated zoological encyclopedias featuring animals both actual and imagined – though many of the images… Continue Reading
Now I’m not saying this is for everyone, and indeed I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it, but there’s a newish book out that may be interesting to the more adventurous among us: Semenology – The Semen Bartender’s… Continue Reading
The USGL Conference Committee is pleased to announce its upcoming proceedings book release for NOTOCON XII in Cleveland: For the Chance of Union offers a selection of papers from the eleventh biennial National Ordo Templi Orientis Conference (NOTOCON) of the… Continue Reading
This year’s installment of the annual European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism conference marks the 20th anniversary of the centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (HHP). They’ll be marking the occasion with the publication of… Continue Reading
Oxford University Press has announced the upcoming publication of Gurdjieff Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises by Joseph Azize. This is an installment in the Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism series. According to the publisher’s site the book: “Provides a fresh reading of… Continue Reading
Thelema, NOW! has just posted a new episode featuring host Harper Feist talking to Brother BJ Swain about his book Living Spirits: A Guide to Magic in a World of Spirits. BJ discusses working with many different kinds spirits including ancestral and planetary.… Continue Reading
Of Angels, Demons & Spirits: A Sourcebook of British Magic by Daniel Harms and James R. Clark was published earlier this year. The description posted on Amazon sez: “Discovered among the antiquarian stacks of the Bodleian Library, this authentic work… Continue Reading
Fire in the Reed is a forthcoming book authored by Dionysius Rogers. He describes it thus: “As our Past Patriarch Aleister Crowley wrote of the ecclesiastical sacraments, ‘quite low initiates can do this work.’ Nevertheless, there are many aspects and features… Continue Reading
The UK publisher Lewis Masonic has released The Art and Science of Initiation edited by Jediah French and Angel Millar. The book features chapter on “Initiation into Aleister Crowley’s Magick” (discussing O.T.O. and A∴A∴) by noted Thelemic author Dr. Richard Kaczynski. The publisher’s… Continue Reading
Penguin/Random House has announced the October publication of the second revised edition of The Sacred Alignments and Sigils by Robert Podurski. The publisher’s website states” The Sacred Alignments and Sigils is a breakthrough in modern occult studies. Author and practitioner Robert Podurski shares… Continue Reading