Originally released in December 2016 (see our coverage here), Karl Germer: Selected Letters 1929-1962 has been updated with an eight-page index which significantly aids in finding specific topics in this 400-page volume. Edited by David Shoemaker, Andrew Ferrell, and Stefan… Continue Reading
The inception of the Protestant Reformation is popularly ascribed to that moment when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses inveigling against the rampant corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. One point of focus of his criticisms was discarding the spiritual authority… Continue Reading
Thelema, NOW! is excited to post it’s latest edition in which Dr. David Shoemaker returns to discuss his latest work, Karl Germer Selected Letters 1928-1962. Karl Germer (1885-1962) was Aleister Crowley’s successor as head of the magical order A.’.A.’. and Outer… Continue Reading
Starfire Publishing has announced plans to publish Servants of the Star & the Snake later this year. The collection was compiled and edited by Henrik Bogdan. The publisher’s website says Servants of the Star & the Snake is a scintillant… Continue Reading
The New York Times Book Review ran a review of an historial novel about the family of Gnostic Saint, Roderic Borgia aka Pope Alexander VI, In The Name Of The Family by Sarah Dunant. The portrait of Rodrigo is, as… Continue Reading
Among recent publications by the Scarlet Imprint publishing house is Peter Mark Adams The Game Of Saturn, which looks at the Sola-Busca tarot deck. The publisher’s site says: “The Game of Saturn is the first full length, scholarly study… Continue Reading
Ordo Templi Orientis declares “Deus est homo,” and that deity is interior to humans’ nature. Meanwhile the New York Times Book Review addressed a book called Homo Deus by Huval Noah Harari. That’d seem to be pertinent to our agenda… Continue Reading
Oxford University Press is now taking pre-orders on Per Faxneld’s Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture. The publisher’s site bears this description: “According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan’s advice to eat… Continue Reading
A memorial celebration of the life and work of the late Donald Weiser, the renowned bookseller and publisher, will be held Wednesday May 31 6-9PM in the Great Room of the New York Open Center 22 East 30th Street, NYC
Last month saw the publication by Topaz House of an anthology of the the writing of 19th century magician Robert Smith. According to the Amazon description: “Robert Cross Smith (1795-1832) was an astrologer, magician, and geomancer. Smith founded the periodicals,… Continue Reading