MAGIC AND POWER IN ALF LAYLA WA LAYLA: THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Venue: Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA Date: Friday November 18th 2016 presented by Filotico Arts Through tales of enchantment, an illustrated talk, and… Continue Reading
A tasty collection of occult books previously owned by Frank and Gail Zappa–mostly from the 1960s and 1970s–is coming up for auction at Julien’s Auctions on November 4, 2016. Rarities in this lot include a first edition of Aleister Crowley’s… Continue Reading
Robert Flores posted a review of The Hell Fire Club’s publiciation of Frater IAO131’s new book HRILIU on his FB feed. He says” “Now as for the contents, which I know is a big question out there. I’ve had two full… Continue Reading
he authenticity of the Grolier Codex has been disputed for the last four decades. A group of researchers who revisited the rare Maya text now argue that there’s no way it could be a forgery. If the 800-year-old Grolier Codex… Continue Reading
London’s Guardian newspaper is hosting an evening with magician/author Alan Moore November 7 at The Piccadilly Theatre, London. The announcement states: “English novelist and comic book author Alan Moore returns this autumn with his second novel, Jerusalem, a fantastical exploration of… Continue Reading
An ancient Mayan text captured the moment when a royal astronomer made a scientific discovery about the movement of Venus across the night sky. The text, called the Dresden Codex, contains laborious measurements of the rising and setting of Venus.… Continue Reading
Storytelling images on a deer-hide “manuscript” from Mexico have been seen for the first time in 500 years, thanks to sophisticated scanning technology that penetrated layers of chalk and plaster. This “codex,” a type of book-like text, originated in the… Continue Reading
ReligionDispatches.org has posted Paul Harvey’s interview with Emily Clark regarding her recently published book A Luminous Brotherhood, a study of the Afro-Creole Spiritualist “Cercle Harmonique” from 1858 to 1877. Clark combed the archives of the University of New Orleans researching this work… Continue Reading
Three Hands Press has announced the publication of the anthology, Occlith 1: Codex Homunculi on September 29. Their circular states: In cooperation with Viatorium Press, Three Hands Press is honored to make available the latest landmark offering of collected esoteric… Continue Reading
Brett Foray’s book Troubled Emissaries was published earlier this month. This 574 page work is described thus at GoodReads: “This is a comprehensive study on the first major division within The Theosophical Society between Annie Besant with Henry Steel Alcott… Continue Reading