Singer/Songwriter, poet, novelist Leonard Cohen died last last year. Those familiar with his work know that lyrics to his first half dozen albums come from familiarity with Talmudic teachings and Christian mysticism that map quite nicely on Thelemic perspectives on… Continue Reading
Visionary artist and magician Austin Osman Spare was born 130 years ago today. Fulgur Publishing’s site features this biographical sketch: “Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956) is one of the most influential and innovative figures in twentieth century occultism. A natural artist… Continue Reading
Religionens varp och trasor is a recent publication edited by Daniel Enstedt, Göran Larsson, and Sardella Ferdinando featuring the paper “Adviata Vedanta And Occultism: The Case Of Kenneth Grant, authored by Henrick Bogan. The book is published by LIR.skrifter; this is a is… Continue Reading
Karl Germer: Selected Letters 1928-1962 was published December 10 (the day before Advanced Iniator Training weekend in Atlanta!) was authored by Karl J Germer, edited by David Shoemaker, Andrew Ferrell, Stefan Voss. The International College of Thelema site states: “Karl… Continue Reading
Author Dr. Richard Kaczynski announced an end of 2016 sale special on his epic work Forgotten Templars , reducing the price by $16 to bid farewell to 2016. The reduced price ($69) will be reflected at checkout. His site says: An unlikely cocktail… Continue Reading
Earlier today a good friend delivered me Shoemaker’s new book “The Winds of Wisdom”. I have now sat with it for approximately three hours which in this case is a fair amount of time being that the book is only… Continue Reading
December 3 saw the launch party for the publication by Fulgur Esoterica of ‘Ontological Graffiti’ by Michael Bertiaux, at Treadwells Bookshop in London. Caroline Wise posted this about Ontological Graffiti on FB: “This huge book, with the usual beautiful production… Continue Reading
The ever-engaging website DangerousMinds.net recently posted about a 10 CD box set Trials of Eyeliner: Anthology 1979-2016 devoted to the work of New Romantic icon Marc Almond. Well, that’s fabuki enough all on its own, but of especial interest to some… Continue Reading
New O=II contributor Frater Orpheus posted this amazing trove of material on his FB feed a few days ago in commemoration of the death of the Prophet of the Lovely Star: On November 19th 1947, Crowley sensing the end was… Continue Reading
It’s about time we had a horror-thriller about sex, sex magic, and the war of the sexes! In Anna Biller’s fun and campy The Love Witch, the beautiful witch Elaine turns to magic to find someone to love her, only… Continue Reading