We just received a tip about Austria’s INSTITUTION D.O.L.’s 2021 release The Thelema Tales and thought we’d pass on the deets: “For a quarter century now, the Austrian Power Electronics/Industrial monolith known as INSTITUTION D.O.L. has made a significant name for… 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
Amazon.com’s Hot New Releases includes a page devoted to New Releases in Mysticism and at number 1 AND 3 is the Weiser reissues of Dr. David Shoemaker’s Living Thelema. The posted description says: The system of spiritual attainment developed by… Continue Reading
Correspondences recently posted a paper by Joy Dixon titled “Sex Magic as Sacramental Sexology: Aleister Crowley’s Queer Masculinity.” The abstract reads: “A number of scholars have noted the distinctively modern form taken by late-nineteenth-century sexual magic. This paper demonstrates the… Continue Reading
RogerEbert.com spoke to Damien Chazelle about his recently released comedy Babylon and started off in a surprisingly occultural manner: “The title of your film is a riff on Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon, which itself is a riff on Babylon the civilization, but… Continue Reading
On September 13, 2019, the SOURCE CODE website began a project listing things L. Ron Hubbard said on particular dates. Here’s one from 70 years ago: Dec 5: “The magic cults of the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th centuries in the… Continue Reading
The Liverpool Echo published an article on Gerald Gardner, who many credit as one of the principle figures behind the revival of Witchcraft in the last century. The article does touch on his relationship to Aleister Crowley and the latter’s… Continue Reading
The Book of the Most Precious Substance is a work of fiction by Sara Gran that could amuse some occultists and perturb others. The posted description saysL “A mysterious book that promises unlimited power and unrivaled sexual pleasure. A down-on-her-luck… Continue Reading
What?! Ultra snotty UK music webzine talkin’ about A.O. Spare?! YES PLEASE! “There’s a 1955 photograph of the South London mystic and artist Austin Osman Spare, in the last years of his life, playing the clarinet, his hair on end,… Continue Reading
The Magician is a 1926 American silent film directed by Rex Ingram adapted from the 1908 novel The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham, a novel whose main character is a rather unflattering version of The Master Therion himself, called “Oliver Haddo” in… Continue Reading