Eleusyve Productions is announcing a 10 hour YouTube event – livestreaming video of all the productions of the Rites of Eleusis they’ve completed with LIVE commentary tomorrow: Saturday Nov 28, 2015 12noon – 10PM PST. This is in an effort more… Continue Reading
This morning Keys Fine Art Auctioneers sold a pair of Crowley first editions from 1904: a copy of the Crowley/Mathers Goetia and a rare vellum edition of The Sword of Song. Judging from the photographs, both books have seen better… Continue Reading
Just in time for the 108th birthday of Israel Regardie (November 17, 1907 – March 10, 1985), PBS television’s Antiques Roadshow aired “Junk in the Trunk 5, Hour 2” on Sunday, November 15, featuring a segment in which two Regardie… Continue Reading
Throughout the month of November, Seattle-based Eleusyve Productions will be raising money via IndieGogo to stage a production “The Rite of Jupiter “”(one of seven plays that comprise Aleister Crowley’s Rites of Eleusis) as a rock opera in 2016 in… Continue Reading
NPR’s Renee Montagne recently interviewed author Richard Barnett about his recently published The Book of Gin. The book traces the history of gin back to the work of 8th century Arabic alchemists who were doing extensive work with distillates and who originally… Continue Reading
The Samhain 2015 issue of The Green Book–writings on Irish gothic, supernatural and fantastic literature–includes Martin Hayes’ “Fry-Ups with the Poets and Prophets,” a look at the fraught relationship between W. B. Yeats and Aleister Crowley; the old G.D.… Continue Reading
The London Guardian just ran an account of a new collection of the short stories of Aleister Crowley, including some previously unpublished. The article states: “he was also the author of more than 70 stories, only 35 of which were… Continue Reading
Today marks the 140th Lesser Feast of the Prophet of the Lovely Star. As Hymenaeus Beta XII° writes on the US Grand Lodge website: “Edward Alexander Crowley was born in Leamington Spa in 1875. He was educated at Malvern and Trinity… Continue Reading
Last month, Snopes.com busted the several years old but periodically recirculated rumor that President Obama was seen wearing an Aleister Crowley t-shirt. They posted the original shot as well as traced the hoax to an April Fool’s Day posting from… Continue Reading
On October 1, Wordsworth released a revised and expanded second edition of Aleister Crowley’s collected fiction, The Drug & Other Stories. In addition to nearly twenty previously unpublished and thirty-odd published works in the original, this new edition adds several… Continue Reading