Today, October 25, is the Feast of Doctor Gérard Encausse, and of Sir Karl Johannes Germer, both Gnostic Saints. According to the Invisible Basilica website, “Gérard Encausse, usually known by his pseudonym ‘Papus,’ was a Spanish-born French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of… Continue Reading
Tomorrow, October 25, is the Feast of Saint Gerard Encausse, and of Sir Karl Johannes Germer. Today we will discuss Sir Karl Johannes Germer, and tomorrow Saint Gerard Encausse. Karl Germer died of prostate cancer 25 October 1962 in Westpoint, California,… Continue Reading
Saturday, October 20, was the Feast of Saint Sir Richard Francis Burton. Born March 18, 1821, Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He died in… Continue Reading
It’s Monday 8 October, Family and Community Day in Australia, Thanksgiving in Canada, Entrepreneur’s Day (Ettevõtja päev) in Estonia, Naval Battle of Angamos (Combate Naval de Angamos) in Peru, and Indigenous People’s Day in the United States. Aleister Crowley’s birthday,… Continue Reading
“A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture!” –AL II:42 Today, October 5, is Global James Bond Day, World Teacher Day, and World Smile Day. In the United States, it’s also National Storytelling Day, National… Continue Reading
According to A Liturgical Calendar for Thelemic Gnosticism by Tau Polyphilus, today is the Feast of Frater Franceso Colonna. Born about 1433 e.v., Colonna was an Italian Dominican priest and monk credited with the authorship of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. In… Continue Reading
Today, September 27 is Ancestor Appreciation Day. With the popularity of DNA testing and genealogy websites these days, people in western society are more aware of their ancestors than before. But on a magical level, how does that affect you?… Continue Reading
Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy and beauty! There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride! A feast for the three days of… Continue Reading
Today, September 13, is the Feast of Dante Alighieri. Born Durante degli Alighieri in Florence, Dante was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. He is best known for the epic poem The Divine Comedy, which describes the… Continue Reading
Tomorrow, September 13, is the Feast of Dame Leila Waddell, a violinist and famed Scarlet Woman of Aleister Crowley, a powerful historical figure in magick and Thelema in her own right. Waddell starred in the Rites of Eleusis at London’s Caxton… Continue Reading