US Grand Lodge of Ordo Templi Orientis has posted a new item, ‘Statement from the Supreme Grand Council’ “It is no secret that Aleister Crowley’s writings include a number of statements that are demeaning to women and to specific racial… Continue Reading
Man has the right to love as he will:— “take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where, and with whom ye will.” —AL. I. 51. On August 18, 1960 the first contraceptive pill, Enovid, became available… Continue Reading
On August 15, 1040, Mac Bethad mac Findlaích killed King Duncan I of Scotland killed in battle, then succeeded him as King. Mac Bethad mac Findlaích, aka Macbeth, was immortalized by Shakespeare’s famous play. Interestingly, Macbeth himself was killed 17 years later,… Continue Reading
Today is the anniversary of the 480 BC death of Spartan King Leonidas I at the Battle of Thermopylae. The battle is probably best known in popular culture through “300,” the 2006 movie and the 1998 comic series of the… Continue Reading
On this day in 1846, the United States Congress chartered the Smithsonian Institution using funds from the estate of James Smithson. The Smithsonian tells us, “The will left his estate to his nephew, Henry James Hungerford, and stated that if… Continue Reading
Today is the 48th anniversary of the murder of Sharon Tate, as well as guests Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Stephen Parent. Tate was an actress and model, probably best known for the now-classic Valley of the Dolls. She… Continue Reading
Today, August 2, is the anniversary of the 1776 formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence. Fifty-six people signed the Declaration. It is also the anniversary of Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s 1834 birth in Colmar, France. Bartholdi grew up to become the sculptor… Continue Reading
Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein! –AL II:70 Today we celebrate… Continue Reading
On July 12, 1895, R. Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was born in Milton, Massachusetts, the son of Richard Buckminster Fuller and Caroline Wolcott Andrews, and grand-nephew of the American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller. Fuller was the second World President of Mensa from… Continue Reading
On July 11, 1533, Pope Clement VII excommunicated England’s King Henry VIII. If you are familiar with English history, you know that Henry asked to have his marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled because she hadn’t given birth to a son. The… Continue Reading