Mage Deborah Castellano posted “Twenty Years With the Amethyst Circle of Sisters” her presentation from this weekend’s Magickal Women Conference held in London at CharmedFinishingSchool site. An excerpt reads: “When I first started attending The Amethyst Circle of Sisters, I… Continue Reading
The Harvard Semitic Museum posted video of a lecure by Rita Lucarelli discussing demonology and thaumatury in Egypt during Pharonic and Hellenistic times. Since the Prophet of the Lovely Star was a passionate Egyptomaniac and couched alot of his theological… Continue Reading
“Witches have power on their own terms. They have agency. They create. They praise. They commune with the spiritual realm, freely and free of any mediator.” –Pam Grossman What is a witch, anyway? Why do more people seem to self-identify… Continue Reading
The Millenium Thoth Tarot is a new tarot deck from Renata Lechner that do appear to be an update of the Thoth Tarot Deck created by Aleister Crowley and Freida Lady Harris. Lechner opts for a more literal visual vocabulary as opposed to… Continue Reading
News from Dr. Richard Kaczynski’s FB: “One of the three books I’ve been working on celebrates the blue Equinox’s centennial with a revised and expanded edition of ‘PANIC IN DETROIT: The Magician and the Motor City.’ “And when I say… Continue Reading
Snagged from Dr. Richard Kaczynski’s FB: “’Das Wort!’ is the German-language journal of Theodor Reuss and Leopold Engel’s revival of the Bavarian Illuminati. “O.T.O. co-founder Reuss had a long-standing interest in the Illuminati, reportedly reviving the order in Munich in… Continue Reading
Today, May 31, is the Feast of Saint Alphonse Louis Constant, better known by his pseudonym “Eliphas Lévi Zahed,” which is a translation of his name into Hebrew. Although known for many books on ritual Magic, Constant may be best… Continue Reading
The publishing house Bloomsbury has published a fascinating new collection, Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan: The Invisible Empire edited by Fabio Rambelli. The publisher’s sites describes is thusly: “This book draws attention to a striking aspect of contemporary Japanese… Continue Reading
Occult author/lecturer Carl Abrahamsson and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge are releasing a new spoken word release called Loyalty Does Not End With Death via Ideal Recordings. Boomkat page for it states: “Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, controversial occultist and iconic founding member of COUM Transmissions,… Continue Reading
I realize we’ve blogged about this indefatigably over the years, but Leonard Cohen IS one of our favorite creative polymaths and one that I think occultists would dig as his first five albums are chock full of references to Qabala,… Continue Reading