While we can neither confirm nor deny whether any person is an initiate of Ordo Templi Orientis, rumors of Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page’s status as a ceremonial magician and a Thelemite have circulated for decades. The stories were no… Continue Reading
Cat owners know that felines are often sassy. In Sabrina the Teenage Witch, familiar Salem is no exception. According to Entertainment Weekly, “Salem can definitely talk in the new Sabrina the Teenage Witch comic series launching this week [today!] from Archie Comics… Continue Reading
Yesterday, March 24, was the Feast of Saint Priapus. According to the Greek Mythology Link, “Priapus is a god of fertility, protector of horticulture and viticulture. His statue, holding a wooden sickle in his hand, was used in the Roman gardens… Continue Reading
Sunday, March 17, will be the Feast of Saint Dionysus. According to the Invisible Basilica of Sabazius, Dionysus was: Also known as Bacchus, Iacchus, Bassareus, Trietenicus and Liber. Thracian god of ecstasy, terror, guilt and atonement, death and resurrection, vegetation, trees,… Continue Reading
The Deconstructingyourself.com podcast recently posted an interview with occult author Erik Davis discussing Robert Anton Wilson, anarchism in the 1970s, Terrence McKenna, P.K. Dick, psychedelics, cultures of awakening now and then, Zen practice, and more. The podcast’s site says: “Erik Davis is… Continue Reading
Three Hands Press, the publishing arm of the Cultus Sabatai have just sent out an update on their publishing plans for 2019: “Benjamin A. Vierlin’s book, Green Mysteries, is still at least three weeks away from completion, placing the book… Continue Reading
Here’s a New York Times review of a TV series, A Discovery of Witches, produced in the United Kingdom depicting a world clandestinely inhabited by vampires, witches and demons. These three populations have been observing a centuries long pact of… Continue Reading
Augusten Burroughs is already the bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Lust & Wonder, but now he’s tackling his memoir, and he says he’s a witch: For as long as Augusten Burroughs could remember, he knew things he shouldn’t have known. He manifested things… Continue Reading
Eleusyve Productions, who since 2001 have celebrated all seven Rites of Eleusis — Jupiter, Luna, Mercury, Venus, Sol, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn! — recently provided a “guest blog post” written by Aleister Crowley. Crowley discusses the rites: Their Origin and… Continue Reading
In Liber DCCXI, verse IV, the Prophet of the Lovely Star wrote: “The Greeks say that there are three methods of discharging the Lyden Jar of Genius. These three methods they assign to three Gods. “These three Gods are Dionysus,… Continue Reading