Frieda Harris (1877 – 1962), was a British artist best known for her paintings of Crowley’s Thoth tarot. She had a life long interest in spiritual matters and was drawn to the teachings of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910). … Continue Reading
Trickster: the Many Lives of Carlos Castaneda is a five chapter documentary podcast on the author of the immensely popular series of mystically themed fictional works describing his training as a shaman in aMeso American lineage. a recent podcast doc,… Continue Reading
There are folks who poetically describe Magick as the Tantra of the West without having much of a grasp on what Tantra actually is, their primary exposure to the concept being through the bowdlerized version of one sliver of Tantric… Continue Reading
Blazing Star Oasis, O.T.O. posted a video of Sister Cathy Berry talking about Sister Phyllis Seckler aka Soror Meral, one of the people responsible for the revival of O.T.O. after the death of OHO Karl Germer. Do what thou wilt… Continue Reading
Here’s a video lecture by Julie Chaje from 2015 on appropriations of Jewish mysticism in the United States. The YT page sez: Kabbalah and American π: Mathematics and Medicine in late-nineteenth-century Appropriations of Jewish ‘Mysticism.’ Western Esotericism between Religions: Conversions… Continue Reading
The Cosmic Movement: Sources, Contexts, Impact is a recently published book by Julie Chajes and Boaz Huss that looks at the esoteric movement that revolved around the mysterious figure commonly known as Max Theon. Some of his disciples would found… Continue Reading
Dr. Emily Selove, Senior Lecturer of Medieval Arabic Language and Literature, at the University of Exeter, discusses her Leverhulme-funded research project, “A Sorcerer’s Handbook,” which will create an edition, translation, and literary study of Siraj al-Din al-Sakkaki’s (d. 1229) Arabic… Continue Reading
Here’s a review from earlier this year of a new re-publication of The Hearing Trumpet, a 1974 novel by Leonora Carrington, a potent, underappreciated Surrealist painer, author and mage. If you search this blog you’ll find a buncha stuff on… Continue Reading
Coptic Magical Papyri team leader Korshi Dosoo will be presenting an online talk entitled “Who Used the Magical Papyri?” this Friday (23 April) at 4.30pm EDT (10.30pm CET) as part of the Bryn Mawr College Classics Colloquium. For nearly two… Continue Reading
The Southern California Research Lodge has published the Fraternal Review, a magazine dedicated to Freemason education, for over six decades. The current issue is The Death of Ritual? February 2021. This issue explores the importance of, not only Masonic ritual,… Continue Reading