Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law Austin Osman Spare (30 December 1886 – 15 May 1956) was an English occultist, artist, author, and a Probationer of the A∴A∴, Spare was best known for his drawings which… Continue Reading
Last month, Netflix released a new supernatural suspense series, Things Heard and Seen featuring Amanda Seyfriend and James Norton. The couple move from Manhattan to upstate New York so that Norton’s character can take a teaching position at a small… Continue Reading
It was announced today that a Fall publication is expected for The Collected Major Works of Frater Achad, edited and with an introduction by Henrik Bogdan. Frater Achad was one of the magical names of Charles Stansfield Jones. Jones was… Continue Reading
Oxford University Press has opened pre-orders for Martin Zuber’s Spiritual Alchemy From Jacob Boehme to Mary Anne Atwood. The publisher’s description says: “Most professional historians see the relationship between pre-modern and modern alchemy as one of discontinuity and contrast. Mike… Continue Reading
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