University of Gothenberg Professor Henrik Bogdan posted on FB: “On June 7-10, 1908, the Congrès Spiritualiste was held in Paris at the Grande Salle du Palais des Sociétés Savantes (8 Rue Danton). Organised by Papus (Gérard Encausse, 1865-1916), the partipants… Continue Reading
Jerusalem Press has published THE STATIC ALIGNMENTS: Austin Osman Spare’s School of Draughtsmanship , an examination of the art of seminal modern magician Austin Osman Spare. For a time, Spare was involved with To Mega Therion and the A.’.A.’., but eventually… Continue Reading
The Witchhassle podcast recently spoke to Brian Johnson, author of Necromancy in the Medici Library: An Edition and Translation of Excerpts from Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. https://soundcloud.com/witchhassle/022-brian-johnson. Brian Johnson comes by to talk about his translation of excerpts of manuscript Plut. 89… Continue Reading
The Theosophical Society in America is offering a free webcast Thursday April 8 at 8PM EDST = 7:00PM CDST = 6:00PM MDST = 5:00PM PDST. Keep in mind that almost every major player in late 19th century Western occultism was… Continue Reading
The European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism has released it’s latest newsletter and you can DL a free copy here: https://www.esswe.org/News/10227653. The new issue is helmed by new editor Chloe Sugden, a PhD candidate at the ETH in… Continue Reading
Obviously you’re aware of the descent and touchdown on Mars of the rover Perseverance. You may have noticed the signage on display in the mission’s control center. If not — have a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4czjS9h4Fpg. Besides “Mars 2020” there’s logos for… Continue Reading
I was reading the New York Times Book Review, a discussion of Paul Farmer’s Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds about the 2014 Ebola outbreak, which depicts that tragedy being primarily due to the lack of adequate medical care, and not the… Continue Reading
Weiser Antiquarian Booksellers has published Catalogue 260: Alchemy & Hermetica. This stuff sells quick so if ya wanna get in on this… MOVE QUICK! This includes goodies like: The Magus: A Complete System of Occult Philosophy. In Three Books, Containing the… Continue Reading
Inner Traditions will be releasing a new book by noted occult author Carl Abrahamsson next year Anton LaVey And The Church of Satan. The publisher’s description says: “Includes never-before-published material from LaVey, including transcripts from his never-released “Hail Satan!” video… Continue Reading
Yesterday, the Thelema, NOW! podcast posted it’s February episode. Deja Whitehouse completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Bristol: In Search of Frieda Harris in January 2020. During 2017, she was engaged by the Warburg Institute to catalogue the Frieda… Continue Reading