Another Magazine just reprinted a 2014 interview with the late Frater Focus IX* and XI* and while most of the coverage that’s appeared in the wake of the announcement of his passing, earlier this month, has totally ignored or downplayed… Continue Reading
Seminal underground filmmaker and devoted Thelemite passed away earlier this month at age 96, as is being reported today by media around the world. Our beloved OHO, Hymenaeus Beta said: “Kenneth was a very devoted OTO member, being Frater Focus,… Continue Reading
The latest issue of the journal Entangled Religions focuses on the topic ‘Western Learned Magic as an Entangled Tradition’. The magazine’s introduction states: ‘The articles assembled in this special issue of Entangled Religion represent the analytical fruits of a workshop on ‘Western… Continue Reading
Thelemites are well acquainted with the important part Soror Virakam aka Mary D’Esti nee Dempsey played in The Prophet of the Lovely Star’s life during her stint as his Scarlet Woman and the writing of Book 4, for which he… Continue Reading
If you read this blog regularly, you know we’ve been following the re-discovery and burgeoning appreciation for the seminal Abstract painter Hilma af Klint. So you can imagine how excited we are to find out that a biopic titled Hilma… Continue Reading
A past FB posting from Frater Orpheus, only adjusted to reflect the passing of years: 93! In memory of Frieda Harris who died 61 years ago today, on the 24th anniversary of her joining the Order. Marguerite Frieda Harris (1877… Continue Reading
A new video presentation produced by the Education Committee of U.S. Grand Lodge of Ordo Templi Orientis has been uploaded to the Ordo Templi Orientis USA YouTube channel. In this presentation Dr. Keith Edward Cantú, author of Like a Tree Universally… Continue Reading
Cool! Someone posted what is purportedly a tape recording of Peter Lavenda discussing the Necronomicon, specifically the book compiled, edited and added to by a number of New York based occultists in the 1970’s, utilizing copies of ancient Middle Eastern… Continue Reading
Atramentous Press have published Friedrich Nietzsche and the Left Hand Path by Shea Bilé’ which discusses the Occult Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Overman, Nihilism, and the Satanic Milieu. The posted description says: ‘A deeply impactful treatise, Bilé’s work on Nietzsche and… Continue Reading
Yesterday would have been the 101th birthday of artist/occultist Marjorie Cameron-Parsons. Last year, the Cameron-Parsons Foundation posted this appreciation: Cameron (April 23, 1922–July 24, 1995) Marjorie Elizabeth Cameron Parsons Kimmel, known simply as Cameron, was an artist, poet, veteran, feminist… Continue Reading