Late last year, Three Rooms Press published Don’t Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg was MANY things including a patron of EGC Bishop Harry Smith. William S. Burroughs was not known as a working mage…… Continue Reading
Sunday, May 5, is the Feast of James Branch Cabell (pronounced like “rabble”). Cabell was born April 14, 1879 in Richmond, Virginia, to an affluent and well-connected Virginia family. He was named for his maternal grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel James R.… Continue Reading
Black Flame International has announced the speakers who’ll be presenting at its October conference in Montreal, which will run from October 11-13. The event’s site states: “A coterie of esotericists, magickal practitioners, and occult inspired artists are producing this unique… Continue Reading
“To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all.” — AL II:22 Today is the feast of Albert Hoffman, who died just 11 years… Continue Reading
In the near future, Oxford University Press Inc will be publishing The Eloquent Blood: The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism by Manon Hedenborg White. The posted synopsis states: “In the conventional dichotomy of chaste, pure Madonna… Continue Reading
Season 15, Episode 7 of the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures series is titled “Westerfeld House” and features interviews with filmmaker/Thelemite Kenneth Anger. Tune in tonight at 6PM EDST! The channel’s description states: “Zak and the crew head to San Francisco… Continue Reading
Tomorrow, 27 April, is the Feast of Sir Wilfred T. Smith. Wilfred Talbot Smith was born Frank Wenham 8 June 1885, the illegitimate son of a domestic servant and her employer in Tonbridge, Kent. He moved to Canada in 1907, where he began reading about Western esotericism. In January 1915… Continue Reading
Today, April 25, is the Feast of St. Manes. According to The Invisible Basilica of Sabazius, Manes was: Also known as Mani or Manichaeus; Persian philosopher and religious teacher, founder of the Gnostic religion of Manichaeism (see Chapter 201 of Liber Aleph). Crowley’s… Continue Reading
The Isobel Gowdie project is a concept album done in collaboration between Scottish artist Julia Jeffrey and Gillian Chadwick of Phildelphia’s Ex Reverie. The first edition of the Isobel Gowdie project: a full 8″ square booklet of artwork and lyrics,… Continue Reading
Screenrant says, “Though many of Sabrina‘s magical elements are invented by the writers, several have roots in real mythology. This adds an air of credibility to the show, though sometimes Sabrina misses the mark entirely.” So what’s accurate, and what’s completely made up?… Continue Reading