Yesterday, O.T.O. Deutschland posted on FB: 140 years ago today on the 26th July 1882, Richard Wagner’s stage Christmas play Parsifal in Bayreuth celebrated its premiere. Included as a singer in the choir of the then 27-year-old Theodor Reuss, later… Continue Reading
Stanton LaVey posted this about his grandmother Diane Hegarty-LaVey on FB: Yesterday July 23rd at 2:45pm my grandmother, founding High Priestess of The Church of Satan, Diane Hegarty-LaVey, passed on to another realm. She had just turned 80 years old. She… Continue Reading
OK, this is two years old… but did YOU know about this intriguing title hitherto? “Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice brings together the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript… Continue Reading
Journalistic polymath Carl Abrahamsson has posted a new documentary film featuring a series of interviews he’s done with filmmaker/mage Kenneth Anger, Cinemagician – Conversations With Kenneth Anger. Starting in the late 1940’s Anger directed and released a series of avant-garde… Continue Reading
MIT Press has published a new book by Phil Baker, City Of The Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley. The posted description says: “’I dreamed I was paying a visit to London,’ Aleister Crowley wrote in Italy, continuing, ‘It was… Continue Reading
The Boleskine House Foundation announced on its FB page: “We are now adding Ashlar decorative stone above the string course on the east facing elevation toward the north wing. This side was more badly damaged from the 2015 fire so… Continue Reading
The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema is a title in the Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities series, edited by Tessel M. Bauduin, Henrik Johnsson. The posted description says: “Many modernist and avant-garde artists and authors were fascinated… Continue Reading
Pinched from Frater Orpheus’s FB page: Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole of the Law In honor of Grady Louis McMurtry, who passed on this day, July 12th in 1985 – here is a slightly extended version of… Continue Reading
Pasadena Now is concluding its three part series of seminal rocket scientist and occult practitioner Jack Parsons with a look at his involvement with Thelema and ceremonial magick. This could be the shoddiest reporting in the whole series. Sigh. It… Continue Reading
One of the benefits of becoming a Boleskine Friends contributor is a free subscription to their journal. The new issue has some interesting shizzle: “Issue 6 of our Journal for #BoleskineFriends features a reprint of Aleister Crowley’s writing on the… Continue Reading