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
The Thelema, NOW! podcast has posted a new episode, this one featuring host Harper Feist speaking to author Carl Abrahamsson! One of the privileged few who spent time with the “Black Pope” in the last decade of his life, Carl… Continue Reading
Here’s part 2 in Pasadena Now’s 3 part series on seminal rocketry scientist and deeply devoted ceremonial magician, Jack Parsons. Tis installment begins: “Jack Parsons was a rocketry savant. He and Frank Malina of Caltech made key breakthroughs in the… Continue Reading