Many occultists firmly believe that Jesus of Nazareth is a purely fictional character, the invention of one Middle Eastern Mystery Cult out of a myriad, concocted from bits and pieces culled from au courant mythologies of its competitors. Which is entirely… Continue Reading
It should be noted that this idea is all mine, lots of people in the O.T.O. and E.G.C. will likely hate it, and it is not in any way an officially supported idea by anyone in the Order other than… Continue Reading
That House, my refuge, and the table Thou hast laid for me — O food to nourish the deepest, O wine to intoxicate the inmost! Thou has spread the banquet, and I shall feast thereupon until the shadows flee away,… Continue Reading
The American Academy of Religion has announced that it’s annual meeting will be held in Boston, Massachusetts November 18–21 at Hynes Convention Center, Fairmont Copley Plaza, Hilton Back Bay, Marriott Copley Place, Park Plaza Hotel, Sheraton, and Westin Copley Place. More… Continue Reading
The Members and Officers of Scarlet Woman Lodge have announced the opening of registration for the the seventh annual Scarlet Symposium, to be held at SWL during the first weekend of June. The Book of the Law charges us to… Continue Reading
David Tibet recently posted a link to a vintage New Yorker story about theological scholar Elaine Pagels, the personal tragedies that rocked her life and her examination of the emergence of the Devil in Christian ideology. A short excpert reads:… Continue Reading
Henrik Bogdan recently posted a list of papers being presented at the workshop on Literature and Western Esotericism being held May 4-5, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden “Describing the Non-Communicable: Imagination, Dreams and Experiential Knowledge in Occultist Literature” Henrik… Continue Reading
Vanessa Sinclair recentl announced on her FB feed: “Fenris Wolf 9 is here! The collected papers from the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference held in London last May (http://dasunbehagen.org/…/symposium-psychoanalysis-art-and…/); this volume was edited by my co-host Carl Abrahamsson and… Continue Reading
The New Yorker recently ran a profile on Anthony Kronman, a highly accomplished and successful professional and longtime self-identified Pagan who has spent years working on a modern, working model of Pagan theology. This has now been published as Confessions… Continue Reading
To my way of thinking, the turn of the 19/20 centuries was a fascinating, crucial time in the history of magick. Amidst Doinel’s revival of Gnostic religion and Yarker’s investigation into archaic Freemasonic ritual, Great Britain’s colonial initiatives brought Europeans… Continue Reading