Late last year, video footage of this thought provoking talk by Dr. James Kapalo, Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religions at University College Cork, Ireland, on “Materialising Religion in the Secret Police Archives in Romania and Moldova” was posted on… Continue Reading
BBC News recently posted a pictorial on the lives of child-monks in Tibet at the Thiksey monastery near Leh in Ladakh in the Himalayas, in Indian-administered Kashmir. The coverage notes: “Tibetan Buddhism is a religion in exile, forced from its homeland… Continue Reading
David Tibet has announced an ambitious Current 93 re-release campaign for 2017. “I am working with The Bricoleur (Bladud Flies!) on a project to reissue the entire back catalogue of C93 as lathe-cut UtterEditions. The (lovely) Bricoleur is in the process… Continue Reading
Weiser Antiquarian Book Sellers have posted Catalogue 164: Aleister Crowley & Friends and as you’d imagine it’s full of goodies such as: CROWLEY, Aleister. The Wild Ass. (England): Khephra Press, ND (1975). First Edition Thus. Softcover. Small Octavo. 8pp. Stapled in… Continue Reading
Seattle’s Night of Pan bookseller has just released its latest catalogue, crammed as usual with goodies. Have a look. 1. Alvidas et al. Science and Key of Life: Planetary Influences. Seven Volumes. . (Compiled by Henry Clay Hodges) 1902-1910. Astro… Continue Reading
71 years ago today, having completed a series of rituals he referred to as the “Babalon Working” to summon an Elemental to be his magical partner, rocket scientist and Thelemite Jack Parsons came home to find Marjorie Cameron waiting for him… Continue Reading
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. “Krewe What Thou Wilt” is the official Mardi Gras Krewe of the New Orleans Ordo Templi Orientis body, Alombrados Oasis . Alombrados Oasis is a Thelemic initiatory fraternity located in… Continue Reading
Singer/Songwriter, poet, novelist Leonard Cohen died last last year. Those familiar with his work know that lyrics to his first half dozen albums come from familiarity with Talmudic teachings and Christian mysticism that map quite nicely on Thelemic perspectives on… Continue Reading
On this day in 1671, Isaac Newton was elected a member of England’s Royal Society, of which he became president some 32 years later. While he’s come to be considered one of the fathers or at least popularizers of a… Continue Reading
Krewe What Thou Wilt, a project of Alombrados Oasis, is preparing to roll for its third Mardi Gras season in New Orleans’ satirical Krewedelusion parade. If you would like to march with Krewe What Thou Wilt you must pay annual dues… Continue Reading