Al Jazeera has posted a marvelous mini documentary on Santa Muerte. The video’s site says: “She’s often depicted as the patron saint of murderers and narco-traffickers, and the Catholic Church condemns devotion to her as blasphemy. But Santa Muerte, or… Continue Reading
Atlas Obscura posted a thought-provoking piece on the Catholic Church’s use of scientic to observe and understand the cosmos as part of peity – for 6 centuries before its condemnation of Galileo. In fact some churches were designed as solar… Continue Reading
Thelema, NOW! host Harper Feist talks with Brandy Williams about what it’s like to be a woman in Thelema, how times have changed, and how they need to change some more! Her book, For the Love of the Gods, The History… Continue Reading
[Adonai!] Haaret, one of Israel’s major daily newspapers commemorated the 99th birthday, yesterday, of Francis Israel Regardie, noted occultist, erstwhile personal secretary to The Great Beast with an extended and non-sensationalistic biographical piece. Besides his connection with Crowley, Regardie became… Continue Reading
NOTOCON XI, the 11th Biennial National O.T.O. Conference will be held August 11-13, 2017 in Orlando, Florida, hosted by Hidden Spring Oasis, Swirling Star Lodge, and Serpent & Lion Camp. The list of presentations is now available: 11 KEYS TO… Continue Reading
Various news services including the New York Times report that Leonard Cohen passed away last night at his home in Los Angeles. New York Times reports that, “Adam Cohen, his son and producer, said: ‘My father passed away peacefully at… Continue Reading
The London Telegraph reports on a legal battle regarding the rights to profits made from the sale of a 19th century church building, erm, erected by a religious sex cult The Abode of Love aka the Agapemonites. One of the… Continue Reading
The London Telegraph reports that author Richard Cavendish died October 21 aged 86. Cavendish was a scholar of magic, mythology and witchcraft whose 1967 book The Black Arts provided an introduction to such subjects to several generation providing the first… Continue Reading
The paperback version of the Handbook of Freemasonry, which was co-edited by Henrik Bogdan (University of Gothenburg) and Jan A.M. Snoek (prof. em. University of Heidelberg), is now available for preorder from Brill Academic Publishers! It’s still expensive at €75,00,… Continue Reading
The National Geographic reports that exploration of the portion of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre traditionally considered the site of Jesus of Nazareth’s burial has revealed a limestone tomb actually residing within protective housing built around and over it… Continue Reading