ReligionDispatches.org has posted Paul Harvey’s interview with Emily Clark regarding her recently published book A Luminous Brotherhood, a study of the Afro-Creole Spiritualist “Cercle Harmonique” from 1858 to 1877. Clark combed the archives of the University of New Orleans researching this work… Continue Reading
Three Hands Press has announced the publication of the anthology, Occlith 1: Codex Homunculi on September 29. Their circular states: In cooperation with Viatorium Press, Three Hands Press is honored to make available the latest landmark offering of collected esoteric… Continue Reading
Newsworks reports on Elaine Pagels being awarded a National Humanities Medal for her decades of research and analysis of ancient Gnostic texts. The article begins: “Divine beings, visions, revelations and apocalypses, angels and resurrection—the Bible is filled with such fantastical… Continue Reading
Broadly, of the Vice media empire, publishes a piece discussing sexually oriented accusations made against witches in the dear old Malleus Maleficarum (the most trusted source for black metal and names to date). Most notably the article focuses on claims that… Continue Reading
A little appreciated detail of the history of Pennsylvania is its involvement with radical mystical mysticism. For instance the namesake of the town of Yardley, located on the banks of the Delaware River became involved with the Familia Caritatis or Family… Continue Reading
Serpentshod.com has posted an interesting look at magical practices involving St. Cyprian, the “unofficial patron saint of necromancers, sorcerers, witchcraft, and the occult.” We are in the midst of a period when practitioners often celebrate a novena in his honor.… Continue Reading
“My nature is to be nonconformist,” Genesis Breyer P-Orridge said in an interview with Andre Bauer. P-Orridge’s question of identity has established h/er as an icon within the culture of avant-garde art. H/er physical body has become a work of… Continue Reading
LouderThanWar recently posted an rare interview with O.T.O. Cabinet member David Tibet about his new album with Youth a founding member of Killing Joke oh so many years ago. It starts “You would think that with a full quarter of… Continue Reading
Some thoughtful soul posted this YouTube link on FB. It is: “An extremely rare documentary about Witchcraft aired once in the UK in 1971. Featuring contributions from Eleanor Bone, Cecil Williamson, Alex & Maxine Sanders, Doreen Valiente et al. Very… Continue Reading
The BBC recently posted a report on “Ghost Weddings.” Let’s just right on to the meat of the matter. “Believers in the custom, practised for some 3,000 years, say it ensures the unmarried dead are not alone in the afterlife.… Continue Reading