The BBC recently ran a piece on “Rage yoga.” This might seem a contradiction in terms (and in fact might be a compositing of incompatible techniques. And yet, Aleister Crowley did exhort practitioners to “enflame themselves with prayer” and describe… Continue Reading
You can now purchase the “Bolsekine” app which will point you to the correct coordinates for the former site of Bolsekine House, for 99 cents at the iTunes app store. The app store description says: Boleskine is a ritual compass… Continue Reading
This July 7, Oxford University Press will publish Ruben van Luijk’s Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism. This is the first installment in its ‘Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism Book Series’ being edited by Henrik Bogdan. Acording… Continue Reading
The Stooping Starlight blog and podcast recently posted a very special episode featuring – An interview with Phyllis Seckler, by Heather Schubert – An interview with Marlene Cornelius, by Sr. AJMNS They warn, “Due to the age of the tapes used… Continue Reading
Carl Abrahamsson recently announced that a new issue of the annual journal he edits, Fenris, Wolf will be issued this Summer. In the meanwhile you can sign up for his newsletter to be kept up to date on all his… Continue Reading
Patheos.com recently posted an intriguing piece by Nicholas Laccetti describing his journey from dabbling the occult, to pursuing a Master of Divinity degree in a progressive Christian school whilst becoming an Episcopalian, then a Roman Catholic — and then turning… Continue Reading
Weiser Antiquarian Books is announcing the publication of a new edition of Frederick Hockley’s The Pauline Art of Solomon. Their site explains at length: First Edition Hardcover. Small quarto. xxiv + 64p, [+ 144pp MSS facsimile ]. Bound in high quality… Continue Reading
Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have thus initiated the Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee and, since 2010, have collected data on chimpanzee behavior, demography and resource availability across Africa following a standardized… Continue Reading
Published by Penguin last month in the U.S. The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment, edited by Brian Copenhaver looks at the birth of modern science and its close relationship and interaction with magical practice. Both in fact were… Continue Reading
In The Temple of Solomon The King Aleister Crowley recalls details of the writing of Liber AL: “The three days were precisely similar, save that on the last day I became nervous lest I should fail to hear the Voice of… Continue Reading