The New York Times recently ran a feature on a project to map the acoustics of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul and thereafter effectively recreate those acoustic effects in other locations via a customized set up of microphones and speakers… Continue Reading
This month the USGL Education Committee will be hosting Br. Dionysius Rogers as he presents “We Antichrists” Thursday, August 27th at 6pm PDST Join with Google Meet meet.google.com/aef-frkw-ezc Join by phone (US) +1 662-482-2456 PIN: 808 768 690# Description: “Order… Continue Reading
The late Jim Garvey was known for many unique activities during his all too brief lifetime. One of them was creating illuminated manuscripts. I’ve been told that one of them was an illuminated letter to the IRS explaining why he… Continue Reading
“The National Library of Israel (NLI) in Jerusalem has announced that with a generous grant from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, it will be opening digital access to over 2,500 rare Islamic manuscripts and books… Continue Reading
Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism book series will be releasing a new title this November, Boaz Huss’s “Mystifying Kabbalah: Academic Scholarship, National Theology, and New Age Spirituality” The publisher’s description posted on Amazon states: “Most scholars of Judaism take the term… Continue Reading
The National Library of Israel posted an article regarding the radical Sufi conception of religion. There’s discussion of things like circumambulating sacred structures and a saint that suggests that in looking at him you are looking at God. Might be relevant… Continue Reading
The Thoth-Hermes podcast recently announced that the upcoming Season 5-Episode 5 would feature Henrik Bogdan. The podcast site notes: “As an Academic Scholar on Western Esotericism, HENRIK BODGAN will be the first of a little series of personalities from that… Continue Reading
Soror Amy’s been looking at Masonic masks and wound up getting a notice about the publication of The Secret School of Wisdom from Macoy Masonic Supplie. Their description says: “For more than two hundred years, the world has held a… Continue Reading
One of the symbols of peaceful co-existence of the Abrahamic religions was the conversion of the Greek Orthdox cathedral, the Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), in Istanbul, to a museum nearly a hundred years ago after being used as a mosque… Continue Reading
O.T.O Sweden has published the latest issue of it’s annual magazine, “Solståndet.” Their FB page states: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Belated greetings of the summer solstice! Ordo Templi Orientis Sweden presents no. 11… Continue Reading