England’s Hellfire Club Books has announced the publication of Secret Symbols of the Hell Fire Club by Eamonn Loughran in both leather and cloth bound editions. The publisher site says: “Each [edition] incorporates 258 pages and over 140 colour and black… Continue Reading
Last month Routledge Published the The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 anthology, edited by Christine Ferguson and Andrew Radford. The publisher’s description states: “Between 1875 and 1947, a period bookended, respectively, by the founding of the Theosophical Society and the… Continue Reading
Scarlet Imprint Publishing has just announced that they are taking pre-orders for their latest publication, Jinn Sorcery by Rain Al-Alim, a compilation of jinn conjurations and rituals translated from Arabic manuscripts in the author’s private collection. The publisher’s site says: “Following an… Continue Reading
The Los Angeles Times just published a surprisingly positive on modern day L.A. residents who self-identify as Satanists that mentions Ordo Templi Orientis in its discussion of the history of occultism in the City of Angeles: “L.A. history is filled… Continue Reading
Thomas Hodgkinson recently reviewed Catherine Nixey’s The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World , for the London Spectator. The book is a look at the transition from the Classical world to Christendom and quite a harrowing one! The publisher’s… Continue Reading
Recently, the New Yorker ran an expose on a confidence game targeting older female Chinese immigrants that preyed on spiritual traditions they were aware of, but only vaguely – elements out of Chinese astrology, doctrines from the Bardo Thodol, Taoist… Continue Reading
IMHO you can’t really understand Ordo Templi Orientis without having some basic knowledge of American utopian cults/communities of the 19th century. Their rejection of Calvinism and an embrace of ecstasy and sexuality a legitimate part of religion, I’d suggest, had… Continue Reading
418 Lodge, OTO,, presents the Eleusinian Rite of Saturn, at the Wilkerson Theater in midtown Sacramento on December 30th, 2017 show starts at 7:30 PM. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $20 via PayPal (send to treasurer@418lodge.org) or for… Continue Reading
Amsterdam’s Ritman Library has announced that it will be digitizing its collection of occult texts, funded in part by a generous donation by Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown. The Library’s site says: “In 2012 the Ritman Library started… Continue Reading
The Electoral College of Ordo Templi Orientis USA posted a new Local Body Spotlight on Black Sun Lodge, Valley of Cleveland which discusses their celebration of Kwanazaa. In part it reads: “I had given the project of a Kwanzaa Ritual… Continue Reading