Aleister Crowley had a thing for picaresque role models – Sir Richard Burton, Allesandro Caliogstro and Neuhas, di San Gallo, the Chevalier de Seingalt, Count Farussi aka Casanova. And who can blame the Great Beast regarding the latter – someone… Continue Reading
Journalistic polymath Carl Abrahamsson has posted a new documentary film featuring a series of interviews he’s done with filmmaker/mage Kenneth Anger, Cinemagician – Conversations With Kenneth Anger. Starting in the late 1940’s Anger directed and released a series of avant-garde… Continue Reading
The Thelema, NOW! podcast has posted a new episode, this one featuring host Harper Feist speaking to author Carl Abrahamsson! One of the privileged few who spent time with the “Black Pope” in the last decade of his life, Carl… Continue Reading
Last week’s issue of Massimo Introvigne’s Bitter Winter Magazine carried a review of ….’s review of Massimo’s new book, Sacred Eroticism: Tantra and Eros in the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA). An excerpt reads: “Introvigne warns the reader since… Continue Reading
Here’s part 2 in Pasadena Now’s 3 part series on seminal rocketry scientist and deeply devoted ceremonial magician, Jack Parsons. Tis installment begins: “Jack Parsons was a rocketry savant. He and Frank Malina of Caltech made key breakthroughs in the… Continue Reading
Last week, Pasadena Now started publishing a three part series on Jack Whitside Parsons, an O.T.O. initiate and seminal rocket scientist who may well be the best known Thelemite outside of the Prophet of the Lovely Star himself. The first… Continue Reading
Teitan Press has announced the publication of the first U.S. softcover edition of The Art of Rosaleen Norton. Norton was an Australian artist and self-proclaimed witch who attained to consider notoriety in her home country. The publisher’s announcement says: The… Continue Reading
Pre-0rders have now opened for Sacred Eroticism: Tantra and Sexuality in the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA), a monograph by Massimo Introvigne which becomes available August 1, 2022. The posted decription says “Sacred eroticism has been an important if… Continue Reading
“MAGIA PROTETORA” The art of Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos (b 1982) and Darcilio Lima (1944-1991) Curated by Stephen Romano Gallery for the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick, Cleveland OH. July 1 through September 30 2022. This will be the first major institutional exhibition… Continue Reading
I don’t wanna hard sell this – but when you think of public figures who normalized the use of hard drugs, extra-marital sex, pursuit of extreme personal freedoms and Gay lifestyle Lou Reed only runs a close second to the… Continue Reading