According to Ordo Templi Orientis’ U.S. Grand Lodge website: “Aleister Crowley wrote Liber XV in 1913 in Moscow, the year after his appointment by Theodor Reuss as the X° Head of the British Section of O.T.O. According to W. B.… Continue Reading
Vice.com just posted a new essay on Jack Parsons by George Pendle, author of “Strange Angel” a full length biography of Parsons which you can read here: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-last-of-the-magicians?trk_source=homepage-lede And let us not forget that Ridley Scott is working on a… Continue Reading
Recently, genesisporridgearchive.blogspot.com posted a vintage essay on the workings of notorious artist/ceremonial magician Austin Osman Spare by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Jaques Rigaut, originally written in 1995: VIRTUAL MIRRORS THEE PROPHETIC PORTALS OV AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE IN SOLID T.I.M.E which can be… Continue Reading
from Albion Calling Ethan Doyle White’s personal blog – devoted to interdisciplinary scholarship on religion, magic, and the preternatural…http://ethandoylewhite.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/call-for-papers-female-leaders-in-new.html Call for Papers: “Female Leaders in New Religious Movements” University of Gothenburg doctoral student Chris Giuduce has asked me to pass… Continue Reading
“Swinburne Stomp” is a musical setting of Chorus II from Algernon Charles Swinburne’s “Atalanta in Calydon” by the NYC-based satirical/ self-satirizing rock band with a political slant, The Fugs (http://www.thefugs.com). The core group comprised poets, musicians and underground notables working out… Continue Reading
Julie Wilson recently posted some of her research on the work of Genesis Breyer P-Orridgeat genesisporridgearchive.blogspot.com: “This article is a condensed extract from my research into the psychological basis of the work of Genesis P-Orridge. As such the article will only… Continue Reading
Religion Dispatches features an interesting interview with historian Matthew Sutton, who recently authored American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelism. Sutton’s webpage states that the book is: the first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation.… Continue Reading
Yesterday was the 200th anniversary of the greater feast for the Marquis de Sade, and a number of media outlets published features in honor of the occasion. The Guardian featured a quiz on “How Well do you know the Marquis… Continue Reading
The L.A. Weekly’s Catherine Wagley tackles L.A. Times’ critic Christopher Wright’s dismissal of Marjorie “Cameron” Parsons’ work, currently on exhibit at MOCA in Los Angeles. Wagley notes: “Yael Lipschutz, who curated the Cameron show with the help of longtime MOCA… Continue Reading
This excerpt from Chapter 10 of noted author Jason Miller’s latest book “Sex, Sorcery, and Spirit: The Secrets of Erotic Magic”, follows instructions on sex as an offering to spirits and lengthy discussion of various episodes of people claiming to… Continue Reading