Tomorrow marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of Frater Peregrinus aka Theodore Reuss, one of the founders, and the inaugural OHO or Ordo Templi Orientis. Here’s the wikipedia biographahy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Reuss.
Oxford University Press has opened pre-orders for a revised edition of the long out-of-print, hence fairly expensive book by Martin Starr, The Unknown God; W.T. Smith and the Thelemites – an exhaustive history of the origins and early days of… Continue Reading
Magic In The United States, a new podcast hosted by Heather Freeman launched yesterday. The first episode is titled “Seeking American Magic.” The posted description says: “In this episode, we’ll meet two fascinating people who are remixing beliefs, spirituality, and… Continue Reading
Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism Book Series is opening pre-orders for Richard Kaczynski’s “Friendship in Doubt: Aleister Crowley, J. F. C. Fuller, Victor B. Neuburg, and British Agnosticism.” The posted description says: Infidel. Atheist. Rationalist. Agnostic. Occultist Aleister Crowley, soldier… Continue Reading
A recent publication from the UK’s Hadean Press is The Magical Amulets of the Ancient Sages and Bibliotheca Necromantica by Johannes Trithemius translated by Fr. Robert Nixon, OSB. The posted description says: In the year 1482, on a freezing, winter… Continue Reading
The Brooklyn Institute For Social Research will be offering an online course Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient World starting this November 15. The posted description says: Reflecting on death and grief, we sometimes wonder what comes next—and devise… Continue Reading
Here’s the latest Monday Magick Newsletter from noted occult author and sorcerer Jason Miller. Magic is real and it works like other real things. Your personal beliefs about it are largely irrelevant. Gravity doesn’t hold true in England but not… Continue Reading
One interesting title in the Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism series is Prophecy, Madness, and Holy War in Early Modern Europe by Leigh T.I. Penman. This would make a great Samhain present! The posted description says: The political and religious… Continue Reading
This Summer, Israel Hayom ran this lovely story about a magic mirror from Late Antiquity being discovered on an archaelogical dig. The story begins: An excerpt reads: ‘According to Navit Popovitch, IAA curator of the classical periods, “The fragment is… Continue Reading
Late this past Summer Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism published Claudie Massicotte’s Helene Smith: Occultism and the Discovery of the Unconscious. The posted description says: In 1896, a young Genevan medium named Hélène Smith perceived in trance the following words… Continue Reading