The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel announced the discovery of a pottery shard giving evidence for communications between the Assyrian Empire and the Kingdom of Judah. Their announcement begins: A cuneiform inscription on a small pottery sherd addresses a… Continue Reading
We’d already written a bit about the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC’s “Divine Egypt” exhibit, noting that the Prophet of the Lovely Star living at a time of rampant Egyptomania, when fascination with various aspects of Pharaonic Egypt being… Continue Reading
Here is a transcript of the interview between Thelema, Now! host Harper Feist and Gast Bouschet that is featured in the latest episode of the podcast: © of all images by Gast Bouschet. Today we have a most unusual interview.… Continue Reading
The Thelema, NOW! podcast has posted a new episode. In this special episode host Harper Feist engages with artist Gast Bouschet, whose haunting, alchemical works blur the boundaries between ritual, landscape, and transformation. Because speaking is physically painful for Bouschet, this… Continue Reading
The Far Edges of the Known World, is a new book by historian Owen Rees which looks to examine and understand the civilizations that co-existed with the Greek, then Roman empires on their own terms, rather than from the perspectives… Continue Reading
In an interesting turn of events, the latest batch of Roman Catholic Saints to be canonized includes Bartolo Longo, a Catholic turned atheist, turned Satanist priest who ended up as a third-order Dominican. Here’s one news story about the event:… Continue Reading
The highly productive Sara Mastros is releasing her latest book next month, Introduction to Witchcraft. The posted description says: Sara Mastros has turned thousands of novices into practitioners of the Craft. For the first time, Introduction to Witchcraft: Thirteen Lessons in… Continue Reading
Last month saw the publication of Melissa Seims’ Light in Extension: A History of the Bradford’s 1888 Golden Dawn Temple Horus No.5. I think you can guess what this book is about. The posted description says: Step into the world… Continue Reading
Aleister Crowley lived in the midst of society-wide searching for metaphysical truths. In part this was a reaction against Materialism and the Mechanistic vision of reality promoted by Josephin Peladan and the people associated with his Rose + Croix Order,… Continue Reading
England’s Hadean Press has opened pre-orders for Cyprianus: St. Cyprian and the Black Book in Scandinavian Folklore Cyprianus is the name of an infamous grimoire in Scandinavian folk magic and a byword for sorcery. In recent years, dozens of Cyprianus books have been… Continue Reading