Just released last week by Amazon Prime Video: “Jack Parsons: The Devil and the Divine,” episode 6 in the “Lore” docudrama series. Imdb says: “In 1922 only one person, Jack Parsons, believed that we could send a rocket into space… Continue Reading
Today, October 25, is the Feast of Doctor Gérard Encausse, and of Sir Karl Johannes Germer, both Gnostic Saints. According to the Invisible Basilica website, “Gérard Encausse, usually known by his pseudonym ‘Papus,’ was a Spanish-born French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of… Continue Reading
RollingStone.com just ran a news story about the upcoming release of South of Reality the second collaborative album from Primus’ leader Les Claypool and Sean Lennon. The lead track is “Blood And Rockets” which was inspired by the exploits of… Continue Reading
MAGICK & MUSIC: COIL’S DREW MCDOWALL EXPLAINS RITUAL AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS from ELECTRONIC BEATS Coil’s cult-like fanbase knows that the band, which fluctuated in membership over its more than twenty years of existence, was deeply entrenched in occult doctrines… Continue Reading
Tomorrow, October 25, is the Feast of Saint Gerard Encausse, and of Sir Karl Johannes Germer. Today we will discuss Sir Karl Johannes Germer, and tomorrow Saint Gerard Encausse. Karl Germer died of prostate cancer 25 October 1962 in Westpoint, California,… Continue Reading
House of Mythology have announced the November 2 release of an exclusive cassette edition of the new Current 93 album – “The Light Is Leaving Us All”. It’ll be available in 4 coloured glitter variants. Limited to 400 copies. https://store.houseofmythology.com/cart/product.php?id=40301&fbclid=IwAR3ae3jk9IYShYE44VaJdjBLXvmSvf-XcWon-yFq_ABhEn4-ChdP2ao3C0o.
Despite Genesis P Orridge’s illness Psychic TV/PTV3 will visit Europe to perform 2 concerts in London and Berlin this November. These concerts will probably be the last European PTV3 performances for some years, until Genesis is fully recovered from her… Continue Reading
This Summer, the New Yorker ran an article about the neuroscience of pain, detailing the experience, mechanics, methods of relief and so on associated with pain. An unsual sidelight was examining the fact that religious people can have a different… Continue Reading
Every Thelemite worth their salt knows about The Prophet of the Lovely Star’s manse Boleskine House, but CornwallLive.com recently toured the ruins of a lesser known country home of The Great Beast: “Mention the ‘Aleister Crowley house’ in conversation with… Continue Reading
Saturday, October 20, was the Feast of Saint Sir Richard Francis Burton. Born March 18, 1821, Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He died in… Continue Reading