Here’s an interesting piece on the origins of Reiki that appeared in Bitter Winter Magazine a few days ago. It begins: “Reiki is a global phenomenon, with more than one million practitioners around the world. However, although it originated in… Continue Reading →

UK occult publishing powerhouse Hadean Press announced the release of two new titles in their Guides To The Underworld series: Tools of the Greater Key and Pentacles of Solomon by author and illustrator S. Aldernay. The posted description says: “He… Continue Reading →

Unveiling The Digital Occult: Forty Super-Duper Ancient will be an online presentation scheduled for Sunday November 12, 3PM EST featuring artist, magician and technologist, Heather D. Freeman. The posted description says: “Magical practitioners from across time and cultures have used… Continue Reading →

Volante Opera Productions in Wales has released a CD of Paul Corfield Godfrey’s “The Nightingale and the Rose, The Sphinx & Hymnus Mysticus.” “Hymnus Mysticus” is a “short cantata entitled Hymnus Mysticus based on poems by Aleister Crowley, another writer… Continue Reading →

Noted esoteric author and filmmaker Carl Abrahamsson released a documentary on Church of Satan founder, Anton LaVey a few years ago titled Into The Devil’s Den. It’s currently posted on YouTube and is available for free streaming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kqGhq3-1mY&t=3258s. In 1989,… Continue Reading →

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 →