Frater W.I.T announces publication of a new book...

I'm delighted to announce the publication of my new book, Advanced Enochian Magick. It is available through Amazon.com and Outskirts Press.

Not sure how I missed this one, but, a few days late, here's information about the latest catalogue from Weiser Antiquarian Books...

Books by and About: Andrew Chumbley and the Cultus Sabbati & Kenneth Grant and the Typhonian O.T.O.

Welcome to this, the forty-eighth of our on-line catalogs. The catalog is divided into two sections, the first of which comprises a selection of books by Andrew Chumbley (1967-2004), and his friend and current Magister of the Cultus Sabbati, and "Verdelet of the Tradition," Daniel A. Schulke. The second section contains an interesting group of books by and relating to Kenneth Grant and his Typhonian O.T.O.

The works of Andrew Chumbley offered include two different issues of his famous Azoëtia. A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft, one of which is the rare special edition limited to 44 numbered copies which includes a talismanic card, part printed and part hand-drawn by Andrew Chumbley, as well as a mint copy (with talismanic bookmark) of his Qutub, and a copy of his most sort-after work, One. The Grimoire of the Golden Toad. Those by Daniel A. Schulke comprise three different issues of his Viridarium Umbris. The Pleasure Garden of Shadows, including the seldom-seen edition de luxe (limited to 72 numbered copies) of the First Edition, as well as his recently released released reissue of the Ars Philtron.

Amongst the books by Kenneth Grant are a good selection of the signed, limited editions of a number of his Starfire publications: At the Feet of the Guru, Twenty-Five Essays, Beyond the Mauve Zone, Convolvulus and other Poems, Gamaliel: The Diary of a Vampire and Dance, Doll, Dance!, The Ninth Arch, and The Other Child and Other Tales. There are also two original copies of numbers of the Carfax Monographs, as well as the later Skoob and Fulgur reprints of the series, and a small selection of copies of the now-scarce Starfire journal, most of which are in near-mint condition.

LAShTAL.COM is proud to publish a lengthy article by Micah A Hanks regarding Ian Fleming and Aleister Crowley, 007 and 666: A True Tale of Spies and Sorcery

This fascinating essay - reproduced by kind permission of the author -covers similar ground to the research by Richard Spence as presented in Secret Agent 666.

Micah describes the article in Nick Redfern's "Strangest Secrets" blog as: "A while back, I had begun working on an article that dealt with some of the more extraordinary (and in some cases, even paranormal) aspects of James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s career with British Intelligence Services during World War II. As most who have read the novels or studied James Bond’s history otherwise may know, many of Fleming’s experiences in real life later inspired the adventures of the world’s most famous secret agent. The article, however, was never published; therefore, I felt it was perhaps a good time, along with the release of Quantum of Solace in theaters, to present for the first time my original tribute to the 007’s classy creator. As the name implies, 007 and 666: A True Tale of Spies and Sorcery, is indeed based on real events that lead to the capture of the infamous Nazi Rudolph Hess. With a cast of characters that includes Maxwell Knight (then Fleming’s superior officer in MI5), the notorious Aleister Crowley, and Fleming himself, it is by far one of the oddest tales ever to stem from the annals of history."

Forgive the pun...

Brother Lon Milo DuQuette's bestselling title Key to Solomon's Key: Secrets of Magic and Masonry was published in Finnish on the 13th of October, the anniversary of the Knights Templars' arrest. This is the first book of Lon's that's been translated into Finnish, but has already sold more copies than Crowley's "Eight Lectures on Yoga", released in Finland by the same publisher 10 months earlier.

There are also several copies of the limited first edition of the Finnish Book of the Law still available. Beautifully bound in red faux leather, with gold emboss on the front cover, and incorporating the original MS. in 1:6.66, the hand-numbered first edition is limited to 93 copies, and priced at €22. (The second or "Troglodyte" edition sells at a higher price in many bookstores, and remains -- at least for now--the publisher's best seller.)

The Temple of the Silver Star presents a public lecture by Dr David Shoemaker, followed by a public ritual and Open House, at the Soror Meral Building in Sacramento, California.

Wonderful stuff, as ever, in the latest catalogue from Weiser Antiquarian!

Aleister Crowley, his friends & Associates:
A Miscellany of Used and Rare Books

may now be viewed at:

www.weiserantiquarian.com/catalog

Weiser Antiquarian Books is pleased to announce the release of the forty-seventh of our on-line catalogs: which is another of our special lists on used and rare books and other items relating to Aleister Crowley and his circle.

The catalog starts with a selection of books by Crowley friends and associates. It includes a small group of early editions by Frater Achad (Charles Stansfeld Jones), several of which are signed, a selection of works by C. F. Russell, including a set of his Znuz is the Znees, Memoirs of a Magician (4 Volumes), and an inscribed copy of his Barbara Cubed, and two rare Masonic pieces by John Yarker, Crowley's mentor in the rite of Mizraim, & Memphis.

The second section of the catalog lists a group of curiosities, mostly from the collection of Edward Noel Fitzgerald (1908-1958), Frater Agape, a IX degree member of the O.T.O., and friend and follower of Aleister Crowley's. These include Five Glass Photographic Negatives and a single Cellulose Photographic Negative relating to Aleister Crowley, three original Tarot Cards from the very first test printing of the Thoth Deck in 1943, an Original Cast Metal Printing Plate of the Egyptian type surround, used in Crowley's The Equinox of the Gods, a rare Rosicrucian Book given by Crowley to FitzGerald, and several mid-twentieth century magazines with articles about Crowley. The third section is devoted entirely to different editions of Crowley's quirky magical / philosophical masterpiece, Liber Aleph .

The fourth section is devoted to Used and Rare books by Aleister Crowley, and comprises a mixed selection, from modern paperbacks to rarities. Amongst the stand-out items are rare copies of Crowley's Amphora (1908) and Hail Mary (1911) a publication that was arguably also Crowley's most famous practical joke. In 1908 Crowley anonymously submitted the text of this book of devotional verse to the well-known Catholic publishers Burnes and Oates who somehow managed to overlook the dubious theology and sexual undertones and published it under the title Amphora. Meanwhile Crowley published his own private edition with an obscene epilogue. Advanced copies of the Burnes and Oates edition sent out by the publishers were well received in Christian circles, and provoked some discussion as to the identity of the anonymous authoress. However it did not take long for the author's real identity to be exposed, and Burnes and Oates rapidly withdrew the edition after only a small number of copies have been sold. Crowley somehow acquired the remaining copies, and reissued the book as Hail Mary under his 'Equinox' imprint a few years later. Other rarities in this section include a handsome, privately-bound (black leather and gilt) copy of the "Subscriber's Edition" (only 250 copies printed) of The Equinox of the Gods (1937), and a copy of the special handmade paper issue of Gargoyles, (1906) limited to 50 copies & signed by Crowley.

The fifth and final section comprises seven handwritten letters from Frieda Harris, artist executant of the Thoth tarot deck, to Crowley. These again are from the collection of Edward Noel Fitzgerald who was a friend of both Crowley and Harris.

Michael Staley's lecture on Kenneth Grant's Typhonian magick (27 November, Treadwell's in London) is now sold out, but is now being repeated on a second date: Wednesday, 17 December, 7.15 for 7.30 pm.

This from Atlantis Bookshop...

EVOLUTION - VOLUME ONE
From Influx to Automatic Drawing
Austin Osman Spare and Poetry: The particular influence of William Blake, W B Yeats and John Gray

By
Stephen Pochin

Limited Edition of 225 copies

Just fifty copies on Goatskin Parchment paper exist of this limited edition and are available exclusively from The Atlantis Bookshop.

This from Scarlet Imprint...

Scarlet Imprint are intoxicated with joy over the announcement of our newest title, Devoted.

Devoted is an octavo book of 172pp, bound in saffron book cloth, black chalice stamped and finished with night black endpapers. It is being prepared in a strictly limited and hand-numbered edition of 814 copies.

Devoted comprises fifteen essays by fourteen writers on their devotional work. It is a bloody and passionate blend of primal gnosis and poetic expression. These essays reveal powerful applicable magickal practice. They are suffused with the living experience of the Spirit world.

Devoted will enrich your own work, whether you are witch, magician, heathen, thelemite, or sorceror. From possession, to blood letting and fetishes, to sabbatic dance, there is a wealth of experience to explore within these pages.

Devoted provides indepth essays on working with:

Babalon
Ishtar
Hecate
Lilith
Loki
Tiamat
Dionysos
The Yoginis
The Lwa
The Spirits of goetia

Our writers are a chorus of powerful new voices and established practitioners...

My thanks to Thomas Eaton...

The Imperial War Museum proudly presents: All Hallows Eve with Kenneth Anger

The Imperial War Museum is delighted to mark the arrival of All Hallows Eve with a presentation of films by Hollywood's legendary Kenneth Anger. Alongside the classic Scorpio Rising (1964), Anger will present two London premieres: a "poetic/ironic reverie" of the Hitler Youth titled Ich Will! (2008) and a study of the appeal of the military uniform, Uniform Attraction (2008).


Kenneth Anger achieved notoriety in the last century for his visionary films, Fireworks (1947) and Scorpio Rising (1964). In the 1950s he compiled graphic images of suicides and bullet-riddled corpses for his scandal catalogue Hollywood Babylon (1959) and famously assisted the unlawful patron saint of all film archives, Henri Langlois, in the Cinematheque Francaise.

In recent years, Anger has returned to filmmaking with a renewed interest in film archives. His screening at the Imperial War Museum on All Hallows' Eve is intended to celebrate his new work in a playful and uncanny context, invoking a puckish spirit that recalls the activities of the first film archivists, Langlois and Sweden's Bengt Idestam Almquist (aka 'Robin Hood'), who saved films as one saves souls.