Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885-1957), a charter member of Agapé Lodge No. 1, moved from Vancouver on instructions from Crowley to work with Jane Wolfe (1875-1958), who had been a student of Crowley's at Cefalu, to establish Agapé Lodge No. 2 in Los Angeles, California. Smith and Wolfe gathered a group together in Hollywood, California, and along with Regina Kahl (1891-1945), began to celebrate the Gnostic Mass on a weekly basis on Sunday, March 19, 1933.
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There is a rare cable TV screening of the 1926 MGM Rex Ingram silent film The Magician: Sunday at midnight on Turner Classic Movies (US cable). So set your Tivos or set top recorders. I'm not sure about scheduling and coverage outside the USA but it is worth checking.

This is a very difficult film to see otherwise…

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Lecture of Thursday 8th April at Treadwells Books
entry £7, starts 7.15pm for 7.30pm, please book in advance
34 Tavistock Street, London WC2E 7PB

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Aleister Crowley and the Aeon of Horus by Paul Weston is available now from www.aleistercrowley666.co.uk

384 pages. RRP £ 13.99. Worldwide postage.



An Aeon of Horus primer: from the Nazis to the atom bomb, LSD, and UFOlogy.

Beyond the legend of infamy:

Aleister Crowley the occult superstar, yogi, mountaineer, junkie, sexual adventurer, and mystical poet, the supreme prophet of the modern world?

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Read more…]]> Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:30:20 +0000 http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Article1308.phtml This News item is edited from a Coptic Cat announcement…

'.'93 Current 93'.' is to play two major shows in London on 28 and 29 May 2010

'.'93 CURRENT 93'.', the ultimate Hallucinatory Gnostic Supergroup, will play two shows in The HMV Forum, Kentish Town, London on Friday 28 May and Saturday 29 May to celebrate 25 years of Current 93 and also to celebrate David Tibet’s 50th birthday.

Special guests are to be the unmatched NURSE WITH WOUND (28th), the glorious COMUS (29th), the ghostlike RAMESES III (29th). Other special guests will be announced.

Friday 28 May: 7pm–11pm and Saturday 29 May: 6pm–11pm

The HMV Forum
9–17 Highgate Road
London NW5 1JY

Read more…]]> Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:37:59 +0000 http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Article1307.phtml Members of The Aleister Crowley Society and visitors to this website will know of the enormous respect and admiration I have for Gary Dickinson and the work he has done to restore the Stele of Revealing to appropriate Thelemic and Crowleyan prominence. His talks in London on the stele and on Crowley's "Walk Across China" have been very well received and his line of reproduction stelae, released through the auspices of the 'Company of Heaven', are unrivalled in commitment and execution. I am delighted, therefore, to publish Gary's announcement of his new website…

COMPANY OF HEAVEN WEBSITE



The Company of Heaven.com has a new web-address at www.themagicalmandarin.com

This is now the home-site of Gary Dickinson, artist-executant of the Company of Heaven.

The Magical Mandarin.com features all of the Stelae of Revealing currently produced by the Company of Heaven, providing information and images about the Company of Heaven’s replicas which will be of interest to those unable to view the examples on display and available from The Atlantis Bookshop in London.

As its title suggests, The Magical Mandarin.com also covers Gary Dickinson’s wider interests including the recently established Mandarin’s Eye I Ching Consultancy. Personal I Ching consultations, as well as written interpretations for those living outside central London, are both available.

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10 August 2010

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In this episode

Intro music: "Song of Adoration" by Frater Oz
Joseph Thiebes interviews Jon Sewell and Melissa Holm of Eleusyve Productions
Living Thelema: Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram by Dr David Shoemaker
Outro music: "Song of Adoration" by Frater Oz

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Scintillations in Mauve: An Introduction to the Work of Kenneth Grant
A lecture by Michael Staley

Thursday 1st April, 2010

The Britons Protection
50 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester. M1 5LE

Kenneth Grant is a much-admired figure in the world of Thelema. Exponent of a distinct magical gnosis and writer of many books, he has produced a formidable and highly creative body of work, expressing approaches to magic and mysticism which have evolved throughout the years. At the heart of this work is the series of Typhonian Trilogies, commencing with The Magical Revival in 1972 and culminating in The Ninth Arch in 2002. In this talk Michael Staley will discuss the fundamental aspects of this work, as well as the ways in which Grant set out to develop Thelema and creative occultism in the light of the Typhonian or Draconian Current.

Grant’s work has grown out of an extraordinary life. He had a passion for magic, mysticism and comparative religion by the time he met Aleister Crowley in 1944 -- a contact which made a profound impact upon him. Later, he and his wife had a close association with the occult artist Austin Osman Spare. Spare’s work also had a huge influence upon Grant, but it was through his own magical and mystical experience that Grant was able to assimilate the work of these two and many others including Woodroffe, Massey, Blavatsky, and Lovecraft to form a vision that suffuses all his work but finds its most profound flowering in the Typhonian Trilogies. This lecture focuses on Grant’s work as expressed in the Typhonian Trilogies, and lays the foundation for a forthcoming series of talks which will focus more closely on specific elements of his work.


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Read more…]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:19:57 +0000 http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Article1301.phtml Thanks to Fulgur Books for this News item. Apologies for the administration error that resulted in delayed publication…

We pleased to announce Catalogue Seven, bringing you new art treasures from three of our favourite artists: Austin Osman Spare, Barry William Hale and Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule. Please click here for further details…

On February 22nd we will also release details the first of our Spare titles for the year: Edited by Kenneth and Steffi Grant Dearest Vera is the record of a friendship between AOS and the poet Vera Wainwright. Poignant and insightful, Spare's letters to his friend are a correspondence course in art from the hand of the master.

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http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=43967#43967

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Planning activities for the 2010 Esoteric Book Conference are underway and coming along nicely. We are in the process of arranging for promotion, the book fair, line up of speakers, artists and entertainment and are very excited with the response thus far. That said we have decided to extend our original deadline out for an additional three weeks. If you are interested in submitting a proposal or know someone who is please do not hesitate to contact us as soon as possible.

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Now Available

Signed Copies of a new edition of

The Magickal Essence of Aleister Crowley
by
J Edward Cornelius



J Edward Cornelius, The Magickal Essence of Aleister Crowley. Berkeley, CA: Privately Published, 2010. First Edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. x + 246pp. Black cloth with gilt titling to spine. Full color dustjacket. B&w frontis, appendixes, index. Edition limited to 777 numbered copies. This copy signed by way of a bookplate affixed to the front endpaper.

The Magickal Essence of Aleister Crowley focuses on the central philosophies and practices of Magick, in particular the "attainment of the knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel," and the secrets that lie at the heart of Crowley's Liber Aleph and The Book of Lies. The text has its origins in a series of instructions that Aleister Crowley gave to an American disciple, Grady Louis McMurtry, during the last years of the Second World War. McMurtry returned to the United States, and in his later years went on to head both the O.T.O. and his own lineage of the A.'. A.'. He became both friend and mentor to the author of this book, J. Edward Cornelius, to whom he confided the secrets and teachings that he had received from Crowley.

Following McMurtry's death, Cornelius explored these insights in a series of "Epistles" that were privately circulated amongst his own students. In 1999, he made a synthesis of these teachings, which he published in the Red Flame series of journals under the title The Magickal Essence of Aleister Crowley. It sold out rapidly, and soon became one of the most sought after modern explorations of Crowley's work. In the decade that has elapsed since the publication of the original Red Flame edition of the book, Cornelius has carefully reworked the text, removing sections that he no longer felt to be of relevance, clarifying passages that some of his students found difficult or perplexing, and extensively revising and augmenting the rest. In the process he has added fifteen new chapters, effectively reshaping the entire publication, and filling it with new insights for those interested in the Magick of "the Beast."

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With Gary Dickinson at the Moot-with-No-Name

Wednesday 17th February 2010



In the final decade of the crumbling Manchu dynasty, accompanied by wife and child, Aleister Crowley made an epic three-month trek along part of the old Silk Road across China’s remote south-western Yunnan Province. There, he says, the magnificent scenery of China ‘penetrated his soul’. For Crowley that journey culminated in April 1906 with an invocation of Aiwass in the burgeoning treaty-port of Shanghai.

The ‘Walk Across China’ reflects another, inner journey Crowley made through an equally wildly romantic landscape; a ‘China’ of popular myth. That journey began in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1901 and continued through to the end of his sojourn in New York during the years of the First World War.

To celebrate the Chinese New Year, in ‘A Walk Across China’ Gary Dickinson retraces Crowley’s footsteps, looking at some of the places he visited using photographs taken around the time Crowley was there, and examining some of things he saw and the people he met.

Gary Dickinson is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, an expert on Chinese art and was an historical consultant for Bertolucci’s Oscar-winning film ‘The Last Emperor’. He has lectured in major museums throughout the world and, after some 30 years of study of the ancient Chinese oracle, has recently started an I Ching consultancy service.

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Ramo Auditorium
$18 (unreserved seating)

Presented By: Caltech Performing and Visual Arts

Pasadena Babalon is a new stage play dealing with the life of rocket pioneer Jack Parsons, co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Aerojet General Corporation.

Theater Arts at Caltech (TACIT) director Brian Brophy (Shawshank Redemption, Day Without a Mexican, Star Trek: The Next Generation) will direct the play penned by George Morgan, author of last year's well-received Rocket Girl.

Babalon takes the audience on a journey through mid-1930s Pasadena up until Jack's untimely death in 1952. Surrounded by a gallery of characters from Aleister Crowley, L.Ron Hubbard, Theordore Von Karman, and many others, the play examines the nature of genius with its unintended consequences, black magic, military contracts, and the formation of JPL.

TACIT casts feature Caltech undergraduates, graduate students, staff members, and JPL engineers.

The play will also be presented on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, and the following weekend on Friday and Saturday.

Discounted pricing for youth, students, seniors, and groups of 10 or more will likely be available, but prices have not yet been set.

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Guest Rani Singh, Director of the Harry Smith Archives and author of the book 'Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular' discusses what it was like working with Harry – and how Harry’s work changed the world.

"...in the late 1940s Smith began an earnest course of study in the A.'.A.'. system...His first teacher was the highly influential Canadian kabbalist Charles Stansfield Jones [Frater Achad]…"

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Zach is a treasure. This and the other downloads give a brief glimpse of an exceptional personality with much to teach us from a long life dedicated to magic…

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Avalonian Aeon and Friends

A Sunday afternoon book launch on the Treadwell's shop floor, celebrating the release of Paul Weston's book on Crowley, Aleister Crowley and the Aeon of Horus.

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Podcast interview now available.

http://www.oto-usa.org/podcast.html
http://www.thelemanow.com

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NOW AVAILABLE FOR SALE EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH WWW.DANNYCAREY.ORG

THE WICKEDEST BOOKS IN THE WORLD
CONFESSIONS OF AN ALEISTER CROWLEY BIBLIOPHILE
By
BLAIR MacKENZIE BLAKE
PHOTOGRAPHY: DUNCAN BLAKE
FOREWORD: DANNY CAREY

Privately published by the author in a limited edition

“THE WICKEDEST BOOKS IN THE WORLD” is a large format (9 X 12) coffee table-style hardcover book containing over 50 glossy full color photographs of the rare, often magnificently produced, first edition books of the renowned British occultist, Aleister Crowley that are currently in the collections of the author and fellow bibliophile, Danny Carey.



Printed and bound by one of the top printers in the world, this first hardcover edition is strictly limited to 1000 copies, with the first 156 copies numbered by way of an anti-consecrated page carefully removed from the author’s personal copy of the 1922 British first impression of Crowley’s notorious The Diary of a Drug Fiend (placed inside a clear envelope). Additionally, the first 333 copies are individually numbered and SIGNED by both the author and the author of the book’s foreword, DANNY CAREY (who is featured throughout the book as avid collector of Crowleyana).

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