Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:55:23 +0000 60 http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/ LAShTAL Thelemic News and Culture en-gb http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/images/rss-logo.png http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/ webmaster@lashtal.com http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Article1211.phtml 22-25 Jackson Avenue, at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, Queens
Through Sept. 14

If you’ve never seen the scandalous 1963 film “Scorpio Rising,” you probably should, and you can in the Kenneth Anger retrospective at P.S. 1. About a half-hour long, it’s a landmark in American film history, pop culture and queer culture, and in some ways it’s more unnerving now than when it was made.

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A new one-man play tackles the life of an occultist dubbed the "most evil man in the world" and "the great beast".

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I am pleased to announce the release of issue number 2 of volume 14 of our official journal, "Lion & Serpent." In this issue you will find...
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"Musicka Mystica Maxima" festival presented by Ordo Templi Orientis U.S.A. at Santos Party House, New York, NY
http://www.santospartyhouse.com

September 21 and 22 (Monday and Tuesday)

Two nights of musick made by practicing magicians or practicing musicians whose work celebrates the magical lifestyle, as well a public performance of ceremonial magick ritual...

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German label Quartier23 release the Gothick track MAN OV EARTH on the new compilation THE PENTAGRAM : NEW AEON SYMBOLS 5.
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"MEND ME THIS SHOE, THAT I MAY WALK,
FINDING THE FIFTH POWER OF THE SPHINX."

A special lecture and book signing by noted author, teacher and student of the A∴A∴:

J. Daniel Gunther
author of Initiation in the Aeon of the Child

Saturday, July 25, 2009
22 East 30th Street, New York, NY
6:00-8:00pm pm

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The cards, which use Golden Dawn colour symbolism, have not been seen in public since 1977.

An introductory essay describes the pack, the symbolism and the artist's working method.


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For the first time, the English speaking world may read about Polish occult art and the relations between magick and the creative process as it is seen by the best Polish artists, drawing inspiration from Hermeticism, Alchemy, Witchcraft, Thelema, Zos Kia Cultus and Psychedelia.

CHAOSMOS.PL is a hardbound edition of 1111 hand-numbered copies. 152 pages, 210x278 mm., 67 colour and 56 black and white illustrations. The accompanying CD is 73 minutes of ambient, experimental, and ritual music recorded by 14 bands.

"Chaosmos.pl" is the unique presentation of Polish artists inspired by the western esoteric tradition. Recognized and renowned practitioners such as Anna Maria Bauer, Marek Przybyla, Erwin Sowka, Robert Szczerbowski, Andrzej Urbanowicz and Henryk Waniek come together with a group of young, talented beginners, turn-of-the-century children of chaos.

Chaosmos marks the space where meetings occur between such diverse traditions as masonic and alchemical symbolism, artists' books and grimoires, tantric and alchemical iconography, surrealism, psychedelia and automatic drawing. Artistic forms manifest similar diversity: paintings mix with drawings and photography, collages and graphics mingle with found objects. The book's 21 artists showcasing their unorthodox imaginations are matched and pitted against the disc's sound architects and their experimental and ritual auralities.


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Launch Party

Treadwells Bookshop
34 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
11th June 7.00pm

On the eve of the Equinox Festival Fulgur invites you to the launch of Barry Hale’s evocatory Legion 49. In this series of short, de-constructionist essays the artist explores traditional methods of evocation and the myths surrounding Beelzebub, before providing an iconographical and sigillic recension of his horde of forty-nine servitors, glimpsed through the protective-symmetry of the paper-cut traditions of old Mexico. Legion 49 is a fusion of styles, influences and approaches, the modern and ancient, direct and indirect, refined and raw: it seeks to capture for a moment that flitting, fleeting, Chaotic gnosis symbolised by the Lord of Flies.

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by IAO131

Naturalistic Occultism is an attempt to treat the phenomena of occultism with an eye of naturalism (i.e. not supernatural), science (i.e. based on empirical evidence), and pragmatism (i.e. what works is provisionally 'true'). It is largely a continuation of the ideal of Scientific Illuminism as expressed by Aleister Crowley in his motto "The Method of Science, the Aim of Religion." This book seeks to separate the gold of occultism from the dross of superstition and dogma.


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The Esoteric Book Conference is an annual international event to bring together authors, artists, publishers and bookmakers working in the field of esotericism. In addition to presentations by notable authors and scholars, the conference opens it doors to publishers and booksellers showcasing new & used books as well as rare and hard-to-find esoteric texts. For two days the conference hosts the largest selection of esoteric books under one roof. Contemporary esoteric publishing, finepress book arts and antiquarian texts are offered to augment the libraries of readers, scholars and collectors alike.
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More details to follow...
]]> Mon, 25 May 2009 23:04:57 +0000 http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Article1198.phtml Occult of Personality podcast discussing English Qabalah and his work with the Grimorium Verum.

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I'm therefore very happy to announce the arrival of two new catalogues: one books and the other periodicals. In all some 550 items covering: Occultism, Crowleyana, Fantasy fiction etc.

Read on for details of how to obtain these rare catalogues...

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Austin Osman Spare. Books and Ephemera

may now be viewed here.

Weiser Antiquarian Books is pleased to announce the release of the Fifty-fifth of our on-line catalogs. This catalog comprises an interesting collection of material by and about Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956).

The first section: "Books, Catalogs and Journals Relating to Austin Osman Spare," includes works by Spare's friends Denis Bardens and Oswell Blakeston (who presents a rather unflattering fictionalized account of Spare and his pet mouse "Death Posture" in For Crying Out Shroud), as well books by James Bertram & F. Russell, J. C. Squire and Vera Wainwright that feature Spare illustrations. Spare's friend and literary collaborator, Frederick Carter, shared Spare's interest in mysticism and magick and was briefly a member of the O.T.O., and is represented by his book The Dragon of the Alchemists, which comprises an essay and thirty-eight drawings, a number of which are strongly reminiscent of those done by Spare himself. The section also includes the two important catalogues published by the Beskin Press: Austin Osman Spare, 1886-1956: The Divine Draughtsman and Austin Osman Spare: Artist - Occultist - Sensualist, each of which contains superb color reproductions of Spare's work and important essays. There is also a good selection of commentaries and edited anthologies relating to Spare's work, including the extremely limited productions A.O.S., A Celebration. London 14th May, 2006 and Existence. Austin Spare - 1886 - 1956, and William Wallace's The Early Work of Austin Osman Spare, 1900-1919, and The Later Work of Austin Osman Spare, 1917-1956, both high quality productions, with color plates, that were printed in small quantity in the late 1980s and count amongst the first scholarly studies of Spare and his artistry to be published.

The second section of the catalog contains a good selection of works by Spare, including several original drawings, and a copy of the beautifully-produced facsimile of a 1944 "Drawing Book" that was published in 2005 in an edition of only 24 copies, each of which includes an original sketch by Spare. There is a copy of the spectacular second number of Form magazine, with a huge double page reproduction of a drawing by Spare, as well as a good selection of Golden Hind magazines, most of which have a number of large illustrations by Spare, including, in one instance, a huge double-page lithograph. Several of these are the rare, signed and limited hardcover editions. Other rarities include First Editions of The Focus of Life (the rare limited issue) and The Book of Pleasure, and a nice second edition (with additional plate) of A Book of Satyrs.

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Musicka Mystica Maxima festival presented by Ordo Templi Orientis U.S.A. at Santos Party House, New York, NY.

21 and 22 September 2009

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By Alan Richardson

Aleister Crowley and Dion Fortune were two of the most controversial and influential magicians of their day. Crowley was regarded by many as a creature of the night whose soul was admittedly streaked with brilliance; Fortune was seen as one of the Shining Ones, who nevertheless wrestled with her own darkness. Between them they produced some of the best books on occultism ever written, and their influence upon contemporary magicians has been profound, though often unrecognized.


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Weiser Antiquarian Books is Pleased to Announce the Availability of Two New Catalogs:

Catalog Fifty-Six: Aleister Crowley: 93 Secondhand, Out-of-Print and New Books.

&

Catalog Fifty-Seven: Aleister Crowley: Rare Books and Documents.

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THE BARTZABEL AFFAIR

Ancestral Voices Prophesying War

A Tale of Two Suicides

Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!

In April 1909, a body was washed ashore in Mount’s Bay Cornwall, a body of a young man, dressed in woman’s clothing and manacled at the wrist. The body was that of Douglas Panton, son of the gossip writer and socialite, Jane Panton. This tragic drowning connects with an even more bizarre event over a year later when, in May 1910, the occultist, Aleister Crowley, was entertained at Rempstone, the haunted Dorset manor of Commander Guy Marston. Not only is Marston a high-ranking naval officer and friend of Rupert Brooke, he is also a neophyte in Crowley’s magical order. At Rempstone, in a large room set aside for the purpose, he participates in a ceremony wherein the magician conjures Bartzabel, the spirit of Mars, who predicts future conflicts in Turkey and Germany. After joining Crowley’s magical order, Marston was willing to promote the magician’s activities, but secretly he is defensive, nervous of exposure, embarking on a fierce libel case against Jane Panton, who has barely come to terms with the tragic death of her son. Was Marston conniving to ‘warn off’ Jane, lest she come to learn the truth about the frustrated lives, betrayals and weird rituals that simmer behind the walls of the venerable mansion? Or is he being blackmailed? And there are other echoing significances and locations, such as the fact Douglas Panton practised as a solicitor in St John’s Woods, a part of London where "Eddie", Duke of Clarence, sequestered a mistress, where Algernon Swinburne visited two dominatrixes who regularly birched him, where Katherine Mansfield and Arthur Machen lived, where T. S. Eliot heard Ouspensky lecture and Dennis Wheatley set his shocking black magic thriller The Devil Rides Out.

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Esoteric writer, speaker and the United State Deputy Grand Master of the O.T.O. Lon Milo DuQuette joins us on the program to discuss Aleister Crowley, Enochian Magick, the DVD series "The Great Work", The Thoth Tarot Deck, Freemasonry and much more.

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After the show he will be interviewed by Gary Lachman.

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