Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:30:41 +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/Article1293.phtml
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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.

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http://www.thelemanow.com

Read more…]]> Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:56:42 +0000 http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Article1286.phtml I am thrilled to publish this announcement from the author…

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).

Read more…]]> Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:27:29 +0000 http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Article1285.phtml From Michael Staley at Starfire Publishing…

I’m delighted to make available here on LAShTAL the latest scintillant catalogue of available and forthcoming books from Starfire Publishing. Throughout 2010 we shall be releasing a number of exciting titles, including of course a new issue of Starfire. The early months of this year will also see the release of our long-awaited website.

Read more for a link to the catalogue…

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http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&ref=mf&gid=251928336688

Read more…]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:30:40 +0000 http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Article1283.phtml The Magic Seal of John Dee
The Sigillum Dei Aemeth

by

Colin D Campbell

Published by The Teitan Press.
First Edition - Limited to 777 Numbered Copies.

Hardcover, small quarto (8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches, approx 22.2 x 17.2cm). Black cloth with gilt sigils stamped on the front & rear covers, blind rules, and gilt title etc. on the spine. Color frontispiece and one colour & one black and white plate. Various b&w illustrations and tables in text. Appendixes & index. Teitan Press, Maine, 2009 / 2010. Edition limited to 777 numbered copies.

The Magic Seal of John Dee comprises a detailed examination of the history and structure of the Sigillum Dei Aemeth of the Elizabethan scholar and Magus, Dr. John Dee, as well as a study of its use in the practice of ritual magic. The appendixes include a new transcription and translation of Dee's Liber Mysteriorum Secundus, and an important new translation of the section of the famous grimoire, The Sworn Book of Honorius, that gives details of what is clearly a precursor of the Sigillum Dei.

From the standpoint of a practicing magician, the work has two clear aims: "to demonstrate the importance of the pattern established by Dee's Sigillum Dei as opposed to its implementation, and to bring the Sigillum Dei out of the limited confines of the Enochian temple and into its role as a powerful magickal system in its own right. The recognition of the patterns established in the construction of the Sigillum Dei allow us to view the seal in a new light, not as a static framework decided once and for all hundreds of years ago in the study of a Rennaissance magician, but as one that can be reconstituted in the light of modern interpretation. Furthermore, the seal is, in essence, a system of evocation - the very same method of communication used by Dee & Kelley in its reception. This book explains the nature and method of this approach and how the practicing magician is able to use the Sigillum Dei in the manner in which it was truly intended - as a powerful system of planetary magick."

The author, Colin D. Campbell, is a member of the O.T.O. and long-term student and teacher of the Thelemic, Kabbalistic, and Enochian magickal systems.

Read more…]]> Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:08:57 +0000 http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Article1282.phtml My thanks to our regular correspondent, Frater FS, for this piece…

At last, a newspaper reference to Crowley bereft of sex, drugs and rock n roll. The Daily Telegraph (January 2) carried a column from the creators of BBC quiz show QI in which the duo dwell on the topic of magic. AC gets his own subsection under Magick - complete with the K - which reads:

"According to the British occultist Aleister Crowley, adding a final "k" subtly changes the meaning of magic. "Magick", according to Crowley, was 'any act designed to bring about intentional change'. 'We must not exclude potato growing or banking,' he said. 'Let us take a very simple example of a Magickal act: that of a man blowing his nose.' Contemporary occultists tend to apply it less generally, restricting magick to the influencing of events by mystical or paranormal means."

The writers, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, doff their hat to other magicians including French illusionist Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin, and the legendary Harry Houdini. Little known but equally fascinating is the reference to Jasper Maskelyne, a stage magician hired by the Government during WWII to create large scale illusions - for example fake tanks and fake railway lines - to confuse the Germans. Given AC's reported role in wartime intelligence, might the pair perhaps have met?

Frater FS
]]> Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:46:41 +0000 http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Article1281.phtml Anger Me documentary - posts a new video.

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Drawing in part on the substantial and constructive response to the first LAShTAL.COM user survey, these changes will be described in greater detail in due course. However, I can announce now that they will include a complete review of the user interface as the site moves from Postnuke to Joomla. All the existing facilities will remain - there will be no loss of Forum posts, Galleries or News items - but a wide range of new functions will appear as the result of popular demand including Classified Ads, a Contacts section, a far better archive of media articles, and so on.

All of this with a renewed commitment to robust moderation, absolute impartiality and free access to all functionality.

I would like to express my sincere thanks publicly to LAShTAL.COM members, eol and mutat for technical development and graphical design, respectively.
]]> Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:05:00 +0000 http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Article1278.phtml now available. Rare Crowley poetry, astrological news, Mr Clown, voice magick, and lots more in this issue.

Read more…]]> Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:01:30 +0000 http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Article1277.phtml Another chance to see a News item from December 2007…

Your attention is drawn to some audio broadcasts on BBC Radio 7 of The Scarifyers, a very engaging historical adventure romp involving the appearance of one Aleister Crowley.

The programme makers' web site draws attention to a free related download: "Mr Crowley's Christmas". With the unerring sense of timing that LAShTAL.COM is known for, I'm pleased to be in a position to offer the play for download from this site with kind permission from the programme's producer and writer.

Read on for more information and for associated links...
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* Intro music: "Song of Adoration" by Frater Oz
* Introduction to Speech in the Silence by Ashley
* Short explanation of the Winter Solstice by Joseph Thiebes
* "De Lege Libellum" reading (part 1) by Frater Oz
* Musical interlude: "sugam" by ockham
* "Duo in Unum" lecture on Solar Phallic Symbolism in the Gnostic Mass by Joseph Thiebes
* Outro music: "Song of Adoration" by Frater Oz

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This is your opportunity to shape the future development of the site. The survey will take no more than five minutes or so to complete and all personal information obtained will be treated in the strictest confidence. As always, I give my personal promise that I will not supply usernames, email addresses or any other personal information to any third party.

So, over to you All: http://tinyurl.com/lashtal-survey-1

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Read more…]]> Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:45:03 +0000 http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Article1272.phtml Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley by Dr Richard Kaczynski will be reprinted in a revised and expanded edition to be published by North Atlantic Books in August of 2010.



Hard cover, 608 pages, $24.95 USD (pre-order price).


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Wednesday 13 January 2010 at Treadwells Bookshop, London

Aleister Crowley’s Egypt

Paul Feazey - LAShTAL.COM

Magician Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), like many Edwardians, was enchanted by ancient Egypt, and felt a profound connection with it. The pyramids, the gods, and the magic all play an important role in Crowley’s system, Thelema. He travelled there numerous times, and it provided ongoing lifelong inspiration to him. Paul Feazey has travelled to many sites that featured in Crowley’s life, and brings back illustrations, anecdotes and analyses in a lively, personal illustrated slide lecture.

The speaker is owner and editor of what is probably the world’s leading website on Thelema, LAShTAL.COM.

Read more…]]> Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:56:32 +0000 http://www.lashtal.com/nuke/Article1270.phtml Some excellent work by Sekhet-Maat Lodge…

As part of our effort to re-engineer society around the adoration of that star of singular importance to we inhabitants of Earth, the mighty Sun, Sekhet-Maat Lodge provides electronically formatted versions of our holy calendar, suitable for importing into your own time keeping program. An update for the coming year (Era Legis year IV:xviii, beginning ☉ in ♈) is now available.

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http://oto-usa.org/podcast.html

www.thelemanow.com
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Thorn in the Flesh
A Grim-memoire

by

Rosaleen Norton


With an Introduction by Keith Richmond

Exclusive LIMITED Launch Special Free Audio CD With Book Purchase (see details below)

Rosaleen Norton, Thorn in the Flesh: Teitan Press, York Beach, ME. 2009.

First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxiv + 128pp. Red cloth with gilt titling to spine. Frontispiece & 8 pages of color & black and white illustrations. Printed on library quality paper. Full color dustjacket. Edition limited to 880 numbered copies.


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