P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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.

As already reported in the Forums here...

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

From the editor, Fr. Pangloss:

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...

Ordo Templi Orientis U.S.A. is proud to announce:

"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...

Gothick: OTO Inspired Track on New Compilation CD

German label Quartier23 release the Gothick track MAN OV EARTH on the new compilation THE PENTAGRAM : NEW AEON SYMBOLS 5.

Tahuti Lodge, Ordo Templi Orientis, NYC, is proud to present:

"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

Ithell Colquhoun's taro pack has just been published in a high quality limited edition.

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.

THE POLISH OCCULT ART (BOOK+CD) IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

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.

LEGION 49 by Barry William Hale

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.

Naturalistic Occultism
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.