You are cordially invited to the preview of Objections to an Empty Mind, and exhibition of works by Austin Osman Spare with Richard Brown, on Thursday 16th February 6pm-9pm at The Hidden Noise.

We are also very excited to announce a special offsite event presented by Strange Attractor at The Old Hairdressers on Wednesday 15th February 7pm - 11pm. tickets are available at 23 Enigma, Monorail, here or on the door (£5 adv. / £6 door)

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20th January – 11th February 2012
House of Yvonne
Kenneth Anger, Sophie Macpherson, Colin Self and Clare Stephenson

17th February - 17th March 2012
Objections to an Empty Mind
Austin Osman Spare and Richard Brown

Opening times: Thursday - Saturday 12 - 5pm or by appointment

Alombrados Oasis, Ordo Templi Orientis, will be hosting speaker J Daniel Gunther, author of Initiation in the Aeon of the Child, on Saturday, March 3rd 2012. He will be doing two lectures, namely, The Order that Hath No Name Among Men, and Self Beyond Self. The lectures are open to the public. The event will be held at the Oasis, located at 3151 Dauphine St. New Orleans, La.



J. Daniel Gunther has been a life-long student of Esotericism, Mythology, Religion and Psychology. For over 35 years, he has been a member of A.'.A.'., the teaching and testing Order established by Aleister Crowley. He is on the Editorial Board of The Equinox, and has served as consultant and advisor for a number of publications in the field of esotericism. He is the author of Initiation in the Aeon of the Child and with James Wasserman,was co-editor of Pythagoras, His Life & Teachings, both published by Ibis Press. His dynamic lectures and presentations have been proclaimed as penetrating and inspiring revelations of Thelemic doctrine.
His forthcoming book is titled, The Angel & The Abyss.

The Sacrificial Universe

David Chaim Smith

Exciting news from Fulgur…

As we begin our twentieth year of publishing, we are delighted to announce our first title from an exceptional and highly respected artist. David Chaim Smith has been known to students of kabbalah for more than a decade, but a recent return to art as a vocational practice has brought his work to a wider audience. His first book with us, The Sacrificial Universe, draws upon his experience to present us with a devotional approach to ecstatic visionary mysticism. Ranging from intellectual treatises on sacred geometry, biomorphism and the symbol of the serpent in kabbalistic theory and practise, to a poetic twilight language of ecstatic devotion, The Sacrificial Universe is unlike any other book we have offered to date.

Produced as a lavish small folio with generous margins and a classic typographic style, The Sacrificial Universe presents David’s key artworks of the last four years as full-page images, with the triptychs and quadriptych offered as folding plates. The complex and evocative iconographic symbolism is also explored through commentaries. And yet The Sacrificial Universe is more than a homage to those seventeenth century books of hermetic mysticism. Structured according to the classic kabbalistic text Sefer Yetzirah, The Sacrificial Universe may be approached on three levels (world, year, and soul) to offer the reader a view of gnostic surrender within a vision of the self-consuming nature of phenomena.

Bibliographic Details:

small folio (335mm x 235mm)
120 pages
35 full-page plates, including five large folding triptychs and a quadriptych
28 vignettes in text

Naropa University’s Nalanda Art Gallery Presents:

Epiphanies on a Road to No Place

To the Memory of Harry Smith

Harvey Bialy

February 6 – April 21, 2012

Artist’s Reception Thursday, February 9

7 until 9pm

Please join us!



The Temptation of Wyatt Gwyon

“For only in the excessive success of its intimate betrayal, does the truth abound”

Grist to Whose Mill?
by
Kenneth Grant




This is Kenneth Grant's first novel, written in late 1952 and early 1953, and now published for the first time. Its publication has been eagerly anticipated, and it will at last be released in March 2012. The book is now available for ordering ahead of publication.

Grist to Whose Mill? is a sewn hardbound book, Octavo format, 234 pages, with a full colour dustjacket, and limited to 1000 copies. Included is a colour frontispiece as well as black and white illustrated endpapers. Written in late 1952 and early 1953, more details of the contents of Grist to Whose Mill can be found here.

Stephen Skinner discusses Dr John Dee's Spiritual Diaries (1583-1608) with Frater Puck, a completely revamped and reader-friendly edition of A True & Faithful Relation of what passed for many Years between Dr. John Dee... and some Spirits. To buy the book, visit sskinner.com.

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Treadwells have announced an evening in the company of Krzysztof Azarewicz of Ameth Lodge OTO, one of the people behind the wonderful Ameth Lodge Journal and the Knowledge and Delight symposium last year.

Tuesday 20 March
Interview with a Magician
Krzysztof Azarewicz

In Conversation with Christina Oakley Harrington.

Krzysztof Azarewicz has been studying and practising Thelema for nearly twenty years, and tonight talks about his experiences on this path, starting with his early experiences in Poland to his years here in the UK. What’s it like to be a Thelemic magician? That’s what we’re asking, along with asking him to reflect on how his perspective on the magical life has evolved over the years. Krzysztof is an active member of the Ordo Templi Orientis and an ordained priest of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica. He founded and heads Lashtal Press, which publishes in Polish books by Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare. We are delighted he has agreed to join us here tonight as part of our series, asking longterm esotericists what it is really like to live a magical life.