Marlene is organising a walk around Central London at Easter to some of the places Aleister Crowley lived in - with a short talk on each and a stop off for coffee at the end. It will be 2-3 miles.
If you feel up to such a walk, it is likely to be 1 April - Monday - weather permitting. Please let her know through LAShTAL.
Ouroboros Press is offering a portfolio of Nine photographic prints of the LVX & NOX Signs as shot by occult photographer Carlos Melgoza of Anima Nocturna. The portfolio is accompanied by the rite, 'Revelation of the Midnight Sun' by Frater S.A.L., and is limited to 26 hand numbered sets only.
The LVX = NOX series of images were originally produced by Carlos Melgoza as silver gelatin mural prints and presented at the 1st annual Esoteric Book Conference in Seattle, Washington. The nine mural prints were displayed in the form of scrolls, likening their presentation to that of Tibetan tankas. As images representative of ritual postures, the large format lends itself to visual explication in a striking way. More than merely didactic representations of the signs, the subjects manifest the force behind the forms which the gestures are meant to embody.
Esoteric imagery is rarely made by the hands of those experienced both in the arts and ritual practices themselves, and in the case of photography the task is all the more difficult to master. Melgoza has demonstrated that in his fifteen plus years as an occult image maker that he can bring such experience through, be it via portraiture or composite representation and the LVX = NOX images do not disappoint.
New book out - From Sex To Divinity - translation of classic gnostic text by Brazilian physician and occultist, Dr Jorge Adoum.
Highly recommended by Marcelo Ramos Motta for A.'.A.'. Aspirants.
Special adenddum by Frater 939.'., Ray Eales and additional research on Feminine Divine Sexuality by Soror E.A.E.A., Monica D. Rocha.
Dear LAShTAL members,
It is with great pleasure that I'm announcing the release of Thelemic Time Server v2 into public beta testing. New TTS is work of one cool guy called Clay Fouts. I just helped with initial testing and made the whole LAShTAL setup. New TTS is way cooler than what we're using right now. The most important thing being - no more PHP. TTS is using Era Legis module written in Perl.
Further, we have moved completely to plain text which allows anyone using TTS on their website to do complete formatting independent of what we send as a result.
TTS v2 can be found here: http://date.lashtal.com It is a very simple HOWTO page. If you need any further help please do contact us. Our TTS is running on the following URL: http://date.lashtal.com/date/
In order to see any date in future or in the past just feed URL with the desired date: http://date.lashtal.com/date/2013-03-20 In order to see this same result in PNG format use: http://date.lashtal.com/date/2013-03-20?format=png
The plan is to make a more user friendly page that will let you see past and future dates as well convert Thelemic dates into vulgar ones. Android and iPhone apps are planned too.
Please, try it, test it, break it... we need to know if there are any bugs left before removing "BETA" from TTS.
This is one of very few things that are left on TODO list before we can say that LAShTAL is completely free of the old code.
Tomorrow (7.30 pm for 8.00 pm - 21st January 2012) at The Bell, Middlesex Street (better known as Petticoat Lane), London: www.fancyapint.com/Pub/london/the-bell/4888
Steve Wilson will be talking on 777+
This is NOT about Liber 777, but is related to initiatory systems, including the OTO and AA. The title comes from Steve's estimate that since 1990 he has heard over 777 talks on esoteric subjects. This talk will try to make what he has learned stretch to 45 minutes!
Speech in the Silence is the official podcast of Blazing Star Oasis, O.T.O.
Episode 38 is now available for download at http://speechinthesilence.com/
In this episode:
Also check out our YouTube channel, which features many past segments from the podcast that you can play and share: http://www.youtube.com/speechinthesilence
As the result of interest from members of this site, I have placed a copy of a PDF of my presentation regarding the Cairo Working in the Downloads section of this website (look for Downloads under Resources in the main menu - the document is in the LAShTAL 'folder').
This is the PowerPoint slideshow I used as the basis for my talk at Treadwells for Hecate's excellent Save The Abbey event earlier this year at Treadwells Bookshop in London and I am presenting it here with her permission. I have retained copyright to the original material - other copyrights are listed in the Download description - and the document is not to be reproduced elsewhere in any format.
It is still my plan to make available all the material from the day's talks - presentations together with audio recordings or transcripts - available for download from this site.
In memory of the extraordinary Kenneth Grant who passed away two years ago today
23 May 1924 - 15 January 2011
The long-awaited republication of this early title by Kenneth Grant will at last be issued in February 2013, and is now available for ordering ahead of publication.
Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God by Kenneth Grant is an attractive, sewn hardbound book, octavo format, 246 pages long, with a full-colour dustjacket, and limited to 1500 copies. Included is a sixteen-page section of colour and half-tone plates, a frontispiece, black and white custom printed endpapers, and line drawings throughout the text, as well as a Glossary, Bibliography and Index.
PRIEST/ESS: In Advocacy of Queer Gnostic Mass
by Michael Effertz
Part pamphleteering and part scholarly exegesis, PRIEST/ESS harkens back to the "mirrors for princes" literary tradition and offers in-depth philosophical, magical, sociological and historical analyses of gender roles in the central ceremony of Ordo Templi Orientis with an aim toward motivating the reformation of O.T.O. policy to openly embrace queer celebrations of the Gnostic Mass. By raising the discourse, the author endeavors to raise the reader's expectations of what is possible within and through the Gnostic Mass while delineating what is lost when queer Gnostic Mass is restricted to the closet.
In addition to a series of original essays, PRIEST/ESS includes a robust and suggestive collection of citations from the source material, including the diaries of Aleister Crowley and the writings of Sabazius, current National Grand Master General of United States Grand Lodge O.T.O.
This privately issued edition of 44 numbered copies is hardbound in sapphire blue leatherette with gold foil stamp. 108 pages printed on 70 lb paper. Of the 44 copies, 30 were bound with gold ribbon markers, the remainder with red ribbon. This private edition was circulated within and without the O.T.O., with copies provided to each of the three principal officers of O.T.O. International, many key officers of U.S.G.L. O.T.O., and every O.T.O. Lodge in the United States.