THE TRIUMPH OF PAN

Saturday September 17th 7.30 pm-10 pm
Batheaston Scout Hut, School Lane, Bath
4 pounds/3 pounds concession

Victor Neuburg will be the focus of what promises to be a fascinating evening.

Richard McNeff, author of the absolutely wonderful Sybarite Among The Shadows will talk about his novel and Victor Neuburg. The evening will include a reading from the novel assisted by actor Oengus Macnamara.

Also included will be a screening of Marc Aitken’s classic film, ‘Do Angels Ever Cut Themselves Shaving’ - a title that will be familiar to anyone who has read Crowley's Magick Without Tears.

Aleister Crowley was mentioned on UK Radio 4's "Start The Week" programme on Monday.

It was amusing to hear Andrew Marr, one Britain's most highly respected political commentators, referring to "Aleister Crowley, the wickedest man in the world".

The RU Sirius show is available for download as an MP3 file.

The current issue includes a lengthy interview with Erik Davis, whose book on Led Zeppelin's fourth album is well worth reading...

An interesting announcement on Amazon.co.uk:

Aleister Crowley and the Ouija Board by J Edward Cornelius. Edition: Paperback

Advocates who scream that the Ouija board is dangerous will most likely find this the most contemptible book ever written. They will ague that the Ouija board is well known for causing obsessions, possessions, unleashing poltergeists and creating hauntings; claiming it to be a portal into Hell. But what they fail to realize is that these tragedies prove beyond a shred of a doubt that the board is capable of bridging the invisible world with our own...

Instead of fearing this concept why not learn to use it more effectively? One of the greatest ceremonial magicians of all time, Aleister Crowley, actually advocated the Ouija board's use. If it were only a child's game would he have given the implement any consideration at all?

He strongly believed that the board utilizes the same principles which were practiced by the famed Elizabethan magician John Dee. He used a crystal ball as a means of skrying or seeing into the invisible realms. Within these realms Dee encountered entities who communicated their messages by pointing to one letter at a time on huge boards of letters. According to Crowley, the same principle holds true for the talking board but, instead of going within the invisible realms, we summon the entities into our world in order for them to move the triangle from one letter to another to spell out messages.

One of Crowley's earliest students, Frater Achad (Charles Stansfeld Jones), had great success when using the Ouija board. In fact, Crowley was so pleased with the outcome that he wrote, "You see how very satisfactory it is, but I believe things improve greatly with practice." We agree and this book will attempt to show how anyone, with the proper knowledge, can bring invisible beings through an Ouija board. It's actually quite simple, often so simple that it eludes people. Magicians have long known that the triangular shape of the planchette is a unique magickal symbol that automatically acts as an invisible doorway. In fact, it's so unique that when someone places their hands on the triangle and asks, "Is Someone there?", it enacts a simplistic but never-the-less magical command for an entity to be summoned through the portal.

This book will teach you how to cast open the invisible gates and you'll learn for the first time anywhere the truth about dark secrets regarding the talking board which have only been whispered behind closed doors for centuries.

Now, this one's got to be worth a visit!

Amado Crowley - True Son of Aleister or Just Another Fraud?

A talk by Dave Evans

Originally from London, Dave Evans has recently completed a PhD in 'The History of Modern English Occultism since 1945' and is the founding editor of 'The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic', published annually by Mandrake. He lives in the South West of England, writes on occasion for www.occultebooks.com, and has been a practicing magician for over 20 years.

Another stunning list from Caduceus Books (UK).

For example:

Aleister Crowley, Correspodence, to W.B. Crow, 74pp photocopies of letters sent by Crowley between 1944 and 1947. Crowley appointed Crowly head of the Gnostic Catholic Church. In fact, on the basis of this, Crow did claim to be head of OTO after Crowley's death. There is a great deal of discussion of OTO matters Order No. 25062 £150

Aleister Crowley, Rex Arte Regia, Series III 25th Feb 1916 - 22 Feb 1916; Series XIII 28th Sept. 1917 - 20th Mar. 1918; 21st Mar. 1918 - 2nd Sep. 1918, Not Dated 58pp Copy of original manuscipt of Crowley's diary of sex magic workings. The text has been published in Magical Record of Beast 666 but original has astrological charts, geomantic reading that were not included, some legibility problems F Order No. 25041 £25

Aleister Crowley, The Writings of Truth, 10pp photocopy of original manuscript of magical diary August 1st to Oct. 3rd 1901. Crowley records yoga based meditations with exploration of chakras and astral visions. An important unpublished text. There are comments in another hand, probably Yorke's reproduced Order No. 25057 £35

In an interesting article about the world's best-selling author, Paulo Coelho, the Daily Telegraph (UK 13 June 2005) mentions that "Coelho escaped from the asylum [in Brazil] three times and was eventually released in 1967. Before realising that writing was his "destiny", he enrolled in law school, dropped out to become a hippy, and for several years wrote lyrics for Raul Seixas, the Brazilian rock star. Then, in 1974, Coelho was arrested for "subversive" activities by the ruling militia (the authorities saw Coelho's lyrics - some of them influenced by the teaching of the satanist Aleister Crowley - as left-wing and dangerous). He was bundled into a car, taken to a secret headquarters and tortured with electric shocks to his genitals."