Conjuration of Beelzebub - Barry William Hale
Sunday 19th May, 2013
Treadwells, London

This extraordinary film is the result of many years of collaboration between Michael Strum, Scott Barnes and Barry William Hale, a collective called NOKO. Their sonic and filmic occult workings focus on the Enochian magical system, Beelzebub conjuration, and Qlipotic genii. This piece is a mesmerising occult experience, and was the sensation of the 2010 Sydney Biennale.

Barry Hale's work is known in the UK through his Fulgur book Legion 49 and memorable London performances. Here is your chance to see the UK premier of the final AV film, which is a 60-minute evocatory sensation.

Thanks to Frater FS - Media and Travel Correspondent for LAShTAL.COM - for this News from the Sunday Times:

New guidelines will allow employees to adapt their work duties to suit their beliefs...

DRUIDS and pagans will be able to take time off work to attend sacred rites, and ecologists will be able to opt out of duties that offend their beliefs, under new guidelines issued to employers by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

The guidance says bosses will have to "consider seriously" adapting employees' work duties to suit their beliefs. They should also allow staff to wear religious symbols and promote their beliefs, provided colleagues do not object.

The guideline is in response to judgments by the European Court of Human Rights, including the decision that Christians can wear a cross at work. The EHRC has broadened these rights to include druids, pagans, vegetarians, ecologists and atheists. Vegetarians can refuse to clean fridges with meat in them.

Workers will be able to go on pilgrimages, including to sites such as Glastonbury and Stonehenge if they are druids. The rights may also mean that Muslims can request time off to go to Mecca. Christian nurses will be allowed to pray for patients — unless the patient objects.

The EHRC says employers can ignore a request "when they reasonably conclude that the belief is not sincere."

One of Thelema NOW's favorite guests returns! 

David Tibet discusses his latest project, I AROSE AS ALEPH, THE SPELLER, THE KILLER. 

During his Birthday Moon on 5 March 2010, David hallucinated 41 portraits of ALEPH, THE SPELLER, THE KILLER and painted them in white ink by writing that thousands of times on black LP sleeves.  He discusses this, as well as other projects, how he learned Coptic, and how the death of loved ones has impacted his art.  At the end of the podcast, listen to a song from David, The Dog is Unwell.

Feast of Fools is a series of two-headed talks by an unlikely pair of occultists. Stuart Sudekum, a straight-laced historian and Golden Dawn scholar, brings fiery new life to ancient traditions. Stefano Black, a body-modded psychonaut and chaos magician, plunges into the dark unknown with postmodern meditations on the bleeding edge of mystical thought and practice.

The series is named for a medieval festival that handed over the powers of church and state to the lowest members of society for a day. In keeping with the tradition of its namesake, each Feast of Fools event is a working aimed at putting serious tools for spiritual development into the hands of people who are often subjected to nonsense and out-and-out charlantry.

The inaugural evening, fittingly scheduled on the weekend of April Fools Day, is entitled “Moonshine and Honeydew: A Talk About Sex and Magic.” Mr. Sudekum will explore the strange double standard of erotic imagery in Christian emblems and the far-out sex lives of 3^rd century Gnostics. Mr. Black will compare chaos magick with BDSM and steer things into jagged territory by sharing eye-opening firsthand experiences with Qliphothic sex rituals.

Whether you are a seasoned occultist or just looking for a point of entry into the art and science of mysticism, you will find something to satisfy your appetite at the Feast of Fools. Complimentary wine and finger foods will be provided.

Now Available from Weiser Antiquarian Books a new release from the Black Jackal Press:

Approaching the Kabbalah of Maat

Don Karr

With a Foreword by Colin Low

First Edition. The Black Jackal Press: York Beach, Maine, USA: 2013. Hardcover. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches / 228 x 152mm), xxii + 334pp. Black cloth with spine lettered in silver-gilt, and silver-gilt device on front board. Full color dustjacket. Printed on acid free paper. Sewn. Black and white frontispiece. Numerous black and white illustrations, diagrams and tables in text. Edition Limited to 416 numbered copies.   US $50.00

Approaching the Kabbalah of Maat explores three radical expressions of modern goddess-inclusive occult theory and practice that evolved in the late twentieth century. Drawing from the same broad esoteric lineage that produced Aleister Crowley, Frater Achad, and Kenneth Grant, Maat magicians and theosophists such as Nema, Aion, 416 and others, developed new concepts of personal and cultural evolution, weaving æonic theory and kabbalah into revolutionary tenets and practices. The text is supplemented by transcriptions of original documents, diagrams and artwork by individuals and groups involved in Maatian practice, including a significant collection of material from the Thelemically-inclined occult order, the OAI. The book also offers a well-researched history of the esoteric streams that gave rise to the progressive/subversive methods of Maat magick, and the broader cultural movements and upheavals which also contributed to them.

The author, Don Karr, is a well-known scholar of the hermetic arts. He is the co-author of two books in the acclaimed "Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic Series" and is also the author of numerous articles on Jewish mysticism and its influence on the Western esoteric tradition.

Special launch-week offer.*

For one week only copies will be available at the discounted price of US $45.00 and will come with a bookplate signed by Don Karr.

Continue Reading

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!