Thelema
Speech In The Silence 32
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Speech in the Silence is the Official Podcast of Blazing Star Oasis, O.T.O.
Tune in to http://speechinthesilence.com/for more information and to download.
In this episode:
- Reading: Dr David Shoemaker reads an excerpt from Phyllis Seckler's writings, "The Kabbalah, Magick, and Thelema. Selected Writings. Volume II."
- Two previously unreleased compositions for piano, written near the end of the 19th century e.v. by one of Theodor Reuss' collaborators and an early figure in the history of Ordo Templi Orientis, Henry Klein.
- Reading: Dr Richard Kaczynski reads an excerpt from his new book, "Forgotten Templars: The Untold Origins of Ordo Templi Orientis."
- Living Thelema: the Devotional Practices of Thelema
- Announcements and news about the Thelemic community
Victor Neuburg: The New Diana
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- Created on Monday, 09 July 2012 21:36
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The second book of the series from 100th Monkey Press is the debut of Victor B Neuburg's unpublished poem The New Diana. Available in a very limited hand-bound edition of only 75 copies.
Victor B Neuburg's final draft of The New Diana was completed 28 June 1912. An advertisement announcing the poem as "in preparation" was included in the September 1912 issue of Aleister Crowley's The Equinox, Volume I, Number 8. Unfortunately, The New Diana, along with numerous other items mentioned in the advertisement, was never published. A typescript of The New Diana exists in Binder 2 of Yorke OS N4 in the Gerald Yorke collection at the Warburg Institute, London, and serves as the basis for this edition.
Lon Milo DuQuette: Angels and Demons (London)
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AMeth Lodge - Ordo Templi Orientis - hosts:
Lon Milo DuQuette: Angels & Demons For The Modern Age
Tickets £35.00
A full day of talks by Lon Milo DuQuette taking place on Saturday 15th September 2012 (from 10am - 5pm) at a venue in London's Magical Square Mile.
(Nearest tube stations Covent Garden, Holborn and Tottenham Court Road)
Richard Kaczynski: Forgotten Templars
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Now Available
Forgotten Templars: The Untold Origins of Ordo Templi Orientis
by Richard Kaczynski
A remarkably comprehensive and detailed study of the weird and wonderful world of late nineteenth century esotericism and fringe-masonry, that begat the Ordo Templi Orientis. "An unlikely cocktail of actors and musicians, doctors and merchants, anarchists and sexual reformers populated the occult underground of the late nineteenth century. One by-product of this strange brew was the magical order known as Ordo Templi Orientis, or the Order of Oriental Templars, with its controversial mix of esoteric Freemasonry, yoga and sex magic. While its name is familiar thanks to its second Grand Master, Edwardian enfant terrible Aleister Crowley, its origins have subsisted as shadowy mytho-history. Until now. This revelatory study brings into sharp focus the perfect storm of personalities, movements, and circumstances that gave rise to one of the largest and most influential secret societies of our time."
While obviously of particular relevance to those interested in the foundations upon which the O.T.O. was built, the book is really of importance to anyone involved in the study of 19th century occult and related movements, and has been deemed by no less a scholar than Dr. R. A. Gilbert to be "an essential resource for all students of the 19th century 'occult revival,' to be placed alongside such classics as Joscelyn Godwin's "Theosophical Enlightenment."' The author, Dr. Richard Kaczynski, is of course well-known for his "Perdurabo," a book widely acknowledged as the best (of the many) biographies of Crowley.
Phyllis Seckler: Selected Writings Vol 2
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Now Available from Weiser Antiquarian Books:
From the College of Thelema of Northern California in conjunction with The Teitan Press:
The Kabbalah, Magick, and Thelema. Selected Writings. Volume II
by Phyllis Seckler
Edited by David Shoemaker, Gregory Peters and Rorac Johnson
Foreword by Lon Milo DuQuette
Phyllis Seckler ("Soror Meral:" 1917-2004) was introduced to the teachings of Aleister Crowley in the late 1930s and became a regular participant in the activities of Agape Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis in California, and rose to become a Ninth Degree member of the "Sovereign Sanctuary of the Gnosis," and an Adeptus Minor of the A.'. A.'. The Kabbalah, Magick, and Thelema is the second volume of writings by Phyllis Seckler to be published by the College of Thelema of Northern California in association with The Teitan Press. Like the first volume, this collection is edited and introduced by three of Seckler's former students: Rorac Johnson, Gregory Peters, and David Shoemaker, but this second volume additionally includes a short Foreword by one of her best-known early A.'. A.'. students, Lon Milo DuQuette.
In common with Crowley, Seckler found short, pithy essays, written in the form of "letters," to be an excellent and powerful teaching method, and the main body of this work comprises a series of these letters, covering diverse topics from kabbalah and the practice of ritual magic, through philosophy and spiritual enquiry to commentary on the Thelemic culture of the time. Originally published in Seckler's journal "In the Continuum," they are here presented for the first time in book form, accompanied by redrawn and corrected diagrams. The book also reproduces a number of important letters that passed between Seckler and other significant figures in the history of post-Crowleyan Thelema, including Karl Germer, Israel Regardie, Grady McMurtry, Gerald Yorke, and Marcelo Motta. These letters, which cover matters as varied as the leadership succession of the O.T.O. and the thefts at Karl Germer's library, are published here for the first time, as are a number of related photographs.