BBC Antiques Roadshow: Austin Osman Spare

BBC Antiques Roadshow: Austin Osman Spare

by | Mar 2, 2020 | , | 3

For what I believe to be the third time, Austin Osman Spare featured on Sunday’s BBC Antiques Roadshow, this time for a rather delightful portrait of an unknown male. UK visitors to this site will know that Antiques Roadshow is a popular and influential BBC programme. Nothing of much note in the evaluation but worth a watch..

Anita Pallenberg’s love life wasn’t half as crazy as her obsession with black magic | Daily Mail Online

Anita Pallenberg’s love life wasn’t half as crazy as her obsession with black magic | Daily Mail Online

by | Feb 23, 2020 | , , , , | 0

Pregnant with her first child, and beginning a slide into an abyss of heroin use, [Anita] Pallenberg, then 26, had a preoccupation with black magic that led her to increasingly fantastical realms. ‘I had an interest in witchcraft,’ she recalled later, ‘in Buddhism, in the black magicians that my friend, Kenneth Anger, introduced me to. The world of the occult fascinated me.’

Ban on Aleister Crowley lecture at Oxford University | The Guardian

Ban on Aleister Crowley lecture at Oxford University | The Guardian

by | Feb 7, 2020 | , , , | 0

Oxford undergraduates are more adventurous than Oxford dons. The Oxford Poetry Society, a typically worthy undergraduate club, decided to venture on a strange fields by listening to a lecture by Mr Aleister Crowley on Gilles de Rais, a fifteenth-century magician known to history as the companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc and to children as the celebrated Bluebeard. The dons, however, took alarm, and so Mr Crowley has had to stay behind in Kent, leaving, one imagines, his inquiring young disciples to the less exciting delights of a paper on Wordsworth, or, perhaps, even on the metrical basis of Alexander Pope’s verse.

New User Registrations Disabled [UPDATED: Re-Enabled]

New User Registrations Disabled [UPDATED: Re-Enabled]

by | Jan 16, 2020 | , | 0

Spam registrations are being made currently on the site at a rate of one every couple of minutes. Members here have rightly complained that user profiles comprising spam adverts are distracting and inappropriate. Pending the development of a technical solution, I have disabled new user registrations. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Remnants of infamous Boleskine House near Foyers by Loch Ness offered for sale online [UPDATED]

Remnants of infamous Boleskine House near Foyers by Loch Ness offered for sale online [UPDATED]

by | Jan 3, 2020 | , , , | 3

A couple working to rebuild the fire-ravaged Boleskine House by Loch Ness are selling charred remnants of the building for £49 a bag. Past owners have included the Fraser clan, Led Zeppelin rocker Jimmy Page and infamous cult leader Aleister Crowley. A crowdfunding campaign was started last year and has so far generated more than £22,500 of the £220,000 target for donations.

Collection dispersal

Collection dispersal

by | Dec 20, 2019 | , , | 2

From Clive Harper: Friends and acquaintances may be surprised by an announcement recently made regarding the sale of books from my collection. So let me assure everyone that in the immortal words of Granny Weatherwax – “I ATEN’T DEAD”. However after nearly half a century of accumulating occult books, I have decided that it is time to “downsize” and over the next year or two, I shall be dispersing the vast majority of my collection.

The Boleskine House Foundation: Appeal For Funds

The Boleskine House Foundation: Appeal For Funds

by | Dec 14, 2019 | , , , | 6

“Our contractors have been working day and night for the last week. We have successfully removed several skips worth of rubbles from the “library” and “oratory” rooms. We have successfully removed any hanging remains that could damage the house over the winter. Between these tendered works and professional fees, we will be pressed for funds by the end of December. Boleskine needs your help! Please see our PayPal, GoFundMe, or sign up as a member today!”

Trigrammaton Records releases spoken-word version of The Vision and The Voice

Trigrammaton Records releases spoken-word version of The Vision and The Voice

by | Dec 3, 2019 | , | 2

Never before put in ‘audiobook’ format, this release of Liber 418 from Seven Ravens comes on the 110th anniversary of the first Algerian skrying. Aleister Crowley’s The Vision & The Voice continues the Seven Ravens project of bringing the ‘Class A’ works of Crowley to a wider public. The text of all 30 aethyrs is set to an original synthesizer backing track, encompassing over 6 hours of words and music.

Five young lion mummies unearthed in 26th Dynasty animal shaft in Saqqara

Five young lion mummies unearthed in 26th Dynasty animal shaft in Saqqara

by | Nov 24, 2019 | , | 2

The discovered cachet included hundreds of diversified objects, including 75 cat statues in various sizes, a wooden statue of the goddess Neith, who was the main goddess of Sais, the capital of the 26th Dynasty, 73 bronze statues of Osiris, and 11 wooden statues of Sekhmet. A large number of mummified animals and statues made of bronze were also unearthed. Two small limestones belonging to Bastet were unearthed along with other beautiful gems.

Liber Oz: On the Rights of Man

Liber Oz: On the Rights of Man

by | Nov 18, 2019 | , , | 0

On the Rights of Man explores the history of Aleister Crowley’s Liber OZ in greater detail than ever before. Through careful examination of Crowley’s diaries and correspondences during the Second World War, a fascinating narrative emerges that, up until now, has never been told.  In a separate section, Frater Orpheus discusses the significance of its title and number, how its principles can be applied to the Tree of Life, and its connection to five magical formulas which reveal deeper mysteries. 

SYMPATHY FOR THE BEAST: Songs from the Poems of Aleister Crowley

SYMPATHY FOR THE BEAST: Songs from the Poems of Aleister Crowley

by | Nov 17, 2019 | , , | 1

Sympathy for the Beast, the new album by Twink and the Technicolour Dream, is based on the wonderfully imaginative poetical works of Aleister Crowley, whose natural and intrinsic musical quality Twink and the Technicolour Dream have tried to intensify with their psychedelic musical drive, using sections of the original poems as lyrics for their songs or narrations for their musical backgrounds.

The Books of Blood – The Official Clive Barker Website

The Books of Blood – The Official Clive Barker Website

by | Nov 3, 2019 | , | 0

Alongside director/writer Brannon Braga, Clive [Barker] has been writing new material to create a wealth of new and original Books of Blood stories for adaptation and The Books of Blood began shooting in Novia Scotia in mid October 2019. … A trilogy of tales ‘tangled in space and time’ have been woven together for this feature for Hulu, set for release in Fall 2020.

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