Rituale Corvorum
Rituale Corvorum: Containing the Common Ceremonial and Codified Conduct of Cultic Crowleyanity… Official rituals and instructions of the Great White Brotherhood presented in a format similar to a Catholic Missal… Read more »
Man from Merseyside who became ‘father of modern witchcraft’ – Liverpool Echo
Believing the coven to be a survival of the pre-Christian witch-cult, [Gerald] Gardner decided to revive the faith, supplementing the coven’s rituals with ideas borrowed from freemasonry, ceremonial magic and… Read more »
ADVENT OF THE SPACE MASTER | Kyle Fite | Sirius Limited
Described by the author as ‘a type of explorative poem, drawn up, in places, from…engagement with a mode of quantum mediumship,’ ADVENT OF THE SPACE MASTER follows its precursor, Hoodoo Pilot, to the Space Station circling the Third Star of the Celestial Spring, Alpha Sagittarii.
Austin Osman Spare Tarot Deck & Book by Strange Attractor Press
[Strange Attractor Press] will be working with one of the world’s most experienced printers of playing cards to create this hand-on facsimile edition, and ensure that the overlapping divinatory motifs… Read more »
The Beast and the Buddha: Aleister Crowley’s 1901 Sojourn in Japan | Medium
In the summer of 1901, the English occultist Aleister Crowley, age 25, stood before the Great Buddha at Kamakura. Having arrived in Yokohama just a few days before, he had crossed the Pacific from San Francisco via Honolulu and was in the midst of wrapping up a shipboard extramarital affair. He was also wrestling with a major life decision: Should he remain and live in Japan, or move on?
Aleister Crowley was even more beastly than we’d imagined | The Spectator
The Spectator (UK) magazine has an interesting review by Nicholas Lezard of Phil Baker’s excellent book, The City of the Beast…
The story of Bruce Dickinson’s batsh*t crazy horror movie Chemical Wedding | Louder
Despite its Cannes premiere, Chemical Wedding came and went without much noise. Part of this could be down to the fact that ‘torture porn’ was the biggest trend in horror… Read more »
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Liber Loagaeth & Aleister Crowley – Zero Equals Two
Follow the link to Zero Equals Two website for a fascinating article by Frater Orpheus…
Gareth Knight
“We are very sad to announce that Gareth Knight left us on the evening of 1st March 2022, peacefully during his sleep at the age of 91. He joins his beloved wife Roma, who passed two years earlier.”
Obsolete Spells | Strange Attractor
Victor Neuburg had two claims to fame: he discovered Dylan Thomas, and Aleister Crowley once turned him into a camel. Obsolete Spells presents another side of Neuburg, through his own earthy-yet-diaphanous poems and the strange books of the Vine Press, a hand-operated imprint he ran from his West Sussex cottage between 1920 and 1930.
Inside Aleister Crowley’s satanic Sicilian monastery
The Abbey of Thelema looks out on the wide Mediterranean. Italy has a long history of occultism and Crowley was likely aware of the various cults and religious sects that… Read more »