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.”
Category: Occult
Caduceus Books: Michael Bertiaux Books and Artwork
Caduceus Books (in the UK) is selling a remarkable variety of books and original artwork by Michael Bertiaux. Regarded by many as the most significant living occultist, Michael Bertiaux travelled to Haiti in 1964 where he worked with Voodoo priests who were already operating a fusion of European and Haitian esotericism and who sought an ambassador to bring their teachings to an international audience. Michael’s crucial Haitian contact was Hector-Francois Jean-Maine, whose father Lucian-Francois Jean-Maine had travelled to Europe and the US where he worked with Papus and his milieu.
Boscastle Museum To Re-Open
I’m pleased to pass on the latest update from the excellent Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Boscastle, Cornwall.
Geraldine Beskin, Witch | Spitalfields Life
“Geraldine Beskin presides as serenely as the Mona Lisa from behind her desk at the Atlantis Bookshop in Museum St, Bloomsbury – the oldest occult bookshop in the world, one of London’s unchanging landmarks and the pre-eminent supplier of esoteric literature to the great and the good, the sinister and the silly, since 1922.”
A Hollywood Filmmaker’s Beguiling and Inspiring Collection | Fine Books & Collections
It began with ‘Begotten’, filmmaker E. Elias Merhige’s 1989 black-and-white allegory about death and transformation…
Conjuration – Museum of Witchcraft and Magic
The MWM [Boscastle’s Museum of Witchcraft and Magic] zine, Conjuration, has sold well and there are still a few copies left should you like to grab one. Issue 3 is due out late July.
A New Book Issued By The Society of Esoteric Endeavour
The original artwork which forms this grimoire was executed in a variety of techniques including pen and ink, papercuts and digital formats. Its spiritual and symbolic form is designed to enable the deeper realms of the unconscious and its attendant powers to be realised. Twenty five of the talismanic images in the book are manifested in metal, being blocked in silver coloured metallic foil upon a background of pure silk.
The Satanic Temple has Been Recognized as a Church by the IRS
In a historic move today, The Satanic Temple has been recognized as an official church by the IRS. This is the first time that any religious organization under a Satanic… Read more »
The Abyss by Leo Holmes
SSix years after the critically acclaimed LeMULgeton: Goetia and the Stellar Tradition, Leo Holmes is back with a new and exciting book: The Abyss. The Abyss offers a wide approach, based on both personal experience and a multidisciplinary study, to the second of the two main crises of a magician’s career, the first being the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. The book is predominantly inspired by Thelemic Literature…
Museum of Witchcraft and Magic Anniversary Book: Call for Contributions
I’m very pleased to reproduce a ‘call for contributions’ to a new collection of articles, an ‘Anniversary Book’, for one of my favourite locations: the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic at Boscastle, Cornwall.
The Witch of Kings Cross: Kiwi occultist who scandalised Sydney – NZ Herald
“A Warning to Australia: DEVIL WORSHIP HERE!” read the headlines, next to the image of a thin woman with unkempt hair, pencil-thin arched eyebrows and a focused scowl. Her name was Rosaleen Norton, “Roie” to those who knew her, a New Zealand-born artist and witch who made her home in Darlinghurst, near Sydney’s Kings Cross, in the 1940s and ’50s scandalising the conservative establishment.