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.
Speakers are: David Rankine on Demonology and the Grimoires, Georgina Allen on Fulcanelli – The Man Who Made the Stone, Sian Humphries on Regardie and the Middle Pillar Ritual, Dr Robert Plimer on Kenneth Grant and the Nightside Tradition, Mike Harris on Working with the Mabinogion, G St M Nottingham on Eliphas Levi and his Magical Legacy…
If there’s one thing The Da Vinci Code’s Dan Brown and The Library of Babel’s Jorge Luis Borges have in common it is a love for obscure religious and occult… Read more »
Treadwells Bookshop, London Friday 9 June Witchcraft Documentaries of the 1970s Lecture – Gary Parsons “Wicca rode on the countercultural sentiment of the late 60s onward. The 60s were a… Read more »
‘Deep inside Northeast Florida’s hidden realm of the occult…’ An early self-promoter, Crowley believed any publicity was good. By the early 20th century, Crowley declared he was “The Great Beast… Read more »
Richard Cavendish , who has died aged 86, was an authority on magic, myth and witchcraft whose bestseller The Black Arts caught the imagination of spiritual questers at the tail… Read more »
Lovecraft’s horror stories have become not just a literary cult like many others, but a tangible cult of the occult. The Cthulhu Mythos of the Old Gods with Unspeakable names… Read more »
A perceptive and intelligent review of Brian Copenhaver’s ‘The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment‘, by Rowan Williams (ex-Archbishop of Canterbury), published in the current issue of ‘New… Read more »
The Israel Regardie Conference 2016 will be held at the Town Hall, Welshpool, mid-Wales, on Saturday 30 April 2016. This Welsh market town has good rail links with Birmingham and… Read more »
Although not directly related to Aleister Crowley or his legacy, I include this article from the Daily Mail as it demonstrates a rather pleasing change of tone in the media… Read more »
Thelema Now! Guest: Jason Miller One of Thelema Now’s favorite guests returns! The always engaging Jason Miller talks about his new book, the tantalizingly titled Sex, Sorcery, and Spirit: The Secrets… Read more »
From Philip Weaver at http://disinfo.com/2015/01/william-s-burroughs-possessed/#sthash.RjMfZIRP.dpuf Thelema Now! host Frater Puck discusses William S. Burroughs, possession, synchronicities and chaos magick in a new documentary short from Imperium Pictures. Imperium Pictures is… Read more »