Archive for August, 2008
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Saturday Signal: sifting the signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.
Wishing all of you a very merry long weekend!
I’ve already gone sailing.
New biographical comic about Jack Parsons
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Best remembered by mainstream science as John Whiteside Parsons, inventor of the solid fuel that helped make space travel possible, occultists know Jack Parsons as a devoted Thelemite, chosen by Aleister Crowley to lead the Ordo Templi Orientis’ Agape Lodge in California in the early forties.
The comic, titled “The Marvel: A Biography of Jack Parsons“, [...]
Ouroboros Press to release volume two of the Picatrix in October
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Ouroboros Press is set to release the second volume of the Picatrix on October 18th, 2008.
To commemorate the event, a book release party will be held on that day in Historic Pioneer Square at the Rodriguez Guerra Art Studio where publisher William Kiesel will be signing.
A description of the book from the Ouroboros Press blog, [...]
“Celebrity” occultists
Monday, August 25th, 2008Previously we’ve looked at the hazards of dismissing someone out of turn simply because they’re deemed “too popular“, but how do they get that way in the first place?
Recently on a forum someone inquired as to whether there were any “world renowned” LHP practitioners “like what Phil Hine is for chaos magick”. This struck me [...]
Saturday Signal: Imaginary friends, sacred sex, Fallen Nation, Cthulhu crochet, and another round up
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Saturday Signal: attempting to sift signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.
This has been a crazy week: camping on the weekend, end of another fiscal quarter at work entailing many late nights at the office, treated with a delightful time at Cirque du Soleil’s Saltimbanco yesterday, and I now find myself playing Internet [...]
Saturday Signal: Insanity, Grant Morrison, MacGregor Mathers, and tarot
Saturday, August 16th, 2008Saturday Signal: attempting to sift signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.
In our first Saturday Signal Beth asked “how our “fun day” (Saturday) got named after the least fun god/planet of the week”. Last week we looked at one possible reason, and Gesigewigus commented on how the planetary hours align nicely with [...]
Review: Enochian Vision Magick, by Lon Milo DuQuette
Monday, August 11th, 2008Enochian Vision Magick: An Introduction and Practical Guide to the Magick of Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley, by Lon Milo DuQuette
Weiser Books, 9781578633821, 261 pp. (incl. appendices, notes, bibliography and index), 2008
Lon Milo DuQUette is the author of more than a dozen books on esoteric subjects, and has served as the OTO’s United States [...]
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