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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! I received an e-mail yesterday from Caduceus Books that three pencil drawings by noted occultist Austin Osman Spare have recently become available, as well as a work in pastel (pictured left).
Description of the illustrations and prices follow:
New book by Brendan Cathbad Myers
Monday, July 14th, 2008Plutonica.net guest blogger Brendan Cathbad Myers, author of six books to date, has a new book coming out July 25th, 2008 from O-Books. Its full title is: The Other Side of Virtue: Where Our Virtues Come From, What They Really Mean, and Where They Might Be Taking Us (pictured left).
His first book, Dangerous Religion, [...]
PsycheTarot.com redesigned
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Apologies for the delays in posting, on top of a hectic summer social calendar, I’ve taken on several projects which are devouring a considerable amount of time.
Namely, I’ve been in the process of redesigning two sites (one of which has been completed - see left), and preparing another brand new site for launch later this [...]
Anarchy and information
Friday, July 4th, 2008I first came across Siva Vaidhyanathan’s excellent and wonderfully lucid book, The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System, via Wes Unruh’s recommendation on Alterati.com.
It looks at the way we interact with information with a focus on ownership and distribution, arguing that [...]
News: One take on the OTO UK trademark case
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Mogg Morgan, of the occult publishing house Mandrake of Oxford, has generously allowed me to reprint his take on this case which originally appeared in issue no. 214 of the publisher’s online newsletter, Mandrake Speaks.
Two new books from Teitan Press by Jack Parsons and Frederick Hockley
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008While John Whiteside Parsons is best remembered by mainstream science as the inventor of the solid fuel that helped make space travel possible, occultists know Jack Parsons as a devoted Thelemite, chosen by Aleister Crowley in the early forties to lead Agape Lodge, an Ordo Templi Orientis lodge in California.
Parsons’ Freedom Is a Two Edged [...]
Review: Women of Power, by Jaq D. Hawkins
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Women of Power: The Woman As Magus, by Jaq D. Hawkins
CapallBann Publishing, 186163241X, (153 pp. including appendices, bibliography and index), 2006
“…most of the books on ceremonial magic continue to be written by men, despite significant numbers of female members existing in ceremonial magical Orders.”
Jaq D. Hawkins is the author of several books on magick. Her [...]