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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:
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 [...]
Responses to Chemical Wedding film review
Sunday, June 8th, 2008It’s been interesting reading the responses to guest blogger Dr Dave Evans‘ review of the new Aleister Crowley film Chemical Wedding over the past week. In addition to responses posted here, there have been a number of positive (or at least amused) comments on private blogs and journals, and at several which have been more [...]
Fulgur selling original Austin Osman Spare artwork
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008Fulgur, famed publisher of all things Sparian, has faciliated the sale of work by Austin Osman Spare in the past and today they’ve announced new works on offer.
These four new pieces are from a private collection in London, and a photograph from Spare’s 1952 exhibition in Mansion House tavern, South London.
They include a sketch in pencil on paper, [...]
Occult ‘zines as cultural artifacts
Sunday, May 18th, 2008In Treasure House of Pearls John Crow recently posted about the Theosophical journals he’s been going through in his research on Alan Bennett (interesting stuff, you should check it out). He commented on the “institutional memory” these journals leave behind - an enduring physical record of events that occurred: lectures given, essays shared between [...]
Plutonica.net Erisian Haiku Contest: Win a free book!
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Last year for Agnostica Plutonica.net ran a contest where subscribers could win an Agnostica box. This time we’re running an Erisian Haiku Contest for Eris Day and the prize is Kaostar!, a written by Francis Breakspear.
Eris Day
Eris is the Greek goddess of chaos and discord. Today, she’s mostly remembered as the goddess who [...]
Magick, myth and change
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Continuing on from yesterday’s post, Deo challenges the models of magick, and the very value of magick itself:
[...] I believe there is a single kind of argument that can target all of the models. It works like this (and this is basically just a more careful exegesis of the thought process underlying my sloppy essay, [...]