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Friday, July 4th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I 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 [...]
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 [...]
Film review: Chemical Wedding (contains spoilers)
Saturday, May 31st, 2008Dave, a British academic and magician, is the co-founding editor of JSM - The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic and is author of The History of British Magic After Crowley (Hidden Publishing, 2007) and several other books.
I’m just back from the late-night regional premiere of the new Crowley-based film, Chemical Wedding, here in [...]
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 [...]
Aleister Crowley’s “Tango Song” to be recorded
Monday, May 12th, 2008After recording with Othon Mataragas for his debut album, Soft Cell’s Marc Almond will be returning to the studio with him to record Aleister Crowley’s “Tango Song”.
The “Tango Song” was written by Aleister Crowley with music by Bernard Page; the first musical score was published in 1913.
Review: Tarot for the New Aeon, by P.C. Tarantino
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Tarot For The New Aeon: A Practical Guide to the Power and Wisdom of the Thoth Tarot, by P.C. Tarantino
Alternative Insights Publishing, 9780976618409, 402 pp. (incl. endnotes, appendices, and bibliography), 2007
In the introduction Tarantino describes the aim of the present book, noting that “While this book respects the original spirit of Crowley’s work, it has [...]