207 Strange Attractor

Friday 20 February, From 6.30pm The Horse Hospital Behind Russell Sq Tube London

Free Entry Please join the great and good of Strange Attractor Journal in celebrating the arrival of Journal One.

Details are cloudy right now, but expect the unexpected and check the web site for details. We can assure you of:

* Film screenings * Eclectic DJ sets from journal contributors * Pleasant surprises

Journal One will be on sale on the night for £10. A commemorative stamp will be made up to mark the event.

Hopefully see some of you there. Bring friends!

Mark Please note: the good people at the Horse Hospital have requested that
revellers arrive earlier, rather than later.

212 TREADWELL'S BOOKSHOP events

34 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden
www.treadwells-london.com Telephone 0207 240 8906
Shop open seven days a week, noon to 7.00 pm

ORPHEUS EVOKES: MUSIC, MYTHOLOGY, MAGIC
A lecture performance by James North
26 February (Thursday) 7.30 pm

VISIONS OF EXCESS: A SECRIT HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
With Stephen Alexander
23 February (Monday) and for five subsequent Mondays
7.30 pm - 10 pm
This is a series of six lecture and seminar-style round-table discussions, proposing to outline an alternative philosophy in the modern age, running from 1789 to the present. The authors covered were all radical thinkers, rebels -- and proposers of ideas relevant to occultism and to magic. This is a chance to come to grips with some of the most challenging ideologies ever to hit the modern (and post-modern) world.

THE REGENCY- A SNAPSHOT OF 1970s PAGANISM
A lecture by Kenneth Rees
2 March (Tuesday) 7.30 pm
Wiccan priestess Doreen Valiente, after breaking with Gerald Gardner, worked for a time with a now-legendary man whose innovative witchcraft claimed to pre-date Gardner's system. Robert Cochrane,with several cohorts, worked what he called the 1734 tradition. It dissolved within a few years of Cochrane's demise in 1964.A group called The Regency arose from its ashes and continued into the 1970s. The Regency has always been somewhat mysterious, as no insider has ever written openly about it ; existing accounts are largely secondary and derivative.This night represents a first.

MAGIC IN TUDOR AND STUART ENGLAND
A Lecture by Alan Thorogood
9 March (Tuesday) 7 - 9 pm
Early modern England was a heyday of the magicians. Most famous of all was John Dee and his scryer, Edward Kelley, but many others practised the arts magical. This talk covers the main branches of early modern magic in England, and looks at some of its most celebrated practitioners. Astrology, necromany, geomancy, scrying, angelology, physick, and the summoning of angels and demons…. all get a look in at this talk. The world of the Elizabethans is wider, deeper and weirder than you think. The lecture will be followed by discussion and questions. The speaker, Alan Thorogood, is a long-term student of Elizabethan magic. £3.00

ALCHEMY IN OUTLINE
With Paul Cowlan
11 March (Thursday) 7.30 pm
This talk outlines the history and basic symbolism of alchemy, together with an account of the speaker's personal experience of it over the past two decades. Alchemy is an essentially western system, with roots reaching back the ancient world. Obscure and strange as some of the symbolism may seem at first glance it soon becomes not only comprehensible, but startlingly relevant, for contemporary personal exploration and development.

211 Perdurabo

February 26, 2004: screening of PERDURABO – Part One (the movie about Aleister Crowley) in MADRID (Spain). More details is www.carlosatanes.com

210 Dedalus Book of the Occult

Gary Lachman aka Gary Valentine formerly of 80s band, Blondie, has written four books in as many years, including Turn off Your Mind: the dark side of the age of aquarius, Secret History of Consciousness, New York Rocker and now this 380 odd page study of occult thought. Crowley's masterwork, Liber ABA: Magick, provides what is probably one of the most interesting reading lists of any occult course. Strangely this list is omitted from the new Weiser 'blue brick', which is yet another reason to search out the Symonds Grant edition (appendix 1 p306sq). All occult life from Bhagavad Gita to Zanoni is there. Professor Ronald Hutton has even praised it as a pemmican of humanist education. In many ways Gary's book is a useful companion to that reading list, filling in many fascinating biographical details and giving a taste of what joys to expect. At the end is a short sampler of the work discussed, with extracts from Blavatsky and even Crowley itself. It has to be said that Lachman's work doesn't move much past the 1930s, there is pretty much nothing from occultists after Crowley, nothing from Kenneth Grant or Gerald Gardner, no Charge of the Goddess or Marilyn Manson. Perhaps its too early for that although I suspect the author's has a slight bias towards the american view of occult history. Apart from the absence of either index or contents page, this is an excellent, indispensible book and well worth the extremely modest price of 10 pounds. - mogg

209: THE DARK-EYED WARRIOR: Tales of Hidden Bulgaria

In the shadowy world where truth lies, can the hero Doichin ever lay down his weapons? A gripping tale from the heart of Bulgarian myth and folklore about a warrior's search for second sight. Unique British Bulgarian performing arts company, A Spell In Time, presents powerful primal theatre in a brilliant blend of storytelling, folk ritual, evocative music and divine Bulgarian singing.

TOUR DATES

TUESDAY 16 MARCH 2004, 7.30pm: Storytelling Cafe, Wednesbury Library.

WEDNESDAY 17 MARCH 2004, 7.30pm: Storytelling Cafe, Midlands Arts Centre, Cannon Hill Park Birmingham. Tel. 0121 440 3838

THURSDAY 18 MARCH 2004, 7.30pm: Storytelling Cafe, Good For You Cafe, Firs Parade, Matlock, Derbyshire. Tel. 01629 584304 / 826939

FRIDAY 19 MARCH 2004, 7.30pm: Storytelling Cafe, Solihull Arts Complex, Homer Road. Tel. 0121 704 6962

208 'Through Space Time: the ancient sisterhoods spoke to me'

Theres a retrospective by controversial feminist/pagan artist Monica Sjoo* at the Hotbath Gallery, Hotbath St Bath 28th January - 25th February 04 saturday 31st 7th, 14th 21st there are some interesting gallery events including an imbolc ritual (woman only) otherwise most saturdays have free gallery talks by the artist and friends such as hedge witch Rae Beth. more info: hbgallery@...

*you may remember her 'god giving birth' that so outraged some.

207. Flowers

This poem was inspired by the work of Georgia O’Keefe, an American artist whose paintings of flowers are particularly famous. While O’Keefe herself never admitted to the obvious sexual imagery evoked by her paintings, it is noted by many critics and fans of her work that sexuality, especially female, is portrayed through her close-ups of flowers. Because I was shown her work when I was very young, I always regarded the paintings simply as portraits of flowers, until I reached my twenties and began to see the underlying eroticism of her subjects. Two particular works, “Grey Line” and “Calla Lily Turned Away”, inspired me to write about the sexual images produced by O’Keefe’s flowers.

Georgia

Flowers—
preposterously feminine in their folds, she waits for the rest of the world
to see the wombs of the earth, and life expelled like pollen-
stamens shuddering with life,
slide into the velvet folds of the calla lily—
the most primordial of pleasures.

If you're interested in erotic poetry you might like The Erotic Journal's Poetry Club. The Journal currently has a second edition, even better than the first. The club is for lovers and writers of Erotic Poetry. The Erotica Poetry Club, (so we don't get muddles with porn) we will be charging just 20 pounds a year for a monthly newsletter featuring some of the best erotic poetry from around the world. We are also looking for submissions - writers interested in both exhibiting and publishing their work, and in contacting other erotic poets around the world. Submissions can range from the simple and classical to the more complex, sensual and sexy.

For details of this and the club take a look at http://www.diversepublications.co.uk/.
First newsletter will be out end Feb.

206. The Odin Brotherhood Mark Mirabello

1869928717, £10.99

'When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.' An Odinist Prophecy

Just like the Cannibal Within, a chance encounter in the Atlantis bookshop blossomed into a dialogue between the author and the anonymous adept of Odin. Called an “occult religion” for adepts, a “creed of iron” for warriors, and a “secret society” for higher men and women who value “knowledge, freedom and power,” the Odin Brotherhood honors the gods and goddesses of the Norse pantheon. This non-fiction book details the legends, the rituals, and the mysteries of an ancient and enigmatic movement.

About the Author: The author of The Cannibal Within and The Crimes of Jehovah," Professor Mark L. Mirabello lectures on Intellectual History, the History of Medicine, and Alternative Religions and Cults at Shawnee State University in the USA. Formerly a visiting Professor at Nizhni Novgorod State University in Russia, he has a Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow.

• Contents
• Introduction
• Introduction to the Mandrake Edition
• The Dialogue
• Odinism and the Mysteries of the Past
• The Odin Brotherhood Today and the Heroic Ideal
• On Polytheism and the Nature of the Gods
• The Eddaic Verses and the Three Ages of Man
• Why Venerate the Odinist Gods?
• The Contacts between Men and Gods
• The God Odin and His Mysteries
• The Goddess Frigg and the Rite of Marriage
• The God Thor, the Nemesis of Titans
• The Goddess Sif, the Mischief of Loki, and the Skill of the Rock Dwarfs
• The God Heimdall and “The-Sojourn-of-the-Brave”
• The God Bragi, the Holy Words, and the Seasonal Rites
• The Fair Goddess Idun and Her Enchanted Fruit
• Brave Tyr, the Warrior God
• The God Njord, Magic, and the Vanir Gods
• The God Frey and the Elves
• The Goddess Freyja, the Lovely Patroness of Birth
• The God Balder and the Adventure of Death
• The Goddess Nanna and the Odinist Death Rite
• The Legend of “The-Mountain-of-Promise”
• Destiny, Ragnarok, and the Mysteries of the Future
• Epilogue -
• Eddaic Sources
• Works on Modern Odinism
• Reviews of Earlier Editions of
• The Odin Brotherhood

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