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Edited by Mogg Morgan
No 224
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Contents
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Journal For Academic Study of Magick 5 - New Title
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Grimoires By Owen Davies (review)
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A Postcard from Hell (news)
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New 6Comm CD (News)
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Occult Spells / Frederich Hockley (Review)
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Lectures Talks
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Groups Meetups
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Conferences & Exhibitions (click to view)
Equinox, Nu-Thelemic Symposium and more - its going to be a busy year.
A Postcard From Hell
A Postcard From Hell (LM1213)
Revised Materials Towards A Cartoon History of the Life, Loves & Legacy of Aleister Crowley.
The new book by Richard T. Cole.
Available from 21 June, 2009, in an extremely limited edition of just 156 hardback copies. No soft cover edition will be released.
It is anticipated that demand will quickly exceed supply. The hardback edition of Richard T. Cole's previous publication,Thelema Revisited,
sold out in just 40 hours. Anyone with an interest in A Postcard From Hell is strongly advised to contact us sooner rather than later as to
avoid possible disappointment. Details how to provisionally reserve a copy of this publication are included below and also on our web-page at:
http://www.tobew.com/SR
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CAUTION - THIS BOOK CONTAINS ADULT THEMES AND IMAGES
AND IS THEREFORE SUITABLE ONLY FOR ADULTS
Details:
Title: A Postcard From Hell. Compiled & Edited by R. T. Cole.
ISBN: 1 900962 80 2.
ISBN-13: 978 1 900962 80 3.
Format: Hardback - full colour front and reverse covers.
156 hardback copies are available from June 21.
Number of pages: 104.
Dimensions - 273mm x 210mm.
Illustrations - 72 full colour and 42 black & white.
A Postcard From Hell.
(Subtitled - Revised Materials Towards A Cartoon History of the Life, Loves & Legacy of Aleister Crowley.)
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In the spring of 2004, when asked if I could provide a bit of light relief for insertion into a proposed series of digital editions, I accepted the challenge with relish. Crowley is, in my opinion, a truly great British tradition. He travelled extensively, enjoyed a good joke, was energetically enthusiastic about sex and throughout out his life was, and still is, much derided. With these elements in mind an obvious format for, “a bit of light relief” immediately sprang to mind in the form of the much-loved and, by today's standards extremely politically incorrect, other great British tradition of saucy holiday postcards. And so was born the concept of my Comely Crowley Cards.
Between 2004 and 2007 a light dusting of these images were sprinkled amongst the limited digital editions of Crowley's works released by Black Flag & Naughty Nun New Media. A few were e-mailed to friends and colleagues, as private jokes . One or two found their way onto the Internet and, on the odd occasions where a bit of space was available on the run-offs of other projects, a small number were printed as actual postcards. However, for the most past my collection of Thelemic artwork remained unknown, unseen and gathering cyber-dust... Until now!
For the first and probably the only time, Orange Box Books presents a compilation of all 70 of the infamous postcards (including the much-debated Leah Hirsig images), plus a whole host of other artistic goodies relating to the life, loves & legacy of Aleister Crowley, The Great Beast 666. Includes an entire chapter on the recent (1985-2009) history of the guardians of Crowley's artistic and literary legacy, O.T.O..
Summary of contents:
Postcards
The date is 12 October, 1875, and Emily Bertha has just given birth to a chubby little baby called Alick. Who could know this innocent child would create a worldwide scandal with his quest to track down and extract a new Bible for mankind from a praeter-human intelligence called Aiwaz. The wickedest man in the world? Nah, he's just a very naughty Magus. This lavishly illustrated chapter escorts readers on a whistle-stop and satirical tour of the unforgettable moments in Aleister Crowley's seventy-two year life of doing exactly what he wilt...
Discover what Crowley's relationship with the Loch Ness monster was.
Uncover why Crowley was evicted from the Garden of Eden only 31 minutes after its official opening.
Glimpse a rare poster promoting Crowley's Ragged Rag Time Girls.
Study a reproduction of the Divine Slice of Toast on which the face and Magickal number (666) of The
.....Great Beast recently manifested.
Read about Crowley's sellout, one-man show (The Aiwaz Man Cometh) at the Warburg Theatre.
Find out the real secret behind Tantric yoga - Why did Buddha laugh?
Learn about Crowley's attempt to produce a batch of hununculus' at his Abbey of Thelema, in Sicily.
See a photograph of LAM's birthday party with uncles Al, and Ken and aunt Steffi.
Plus other stunning images.
The Calendar
Digitally coloured images from the Crowley in Full Colour and Leah Hirsig Pin-up 2008 Calendars.
Leah Hirsig (The Scarlet Woman)
It's spring, 1918, and a naive young New York teacher is about to get the lesson of her life. Leah Hirsig has just met the man who will sweep her off her feet (and head) and take her on a breathtaking journey which will change forever her life, her attitude towards pets and her gynecological configuration. Leah, or Alostrael (her magickal name), repeatedly demonstrated herself to be ‘game for anything' and indisputably provided invaluable assistance to Crowley in his difficult mid-life transition from Magus to Ipsissimus - Though she found subsequent cause to recant her vows of Crowleyanity, re-revert to Catholicism and sever all links with her former Master, The Great Beast. Based on the infamous series of postcards created between 2004 and 2007, Richard T. Cole's lavishly illustrated compendium of materials escorts readers on a whistle-stop and satirical tour of the unforgettable moments in Leah Hirsig's five year long holiday romance with The Great Beat 666. Gaze reverentially in awe, wonder, adoration and sheer disbelief at Aleister Crowley's favourite Scarlet woman as depicted in a sequence of rare and alluring photographs, including:
The Opium Queen - "High Tea - Our Favourite Hobby!"
At Cefalu - "Wish you were her".
"Sublime Salome."
His Sepia Woman - "Paint me as a hairy armpit!"
At Cefalu, with a randy old goat - "I know what you did last summer".
As inspiration for Charlotte Rampling's Night Porter- "Can unload your bags, Sir?"
Chastising A.C. for smudging an oil painting of her - "Don't finger me whilst I'm still wet".
Plus other stunning images.
O.T.O.
The date is 12 July, 1985, and Grady McMurtry, head of the California-based faction of an occult fraternity known as Ordo Templi Orientis, has just celebrated his Greater Feast. The membership of O.T.O. holds its collective breath and strains to watch a white dove issue forth from the tallest chimney of its Head Office; a feathered omen announcing the appointment of a new head. Is what happened next the stuff of fiction, legend, or horror? Is that strange sound we've been hearing really Crowley turning in his urn? Can, "Lite Cakes" really be used as part of a healthy, balanced diet? Who is the mysterious Butch Butcher of Berne and what are his gristle-burgers made from? Who were Pipie & Sons and did they really invent time-travelling paper? All these and many more intriguing questions are completely ignored in Richard T. Cole's humorous expose of O.T.O.'s soft white underbelly. This lavishly illustrated chapter picks up the story and escorts readers on a whistle-stop and satirical tour of the unforgettable moments in O.T.O.'s history during the ensuing twenty-four years - The rise of the Caliphate...
Discover what happens each year on the mound of, "GolgOTOha" (the place of skulks).
Uncover links between O.T.O.'s secret Elixir and a certain pharmacological giant known for its blue pills.
Glimpse a rare poster for the movie SCOTOP.
Study a diagram of the structure of O.T.O. and learn where to purchase your hand-held Thelemic Navigation console.
Read rarely seen pages from the Magickal Sink magazine.
Find out what really happened at a dinner party in the Paris Ritz.
Learn O.T.O.'s Word of the Equinox (1985) and understand why this will never change.
See the promotional flyer used to promote "a radical new awareness-raising campaign".
Everything you've ever wanted to know about O.T.O. but were afraid to ask.
Art
A compilation of watercolour and acrylic paintings plus other assorted promotional items, past, present and furure; real and imagined. Includes:
Two acrylic paintings of Aleister Crowley, entitled In the Desert and Red Heat.
Watercolour paintings of A.C. Scintillating in Purple and Leah Hirsig as, Predator posing as a house-pet.
Two promotional flyers for live appearences, in London and Moscow, of Aleister Crowley's Ragged Rag-time Girls.
A selection of book covers and descriptions of Richard T. Cole's forthcoming projects.
Miscellaneous
Contains various bits ‘n' bobs which, upon finishing the project, I happened upon by chance and thought, “Bugger! I forgot all about that one”. It also holds a small selection of pictures conceived to accompany text, rather than as stand-alone images, including two eBay listings and a short essay entitled A Rite of Auto-Ejaculatory Magick (a sharp, insightful, funny and perceptive a comment on Sex Magick).
Crowley's X-Mas Lucky Lotto Ticket - It Could Be NU.
The Holy Toast - A Divine Manifestation!
The Rock Valley Messiah.
A Rite of Auto-Ejaculatory Magick.
Thelemic Talisman - A 31 x 31 Magick Square.
Three very strange digital renderings of Crowley's distinctive features, entitled FractAL, Beastly Balls in Thick Darkness Sauce
.....and Shredded Beast.
APPENDICES
........A – Index of Images............B – Chartering Blame............ C - DISCLAIMER............ D - Additional Notes............ E - A Flashback
Laugh until your hoor splits. Cry tears of pure elixir. Feel your kundalini spasm with unadulterated delight. Suppress your wails as an army of savage 'Warrior Briefs' tear down your door and initiate you within thirty-one inches of your Holy Guardian Angel.
ORDER DETAILS
A Postcard From Hell - Price £31
Price (in British Pounds Sterling) includes worldwide shipping to any address.
Hardback edition of just 156 copies are available from 21 June, 2009.
This release is a one-off edition of only 156 Hardback copies. No paperback edition will be subsequently issued.
It is anticipated that demand will very quickly exceed supply.
If you have an interest in this title, please CLICK HERE to contact us and provisionally reserve your copy.
Anyone provisionally reserving a copy of this title will, on (or around) 13 June, receive an e-mail notification of availability with a URL giving instructions how to purchase your reserved copy. You will then have one week in which to complete your order. If you change your mind, simply ignore the notification of availability message. Any remaining copies will be offered for general sale from 22 June. Copies of the publication will be shipped from 21 June.
Occult Spells, A Nineteenth Century Grimoire
Compiled by Frederick Hockley, with an Introduction by Silens Manus
ISBN 978-0-933429-17-8
Published by The Teitan Press (2009)
This is one of two neat little books sent for review from Weiser's. Grimoires not exactly being my thing, but I'm always willing to know more, and with this in mind I especially enjoyed the introduction, although wished it were longer. From it I learned that Occult Spells is in effect a 'Book of Shadows' - ie Hockley's own compilation or edited highlights from rare and expensive books in the collection of the London bookseller John Denley. Nineteenth century magi were able to make a little extra cash by making fair copies of expensive printed grimoires, and this is Hockley's own pick of the crop. I thought the introduction a bit biased where is says "the crudest examples of folk and sympathetic magic jostle uncomfortably alongside the carefully considered lore of astrology and high magick". Hockley himself was a bit of a grump, criticising Barrett's "Magus" as "an unaknowledged compilation from other authors".
As usually at these times I seek out my friend, the Cunning Man Jack Daw, whose caravan is parked up on 'The London Plain' nearby.
"Ah just in time," he says, offering me some of his squirrel kabab.
"No thanks," I say, "I've eaten already, tea would be nice."
I show him Hockley's books and mention the author's strictures on Francis Barrett
"Well" he said, tapping the contents of his acorn-pipe out on the bumper of my Modeo.
"I'd say Barrett got rid of a lot of unworkable rubbish from those moldy old books and put together a sensible book of magick that actually had some chance of working".
I nodded sagely, thinking it best not to mention the editors view about "crude folk magick" and its practitioners.
The publisher's blurb says this is the first ever printing of Occult Spells, a work that until now has existed only as a manuscript in a private collection. It is part of a rich legacy of carefully written manuscripts, left to the world by the Frederick Hockley (1809-1885), an occultist and Freemason with an interest in Spiritualism who in later life was associated with the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia. Hockley's peers considered him to be one of the great occult scholars of his time: in fact he was held in such high regard by one of the founders of the Golden Dawn, W. Wynn Westcott, that he posthumously claimed Hockley as one of the Order's most outstanding Adepts.
Occult Spells is a sort of esoteric "commonplace book" in which Hockley recorded material on different spells, talismans, charms and such-like that he came across in rare books and manuscripts in the course of his researches. Hockley started compiling the book at about the age of twenty, and added to it throughout his life: he still had it in his possession when he died at the age of seventy-six. The sources that he used ranged from "occult classics" such as Richard Saunders' "Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie" (1671), John Heydon's "Theomagia, or the Temple of Wisdome" (1663); and Henry Cornelius Agrippa's "Three Books of Occult Philosophy" (1651), to relatively obscure works like Joseph Pettigrew's "Bibliotheca Sussexiana" (1827), and notorious grimoires like the "Petit Albert". The spells and talismans vary as much as his sources: from sublime Enochian invocations, through folk magic, and on into the darker realms of necromancy. Thus it includes charms to determine "the name of the person you will marry" (useful only to virgins!), a quite poisonous-sounding "love powder," talismans for all sorts of purposes, and even a recipe for the creation of a homunculus.
The book includes an Introduction and a typeset transcription of the text of the manuscript, prepared by Silens Manus, a scholar of Hockley's works who has studied literally dozens of his manuscripts. In addition to checking and restoring illegible words or phrases from the original sources that Hockley used, Manus has also added footnotes explaining many obscure terms, plant and deity names and such-like, as well as providing translations of most of the less common non-English phrases and passages that appear in the text. Hockley had also left a number of blank spaces in the text of the manuscript in which he planned to eventually reproduce some of the tables and diagrams in the works from which he quoted. Where possible Manus has included these in the transcription.
For those who prefer to consult the manuscript exactly as Hockley wrote it, an exact photographic facsimile, on special coated paper, completes the book.
Occult Spells offers a rare insight into the occult preoccupations of this interesting figure, whose work arguably had a profound effect on the late nineteenth century 'Occult Revival'. Price at USD $60.00 plus shipping not cheap but there again with the pound rising in the exchanges, its a handsome edition to a good library.
Order direct at:
http://www.weiserantiquarian.com or email us at < books@... >
6comm/ Patrick Leagas
Album Cd Digipak [April 2009]
'Like Stukas Angels Fall' CD A totally re recorded album of classic tracks featuring songs from the early '6comm' period
and also a few tracks from his previous work in 'Death in June'.
Also find here work like 'Sow the Wind' and 'Shake the Fear' previously only available on a limited cassette release.
'6comm' returned to music at the end of 2006 with the very intense and complex double album 'Headless - let the moon speak'
which reintroduced Patrick's work back to his audience after a break of 17 years.
'6comm' as always totally refuses to be easily categorized and 'Like Stukas Angel Fall'
once again crosses genres such as Electro - Folk - Classical- Martial- Experimental.
Here find 16 great songs, including brilliant new versions of 'Torture Garden' and 'Carousel' with new vocal sections.
Other highlights include the opening track , a re-work of the
old electro track Sonfelte presented here as Kirato e Sonfelte in a new cloak of semi- classical vengeance!
80 minutes of History reworked and presented in a nice Gold foil blocked Digipak.
Stukas together with a forthcoming second album next year,
covers much of 6comm's deleted original vinyl and CD releases, which will never be re-issued again in their original format.
Patrick/'6comm' shall be performing material from this release one time only in each Country during 2009.
2010 will see Patrick presenting new material live and new releases both as 6comm and by his alternative project.
Album only available via 6comm live events or 6comm website:
www.hagshadow.net/6comm
VIA hagshadow [kenaz official distribution worldwide]
6comm / Freya Aswynn – London!!
'FRUITS OF YGGDRASIL'
Saturday 19 September 2009
Supporting act: 'OF THE WAND AND THE MOON' + 'A Prince of Our Disorder'
174 Camden High Street NW1, London, England.
The first and only live performance Of this Unique work over twenty years after
it first release.
Freya Aswynn and Patrick L.will take the stage to bring to life The power and beauty of the Fruits. Patrick L. has re-recorded a whole New music score for this event and will back Freya’s vocals with a variety of Instruments and percussion.
www.myspace.com/fruitsofygg
www.myspace.com/6comm66
www.aswynn.co.uk
FREYA IN SPACE:
http://www.myspace.com/freyaaswynn
http://www.ofthewandandthemoon.dk
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Grimoires: A History of Magic Books
by Owen Davies
ISBN 978-0-19-920451-9
Published by Oxford University Press
366pp /£14.99/ Hardback
"The production of grimoires was an entrepreneurial enterprise that thrived wherever the influence of secular and ecclesiastical censors was restricted by geographical, educational or political factors. The opening up of America created just such an environment, and hucksters, quacks, astrologers, fortune tellers and occult practitioners of all shades thrived." p. 188
Which may indicate that the primary audience for this book might not be the "hucksters, quacks, astrologers, fortune tellers and occult practitioners" some of whom might even read this newsletter. Owen Davies has built a strong reputation for himself as author of the groundbreaking Cunning Folk: Popular Magic in English History re-branded with an eye to the MBS marketplace as Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History. Here again he has taken up a largely neglected topic with some verve and produced a page turning history of the grimoire.
OD's book is likely to be of special interest to those with some knowledge of the genre. Davies gives very few examples of a grimoire's actual content, so there is an assumption that the author has already read one or two. The small examples OD does give tend to underline his thesis that the grimoires are at best a debased form of ancient magick or worst cynical, gibberish. Modern magicians tend to approach the grimoire as an exercise in magical creativity but also as a possible source of Pagan wisdom and occult knowledge that has somehow survived the hands of Christian iconoclasts.
Academic authors are obviously quite keen for the practitioner community to read their work although they are less keen to read anything the practitioners write about the same subject. So you won't find much here of the contemporary magicians approach to the grimoire, apart that is from old chestnuts such as the Necronomicon and the Satanic Bible.
Even so, there is much in here of interest to the contemporary practitioner, once one gets over the slight disappointment at the absence of any mention of the "Goetia", the most popular example of the genre. There is also nothing of what surely be the most famous of all occult trials involving a grimoire, that of Gilles the Rais - Bluebeard. For those with an interest in Aleister Crowley, there is also very little in this book. Crowley of course, represents the way the practitioner community has reframed and rationalised the grimoire over the years. And Crowley penned what is considered to be the best and most cogent of all modern grimoires - Liber ABA.
However most of the book's contents were new to me - although one passage where I would take issue with the author is when he discusses the Theban Magical Library alternatively known as The Greek Magical Papyri or Greco Egyptian Magical Papyri. Davies tells us that these are somehow connected with the very first grimoires in the sequence - which would be my own intuition. But he then says that "There are distinct differences between the magic they contain and that found in the earliest magical inscriptions and papyri from the time of the pharaohs" (p 9) . I read that and thought that must be wrong and wondered where he could have found such a view amongst Egyptologists? My heart sank when I saw the reference to Geraldine Pinch's seminal work on Egyptian Magic, could she really be so out of step with all her colleagues? But there again what does Geraldine Pinch actually say (p. 160-1):
"The openly expressed malevolence of these spells seems un-Egyptian but similar desires may lie behind some of the earlier Letters to the Dead. These do no specify exactly how the akhu are to deal with the writer's enemies. . . Many spells in the Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri describe how to make a deity appear and answer questions. The appearance may take the form of a dream for the magician or a vision for the child assistant. These spells are the private equivalent of consulting a temple oracle, or of incubation - sleeping in the temple to receive a divine dream". (my emphasis)
In other words there is quite a lot of Ancient Egyptian religion in the PGM and I suspect the grimoires. Afterall doesn't it say in the Goetia that the spirits speak the Egyptian tongue?
These small issues of the beginning aside, Davies' study is soon on stronger ground after fifteen hundred years of development we arrive at the era of the printed book, when the grimoire really did make it big on the world stage. As the book's publicity confirms, "to understand the grimoire is to understand the spread of Christianity, the development of early science, the cultural influence of the print revolution, the growth of literacy, the impact of colonialism and the expansion of western culture across the oceans."
One tantalizing parallel between the PGM and later grimoires is the "Sixth & Seven Books of Moses" discussed in fascinating detail by OD. These books began circulating in Germany in the eighteenth century and were to become popular in USA. One could of course argue that given the well known existence of the first five, it is just human nature to want to supplement this with a sixth, seventh or even more; just as some bright spark penned a "Fourth" book of Occult Philosophy, a "Fourth" Veda or even "Fourth" chapter of Crowley's "Book of the Law". Interestingly no ancient edition survives of a "Sixth" and "Seventh" Book of Moses. The PGM jumps straight in there with "The Eighth" . There may never have been a sixth or seventh in classical Greco-Egyptian magic, none has so far been found. The explanation advanced for this hiatus is that the number "eight" has special symbolic resonance, perhaps connected with Hermes and the Company of Heaven .
OD calls these "modern" versions "pulp . . . to signify not just the quality of the paper but also the merit of the contents printed on it - worthless, pappy, throwaway literature fit only for those too intellectually limited to digest more serious fare. They were not the sort of publications that found their way into academic and public libraries. Yet their influence was such that, by the late 1930s, American educationalists were waging war on the genre." p. 233. Looking at the few examples of the contents given in OD's study, these would not be so out of place in the PGM - so I wonder where their real provenance lies?
If you want gnosticism and theurgy, one maybe needs to look elsewhere than in this study of grimoire. Owen Davies is revealing the dark underbelly of the magical tradition. I suspect he might even side with the shrinking minority of academics who still follow Frazer's division of magic and religion. Religion from this perspective, being all about social networking and rationality; magick the malign, irrational, solitary practice, bent on material gain. Drive a wedge between Egyptian religion and its magick, downplay the philosophical aspect of the grimoire and it all begins to look that way. It is in these areas that Davies book certainly has an colourful tale to tell. No surprise then that coming up to date, we venture into the explicitely fictional grimoires as instanced in H P Lovecraft's Necronomicon. The book concludes with a discussion of the huge popularity of Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible and the promise that, in case you didn't know it, the history of the grimoire is hardly likely to be over. "As we enter uncertain times . . . There is no sign of these books being closed for good. " p. 283
[Reviewed by Mogg Morgan with some assistance from David Rankine and Jack Daw]
JSM5
isbn 9781906958015
£19.99/$40
Publication date: April 2009
Contents
Flavius Josephus’ Terminology of Magic: Accommodating
Jewish Magic to a Roman Audience, / Philip Jewell
The Role of Grimoires in the Conjure Tradition / Dan Harms
Hermetic/Cabalistic Ritual in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus / Dana Winters
Italian Cunning Craft: Some Preliminary Observations / Sabina Magliocco
Walking The Tightrope: A Study Of Secret Astrologers In Mainstream Professions / J.A. Silver Frost
Martyrs, Magic, and Christian Conversion / Patrick Maille
“Worshiping the Devil in the Name of God”Anti-Semitism,
Theosophy and Christianity in the Occult Doctrines of Pekka Siitoin / Kennet Granholm
“The Witching Hour: Sex Magic in 1950s Australia” / Marguerite Johnson
Reviews
Obituaries
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Lectures
Details of location below
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Speakers & Topics (Locations can be found in the Venues Details section) |
Events
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Wednesday 3rd June 2009
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'Grimoires' Professor Owen Davies is the author of the seminal study of cunning men and cunning women (published first as Cunning Folk, reprinted as Popular Magic). His new book on magical texts is eagerly awaited, and tonight is its launch night. He will be giving a lecture on one aspect of the grimoire tradition, from his latest research. A launch party follows, hosted by the publisher of the book, Oxford University Press. Owen Davies is Professor of Social History at the University of Hertfordshire. Much of his work has concerned the continued widespread belief in witchcraft and magic in the modern period, and why witchcraft accusations eventually declined in England during the early twentieth century. This has also led to work on popular medicine and folklore, comparative studies regarding France and Scotland, and interdisciplinary research applying anthropological and biomedical knowledge to historical topics. He has spoken at Treadwell's before and we warmly welcome his return.
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Treadwells |
Sunday 14th June 2009
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Eloise Severin Find out the connections between pain, pleasure and spirituality; explore the hidden world of kinky Paganism; dare to plumb the depths of depravity in the House of the Mysteries at Pompeii. Eloise Severin has travelled the world in search of erotic and spiritual practices, studying with the Hidden Adepts of many lands to bring back forbidden knowledge. Date: Sunday 14th June 2009 The Omphalos Magick Moot will continue after the talk, with an opportunity for talking stick discussion. Regular Omphalos meetings are on the second Sunday of each month, at our new home: |
Bath Omphalos |
| Thursday 23rd July 2009 | Edgar Allan Poe 200th Birthday Celebration Mike David and Dedwydd Jones 23rd July (Thursday) 7.15 for 7.30 start / £5 This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birthday of this remarkable author who did so much to awaken the chill of the supernatural, the eeriness of the weird, and the sensibility of the gothic. Poe night includes readings, themed refreshments, bat's blood and sips from a cask of amontillado... |
Treadwells |
Organisers & Venues Details :
Bath Omphalos |
Bath Omphalos Omphalos Magickal Moot is an independent group open to people from all magickal paths. Meetings are on the second Sunday of each month, upstairs at the Huntsman, 1 Terrace Walk, North Parade, Bath (on 'Bog Island'). Check our postings regularly for updates, as there is often a guest speaker (when a donation of £5.00 will be asked for to cover expenses). Suggestions for discussion topics are welcomed - prior knowledge of a topic is not essential as we can all learn from each other. The Huntsman serves food, the upstairs room is large and atmospheric, and the whole place oozes with history. The Huntsman Inn The Huntsman Inn weblink is Bath omphalos website: http://www.omphalos.org.uk/
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London Earth Mysteries Circle |
London Earth Mysteries Circle 7.00pm Tuesdays (2nd 4th in month) Venue:
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| London Secret Chiefs |
SECRET CHIEFS Alternate Wednesdays, 8p.m. talk starts 8.30p.m. Admission £2.
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MWNN |
THE MOOT WITH NO NAME
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Treadwells Bookshop |
Treadwells Bookshop Full descriptions of all events are to be found now on Treadwells website |
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Groups Meetups
'Oxford Talking Stick |
Meets every Thursday at The Angel Greyhound Pub (St Clements st) Oxford. See also below: |
LAESO (London) |
email for details to: lawbright@... |
Conferences & Exhibitions
| Friday May 29th - Sunday June 7th 2009 | An exhibition of the work of Steven.V.Mitchell who carved the Crystal Skull that appeared at the Omphalos Magickal Fair will be at the Horse Hospital, The Colonnades, Bloomsbury, London, 'Pandemonium' took us all on a fantastic and unforgettable journey. 'Saturnalia: A Feast for Fools' will be held at the legendary London home for the subversive and the controversial art form, 'The Horse Hospital'. |
Horse Hospital, Colonnades, Bloomsbury, London, WC1 |
| Saturday 30th May 2009 | Ludlow Esoteric Conference and Book Fair Author, lecturer and publisher, Stephen Skinner will be speaking at the Esoteric Conference & Book Fair in Ludlow, Shropshire this May! His talk will be on The Key of Solomon.The addition of Stephen Skinner co-author of 'The Veritable Key of Solomon' with David Rankine, [who is also speaking at the Conference, on Demonology and the Grimoire Tradition] to the conference line up will make this years conference excellent valuefor your money; six speakers all for the price of just £15! Plus the Book Fair, (admission: free) Esoteric Conference and Book Fair, Speakers are:~ Nigel Pennick… Runes and Magic. Sorita D'Este… Gerald Gardener and the Book of Shadows. David Rankine… Demonology and the Grimiore Tradition Geraldine Beskine… Progradier and the Beast. Philip Heslton… Mothers of Wicca. Occult Book Sellers (new and second hand) will be:~
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Ludlow |
| Friday 12 June - Sunday 14th June 2009 |
"Equinox" Festival Dates and Lineup announced! June 12-14th London More artists and speakers will be announced in the coming weeks! ALL NEW WEBSITE with media links, artists/speaker bios, and ticket info. The Equinox Festival, a 3 day media arts festival dedicated to We are pleased to announce the following confirmed artists for this Music performance: John Zorn MORE TO COME IN THE FOLLOWING WEEKS Ritual Performance: Arktau Eos Lecture/Presentations: Ralph Metzner MORE TO COME IN THE FOLLOWING WEEKS Films - Paola Igliori Craig Baldwin Harry Smith Alejandro Jodorowsky Maya Deren Raymond Salvatore Harmon MORE ARTISTS TO COME! SURPRISE GUESTS! Tickets go on Sale March 20th via Wegottickets.com
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London |
| Sunday 28th June 2009 |
Gaia Sol Convention 2009 starts 11.30 a.m. till 6.30 p.m. Opening Ceremony, Grand Summer Ritual, Talks, Workshops, Performances, Stalls.
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ULU |
| Sunday 13th September 2009 |
Doreen Valiente Day This is advance notice that Atlantis Bookshop is organising an event to mark the 10th anniversary of Doreen's passing. It's going to take place on Sunday 13th September 2009 at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, and it sounds as if it will be an event to remember! Full details will be available later in the year, but put the date in your diaries :)
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Conway Hall, Red Lion Sq. London |
| Saturday 26th September 2009 |
Nu Thelemic Symposium Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford City Centre, on Saturday 26th of September this year. Here is the Wiki entry for this very famous building: The building is in the city centre right next to all the original University Campus buildings and Ashmole's original museum. That area is all laid out in the Alchemical design using Hermetic conceptualisation. There will be plenty of pubs and restaurants nearby too. I hope the day time event to start arround 10:00a.m. and go on till the early evening when we will move to a seperate venue for a social, much like the old Symposiums but hopefully about double the size. Speakers still have to be established though I have a few who are pencilled in. Suggestions are welcome but it is worth noting that the Symposium is not really geared toward beginners, though without meaning to lose them by blinding them with too much information. We don't really want it to become a soap box conference of rival orders trying to grab beginners you see. It is much more of an adepts conference, with speakers generally being asked to speak from experience on matters that they have worked on personally. The workshops will be introductions to practices that the people running them, have plenty of experience in too. Anyway the ball is rolling again. I hope to see you there. We will be putting advanced sales of tickets up in the next few weeks, so be early to secure your seat. Love is the law, love under will. Thank you, --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ |
Holywell Music Room, |
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