Continuing his in depth examinations of Aleister Crowley’s travels, Tobias Churton turns his attention to Crowley’s travels in India. Like his earlier works The Beast In Berlin and Aleister Crowley In America, Churton draws on extensive research and includes previously unpublished excerpts from Crowley’s journals made during his travels....
Each memory is its owndiscreet and distinctEach a singular worldin an idiosyncratic solar system An overflowing ashtray a stone cata glass of scotch a corncob pipeThe living face of a dead lover frozen in B&Won an old fitness pass long ago expiredA dogeared paperback on Tilopa’s song of mahamudraComing...
Runic Book of Days: A Guide to Living the Annual Cycle of Rune MagickS. Kelley Harrell, foreward by Nigel Pennick(Destiny, 2018) Aligning runes to the calendar has a long and rich history. From that tradition and building on the work of Freya Aswyn and Nigel Pennick, Harrell develops a...
A good amount of my time has been spent studying occultism and art–and at the best of times the intersection of the two. One of the high points where occultism strongly influenced art was the French fin de sieclé. The end of the nineteenth century included several rich fusions...
Conjure and Hoodoo form a rich tapestry that is North American folk magic. It is a diverse and rich tradition primarily of the American South and Appalachia. It is one handed down in community and through family tradition. The works reviewed here set out personal experiences with the traditions...