I recently decided I wanted to learn the use of the Lenormand oracle, a form of cartomacy using a deck of 36 cards popularized in 19th century Europe. Originating from Germany and used extensively by the French, the oracle takes its name from Marie Anne Lenormand a famous card...
Moving quickly past the Real-Housewives-reality-tv nod in the title, Ellen Evert Hoffman’s Real Witches of New England: History, Lore & Modern Practice is an interesting collection of interviews. Separated into three distinct section, the first part presents a well done and humanized history of persons caught up in New...
I am just now catching up on two works by prolific occult historian Tobias Churton: Occult Paris and Aleister Crowley in America. Having long been an admirer of Churton’s work—his Gnostic Philosophy and Invisible History of the Rosicrucians are important contributions to the field—I was looking forward to these two volumes...
Black Freemasonry: From Prince Hall to the Giants of Jazz Cécile Révauger Inner Traditions, 2016, $29.95 Already the author of several books on Freemasonry in French, University of Bordeaux professor Cécile Révauger turns her attention to the history of Black Freemasonry in the United States. As early as the...
By Brad Warner, author of Don’t Be a Jerk [Editor: Brad Warner’s recent book Don’t Be a Jerrk is “a radical and reverent paraphrasing” the classic Zen text the Shobogenzo (The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye) by the thirteenth century master Dogen. Warner’s ‘modernization’ of Dongen’s work into plainspoken language...