Tag: aleister crowley
Tarot and the myth of bad cards
My day job allows a certain amount of freedom when it comes to listening to music at work. Most people have headphones, and once...
The element of uncertainty
Uncertainty has come to play a huge role in my life as of late. The whole process entered my awareness during the Plutonica book-club...
Nietzsche on Art
I've been reading Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals, and a passage in the third essay, "What is the meaning of aesthetic ideals?" intrigued me: ...t...
Datura, edited by Ruby Sara
Datura, edited by Ruby Sara Scarlet Imprint, 9780956720368, 2011 To be honest, I've dodged a serious bullet with Datura. When its editor, Ruby Sara, put out...
The Weiser Field Guide to Witches, by Judika Illes
When a field guide is well done, it can be an incredible aid to study, classification, and practical knowledge.
Top 5 foundational books on tarot
There are five foundational books on tarot that are required reading for the serious tarot enthusiast.
100 Years of Fringe Religion: Thelema, Discordianism, Wicca, Satanism and…Atheism?
I was putting together a time-line for another essay when something occurred to me. Various religions that started as fringe have grown and expanded...
Chemical Wedding
I’m just back from the late-night regional premiere of the new Crowley-based film, Chemical Wedding, here in England. Much anticipated, this film is the...
Occult profiling: Where it comes from and why it’s worth fighting
For the past couple of years, I've had a Google Alert set for the word “Satanic.” I created it because I wanted to study how...
Is it Hailing or Not (Are We Satanists?)
This slight annoyance of being regularly asked by ‘fluffy Pagans’ if we are Satanists probably goes with the territory of being chaos magicians -...
Confessions of a Black Magician, by Nathan Neuharth
Confessions of a Black Magician, by Nathan Neuharth Original Falcon Press, 9781935150794, 191 pp., 2010 Our hero in this tale is the author himself, and as...
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