By Psyche | August 6, 2009
To commemorate the centenary of Aleister Crowley’s final acceptance of the Book of the Law and the release of the first issue of The Equinox, the Company of Heaven has produced a hundred miniature Stelae of Revealing based on Crowley’s design.
There are twenty-eight replica editions available through Weiser Antiquarian Books, and 72 magickal stelae available through the Atlantis Bookshop.
The stele comes in a lovely box, the one pictured left is mine, a replica edition. It just came in the mail today (numbered 12 of 28).
They were going quickly, but if you’re interested, try e-mailing Weiser Antiquarian to see if any more have come available, or try Atlantis (though they didn’t get back to me when I e-mailed).
For more information and purchase details see LAShTAL.com.
Thanks to Keith418 for mentioning it in his blog and passing on the link to LAShTAL.
By Psyche | September 6, 2008
Saturday Signal: sifting the signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.
September’s another busy month: Pagan Pride days, the beginning of Ganesh Chaturthi, mainstream publishing begins its big Fall push, and the autumnal equinox and its surrounding festivities loom ever closer. Continue reading »
By Psyche | August 6, 2008
According to the Internet’s most reliable source of information, Wikipedia, the Knights Templar were founded after the first crusade in 1096, and officially endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church around 1129.
In 1307 many of the Order’s members were arrested, tortured, and burned at the stake. In 1312, Pope Clement, under continuing pressure from King Philip IV of France, disbanded the Knights Templar. Continue reading »
By Psyche | August 2, 2008
The Internet is wonderful; so many interesting things to read, watch and play with, but, let’s face it, there’s also a lot of crap, and sometimes it can be difficult to find the shiny bits.
To combat this, I hereby introduce Saturday Signal, ahrfoundation.org’s attempt to sift signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.
Saturday Signal will offer up Continue reading »
By Psyche | July 25, 2008
A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern, by Corinna Treitel
John Hopkins University Press, 0801878128, 366 pp. (incl. appendices, notes, bibliography and index), 2004
A Science for the Soul explores German occultism between the 1870s and 1940s, largely focusing on parapsychology, séances, mediumism, Theosophy and the spiritualist movement, their popularization, and what effects this had on the larger German culture.
Treitel opens with a look at how occultism brought science and the psyche together, helping to facilitate “the blossoming of psychological modernism circa 1900″, which she writes has been “largely ignored or underplayed in accounts of the era”. Continue reading »
