Journal
Within the alchemical nigredo
A powerful and deeply affecting presentation of images and text from Gast Bouschet’s Anarch, evocatively read by Peter Mark Adams and produced by Darragh Mason, with a soundtrack by Sutekh Hexen and Funerary Call.
On Magic, Art and Two Esoteric Tarots
Peter Mark Adams and Christophe Poncet discuss the Sola Busca tarocchi and the Tarot de Marseille and their place in the occult worlds of Renaissance magic and philosophy.
Avalonian pilgrimage
A truly magical day walking the precincts of the Holy Island, making pilgrimage from Edmund Hill to Gog and Magog and onwards to the inner sanctum.
Stars of BABALON
Alkistis Dimech’s keynote for Astro Magia 23, on the prehistory of Babalon, the celestial theophanies of the hierodule Inana-Ishtar and the poietics of flesh.
About Avalon Working
Mark Nemglan discusses his work with the spirits of the Holy Island of Glastonbury. A glimpse of the process of pilgrimage and ritual behind his Avalon Working.
Atomic gods: Magick beyond the nuclear horizon
Peter Grey’s lecture on Magick beyond the nuclear horizon, considering Crowley, Parsons, Lovecraft, Grant, Oppenheimer and others, presented at the Occulture Conference in Berlin.
Entering Paracelsus’ treasure house of insults
A scurrilous, scandalous and scatological short work from Frater Acher with exuberantly ribald illustrations by José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal – available to download for free.
Dark dance: Eros, illness and the sacred
A lecture by Alkistis Dimech on butô, antinomian dance and the radical reappraisal of the body after Nietzsche, presented at the Occulture Conference in Berlin on 20th October 2023.
Mithras and the Saturn cult
Peter Mark Adams shares the fruits of his ongoing research into the enigmatic Sola-Busca tarocchi, discussing the context of the deck’s creation and its ties with the cult of Mithras.
Changing the game
Christophe Poncet’s lecture on ‘Investigating early esoteric uses of the Tarot de Marseille,’ at the Occulture Conference in Berlin, presenting research that will appear in his The Tarot of Marsilio.
Gypsy card techniques
Balthazar Blacke introduces some foundational ideas and techniques using the Divine Gypsy Mother cards: the two-card cut and polarity in the cards; and card order, influence, and the Death card.
‘Desire is the presence of absence’
I recently had the pleasure of conversing with Brian Nuckols on the Peace Now podcast, the episode Exploring Desire, Otherness, and Transformation through Dance can now be heard.
The Egyptian Mysteries
Peter Mark Adams on the Egyptian Mysteries, speaking on the Glitch Bottle podcast, and details of his upcoming course.
Nigromancy with Julio Cesar Ody
Julio Cesar Ody joins the What Magic Is This? podcast to share his profound practical magical knowledge.
Sex, Power, Lies.
False accusations of rape are the most damaging and reputationally destructive action that a woman can take against a man. At the height of #metoo, such a false claim was made by Georgia van Raalte.
Sweet sixteen
Today, on our sixteenth anniversary, we extend our heartfelt thanks to you, and the writers, artists and readers who have joined us in the magical adventure which began on 07/07/07.
The Magus of Klook’s Kleek
The Magus of Klook’s Kleek by Paul A. Green, an evocation of occult jazz-rocker Graham Bond, was performed live at the Manchester Folk Horror Festival on 4th February. A recording is now online.
Of sacred things
Recent reviews of Peter Mark Adams’s Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos by Mark Stavish and Denis Poisson.