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Tyburn Jig

Saturday, May 19, 2012

“Tyburn Jig” is a track added by The Transmutations in the Hermetic Library audio pool.

 

The Hermetic Library audio pool is a participatory place for sharing sounds and music of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Music and performance can be a form of ritual and magick. Works and artists have long been inspired by the ideas of Western Esotericism and Mysticism. This group is to help create a space for sharing, music and other audio, and connecting with artists who feel drawn to these topics and ideas, or, especially, incorporate and manifest ritual and magick in their works. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the audio pool, head over to the Hermetic Library audio pool or contact the librarian.


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In Nomine Babalon, XL

Friday, May 18, 2012

XL

Hear the charge of the Goddess, “To Me! To Me!”

As she beckons to those who wish to be free;

Calling Her children from hither and yon!

I raise up the cup and adore Babalon!

— In Nomine Babalon: 156 Adorations to the Scarlet Goddess

 

The Hermetic Library arts and letters pool is a project to publish poetry, prose and art that is inspired by or manifests the Western Esoteric Tradition. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the Arts and Letters pool, contact the librarian.


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From the inner sun

Friday, May 18, 2012

“From the inner sun” is a track added by Mike Spring in the Hermetic Library audio pool.

 

“Detail to this song is that has 5/4 4/4 measure, which contributes to the special feel of it.”

 

The Hermetic Library audio pool is a participatory place for sharing sounds and music of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Music and performance can be a form of ritual and magick. Works and artists have long been inspired by the ideas of Western Esotericism and Mysticism. This group is to help create a space for sharing, music and other audio, and connecting with artists who feel drawn to these topics and ideas, or, especially, incorporate and manifest ritual and magick in their works. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the audio pool, head over to the Hermetic Library audio pool or contact the librarian.


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A Forest Transmitter

Thursday, May 17, 2012

“A Forest Transmitter” is a track added by 77 Ghiest 77 in the Hermetic Library audio pool.

 

The Hermetic Library audio pool is a participatory place for sharing sounds and music of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Music and performance can be a form of ritual and magick. Works and artists have long been inspired by the ideas of Western Esotericism and Mysticism. This group is to help create a space for sharing, music and other audio, and connecting with artists who feel drawn to these topics and ideas, or, especially, incorporate and manifest ritual and magick in their works. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the audio pool, head over to the Hermetic Library audio pool or contact the librarian.


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In Nomine Babalon, XXXIX

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

XXXIX

Consummate love in the sphere of the sun

As we ascend to the light of the One!

There we will burn away all illusion.

I raise up the cup and adore Babalon!

— In Nomine Babalon: 156 Adorations to the Scarlet Goddess

 

The Hermetic Library arts and letters pool is a project to publish poetry, prose and art that is inspired by or manifests the Western Esoteric Tradition. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the Arts and Letters pool, contact the librarian.


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Power to the People / Heal the Mother

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

“Power to the People/ Heal the Mother” is a track added by ReV Chloe in the Hermetic Library audio pool.

 

“Power to the People by Ralph C. Buckley
with ReV Chloe
2012
Heal the Mother ‘here’, hear ?
Maximum Love to All”

 

The Hermetic Library audio pool is a participatory place for sharing sounds and music of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Music and performance can be a form of ritual and magick. Works and artists have long been inspired by the ideas of Western Esotericism and Mysticism. This group is to help create a space for sharing, music and other audio, and connecting with artists who feel drawn to these topics and ideas, or, especially, incorporate and manifest ritual and magick in their works. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the audio pool, head over to the Hermetic Library audio pool or contact the librarian.


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The Whole of the Law

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

“The Whole of the Law” (Remix) is a track added by Thom Stewart IV in the Hermetic Library audio pool.

 

“The original being a little too sparse in retrospect, I livened (and darkened) it up. It’s currently characterized by an eccentric, warm, warped, and stygian melody, an 808 cowbell and talking robots, all at a tempo of 93.”

 

The Hermetic Library audio pool is a participatory place for sharing sounds and music of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Music and performance can be a form of ritual and magick. Works and artists have long been inspired by the ideas of Western Esotericism and Mysticism. This group is to help create a space for sharing, music and other audio, and connecting with artists who feel drawn to these topics and ideas, or, especially, incorporate and manifest ritual and magick in their works. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the audio pool, head over to the Hermetic Library audio pool or contact the librarian.


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In Nomine Babalon, XXXVIII

Monday, May 14, 2012

XXXVIII

Myst’ry of myst’ry Thou goddess divine!

Anoint me with blood as I kneel at Your shrine!

Bless me with the weapon of Avalon,

I raise up the cup and adore Babalon!

— In Nomine Babalon: 156 Adorations to the Scarlet Goddess

 

The Hermetic Library arts and letters pool is a project to publish poetry, prose and art that is inspired by or manifests the Western Esoteric Tradition. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the Arts and Letters pool, contact the librarian.


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Are among us

Monday, May 14, 2012

“Are among us” is a track added by StrykninY in the Hermetic Library audio pool.

 

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fairy advisor

Monday, May 14, 2012
fairy advisor
fairy advisor, originally uploaded by Robert Owen.

 

The Hermetic Library visual pool is a visual scavenger hunt for images of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Images of your ritual or ritual space, images of sigils or tools, showing off your own library or special volume from the restricted stacks, sacred spaces and places, esoteric artefacts and installations, inspired paintings and people — these and much more are part of the culture and practice of magick. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the visual pool, head over to the Hermetic Library visual pool or contact the librarian.


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“Gröne Lunden” by <Omnia from Musick and Poëtree

“A very exclusive FULLY ACOUSTIC video of the entrancing traditional Swedish song “Gröne Lunden” as performed by Steve Sic and Jenny in their duo project ‘OMNIA-Poëtree’ on two beautiful Celtic Harps.”


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Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare are goth for life at “Goth for life“, an article at the Guardian about Carl McCoy of Fields of the Nephilim.

“He struggles to name any influences on their formative sound, offers scant details about his upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness (‘you didn’t have Christmas and you didn’t have birthdays … it was interesting’) and declines to elaborate on the interest in the occult that has led him to make regular references to chaos magic in his songs and to perform gigs he calls Ceromonies (sic) on the anniversaries of Austin Osman Spare and Aleister Crowley’s deaths. ‘It’s nothing to do with believing, like I believe you,’ he frowns, when I ask him if he actually believes in magic or is merely using it as interesting imagery. ‘It’s knowing. I know. I’ve experienced things that are beyond reality. Many things.’ This sounds fascinating, but McCoy collects himself. ‘I don’t want to go too far on this,’ he says hurriedly, ‘because I don’t want to make a twat of meself.’” [via]


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Aleister Crowley and Iron Maiden hang out at number 13 in a list of “100 albums every science fiction and fantasy fan must experience once in this lifetime” at “100 Albums Every Science Fiction and Fantasy Fan Should Listen To: 11-30”

“13. Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)
A glorious slab of messianic fantasy metal from the band who once covered Colderidge with shredding, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son causes your mind’s eye to go LARPing. You’ll hang with Aleister Crowley, get a Shakespeare lesson, and fence Satan to death with Bruce Dickinson. – CL” [via]


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HT @brainpicker, Open Culture

“You know, Hell is purely a voluntary organization …”

“We get a lot of opposition from the press … and still some from the church.”


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Dr Dee is a newly released album of music by Damon Albarn for Dr Dee: An English Opera and is reviewed at “Damon Albarn: Dr Dee – review“. I posted about Dr Dee: An English Opera last year at “Dr Dee: An English Opera on July 1st-9th at Palace Theatre, Manchester UK” but missed that the music had been released. Anyhow, Aleister Crowley and the Golden Dawn both get hat tips.

“Any casual fans wondering what that Gorillaz singer Damon Albarn has been up to since the graphic outfit split last year will probably not find this album the most germane of listens. When you stick the Dr Dee CD into your computer, iTunes laughably categorises it as indie rock. It really isn’t.

First staged at Manchester’s international festival last year, Dr Dee is an operatic work that revisits John Dee, a renaissance man of the Elizabethan era. His expertise in mathematics and astronomy earned him the ear of Elizabeth I, but his thirst for occult knowledge led to his downfall. A more evolved version of the opera is due this summer, as part of the Cultural Olympiad.

This is also Albarn’s first solo album proper (not counting the demo collection, Democrazy, from 2003), and Dr Dee finds the occasional Blur singer at his most heterogeneous: refracting folk and early church music through the African influences he has been steeped in since 2002′s Mali Music. The album opens with running water, Devonian birdsong and an organ-heavy track called ‘The Golden Dawn’, a reference to the magickal society probably best known to rock fans as the playground of Aleister Crowley.” [via]


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The second number of The Ruby Tablet is now available. The Ruby Tablet is a periodical compiled and edited by Darcy Kuntz, under the auspices of the Golden Dawn Research Trust, which may be of some interest. So, check it out and consider helping with a donation to keep new issues of this periodical coming.

“The Ruby Tablet is a periodical featuring reprints of articles from esoteric magazines and journals from the past. The subjects covered in each issue are drawn from the esoteric genre such as Alchemy, Hermetic, Enochian, Kabbalah, Tarot, Martinism, Masonry, Rosicrucian, etc.

Download Vol. I. March — April 2012 No. 2
Contents: The Secret or Mystery of the Rose; Notes: Sephiroth and Hermetic Brothers of Egypt; Skylight Press; Notes on the Astral Light by B.N. Acle; Golden Dawn Research Trust; Ritual of the Fratres Lucis (concluded); Rosicrucian Order of the Golden Dawn; Allocution for the 2=9 Grade of Theoricus; Ouroboros Press; Alchemy by Parabolanus; Forge Press; The Tarot: An Antique Method of Divination; Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Books; Magical Aphorisms of Eugenius Philalethes.” [via]

Apparently the links within the first number, about which I posted previously, have been revised, so you may want to re-download Vol. I. January — February 2012 No. 1 as well.

 

 

“The first issue of The Ruby Tablet was well received and with this second issue, we begin to build upon that foundation. We have chosen articles to reflect new books published as well as questions that we received from out readers.

The Ruby Tablet is sold without a set price and is on the honour system. We will let you decide what to donate, based on what you feel The Ruby Tablet is worth. We propose a minimum donation of $5.00. Below is a button that will take you to our donation page.”

“Donate“


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Luck

Saturday, May 12, 2012
Luck
Luck, originally uploaded by Robert Owen.

 

The Hermetic Library visual pool is a visual scavenger hunt for images of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Images of your ritual or ritual space, images of sigils or tools, showing off your own library or special volume from the restricted stacks, sacred spaces and places, esoteric artefacts and installations, inspired paintings and people — these and much more are part of the culture and practice of magick. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the visual pool, head over to the Hermetic Library visual pool or contact the librarian.


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In Nomine Babalon, XXXVII

Friday, May 11, 2012

XXXVII

The sun’s own flame buring inside Your heart

With the fiery malice of Hades’ black art;

Belching out liquid fire, a tide of crimson!

I raise up the cup and adore Babalon!

— In Nomine Babalon: 156 Adorations to the Scarlet Goddess

 

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wake up

Friday, May 11, 2012
wake up
wake up, originally uploaded by Robert Owen.

 

“please see the world around you and make an effort to understand”

 

The Hermetic Library visual pool is a visual scavenger hunt for images of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Images of your ritual or ritual space, images of sigils or tools, showing off your own library or special volume from the restricted stacks, sacred spaces and places, esoteric artefacts and installations, inspired paintings and people — these and much more are part of the culture and practice of magick. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the visual pool, head over to the Hermetic Library visual pool or contact the librarian.


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Five new items by Aleister Crowley from Vanity Fair 1916

Thursday, May 10, 2012

I added five new items by Aleister Crowley from the pages of Vanity Fair in 1916. There’s a couple of articles, some written pseudonymously, and some more poetry I think hasn’t been collected anywhere before. One of the articles is a historical political piece which will probably be of interest to a variety of people; another is a kind of review of Ratan Devi’s performances in New York by Crowley, which is Crowley promoting the work of a love interest under a pseudonym; the final article is an odd little spoof piece purporting to detail the scientific management of blondes (which also includes an interesting fake comment from the Editor chidding the piece for appearing to favour the Germans). Then there’s two poems, one begins “A cigar is like a wife!” and the second “When first your raven beauty made me fond” seems to be related to the article about blondes.

You can read a bit more about Aleister Crowley, his affair with Ratan Devi, and this period of time when Crowley was in New York in Chapter 12 of Richard Kaczynski‘s Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley and also, I happened onto this today, for another perspective in “The savant and the occultist” by Richard Boyle. Of course, don’t forget that the Confessions of Aleister Crowley are online at the library.

Three Great Hoaxes of the War
Blessed Are They That Have Not Seen and Yet Have Believed
By Aleister Crowley
Vanity Fair, January, 1916, p 37,118

Anna of Havana
By Aleister Crowley
With Drawings by Reginald Birch
Vanity Fair, January, 1916, p 43

To a Brunette
Addressed to His Beloved, after a short absence
By Aleister Crowley
Sketches by Reginald Birch
Vanity Fair, February, 1916, p 63

Ratan Devi: Indian Singer
By Sri Paramahansa Tat (Aleister Crowley)
Vanity Fair, May, 1916, p 79

On the Management of Blondes
Prolegomena to Any System of Philosophy Devoted to Their Treatment and Care
By Dionysus Carr (Aleister Crowley), Professor of Eugenics in the University of Tübingen
Vanity Fair, May, 1916, p 85


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