Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending November 6, 2016.

This week was the end of Aethyrs panels I’ve posted for Inktober. Be sure to check out the summary post with a list of them all.

I’ve started to work in earnest on the playlist for the upcoming anthology Magick, Music and Ritual 12 and getting all the artist profiles drafted so participants can check them out before release. There are so many tracks on this one! I hope I finish in time for Dec 3rd, the anniversary of Hermetic Library’s birth; and the beginning of the 20th year the library has been online. I’m so excited to share this one with you all when it is ready!

Here’s a summary of posts on the blog from last week

• “So I still have a chance, though. Funny, in the arena, when I poured out those berries, I was only thinking of outsmarting the Gamemakers, not how my actions would reflect on the Capitol. But the Hunger Games are their weapon and you are not supposed to be able to defeat it. So now the Capitol will act as if they’ve been in control the whole time. As if they orchestrated the whole event, right down to the double suicide. But that will only work if I play along with them.”—Suzanne Collins
• The Kingdom of Evil by Ben Hecht
• Crowley Corollary achievement unlocked in 2016 US elections!
• “The problem of Cagliostro will not be solved by our historians until they study the true nature of man in its normal and abnormal aspects, when they may, perhaps, discover the fact that two personalities may inhabit one physical organism, and that a man may, perhaps, be a Cagliostro at one time and a Balsamo at another.”—Franz Hartmann
• Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
• “Then how do they pay you for the pleasure of your company?” I ask. “With secrets”—Suzanne Collins
• Summary of Aethyrs for Inktober 2016
• Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
• The Angel & The Abyss: The Inward Journey, Books II & III by J Daniel Gunther
• Mind your own business.—Aethers #31
• ‘Please!’ I say. ‘Remove the crown from my head! I no longer want to be the torturer and the tortured! Take it off! Take it off!’ ‘I cannot,’ she says. ‘You have to remove your crown yourself.’ ‘But how?’ I protest. ‘I have no awareness of it. I don’t know where I end and it begins.’—Mike Russell
• Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer, with illustrations by Liz Pulido
• I give up.—Aethyrs #30

Some top pages at the library

• THE FORTY-EIGHT CALLS OR KEYS in the Enochian Language, Crowley’s Phonetic, and Dee’s English. — An Enochian Miscellany
• The New and Old Commentaries to Liber AL vel Legis, The Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley — Liber Legis
• Liber O vel Manvs et Sagittae svb figvrâ VI — Libri — Aleister Crowley
• Liber XXX Aerum vel Saecvli svb figvra CCCCXVIII — Libri — Aleister Crowley
• On the Formulae of the Unicursal Hexagram — David Richard Jones
• A Short Course in Scrying — Norton’s Imperium

Some top posts on social media

• Book 4 – Magick – Liber ABA — Books — Aleister Crowley
• Liber ΘΗΣΑΥΡΟΥ ΕΙΔΩΛΩΝ sub figurâ DCCCCLXIII, The Treasure House of Images —Libri — Aleister Crowley
• The Initiated Interpretation of Ceremonial Magic — The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King — Aleister Crowley
• Liber L vel Legis sub figurâ XXXI
• “We do not whine about pain and loss! It is a gift. Burn your hand and understand fire, child! You don’t learn about the frost by asking for its name. You give it a finger…a toe. Hmm?”—J Kelley Anderson, Casting Shadows

Some top posts on the BBS

• “a dangerous introduction to demonic occult deception”
• “William Friedkin … followed “the Dean of Exorcists” as he fought to expel Satan from an Italian woman.”
• “An Australian man searching for a toilet stumbled across the oldest-known evidence of Aboriginal settlement in existence.”
• “praying at the altar of technology provides more powerful benefits to devotees of progress than the traditional gods give the faithful”
• “An allegory uprooted from its time can only return later as a new and beguiling mobile.”
• Galaxy of Horrors

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