Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending Dec 4th, 2016.

I’ve released Magick, Music and Ritual 12. It’s available for immediate digital download. The whole thing is a monster! There’s 45 tracks by 41 artists, and there’s 6 hours of music! 6 hours!

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

• Magick, Music and Ritual 12 cover artwork
• Brothers and sisters, on this day Of deathless glory, let us come United in our glad array To hymn our fathers’ martyrdom. Ashes to ashes? Dust to dust? So let it be! In God we trust. They died – they died – and we are free. Take up their cross! Deserve their crown! The stainless flag of liberty By man shall not be trodden down! Ashes to ashes? Dust to dust? So let it be! In God we trust.—Aleister Crowley, Hymn for the American People
• The Hermetic Library Anthology Album – Magic, Music and Ritual 12
• “We must, therefore, in all magic operations, apply a strong will, a vivid imagination, a confident hope, and a firm faith; all of which combined will assist in producing the desired result.”—Franz Hartmann, In The Pronaos of The Temple of Wisdom
• Happy 20th Year Online, Hermetic Library!
• Annihilation of Aleister Crowley
• Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell
• “Be of good cheer. The hour of your deliverance will come. The soul of freedom is deathless. It cannot and will not perish.”—Winston Churchill, To the People of Czechoslovakia
• “The clothing of the spirit is the form which he inhabits, and must be adapted to the conditions of the planet whereon he resides.”—Franz Hartmann, In The Pronaos of The Temple of Wisdom
• Greater Feast of Aleister Crowley
• Theoretical Animals by Gary J Shipley
• “In order to make the soul into something more evolved and free, we need to work with it at the level of personal and collective memory (myth, folktale, and fairy tale).”—Carolyn Elliott, Awaken Your Genius
• Freedom is Deathless
• “This imaginative identification activates profound potentials of our being that would otherwise go unawakened as long as we continued to imagine ourselves as ordinary humans.”—Carolyn Elliott, Awaken Your Genius

Some top pages at the library

• Papyri Graecae Magicae
• A Guide to the Study of Aleisterian Thelema — Eidolons of Ash
• The New and Old Commentaries to Liber AL vel Legis — The Book of the Law
• Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae sub figurâ VI — Libri — Aleister Crowley
• The System of Enochian Magick, Part III: The Hierarchy of the Watchtowers — David Richard Jones

Some top posts on social media

• I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning.—Aleister Crowley, Book of Lies
• Annihilation of Saint Aleister Crowley, on December 3, 1909 at Bou-Saada, Algeria
• Greater Feast of Saint Aleister Crowley, died December 1, 1947 at Hastings, United Kingdom
• all forms of serious art and knowledge—in other words, all forms of truth—are suspect and dangerous.—Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
• Taken together, it seems that Dee may be responsible for nothing less than our present world.—Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation

Some top posts on the BBS

• Hillbilly Horror Stories discusses Aleister Crowley
• “gun that wounded French poet Arthur Rimbaud … used by Rimbaud’s lover, fellow French poet Paul Verlaine”
• Postcards from Salem
• The Book of Wonder
• Solve et Coagula: A Film of Orpheus & Dionysos, with a Kinetic Composite Statue

Be sure to check out the actual Hermetic Library, and all the ways you can participate at the library and support the work.