Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending March 5th, 2017.

Want to write for Hermetic Library? Now you can! This is the big news this week: the open and rolling call for pitch ideas which was formally announced. I’d love to hear your pitch idea, and you can read more about the process of how a pitch will proceed from idea to being published as a post to the blog, on the library site, perhaps as a special issue for publication subscription Patrons, or, maybe, just maybe, if there’s enough material and interest, it might become time to start up that journal I’ve wanted to do!

One of the things that’s occurred to me since I posted that announcement is that if you are interested in reviewing books, I may also be able to get a copy of the book for you. If you’re interested in that, then for the question on the pitch idea form where I ask about compensation, select “Other” and mention that you’d like a reviewer copy of the book. Then, if we go ahead with that pitch, I’ll work on getting the book for you. So, got a book you really want to review but don’t have? Submit a pitch and let me (try to) get that book for you!

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

• we were beginning to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had believed they had.—James Hilton, Lost Horizon: A Novel — Quote
• Feast of Lao Tzu — Calendar
• There’s a dark lantern of the spirit, Which none see by but those who bear it, That makes them in the dark see visions And hag themselves with apparitions, Find racks for their own minds, and vaunt Of their own misery and want.—Samuel Butler quoted in Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey — Quote
• Greater Feast of Saladin — Calendar
• Brasyl by Ian McDonald — Review
• Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition by David Bakan — Review
• Greater Feast of Philip K Dick — Calendar
• Write an article, review, or story for Hermetic Library
• It may seem egocentric, but Martin wasn’t worried about that. He had spent a lot of time thinking about himself, and had come to the conclusion that he was definitely not self-absorbed.—Scott Meyer, Off to Be the Wizard — Quote
• The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud — Review
• one puzzle she couldn’t solve was people. To Ada, they all seemed to be broken in ways she couldn’t make sense of, and couldn’t fix.—Jordan Stratford, The Case of the Missing Moonstone — Quote
• Our society doesn’t prepare people to deal with most of the challenges we actually end up facing. Stress, overwhelm, constant worry, the breakup of meaningful relationships, death of loved ones—these are just a few of the aspects of life that our schooling never addresses.—Michael Taft, The Mindful Geek: Mindfulness Meditation for Secular Skeptics — Quote
• It was as if one of these people—he always thought of them as “these people,” much as he had grown to like and to admire them—should find himself dealing with a group of very alert and resourceful chimpanzees.—Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth — Quote

Some top pages at the library

• The Deeper Symbolism of Freemasonry – The Meaning of Masonry – Walter Leslie Wilmshurst
• Paschal Beverly Randolph — Sabazius
• Liber Arcanorum τών ATU τού TAHUTI QUAS VIDIT ASAR IN AMENNTI sub figurâ CCXXXI Liber Carcerorum τών QLIPHOTH cum suis Geniis. Adduntur Sigilla et Nomina Eorum. – Technical Libers of Thelema – The Libri of Aleister Crowley
• Liber CDXV – Opus Lutetianum or The Paris Working – Technical Libers of Thelema – The Libri of Aleister Crowley
• Austin Osman Spare and the Zos Kia Cultus – Austin Osman Spare

Some top posts on social media

• The Nature of Alchemy: Investigations into the spiritual life cycle of material existence and the natural process of attainment
• Feast of Lao Tzu, March 5
• This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.
  Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

• Abrahadabra – Hermeneuticon
• Greater Feast of Philip K Dick, died March 2, 1982 at Santa Ana, California

Some top posts on the BBS

• Help out Legends, Myths and Whiskey Podcast and maybe win a bottle of whisky
• Call for submissions to one-off Find the Others fanzine by Cosmic Trigger Play
• “גשם גשם מטפטף” חובה צפייה أغنية عبرية 2017 اغاني عبري روعه | أغنية إسرائيلي
• The Victor & Cora Anderson Archive finds a permanent home at New Alexandrian Library
• “what it reveals is calling into question our most basic ideas about the roots of Western civilization”

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