Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending November 19th, 2017.

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

• The Black Book of Satan — Review
• The Black Arts — Review
• Greater Feast of Adam Weishaupt — Calendar
• First Initiation of Aleister Crowley — Calendar
• “The more one learns about Dee and his work, the more complex the terrain becomes—and the more threads of the modern world one can trace back to this crucial historical flashpoint.” — Quote
• The A∴A∴ — Review
• Greater Feast of Jacob Boehme — Calendar
• “simply being aware of your areas of lesser talent can help you avoid major roadblocks.” — Quote
• The Art of Ritual — Review
• “The question is not whether consciousness or whether knowledge, but the quality of the consciousness and of the knowledge. And that invites consideration of the quality of fineness of the human subject—the most problematic standard of all.” — Quote
• The Art and Architecture of Freemasonry — Review
• “If we can send lightning thieves up in airships by god we can create a thick, creamy beverage that can’t be confused for spoiled paneer.” — Quote
• Teutonic Magic — Review
• “His words seemed as vacuous as empty space yet densely self-serving.” — Quote
• Summoning Spirits — Review
• Greater Feast of John Balance — Calendar
• Greater Feast of Osiris — Calendar

Some top pages at the library

• The Astral World — William Walker Atkinson
• I hight Don Quixote, I live on peyote — Jack Parsons
• The Cry of the 30th Æthyr Which is Called TEX — Aleister Crowley
• The First Note of Grammar — Norton’s Imperium
• III. THE VALUE OF BUDDHISM. — Allan Bennett

Some top posts on social media

• Greater Feast of John Balance, died November 13, 2004 at London, England
• First Initiation of Aleister Crowley, on November 18, 1898 at London, England
• The Rite of Mercury – The Rites of Eleusis – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• The Jihad of Chaos – Chaos Magick – Hermetic Library
• Featured Papers – Norton’s Imperium – Hermetic Library

Some top posts on the BBS

• “Some scholars believe they are all fake.”
• Weave
• Babalon