Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending June 25th, 2017.

This week I posted Black Brothers and Secret Chiefs, the next new Symposium topic on the BBS. Consider this writing prompt and share your response in the thread. For a reminder about what Symposium is all about, check out the pinned post about the symposium category.

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

• “the drugs they use to control my pain and mood sometimes make me see things.” — Quote
• Greater Feast of Marie Anne Lenormand — Calendar
• Lilith—The First Eve — Review
• “In the jungle the strong slay the weak until only the strong remain,” said Tanub. “And then the strong prey upon each other?” asked Orne. “That is a quibble for women,” said Tanub. “It’s too bad you feel that way,” said Orne. “When two cultures meet like this they tend to help each other.” — Quote
• Greater Feast of Marjorie Cameron — Calendar
• Liber Null and Psychonaut — Review
• Feast of John the Baptist — Calendar
• “soft monstrous masses, all in disorder—naked, in a frightful, obscene nakedness.” — Quote
• Liber LXIX Vel Pan-Priapus — Review
• “A fairy!” hooted the centaur, throwing back his head and laughing wildly. “Why in the name of Pan would anyone ever waste their time on those silly little pests! — Quote
• Putting God Second — Review
• The Golden One — Review
• “Books on true occultism are on the whole very useless things; because those who are in possession of occult knowledge will not require them; while those who have no such knowledge will not understand them; neither will they receive much benefit from such literature; because real spiritual knowledge must be found within one’s own soul; it cannot be learned from books. The scientist, rationalist, and speculative philosopher deals only with, so to say, the candlesticks bearing the candles from which is emanating the light which they cannot see, neither can they see the candle; for the latter is representing the soul, whose light is the spirit.” — Quote
• Futhark — Review
• “It was like finding the gateway to the past unguarded, unforbidden because it didn’t have to be.” — Quote
• Have You Been Cursed? — Review
• “As a practical application of this principle, I suggest you seek out several people that inspire you in this way. Ask them about their path: How did they get where they are? What called to them or inspired them? What do they consider their best choices and their worst failures?” — Quote

Some top pages at the library

• Formula Delta — T Polyphilus
• The Formula of the Cup of Babalon — Michael Osiris Snuffin
• Chapter I – Introductory — Rāja Yoga – Swami Vivekananda
• The Spiritual Basis of Material Sensation II The Jinn-Vision — Bagh-i-Muattar – Aleister Crowley
• A Synopsis of the Method of Invoking the Enochian Seniors — David Richard Jones

Some top posts on social media

• La Biblioteca Hermetica – Hermetic Library
• LOVE. – Little Essays Towards Truth – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• Christianity – The World’s Tragedy – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, Winter Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, June 20, 2017 at 4:24 UTC
• Figure 14. The Way.
  Lam is the Tibetan word for Way or Path, and Lama is He who Goeth, the specific title of the Gods of Egypt, the Treader of the Path, in Buddhistic phraseology. Its numerical value is 71, the number of this book.

Some top posts on the BBS

• Black Brothers and Secret Chiefs
• Templar Heresy
• “The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well”
• “For all the faded creepiness, the moment is worth revisiting, because mystics like Péladan prepared the ground for the modernist revolution of the early twentieth century.”
• Touch Me Not!

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Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending June 18th, 2017.

You may recall a while ago that I sort of accidentally on-purpose deleted the old CafePress shop for the library, where I had some shirts and stickers. You might not recall that, either the shop, because, well, no one went there anyway, or that I deleted it, because, well, no one missed it when it was gone, even me.

The shirts were too expensive even though I had my cut set to only $1, so really I was just working for CafePress for free, and there was shipping added to each, which came out to be, like, $30 per shirt. Insane, and rightly only a couple of people other than me bought any. (I actually wore my swag shirt out completely threadbare.)

But, I vaguely looked around for alternatives for a bit, considering the idea of starting up a new shop somewhere else.

One of the alternatives I checked out was Merch by Amazon (Hey, hey, thanks for the suggestion, Kane!). I was pretty sure I wouldn’t get accepted, since it looked like something for much bigger and more active swag game than I bring to the table. However, my application actually had a successful result.

It is only for offering designs on shirts, so I set up a four to start. Frankly the byzantine and Kafkaesque design approval process is a pain, so two of four designs were rejected for reasons which are not at all clear to me yet, other than I’m pretty sure they’re confused and externalizing their confusion on me to deal with. But, even still, that means there’s two that did make it online! Here they are! In a variety of colours!

They only stay online if people buy them, so I’ll add additional designs over time to replace these as they retire. That also means you’ve got to get them while they are available, if you want them.

However, in many ways this is a huge improvement. The designs are printed on premium shirts, but are half as expensive as the old shop. Also, if you’ve got Prime, there’s no shipping costs added. Although there’s rumours Merch will be opened in the UK, unfortunately for now it’s US only. All in all, in spite of a few sad trombones, a lot better that before.

There’s also pages for each of these two, and many more posters, on the site, most with a bunch of interesting relevant quotes, if people ask you for more information.

Get some cool propaganda swag from the Ministry of Information, spread the good word, and help support for the work of the library!

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

• High Magic’s Aid — Review
• “someday everybody’s gonna wake up to find they’re under surveillance they can’t escape” — Quote
• I, Crowley — Review
• Greater Feast of Jack Parsons — Calendar
• “Her nails were crooked pink sloth-hooks and her bony, nervous hands made clutching, Nosferatu shadows across her concave belly.” — Quote
• “Her nails were crooked pink sloth-hooks and her bony, nervous hands made clutching, Nosferatu shadows across her concave belly.” — Quote
• Idols of Perversity — Review
• “the feeling of wanting to look out a window with someone and have them get it” — Quote
• In Her Image — Review
• “Steer clear of them—that’s what I’ve always been told. No matter what they promise you. No good never really came to no one from any human bean.” — Quote
• Inside a Witches’ Coven — Review
• “It’s being made to learn things not on purpose. It’s unfair,” he said. “It’s sly.” — Quote
• Island of Bali — Review
• Greater Feast of Ludovicus Rex Bavariae — Calendar
• “I am indeed the Angel of Death; but I am at the same time the bearer of a higher life without end. Through me thou wilt die with thy body still living, to be reborn into an imperishable existence.” — Quote
• Kingship and the Gods — Review
• “My mother sends for everything from the Witches’ Market. That’s located near the Never-Never Land. They send her a catalog, and she orders from that.” — Quote

Some top pages at the library

• Cipher 13 —The Cipher Manuscript — Golden Dawn
• Rituals and Spell Objectives and Design in Eight Magics — Chaos
• The Zoëtic Grimoire of Zos — Austin Osman Spare
• Scorpio — Astrology: Your Place in the Sun — Aleister Crowley
• The Holiest of All Mantras — T Polyphilus

Some top posts on social media

• The Ceremony of Initiation – Walter Leslie Wilmshurst – Hermetic Library
• Concerning “Blasphemy” in General & the Rites of Eleusis in Particular – THE RITES OF ELEUSIS – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• Sir Edward Kelly – Sabazius – Hermetic Library
• Greater Feast of John Whiteside ‘Jack’ Parsons, died June 17, 1952 at Pasadena, California
• William Wynn Westcott – Hermetic Library

Some top posts on the BBS

• Crowley and the Yaqui Shamans
• A bunch more recent releases from Kim Cascone
• “I needed to know the reasons why behind each thing I learned”
• “Equations for computing the position of the Sun”
• “Far from being a ‘Black Magician’, Crowley sought to oppose the ‘Black Adepts’ in what he, along with Steiner, Evola and Guénon, et al, saw as an occult war.”

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Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending June 11th, 2017.

This week I set up the infrastructure to allow easily adding translations of library pages into other languages. I can add a number of languages, each mirroring the structure of the English language library, but for now I’ve selected a few. In the upper corner of each page is a flag icon which is a dropdown menu which offers crosslinks to the current page in the other potentially available languages.

If the page in a particular language doesn’t exist, the link goes to a note that says the page doesn’t yet exist and it can be added to the site. Currently I only have the main indexes set up, and I’m definitely going to need volunteers to take on these languages as projects, but they exist!

Check out the main library page in German, Esperanto, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and, not actually set up yet, Latin.

There’s a note at the top of each new language index to say that the translation is a work in progress, and the list of new and changed pages only includes those relevant pages within the language namespace.

Well, it’s a start! My personal hope is to have the existing content of the library offered in other languages. I’m also hoping that some new content in other languages can be added and then translated into English, and the other languages.

If you know of an important resource in one of these languages not currently available on the site in English, that should be available on the site, and that could be added as a project to translate to the others, let me know!

If you are fluent in both English and another language, and have an interest in coming on board to help with one of these new language mirrors, get in touch! If you know someone else who might be interested, let them know about the opportunity and then have them get in touch!

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

• “In 1712 the last execution for witchcraft occurred in England; in 1714 witch trials were abolished in Prussia. In 1715 an Italian Jesuit missionary, Castiglione, arrived in China; in 1716 the Chinese abolished Christian teachings. In 1717 Freemasonry was formalized, with the establishment of the first Grand Lodge in London.” — Quote
• Leaves of Yggdrasil — Review
• “A foreign organism had infiltrated his body. It was spreading through his blood, attaching to his nervous system, and trying to take root in its native soil.” — Quote
• Vathek — Review
• Feast of Basilides — Calendar
• “The following day, the unique advertisement is demolished; a new law is passed making the use of the words ‘right hand’ illegal; and a small emergency guillotine stands on every street-corner, ready to amputate all that threatens the state’s power.” — Quote
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames — Review
• “I killed you, I think as I pass a pile. And you. And you.” — Review
• Themis — Review
• Greater Feast of Muhammad — Calendar
• “The worst possible relationship between humans and some mystically potent being or beings, at least the worst that I can imagine, would be not symbiosis but parasitism.” — Quote
• The Grail — Review
• Greater Feast of Carl Kellner — Calendar
• To Reign in Hell — Review
• “A pretty pickle,” Madam Snickasnee kept mumbling. “Me, the smartest, cleverest witch this side of the Rockies, to allow mere men to get the best of me—and one of them a man by the name of ‘Beanpot,’ too. Ugh!” — Quote
• “No man can show to another the light if the latter is incapable to see it himself; but the light is everywhere; there is nothing to hinder a person to see it, except his love for the darkness.” — Quote
• Games for the Superintelligent — Review

Some top pages at the library

• Problems on the Path of Return: Pathology in Kabbalistic and Alchemical Practices — Mark Stavish
• The MSS — Aleister Crowley
• Love — Aleister Crowley
• Saints of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica — Sabazius
• The Alchemist — Aleister Crowley

Some top posts on social media

• Witchcraft – Hermetic Library
• Goetia – Classics of Magick – Norton’s Imperium – Hermetic Library
• On the Formulae of the Unicursal Hexagram – David Richard Jones – Hermetic Library
• Feast of Basilides, June 10
• Norton II – Norton’s Imperium – Hermetic Library

Some top posts on the BBS

• “bringing Austin Osman Spare back to life”
• “the fantastic Hermetic Library”
• CURRENT 93 READ RED: The COMING C93 album
• “calling a snake-shrouded figure to ‘bind’ a man who is mummified with his hands tied”
• The Terrible and Secret Fate of All Life

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Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending June 4th, 2017.

This week I announced the call for submissions for Magick Music and Ritual 13, the next Hermetic Library anthology, for 2017. I’ve also posting the call for submissions for GIT COMMIT GLITCH, the 2017 Odd Order anthology which you might check out.

Of course the best way to get anthology albums is to become a Patron today! All Patrons get gratis download codes for new anthologies, and new Patrons get a gratis download for any previously released anthology. That’s two whole albums for just $1/mo!

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Send in your wild and wooly whatever occultura and esoterrata for the Zine and record something from the library site, or something reasonably related, for Reader’s Theatre. I’ll put out the next installment of those when I’ve got enough material. I haven’t been able to create either of these this year yet. I’d love to be able to, so send in your material!

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

• “Accordingly, if we want to understand our current transformational patterns, we must try to discover the living myths of today’s world—the things we actually believe in—and the gods we truly worship.” — Quote
• Visitations — Review
• “What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ’nother song.” — Quote
• Will Eisner’s The Spirit, Vol. 1 — Review
• “Tea,” murmured Homily. “Enough for our lifetimes.” — Quote
• Gamora — Review
• “Because of course the only way pretending is any good is if you never say right out that that’s what you’re doing.” — Quote
• Hermetic Library album call for 2017 submissions
• Volkhavaar — Review
• Greater Feast of Marguerite Porete — Calendar
• “I think many writers are notoriously conservative and superstitious about their work methods, with rituals and incantations and other rubbish we won’t mention, apart, obviously, from the enormous amount of time spent staring out of the window.” — Quote
• Wonders Will Never Cease — Review
• Greater Feast of Timothy Leary — Calendar
• “I am that very being who shaped my body out of thy good and evil achievements. My spectral form is woven out of thine own life’s record.” — Quote
• Enter Doctor Nikola! — Review
• Greater Feast of Joan of Arc — Calendar
• “Just your average bespectacled, curvy six-foot tall librarian with a mean smile and a meaner tat of an orchid mantis snaking up her right shoulder.” — Quote
• Everyday Wicca — Review

Some top pages at the library

• The Book of Babalon — Jack Parsons
• On the Powers of the Sphinx, Part 1: Eliphas Lévi — Mark Stavish
• The “Arabic” Parts of the Original Rosicrucian Documents by John Eberly — Caduceus
• ORIGIN AND ANTIQUITY OF THE ARCANE SCHOOLS. CHAPTER I. ARCHAIC LEGENDS — John Yarker
• https://hermetic.com/crowley/articles/black-magic-is-not-a-myth — Aleister Crowley

Some top posts on social media

• THE MSS – Bagh I Muattar – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• The Enochian Hierarchy – An Enochian Miscellany – Hermetic Library
• Witchcraft – Hermetic Library
• In Nomine Babalon: 156 Adorations [Qabalistiques] à la Déesse Écarlate – In Nomine Babalon: 156 Adorations to the Scarlet Goddess – Received Wisdom – Hermetic Library
• The Celtic Twilight – William Butler Yeats – Hermetic Library

Some top posts on the BBS

• Call for submissions to Odd Order album GIT COMMIT GLITCH for 2017
• Covfefe ASMR Illuminati Harambe Meme
• The Light Fills You Even Deeper
• “The $10 Revolution is not an idea, but a call to action.”
• Eight Points Of Power

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Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending May 28th, 2017.

Final couple of days for the Hermetic Library 2017 Funding Campaign which closes at end of the month. There’s some great perks available only during this campaign, including featured blog and website link and graphic spaces at significant discounts for a full year. Plus other fun stuff to be had, which hasn’t ever been picked up, like the one day mini conference, which would be crazy fun to pull together. Check that out and see if there’s anything that strikes your fancy, and join the campaign, which helps keep all the fun at the library going through the year for another year.

Next up is the call for submissions for the next Hermetic Library anthology, Magick Music and Ritual 13. I’ll be posting the call for submissions for both the Hermetic Library and Odd Order anthologies next month.

I’d love to do another Zine or Reader’s Theatre is people want to send in things for that. Once I’ve got enough material for either, I’ll put it together. Although I previously had put Reader’s Theatre up on the library Soundcloud, and since I’ve left that service after they killed groups, I have to figure out how best to present the next one; perhaps as a podcast within this blog.

And, don’t forget! You can submit your idea pitches for articles, reviews, stories, or soever for the library blog and actually, thanks to all the Funding and Patron supporters, get paid for those when they are posted!

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

• “I drew my own conclusion, which was that there is an entire category of experience that is not suited to intraspecies communication, so you are advised to keep it to yourself.” — Quote
• Checking in with JJ Brine about Vector Gallery — Interview
• Elizabethan Magic — Review
• The Elements of the Runes — Review
• “WE ARE NOT ALONE, THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE, yadda yadda yadda.” — Quote
• The Elements of Ritual — Review
• “for knowledge of runes, and for power, he sacrificed himself to himself.” — Quote
• Feast of Siddhārtha — Calendar
• “Not a clichéd horned jinn, you understand, but a daunting, invisible entity that defied the laws of physics: it could slip in and out of time, could swap its senses, hear out of its nostrils, smell with its eyes. It could even fly like the tales of yore said.” — Quote
• Ecstasies — Review
• “Look up there,” he said, pointing an unsteady finger at a gap in the clouds exposing the universe, a lone far frosty star. “Infinity. There must be something in all that to fill us.” — Review
• “Some things could go to pot, but not his health, he thought. Then why don’t you stop pouring alcohol into yourself? he thought. Why don’t you shut the hell up? he thought.” — Review
• Feast of Hermes — Calendar
• Dune: House Atreides — Review
• “Humans don’t like robots who can outsmart them, so my creators implanted an override circuit in my brain that automatically reboots me whenever I have an original thought.” — Quote
• Jezebel — Review
• Dreamtime Is Upon Us — Review
• Feast of the Apparition of the Daughter of Fortitude — Calendar
• Each In His Own Tongue — Review
• “The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one.” — Quote
• The Order of the Solar Temple — Review
• Drawing Down the Moon — Review

Some top pages at the library

• An anonymous Treatise on the Philosopher’s Stone — Franz Hartmann
• Masonry and Religion — Walter Leslie Wilmshurst
• The Structure of the Golden Dawn and its Rituals — Golden Dawn
• Sepher Sephiroth sub figurâ D — Technical Libers — Aleister Crowley
• Secret Fire: The Relationship Between Kundalini, Kabbalah, and Alchemy — Mark Stavish

Some top posts on social media

• Theurgia or The Egyptian Mysteries by Iamblichos – Sacred Texts – Hermetic Library
• Weird Sun Twitter – Hermetic Library
• About Thelema Coast to Coast – Thelema Coast to Coast – Hermetic Library
• Feast of Hermes, May 24
• Liber CXXIV – Of Eden and the Sacred Oak – Technical Libers of Thelema – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library

Some top posts on the BBS

• “If there are three words then the order has to go I, A, O.”
• “God wants people happy, to live the love in the light of the sun”
• The Book of Thoth: Copy Zero, 1st Printing; Crowley’s own copy
• “The next big innovation probably won’t be a new technology, he says, but a new way of seeing.”
• Interior Castle

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Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending May 21st, 2017.

The Hermetic Library 2017 Funding Campaign is still going, and it runs through to the end of the month. This hasn’t been as popular this year as it was last time, but there’s some great perks available only during this campaign, including featured blog and website link and graphic spaces at significant discounts and that stay up for a full year. Plus other fun stuff to be had, which hasn’t been picked up, like the one day mini conference, which would be crazy fun to pull together. Check that out and see if there’s anything that strikes your fancy, and join the campaign, which helps keep all the fun at the library going through the year for another year.

I’m starting to get ready for the next Hermetic Library anthology, Magick Music and Ritual 13. I’ll be posting the call for submissions for both the Hermetic Library and Odd Order anthologies next month, so I’ve got to get post and pages and everything ready for that.

The other day I noticed there were a bunch of people that had created accounts on the Hrmtc Underground voice chat server while I wasn’t paying attention. Seeing there are actually people there makes me want to do something soon. I’m still stuck on satellite for Internet, so it’s not been possible to do “open office hours” while I work on the site yet. The idea was that I’d sit in voice chat while working on the site, which is most days, from early morning until afternoon. Other ideas were to have call in talk shows or presentations, which I think would be fun, and I could record so there’d be an archive of them. Lots of ideas of what could happen, and knowing there are people interested has had me thinking more about how to make that a thing.

I’d love to do another Zine or Reader’s Theatre is people want to send in things for that. Once I’ve got enough material for either, I’ll put it together. Although I previously had put Reader’s Theatre up on the library Soundcloud, and since I’ve left that service after they killed groups, I have to figure out how best to present the next one; perhaps as a podcast within this blog.

Although the Funding Campaign hasn’t been going well this year, so it’ll be more difficult to do than I’d hoped, I’ve been thinking about posting a “job description” for assistant librarians. Basically, I’m thinking these would be volunteer positions, but with a paid honorarium, not a job-job but not nothing, right? The idea is to finally start to Find The Others who would be willing and able to help out with content, communication, curation and creation at the library on the site, blog, BBS, and voice chat. If you think you’d be interested, let me know. One of the first things you could do to get ready for that opportunity is head over to the BBS and become active enough there so you gain automatic access to the “trust level 3” lounge. Or, something else! Get in touch and let me know what you’re interested in doing to help out.

And, don’t forget! You can submit your idea pitches for articles, reviews, stories, or soever for the library blog and actually, thanks to all the Funding and Patron supporters, get paid for those when they are posted!

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

• “the fact was that she’d fallen back into a life of crime without meaning to—and the worst sort of crime, at that: the low-paying kind.” — Quote
• Logicomix — Review
• Dark Knights of the Solar Cross — Review
• “Well read and familiar with such writers as Tyndall, Huxley, Spencer and other scientists, and being rather cosmopolitan in tastes, liked to gather about her, people who had—as she termed it—ideas.” — Quote
• Gödel’s Proof — Review
• Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods — Review
• Aetheric Mechanics — Review
• Condensed Chaos — Review
• “But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.” — Quote
• “Natural, rational life is the basis of all genuine spiritual development” — Quote
• Comparative Mythology — Review
• Greater Feast of Elias Ashmole — Calendar
• “There are not enough books here. The sight of the bare shelves shames me. What have I done?” — Quote
• Commentaries on the Holy Books and Other Papers — Review
• “She didn’t give a damn. She had a list of what she didn’t like, and almost everything—and everybody—in Lychford was on it.” — Quote
• “Judith hated nostalgia. It was just the waiting room for death.” — Quote
• Carnal Alchemy — Review
• “I existed all right, but I existed only as a condition of constant desiring and yearning, because I knew nothing.” — Quote
• The Candle Magick Workbook – Review
• “The good news is that when your operational behavior is grooved to engage with everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignment occurs, and wondrous things emerge. You become highly productive. You make things up, and you make them happen.” — Quote

Some top pages at the library

• The Masters Revealed: Madame Blavatsky and the Myth of the Great White Lodge — Joscelyn Godwin
• Part II – the Planets — Astrology: Your Place in the Stars — Aleister Crowley
• Saint-Yves d’Alveydre and the Agartthian Connection — Joscelyn Godwin
• Magic — Ideas of Good and Evil — William Butler Yeats
• The Mysteries in Relation to Philosophy — The Arcane Schools — John Yarker

Some top posts on social media

• The Masters Revealed: Madame Blavatsky and the Myth of the Great White Lodge – The Eudaimonia of Joscelyn Godwin – Hermetic Library
• An anonymous Treatise on the Philosopher’s Stone – Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians of the 16th & 17th Centuries – Franz Hartmann – Hermetic Library
• The Manuscript – Clouds without Water – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• THE AMBASSADORS – Bagh I Muattar – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• A History of Western Magick – That Old Black Magick… – Colin Campbell – Hermetic Library

Some top posts on the BBS

• “the inside of the Tower of Babel, a perfectly fascinating pastiche of Bruegel’s original” — Gatherum
• Tin Foil Hat Society 2016 Membership Application / Renewal — Gatherum
• “maybe what’s anomalous is for facts and reason to have the upper hand” — Gatherum
• “In the most cashless society on the planet, even God now accepts digital payments.” — Gatherum
• “Love is not wrong, love is not a mistake, love is not an abomination, love is just love.” — Gatherum

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Here’s a summary of activity for the week ending May 14th, 2017.

The Hermetic Library 2017 Funding Campaign is still going, and it runs through to the end of the month. There’s some great perks available, including featured blog and website link and graphic spaces, at significant discounts available only during the campaign. Plus other fun stuff to be had, which helps keep all the fun at the library going through the year for another year.

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

• “You dirty little bookworm, you.” — Quote
• Candle Magick — Review
• “They don’t read. They don’t read books. They have no books.” — Quote
• Caelethi — Review
• A crow. Hopping down a branch over her head. Staring at her with one black eye. Then another. “Hello, cousin.” She straightened up, boots firm beneath her. “What’s the word?” “Craaahhk!” — Quote
• Buckland’s Complete Book of Witchcraft — Review
• The Theosophical Enlightenment — Review
• “We are on the horns of an ethical dilemma, and to find the middle way will require all our intelligence and all our good will.” — Quote
• Bluff Your Way in the Occult — Quote
• Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth — Review
• “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?” — Quote
• “Glancing up at the sky, he nods goodbye to a silver sliver of moonlight and steps into the alleyway.” — Quote
• At the Well of Wyrd — Review
• The Lexicographer’s Dilemma — Review
• “That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I am free to act as desperately as I wish.” — Quote
• Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh — Review
• “He tired too quickly of work and got distracted by any little thing, especially the kind with long legs and a pretty smile.” — Quote
• “Now the king happened to have a marvellous lion, far more intelligent than any lion at the court of any other king; and cleverer than many humans, in fact, for he knew all kinds of secret things that were hidden from common knowledge.” — Quote
• The House of the Toad — Review
• Greater Feast of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky — Calendar
• “Love is limitless. Why limit the goals you can achieve with the power of love?” — Quote
• Greater Feast of Paul Gauguin — Calendar

Some top pages at the library

• Introduction — Bagh-i-Muattar — Aleister Crowley
• Enochian Temples: Invoking the cacodemons with the Temple — Benjamin Rowe
• Liber II The Message of The Master Therion — Aleister Crowley
• Portae Lucis Method of Jean Dubuis — Mark Stavish
• One Star in Sight — Aleister Crowley

Some top posts on social media

• INTRODUCTION – Bagh I Muattar – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• THE ABYSS – Bagh I Muattar – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• THE JINN-VISION – Bagh I Muattar – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• Appendix III Notes for an Astral Atlas – Book 4 – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library
• APPENDIX I. Bibiography and Curriculum of the A∴A∴ – Book 4 – The Libri of Aleister Crowley – Hermetic Library

Some top posts on the BBS

• “Don’t just tell me the rights you want for yourself, tell me what rights you are willing to defend for others.” — Gatherum
• “Sweet, sleepless, unwed, teenage single mother of God, where does this woman get her nerve?” — Gatherum
• “early humans co-existed in Africa 300,000 years ago with a small-brained human-like species thought to already be extinct” — Gatherum
• The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present — Announce
• “apocalyptic beliefs about the end of the world … are increasingly common among some of the leading scientists today” — Gatherum

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