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Archive for June, 2008
New books from Teitan Press
Teitan Press, publishers of high quality rare occult works, announce two interesting new books: Three Essays on Freedom by Jack Parsons (edited by Hymenaeus Beta), and Fredrick Hockley’s A Complete Book of Magic Science Containing the method of constraining and exorcising spirits to appearance, the consecration of Magic Circles, and The Form of a Bond [...]
It is better to build a seismograph than to worship the volcano
Tremendous interview about religion with the truly magnificent Terry Pratchett:
I asked a teacher what the opposite of a miracle was and she, without thinking, I assume, said it was an act of God.
You shouldn’t say something like that to the kind of kid who will grow up to be a writer; we have long memories.
Fernando Pessoa’s papers up for sale
The legacy of one of the finest poets and Thelemites of the 20th Century, Fernando Pessoa, is being put up for sale by his nephews. After his death Pessoa left a huge trunk full of papers behind, many of which have still never seen the light of day, including an unfinished novel featuring Aleister Crowley [...]
O.T.O. wins trademark case
We have just received the following press release from O.T.O. We assume this means that there will only be one Order calling itself O.T.O. in future, which will lessen the confusion many new people feel when they enter the world of Thelema…
News from International Headquarters
June 17, 2008 e.v.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole [...]
The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic
The Forbidden Planet blog has an interview of Alan Moore by Pádraig Ó Méalóid. In the interview, Alan says a few words about an upcoming book of his, the Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, which we at abrahadabra.net are really looking forward to:
AM: I think it’s fairly rational, and it’s going to be [...]
High IQ implies atheism?
Professor Richard Lynn says in a forthcoming paper for the journal Intelligence, that there is a strong correlation between high IQ and lack of religious belief and that average intelligence predicts atheism rates.
Professor Lynn told Times Higher Education:
“Why should fewer academics believe in God than the general population? I believe it is simply a matter [...]
Evolution now confirmed in lab
New Scientist reports that evolutionary biologist Richard Lenski of Michigan State University in East Lansing, US, has confirmed evolution occuring in his lab over a 20 year period.
Lenski’s experiment is also yet another poke in the eye for anti-evolutionists, notes Jerry Coyne, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago. “The thing I like most [...]
Keep on rockin’ in the free(mason) world
Musicians is Boston are finding a new home - in Freemasonry!
Gary Robley, drummer for Dashboard Jesus and J. Geils cover band Blow Your Face Out, said he joined because his father was a Mason, as are many of his friends.
“There were a bunch of musicians I knew in it,” Robley said. “It was kind of [...]
No wedding because you’re impotent, says Bishop
A 26-year-old man was told he couldn’t have a Catholic wedding after being made paraplegic in a car accident.
Salvatore de Ciuco, spokesman for Bishop Lorenzo Chiarinelli of Viterbo in central Italy, said: “No bishop, no priest can celebrate a wedding when he knows of admitted impotence as it is a motive for annulment”.
The man’s fiance [...]
Austin Spare art for sale
Fulgar of London have a few interesting pictures available from infamous (and highly over-rated in our opinion) occult artist Austin Osman Spare. If you’ve got a couple of grand to spare (spot the pun), have a look…
Unfortunately Fulgar in their wisdom have decided to “copy protect” the pictures, so no illustration is forthcoming to this [...]
