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Archive for July, 2008
UK city council censor occult websites
Birmingham’s City Council has just installed the “fabulous” Bluecoat web filtering software which allows Christians and Moslems to view websites relating to their religion but filters out sites dealing with “witchcraft or Satanism” and “occult practices, atheistic views, voodoo rituals or any other form of mysticism”.
The little known Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003 [...]
Denessa Smith passes on
We annouce the passing of Denessa Smith, mother of teenager Tempest Smith who took her own life as a result of bullying over her Wiccan beliefs. Denessa set up the Tempest Smith Foundation and worked tirelessly in aid of bullied children and religious tolerance.
More info at the Magical Education Council
Magical library may vanish
The Harry Price Library of Magical Literature, based at the University of London, may be broken up and sold. This legendary library is considered one of the great collections of occult literature in the world, but may now be sold off because of budget cuts.
More info at The Independent
The Strange Love of Breyer/P-Orridge
Possibly the most moving interview ever published by a music magazine:
Strange Love
How music legend, performance artist, and notorious “wrecker of civilization” Genesis P-Orridge met dominatrix/performer Jacqueline Breyer and fell madly, deliriously in love; how cosmetic surgery helped them become one; and how their romance was interrupted by a temporary setback called death.
Edgar Mitchell: aliens & mystical experiences
There’s been a lot of speculation in the past days over revelations by former astronaut and moonwalker Dr. Edgar Mitchell that he believes that alien intelligence has already contacted Earth. What many people don’t know is that this is nothing new for Dr. Mitchell, who has had a lifelong fascination with the realm of the [...]
Al Billings thesis available as free download
Al Billings has been active on Internet occult study groups for as long as I can remember, and his Masters thesis is finally online as a free PDF download.
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a 19th century English society engaged in the creation of a systematic form of western esotericism. Its founders created [...]
Print overrun of Picatrix Volume One
Ouroboros Press, the publishers of Fine Esoteric Books, write:
During a recent inventory at the bindery we discovered that the printer supplied us with an overrun of printed sheets, enough for a total of 50 more books. These are the last remaining copies of the book and these will be issued in two Out-of-Series versions as [...]
Satanist’s ex-wife wants him to take daughters to Christian church
One of Jamie Meyer’s ex-wives is citing his religious affiliation with the Church of Satan as the main reason an Indiana judge should restrict his visitation time to allow his three youngest daughters to attend Christian church.
And here we thought the whole “persecute Satanists in court” in America was a thing of the past…
More info [...]
Fallout of O.T.O. trademark case begins
Following our recent story on O.T.O. in the UK defending their trademark in the courts, the ramifications are starting to become clear. One of the other organisations which had been using the O.T.O name has just announced their intention of dissolving. In a web forum posting the group’s leader stated:
Due to the recent TM Case [...]
Meta-Magick
Philip Farber has been writing some ground-breaking magical work for a while, but his latest, Meta-Magick: The Book of Atem, looks like it could be very cool. Excerpts, including the Introduction by Douglas Rushkoff, are available at Reality Sandwich.
