Seems like we might explore the Lovecraft mythos for a while. Let’s start with Phil Hine’s Pseudonomicon. It’s not long, so we’ll just read the whole thing this week.

Turning back to Spare this week with The Book of Pleasure (pp. 27-150). Try and read it all but don’t be discouraged from coming if you aren’t able to. Also, two introductions to Spare by Kenneth Grant: one more biographical (pp. 155-159), the other more philosophical. Take your pick.

This week, Fra./Sor. Hermafetes recommends an audio selection from the notorious pan-heretic Alan Watts:

Myth of Myself, a 1965 lecture at Harvard, with additional material appended in the second half.

OPTIONAL:

A short bonus lecture, if you aren’t sated: The Dream of Life.

Going under—to the sacred night… On the plate for Tuesday, James Hillman’s The Dream and the Underworld, a psychoanalytic katabasis which breaks with Freud and Jung, et al., by crossing the threshold of the psyche without attempting to bring its depths into the harsh light of day. Dig into Chapter 3, “Psyche” (pp. 23-67).

Greetings, Bastards!

This week we read Aleister Crowley on the process of remembering past lives: Liber תישארב (ThIShARB) VIÆ MEMORIÆ SVB FIGVRA CMXIII. Short, sweet, easier said than done!

Try it if you dare. Bring rival methods if you’ve got ’em.

We persist for another week with Robin Artisson’s The Witching Way of the Hollow Hill! Travis recommends the Thorn Door Ritual, pages 281-286. Sorcerix Helios says pages 33-98 will furnish a good philosophical discussion. This second selection is long, I know, so just read what you can!

All Best

Lord Grang

This week, AVDIERVNT recommends a selection from Robin Artisson’s The Witching Way of the Hollow Hill. We will discuss the Introduction (pp.15-18)  and “The Witch-Ring: Drawing the Witches’ Compass” (pp. 246-261).

AND, optionally: Browse about for other bits that may strike your fancy, and you can tell us what you found.

In some kind of crowning perversity, we read a Christian apologist this week. Lord Grang has nominated C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce. Though obviously the product of a religious mind, it offers compelling vistas to the wizard’s eye. It is a bizarre and vivid visionary work on Heaven and Hell, and what constitutes the division between them.

Due to “CIRCUMSTANCES,” last week’s reading has become this week’s reading:

We will continue discussing Jason Miller’s classic Protection and Reversal Magick: A Witch’s Defense Manual. Please read chapters 3, 6, and 7 – pages 61-89 and 119-174.