That’s it. We’re reading Huysmans! This novel – less famous than A Rebours, but just as strange – gives us a morbid vision of French Satanism on two registers, in two times. Behold: La-Bas. Let’s read the first 4 chapters. In this edition, it’s pages 1-55. Other translations are welcome. And if you can read French, bully for you.

This week, we continue our, uh, “Machenations,” as it were, with The Great God Pan. Please read the second half, pp.57-87 (sections VI-VII).

This week, Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan! This is a more aversive image of that God – a story conspicuously omitted from last week’s lecture. Please read the first half, pp.9-57 (sections I-V).

For a change of pace: PAN through history, as catalogued – and invoked? – by the charming Gresham Professor of Divinity, Ronald Hutton. It unfolds in video form here. Please bring three questions to discuss with the group.

We continue our journey into the “good book.” Please read the following: 1 Kings 16: 31-34 (pp.545), 1 Kings 18: 20-40 (pp.548-549), 1 Kings 19: 1-3 (pp.549), 2 Kings 9: 30-37 (pp.574), Deuteronomy 32: (pp.331-334).

Cup leads our inquiry into the Priestly Source this week. Please read the following: Genesis 1 (pp.38-40), Exodus 25-31 (pp.144-155), Leviticus 26 (pp.207-209), Numbers 17 (pp.242).

Cup continues to bring us their explorations into the authorship of the earliest parts of the Bible. This week we slow the onslaught of slides by doing more preliminary reading: Selections from the Book Of Genesis – 3-4 (pp.42-45), 11:1-9 (pp.52-53), 25:19-34 (pp.73), 27 (pp.75-76), 29 (pp.77-79), 30:1-24 (pp.79-80), 38 (pp.91-92), 42-45 (pp.96-100).

For convenience, the PDF page numbers are listed here.

Cup continues their superbly planned lecture series this week. Preparatory reading is Genesis 40-41 (pp.93-96) and Exodus 21-23 (pp.139-143).

So many of the Bastards are either sick or travelling this week, we’ve decided to postpone until December 31st.

NEXT week we continue John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World, by Jason Louv.

Please read Chapters 2-5, pages 69-99

It was bound to happen eventually. And here it is! Our friend Cup is teaching some kind of Bible Studies class to us this coming Wednesday. BYO trauma and resentments! In preparation please read THE BIBLE. Namely, Genesis 48-49 (pp 103-106), Exodus 15 (pp 129-132), and Judges 4-5 (pp 389-393).