Would you like to read a weird allegorical tale by Aleister Crowley? This week – “The Wake World,” pages 38-56 of the compendium, The Drug and Other Stories.

This week – the exciting(?) conclusion of Goethe’s Faust. Please read from pp 387-421. When you’ve finished, take a look at Kaufmann’s Introduction, pp 3-25.

We continue with our Faustian endeavor. If you weren’t present for earlier chapters – quite all right. Each section contains a lot of information, whether taken sequentially or not. This week we read from 311-387 (German pages optional). The present selection includes an excellent scene of brooding in the wilderness, and the long-awaited Walpurgisnacht.

We go on with Goethe’s Faust! In the interest of finishing before Walpurgisnacht, we take a longer selection this week. Please read from 235-311 (only half the pages are in English).

More of Goethe’s Faust this week! Please read the scenes in the study, pages 173-209, and in Auerbach’s Keller, 209-233.

We continue with Goethe’s Faust this week. Please read pages 129 (from “ANOTHER CITIZEN”) through to the end of the section,173. (This is only 22 pages in English.)

We are doing it. We are reading the famous initial scene from Goethe’s Faust and talking about what it means to be a magician.

Please read the Dedication, pp.64-67, the Prologue in Heaven, pp.82-91, and from The First Part of the Tragedy, the initial scene in Faust’s study, pp.92-124. If you don’t speak German, you will only read half of these pages! Congrats and condolences.

Optional: The Historical Background section of Kaufmann’s introduction, pp.12-21.

This week, as a side dish to our Egg: The Delphic Maxim ‘Know Yourself’ in the Greek Magical Papyri by Hans Dieter Betz.

This week we discuss the classic 1973 film The Wicker Man. Please watch it at home and come to the group with THREE GOOD QUESTIONS to stimulate conversation!

We invite you to join us in our simultaneous working of a week-long spell from the Greek Magical Papyri: the wonderful Egg of the Daimon. We begin at dawn on Sunday, September 21st.

In preparation, please read:

Sfinga’s artice, Meeting With Your Own Daimon, from the “With Cunning and Command” blog.

Some sections from Stephen Flowers’ Hermetic Magic: “Origins” (pp. 3-17), “Principles of the Hermetic Synthesis” (pp. 37-43), “Daimonology” (pp. 99-100), and “Magical Theories” (pp. 135-141).

Also recommended for context: the Wikipedia article on the PGM.