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August 27th: Hecate’s Fountain

Posted on 2025/08/21 by gnostrigrangel

We continue with Hecate’s Fountain by Kenneth Grant! This week, please read pages 21-55. Or as near as you can get.

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August 20th: Hecate’s Fountain

Posted on 2025/08/18 by gnostrigrangel

We come to converse with Kenneth Grant again, with impressive and bizarre magical anecdotes from Hecate’s Fountain. We looked at this one a few years ago, and it’s worth looking again! We will discuss the foreword and the first two chapters – from the beginning of the book through page 20.

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August 13th: Heliogabalus or, The Crowned Anarchist

Posted on 2025/08/07 by gnostrigrangel

Our last week with this one; we read the second half of Chapter 3 in Antonin Artaud’s Heliogabalus or, The Crowned Anarchist. Read from page 91 through to the end.

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August 5th: Heliogabalus or, The Crowned Anarchist

Posted on 2025/08/02 by gnostrigrangel

Despite general bewilderment and resentment, we persist in courting the Mad Emperor! We continue with the first half of Chapter 3 in Antonin Artaud’s Heliogabalus or, The Crowned Anarchist. Read pages 63-91.

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July 30th: Heliogabalus or, The Crowned Anarchist

Posted on 2025/07/26 by gnostrigrangel

We continue Antonin Artaud’s Heliogabalus or, The Crowned Anarchist! Please read Chapter two: The War on Principles, pages 44 through 62.

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July 23rd: Heliogabalus or, The Crowned Anarchist

Posted on 2025/07/18 by gnostrigrangel

This week, the first chapter of Antonin Artaud’s Heliogabalus or, The Crowned Anarchist! Please read through page 41.

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July 16th: The Black Lodge of Santa Cruz

Posted on 2025/07/12 by gnostrigrangel

This week: the second half of The Black Lodge of Santa Cruz by the mysterious “Satyr.” Please read through from page 36 (beginning of section VI) to the end.

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July 9th: The Black Lodge of Santa Cruz

Posted on 2025/07/07 by gnostrigrangel

Behold – a work of local magical history! We are pleased to bring you The Black Lodge of Santa Cruz by the mysterious “Satyr.” Please read through page 37 (to the end of section V), and we’ll scarf down the second half next week if everyone is still interested.

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July 2nd: My Life With the Spirits

Posted on 2025/07/01 by gnostrigrangel

We continue to take excerpts from Lon Milo DuQuette’s My Life with the Spirits. Please read chapter 9, The Wizard of Takilma, and chapters 20-23, the ones dealing with Enochian work. We eagerly await your thoughts and questions!

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June 25th reading: My Life With the Spirits

Posted on 2025/06/20 by gnostrigrangel

As the Magical Bastards approach our three year anniversary, we engage once more with our inaugural text.

Please read Chapters 14-17 (pp. 72-100) of Lon Milo DuQuette’s My Life with the Spirits.

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