Next week, our Princess Dysnomia will have us read the “Theses Against Occultism” from Theodor Adorno’s Minima Moralia. And perhaps we’ll even enjoy them!

This week, at the suggestion of AVDIERVNT, we’ll be discussing the context-establishing chapters, pages 8-23 and pages 93-107, from S. Connolly’s Complete Book of Demonolatry.  In addition, feel free to make a foray into some other part of the book and tell us about it.  I personally cannot endorse its “History” sections.

This system – dare I call it a form of postmodern folk magic? – may appear cavalier in its appropriation of various methods to its own use, but it represents an important strain in the larger body of theistic Satanisms.

Dysnomias are here again. For our next reading, I’m nominating Don Webb’s The Seven Faces of Darkness; a text on Setian traditions and practice which I enjoyed quite a lot. We’ll read sections 3 (“Set”), 4 (“Theory”), and 5 (“Practice”) – pages 23-53. In addition, pick a spell or two from the papyri, tablets, or Coptic grimoire and tell us about them. ‘Til then…

This week, at the suggestion of Hermafetes con Harrow, we will be discussing the first three issues of Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles: Dead Beatles, Down and out in Heaven and Hell, and Down and Out in Heaven and Hell part 2.  Please come prepared with a few questions for the group!

This Wednesday, we’ll discuss selections from the magical zine Rituals and Declarations, picked up by Our Flower Child Lydia on her recent trip to London.

“Wyrd Wanderings”

”Kissing the Eel”

“Losing Yourself to Find the Way”

”Guide to Surviving the Seaside”

Dysnomia again. On Wednesday, we’ll take a look at Jack Parsons’ Babalon Working, recounted in Liber 49 – The Book of Babalon, which he considered the fourth chapter of the Book of the Law. We’ll just be discussing The Book of Babalon, stopping after the poem “The Birth of Babalon”. We’ll also read Peter Grey’s account of the working, “Strange suppers and spells diverse”.

“Come ye to the nuptials — come ye now!”

Dysnomia here. On Wednesday we’ll consider Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson)’s iconic and iconoclastic screed The Temporary Autonomous Zone. A classic amongst anarchists for several decades now, I think you’ll enjoy it as well.

This week, we’ll be reading an excerpt from a forthcoming book on the Tarot by our friend and fellow Bastard, Holy Magus Caspian.  The chapter in question deals with the Devil card: The Devil, Really.

If you have feedback favorable or otherwise I believe he will be most interested.  But we will also follow the paths of our own inquiries into the work and the card itself.  Please come armed with a couple of questions for the group!

This Wednesday, January 11th, at the suggestion of Sarah, we will further contemplate foundational magical skills by means of The Magician: His Training and Work by W. E. Butler.  Please come prepared to discuss Chapters 7-9 (pages 61-79).

This week, we will be discussing foundational skills described in the ubiquitous manual, Modern Magick, by Donald Michael Kraig.

Part A: Read the beginning of Lesson 2, pages 33-51.  Take it for a spin if you feel inclined.

Part B: Browse the convenient Contents listings at the front of the book (pages 5-7 of the PDF) and pick out one other topic of interest from the extensive list.  Read one more section of your choice and tell us about it!

For good or ill, this book has been one of the most prominent manifestations of some sort of mainstream consensus on how Western Ceremonial Magic can look.  Its methods and perceptions have been a jumping-off-point for many of us.  We can talk about that too – our various relationships with this book, and with the tradition.