We’re going to finish The Magical World of Dr. Joseph Lisiewski in a single week! Please read from page 52 through the end (we’re skipping the Adventures in Publishing chapter).
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November 26th: The Magical World of Dr. Joseph Lisiewski
From Mark Stavish, who blessed us with the Liturgy of Hermes, we now receive The Magical World of Dr. Joseph Lisiewski. Please read through page 30 of the PDF.
November 19th: The Wake World
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.
November 12th: Tail End of Faust
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.
November 5th: Goethe’s Faust
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.
October 29th: Goethe’s Faust
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).
October 22nd: Goethe’s Faust
More of Goethe’s Faust this week! Please read the scenes in the study, pages 173-209, and in Auerbach’s Keller, 209-233.
October 15: Goethe’s Faust
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.)
October 8th: Goethe’s Faust
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.
October 1st: The Delphic Maxim “Know Thyself” in the Greek Magical Papyri
This week, as a side dish to our Egg: The Delphic Maxim ‘Know Yourself’ in the Greek Magical Papyri by Hans Dieter Betz.