Further selections from Austin Osman Spare’s The Book of Pleasure! Please read pp. 73-112, from “The Cloudy Enemies Born of Stagnant Self-Hypnotism” through “Note on the Difference of Magical Obsession (Genius) and Insanity.” If you didn’t catch the earlier sections, please don’t be deterred. These are worth reading on their own.

This week, we return to Austin Osman Spare’s The Book of Pleasure. Please read pp. 32-69—from “Definitions” through “The Death Posture.” Until then, please please yourself.

If the above link doesn’t work, try this one. Scroll down a bit and hit the “PDF” link.

Efi suggested this one a few years ago, and I believe it’s worth reexamining:

Don Webb’s The Seven Faces of Darkness; a text on Setian traditions and practice. 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…

Another Big Hit from Yoko YOLO – the Yoni Tantra, as translated by Michael Magee. Apparently we all ought to have read this one! Please read the whole thing, or as far as you can get.

A late post this week, but a short reading. Our girl Efi brings us a targeted selection from Georges Bataille. 

From the Bataille collection Visions of Excess: “Base Materialism and Gnosticism” (pp. 45-52)

This week – a few short stories written by magical practitioners! Many thanks to Ex Nihilo for the recommendation.

Please read:

The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers, pp. 38-60

The Olive Tree by Andrew Chumbley, pp. 61-63

The Red Rite by Don Webb pp. 145-159

In honor of Peter Carroll, we read Liber Null this week. Unto him may there be granted the accomplishment of his will!

Citizen Maxwell would like you to read the introductory pages (8-11) and the Wikipedia article on the IOT.

Yoko YOLO recommends:

Liber MMM (13-23)

Random Belief (73-77)

Alphabet of Desire (78-88)

Reincarnation (104-105) [mainly to speculate about Carroll’s possible attempts at immortality]

This coming Wednesday, at the recommendation of Frater Ex Nihilo – John Dee’s Five Books of Mystery, as edited by Joseph H. Peterson.

They request that you read the following pages:

42-46: Just pretty pictures of some of the tools of the art, what was known, and what was constructed.

56 – 86: Dee’s long prayer, receiving of most of the instructions for the magical instruments, getting a bit bitch slapped by the angels multiple times.

245-254: Lots of stuff, but this is where the shewstone materializes from the spirit realm.

If you have trouble with the first link, try this one. You can scroll down and manually load the PDF.

This week, we’ll have a look at Walter Benjamin’s On Language as Such and on the Language of Man, found on pp. 107-123 of this collection. Join us Wednesday as we attempt to elucidate this abstruse but tremendous meditation at the crossroads of theology, philology, and philosophy.

This Wednesday – John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World, by Jason Louv.

Please read Chapters 5 and 6, pages 100-127.