This week, many of the Bastards are ailing and must lie abed, awaiting the resurgence of their inner fires. We reconvene next Wednesday!

This coming Wednesday, at the recommendation of Sorcerix Helios, we will discuss our first-ever audio text: Vincent Price’s 1969 recording, “Witchcraft – Magic: An Adventure in Demonology.” Listen to it before you come to us, and formulate a few questions for the group to discuss!

Helios offered the following comments:

“Vincent Price’s Witchcraft – Magic: An Adventure In Demonology is a highly narrative audio grimoire released on vinyl in 1969. With just enough detail to help a fledgling witch get started, the long form lecture is interspersed with sound effects, dramatic readings from Shakespeare, and a plentiful helping of Price’s characteristic editorializing and dramatic charm. I swear by the gems that can be plucked from this performance; the details in this audio have served to bridge gaps in my research on the Sumerian Zisurru Magic Circle rite.”

Everything seems to be coming up Dysnomia. This week, a few compact pieces from Andrew D. Chumbley, late Magister of the Cultus Sabbati and an enigmatic icon of the sabbatic craft. We’ll look at pieces from both volumes of Opuscula Magica: from vol. 1, “A Short Critique and Comment Upon Magic” (pp. 19-24) and “The Hermit” (pp. 35-42), from vol. 2, “The Crooked Path” pts. I and II (pp. 21-34). This is for you.

Dysnomia here. Wednesday we’ll read a few sections from Peter Lamborn Wilson’s Peacock Angel on the antinomian religion of the Yezidis. The reading will of necessity be a bit longer, so pace yourself. We’ll discuss Chapters 2 (“Cosmogony”) & 5 (“The Redemption of Satan”) — any more is at your discretion. Methinks you’ll like it.

I’d rather be censured (it would be a delight)

than suffer ungratified wishes.

The spread of ardent desire is finer than a breeze.

By popular demand, the Bastards are finishing an entire book together! Of course, that means reading the middle, because we started at the end. Even if you only read this week’s section, you are welcome to join us.

This coming Wednesday, we discuss pages 69-113 of Steve Wilson’s Chaos Ritual. This is the Medicine Wyrd chapter, “…the book of the great secret, of how to enter the world of Wyrd, of how to travel to the land of Spirit, of how to steal the Medicine from them by strength or guile, of how to return alive and sane, or at least as sane as can be expected.”

Next Wednesday we will continue our conversation about Steve Wilson’s Chaos Ritual. Some perverse whim has bidden us to go backward and discuss the beginning of the book, pages 19-67.

At the suggestion of our faithful AVDIERVNT, this week we will discuss Steve Wilson’s Chaos Ritual. Last week Wilson was characterized as “The one chaos magician who is not a wimp about spirits.” We will focus on the book’s last section, “The Chaoetia,” pages 115-137.

This week, Frater/Soror Hermafetes recommends The Psychonaut Field Manual by Arch-Traitor Bluefluke. (What’s in a name?)

We will discuss pages 15-16 and 20-44.  Additional forays into other parts of the book are welcome.

This week we’ll be reading a few selections from Crowley’s infamous Autohagiography, touching upon his fraught relationship with Liber AL vel Legis.

Please read pages (by number printed on page): 372-373; 393-404; 408-409; 541; 595-601

Further: a Facebook discussion of great relevance to our topic.

Ok, ok! This week we’re discussing Aleister Crowley’s Book of the Law! By popular demand!

Here’s the book on Sacred Texts: https://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/engccxx.htm

Here’s the best scan of the manuscript I’ve ever seen – in accord with the demands of the book’s author(s): Behold!