Journal
Stars of BABALON
Alkistis Dimech’s keynote for Astro Magia 23, on the prehistory of Babalon, the celestial theophanies of the hierodule Inana-Ishtar and the poietics of flesh.
Atomic gods: Magick beyond the nuclear horizon
Peter Grey’s lecture on Magick beyond the nuclear horizon, considering Crowley, Parsons, Lovecraft, Grant, Oppenheimer and others, presented at the Occulture Conference in Berlin.
Dark dance: Eros, illness and the sacred
A lecture by Alkistis Dimech on butô, antinomian dance and the radical reappraisal of the body after Nietzsche, presented at the Occulture Conference in Berlin on 20th October 2023.
Changing the game
Christophe Poncet’s lecture on ‘Investigating early esoteric uses of the Tarot de Marseille,’ at the Occulture Conference in Berlin, presenting research that will appear in his The Tarot of Marsilio.
Transgressing angels, entangled bodies
Alkistis Dimech’s lecture for the Astro Magia conference on 18th September 2021, in which she presents material from her work-in-progress Antimony.
Visionary Magicke
Phil Legard and Alexander Cummins on An Excellent Booke and the magical experiments conducted by Elizabethan explorer Humphrey Gilbert and his scryer John Davis.
The Babalon Apocrypha
Peter Grey’s lecture for Watkin’s Bookshop on 17th June, the anniversary of Parsons’ Greater Feast, with readings of ‘The Birth of Babalon’ and ‘The Antichrist Manifesto.’
Ritual grammar and the logic of transcendence at the Villa of the Mysteries
Peter Mark Adams’s presentation on the frescoes of Pompeii's Villa of the Mysteries delivered on the occasion of the launch of his Mystai at Treadwell’s Books.
Mantic Visions
Alkistis Dimech for Trans-States: The Art of Revelation. It is through the body that the invisible makes itself known to us, visionary states are embodied states.
The Blood of the Saints
Peter Grey for Trans-States: The Art of Revelation, an account of a personal ritual process of engagement with the apocalyptic imagery of Revelation 17:6.