Thelema Now! Crowley, Ritual & Magick

A Thelema Now favorite is back!  Manon Hedenborg White talks to Harper Feist about her book, The Eloquent Blood The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism.  To find out more about the book, go here!  And here's how to follow Dr. White on Twitter!  

Welcome back! We here at Thelema Now are making the most of our time in lockdown!  TN host Harper Feist talked to Trevor Gray about his book From Manhood to Godhead: The Many Lives of Jean Vassar. This compelling occult novel tells the story of Jean Vassar’s journey through many lives, as he discovers the hidden secret doctrines of reincarnation, sacred sexuality, magick, alchemy, Masonry, Qabalah, mysticism, Egyptian Freemasonry and carefully explained occult symbolism. Find out more and buy it here!  Enjoy and 93!  

Thelema Now talks to David Hertzberg, the composer of The Wake World opera. Scored for five instruments and nine singers, it premiered in 2017 at the Barnes Foundation under the aegis of Opera Philadelphia. Based on a mystical fairy tale written by Aleister Crowley whilst under the influence of the Golden Dawn, the story describes an ecstatic journey of initiation through Hermetic runes, as Lola is lead by her fairy prince through a magical palace to enlightenment. Winner of the Music Critics Association of North America's Best New Opera Award, The Wake World is an operatic tour-de-force! It's being released on April 24th - GET IT NOW!! 

Thelema Now host Harper talks about Crowley, the peace sign (or V for Victory) and gratitude with Frater Orpheus.  The wide-ranging conversation covers a lot of topics so check it out! And to find out more about "On The Rights Of Man" and Frater Orpheus, visit this website! 

Thelema Now host Harper Feist talks to Thelemic Bishop M. Dionysius Rogers about serving both the Thelemic laity as well as clergy!  Allow - listen to him talk about ass worship.  (He means donkeys.)  Good stuff!  Follow Dionysius on Facebook!

Back again! Harper Fiest talks to Peter Mark Adams.  He previous book was "The Game of Saturn" and he just published "Mystai - dancing out the mysteries of dionysos." The Dionysian themed frescos of Pompeii’s Villa of the Mysteries constitute the single most important theurgical narrative to have survived in the Western esoteric tradition. No other practitioner account of the ritual process for conducting a mystery rite has survived down to today. The frescoes’ vivid and allusive imagery illuminates both the ritual activity of the participants as well as its esoteric import.  Check it out! 

One of Thelema Now's favs is BACK!  Tobias Churton talks with Harper Feist about his latest work, Aleister Crowley in India.  Tobias' exhaustive research on the topic gives us all food for thought!  Check out Tobias' website for more info! 

A Thelema Now favorite is back!  Author and lecturer Richard Kaczynski talks about the newly revised and re-released "Panic In Detroit." At 400 pages, this release is significantly expanded from the original 2006 limited edition. It includes original essays on the time of Aleister Crowley, Charles Stansfeld Jones, Wilfred Talbot Smith, Cecil Frederick Russell, and Dr. J. P. Kowal in Detroit; the newspaper accounts that followed in their wake; and the legacy of the lost crate of rare Crowley books. In addition, Panic in Detroit reproduces 40 letters between Crowley and his circle; 55 newspaper articles documenting the “mess in the press”; selected transcripts from the Universal Book Stores’ bankruptcy hearings, in which Crowley, O.T.O. and The Equinox figure prominently; and much more.  You can buy it on Amazon and booksellers everywhere! 

Thelema Now host Harper talks to Jon Povey & Marco Conti, the minds behind "Sympathy For The Beast: Songs From the Poems of Aleister Crowley." This album is from Twink & the Technicolour Dream, being released by the British label Sunbeam. The album features two legendary figures from British 60’s rock, namely Twink (ex Tomorrow, Pretty Things, Pink Fairies, Hawkwind, etc.), and Jon Povey (ex Pretty Things) and the band Technicolour Dream.  Check it out! And to order the album - go here!