I attended a proctored panel debate this evening at Stationers’ Hall in London, called ‘Beyond The Book’, where several well-known speakers discussed new avenues in the publishing business, including the role of AI, and the return of publishing to a ‘cottage’ industry, in which authors built their own brand using tools like Substack and YouTube […]
I received this book from Amazon last week, having ordered the hardback edition. It is a thing of beauty, and reminds me of the Penguin books of my youth in some way! The Holy Spirit was of great importance to Pasqually in his work in the Elus Cohen, and the system combined a gruelling regime […]
In my last look at the Tarot Exhibition held at the Warburg Institute I looked at the first three rooms of exhibitions, up to Pamela Colman Smith and Osman Spare. With this emphasis on esoteric decks from the early 20th Century, it was no surprise that the Third Room was dedicated to the work of […]
A couple of days ago I visited Watkins Books near Leicester Square in London, and I found myself staring at the many Tarot decks they offer. Here are some of them: Oh dear! Now I don’t want to offend anyone who loves any or all of these shows or movies – I love them too. […]
The subtitle is, appropriately, How We Got the Emerald Tablet Wrong. It would not be an overstatement to say that this unassuming little book might overthrow over a thousand years of accepted lore! It takes a particular type of scholar with an unusual but eclectic set of skills to approach something as hallowed and accepted […]
Throughout the thread of time there have been luminaries in every culture who have provided insights and ideas which both build upon past philosophy and taken those notions forward. The media they used to accomplish this has been varied. Some used philosophical argument, others art, yet others a religious framework to express their visions, whether […]
I am currently in Lyon, enjoying a tour of France which has taken in Occitania and Cathar sites, and now here, where I have followed in the footsteps of Jean-Baptist Willermoz, Joanny Bricaud and Constant Chevillon (of which more in a later blog). I also had the opportunity to establish contact with Mme. Cécile Gotterand, […]
These manuscripts are among the most important pieces of information on the Order of Elect Cohen of the Universe of Martinez de Pasqually. It not only gives us insights into the rituals and praxis of that extraordinary Masonic theurgical group, but also allows us to better understand how it was to live this system through the eyes […]
Here is Chapter 9, the final Chapter of Ecce Homo by Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin. For an explanation see the first post. And finally, here’s the entire document in one PDF. Ecce Homo by Mihály Munkácsy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
