Thelema NOW! Crowley, Ritual & Magick

Peter Grey is a writer, and the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint. He is the author of The Red Goddess (2007), which has become the standard work on the goddess of Revelation. His Apocalyptic Witchcraft (2013) has been called the most important modern book on witchcraft, placing it in the mythopoetic context of the sabbat and in a landscape suffering climate and ecological collapse. Peter and Thelema Now host Harper Feist discuss those works as well as Jack Parsons' Babylon working.  Check it out! 

Cath Thompson is an English Qaballist and Stellar Magickian of thirty-seven years experience; in 1980 she was the youngest initiated member of James Lees’ O.’.A.’.A.’.. She is the author of The Magickal Language of the Book of the Law: An English Qaballa Primer, A Handbook of Stellar Magick, and All This and a Book, all published by Hadean Press.  She tells Harper Feist about "Ordeal X," planetary rituals, and more! 

The place that President Abraham Lincoln called home, where Frank Lloyd Wright built a house, and a small town with past and present practitioners of ritual!  Enter Jack Grayle, Zemaemidjehuty Setepentoth and Sam David, three acclaimed occult authors that live within a mile of one another in Springfield IL.  Excuse me while I pack my bags!  This place sounds awesome!  The Springfield Chamber of Commerce might not be down with it, but host Harper Feist sure is.  (And so is Thelema Now!) 

Zemaemidjehuty (Zemmi) is a poet-priest and theurgist in service to the Great God Djehuty. The founder of the Church of Flesh and Feathers, his work and research focuses amongst others on the mysterious Coptic Christ and Sophia, Kemetic Djehuty, and the conflation of the three as divine aspects of the same Supreme Deity.  He speaks to Harper about his book, The Book of Flesh and Feathers. Check it out!

Deja Whitehouse is a post-graduate research student at the University of Bristol, under the supervision of Ronald Hutton.  Her research topic is In Search of Frieda Harris – from a Victorian Childhood to the Swinging Sixties.   Frieda Harris worked with Crowley on the Thoth Tarot deck. During 2017, Deja was engaged by the Warburg Institute to catalog the Frieda Harris correspondence held in the Yorke Collection.  She speaks with Harper Feist about her research and what she's uncovered! 

One of Thelema Now's most popular guests steps in as a host! Richard speaks to Sonia Bible. Sonia is an internationally award-winning documentary writer and director.  "The Witch of Kings Cross" is her first feature. The film is about artist Rosaleen Norton, who faced allegations of satanic rituals, obscene art, and sex orgies in 1950s Sydney. And it is available for preorder NOW on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-witch-of-kings-cross/id1546061846?ls=1.

93 and welcome to 2021! Yay! And not a minute too soon.  To kick off the year right, TN's own Harper Feist spoke to Roger Williamson, who also a Minnesota resident (by way of England). Roger is a visual artist as well as a writer, and in 2020 he re-released his book "The Sun At Night."  Find out more about Roger at his website, RogerWilliamsonArt.com. 

A TN favorite is back! Jake Stratton-Kent has been a goetic magician since 1972, making more than forty years of continuous goetic practice. Jake has released The Rosicrucifixion and talks with host Harper Feist! Check it! 

Thelema Now's host Harper Feist talks to Amy Hale talks about her book Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully.  This book offers the first in-depth biographical study of the British surrealist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun, situating her art within the magical contexts that shaped her imaginative life and work. After decades of neglect, Colquhoun's unique vision and hermetic life have become an object of great renewed interest, both for artists and for historians of magic.

Harper Feist talks to Scarlet Imprint's founder Alkistis Dimech!  13 is a magick number indeed.  Hear about how it happened, what's happening, and what will happen! And check out Scarlet Imprint!

We're living in a COVID world, and host Harper Feist, Sue Terry and Erzebet Barthold are COVID women! These women won't let anything, even a pandemic, stop them from doing their Will.  The remainder of 2020 will take place online while 2021 plans are being made for London.  Please listen and hear what real determination sounds like!  Also, visit magickalwomenconference.com to sign up for salons and virtual gatherings!

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. 

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. But it on Amazon.

Thelema Now talks to David Hertzberg, the composer of The Wake World opera. Based on a mystical fairy tale written by Aleister Crowley. 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 his website!  www.astrumargenteum.org/en/author/orpheus/