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Category Archives: New books
Nick Farrell on Skylight Press
Nick Farrell is an esoteric author and journalist who has dedicated his life to the Western Mystery Tradition. Joining the Builders of the Adytum in New Zealand at age 17, he started to read everything he could find on the Golden … Continue reading
Posted in New books, New authors, Australian Literature, Esoteric, British Literature
Tagged Skylight Press, esoteric, Western Mystery Tradition, novel, fiction, tarot, Magic, Pendragon, Occult, mysticism, Dion Fortune, Shamanism, Western Mysteries, Golden Dawn, hermetic order of the golden dawn, Peregrin Wildoak, Nick Farrell, Israel Regardie, Druids, Magick, esotericism, occultism, Journalism, Great Britain, Servants of the Light, Eqyptology, New Zealand, Whare Ra, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, David Goddard, Pharos, Chic Cicero, Tabatha Cicero, Talismans, Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn, Paganism, Colin Robertson, Druidic order, Lupa, Rome, Aurora Aurea, William Wynn Wescott, Samuel Mathers, Pat Zalewski, HorusHathor, Journalist
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The Groundlings of Divine Will by Daniel Staniforth
“We are the collective pronoun not to be named; the sacred amalgam, the response harbingers around the fringes of refinery. We are informers and fetishists, sycophants and revolutionaries, the pliant in the trenches of experience, the silent mummers in supplication … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Literature, New books, Poetry
Tagged alchemy, Ancient Britain, Ben Johnson, British Literature, British poetry, Cathars, Catholicism, Christianity, Christopher Marlowe, Church, Church history, conspiracy, Daniel Staniforth, Drama, Elizabethan History, Emmanuel Swedenborg, English history, English literature, English poetry, esotericism, Globe, Gordiano Bruno, Gospels, Heresy, History, Holinshed, John Dee, Literary Criticism, Literature, Magic, Masons, Montaigne, Mystery Schools, Occult, Orthodoxy, Plays, Playwrights, poetry, postmodern, Religion, ritual, Rosicrucians, Seneca, Shakespeare, Shakespearean Criticism, Swan, Templars, theatre, Theology, Tudor History, Walter Raleigh, Western Mysteries, William Shakespeare, Witchcraft
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Kaleidoscopic Omniscience by Will Alexander
In the contemporary American poetry scene Will Alexander stands alone as a unique voice, regularly penning what fellow poet Brian Lucas recently described to me as “oracular, vatic, cosmically penetrating poetry.” Perhaps the most obvious categorisation is to place him … Continue reading
Posted in American Literature, Literature, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged Aime Cesaire, Albania, American Poetry, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, Asia, avant garde, Avant Garde Poetry, Bob Kaufman, Brian Lucas, Channelling, contemporary american poetry, Contemporary Poetry, Cosmology, Diary as Sin, Dictatorship, Dylan Thomas, Eliot Weinburger, enver hoxha, Enver Hxha, Experimental poetry, Haiti, Jonathan Skinner, Kaleidoscopic Omniscience, Language poetry, Literature, Los Angeles, Mark Scroggins, Octavio Paz, Philip Lamantia, poetry, Rimbaud, Surreal Poetry, Surrealism, Symbolism, Symbolist poetry, Tibet, Will Alexander, writing
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The Forgotten Faith: The Witness of the Celtic Saints by Anthony Duncan
It must be said at once that there is no such thing as ‘Celtic Christianity’ as something other than the Christian Faith as it is properly handed down to us. What there is, however, is a Celtic Spirituality which is … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Albion, Anglican Church, Anglo Saxon, Anthony Duncan, Arthuriad, Asaph, Augustine, Bishops, British History, Bueno, Cadog, Celtic, Celtic Christianity, Celtic Church, celtic saints, celtic spirituality, Christianity, Church, Columba, David, Early Church, England, English history, Gildas, History, Illtyd, Ireland, Jesus Christ, Kentigern, Mabinogion, Maelrubba, Melangell, Monasteries, Monks, Ninian, Padarn, pagan, Patrick, Paulinus, Religion, Roman Catholic, Sacred places, Saint Augustine, Saints, Samson, Saxon, Scotland, spirituality, Synod, Teilo, Theology, Tysilio, Wales
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Magical Images and the Magical Imagination by Gareth Knight
In times past the knowledge and use of magical images was once a closely guarded secret stowed in the minds and vaults of initiates and adepts in the Mystery Schools. But now celebrated esoteric scholar and practitioner, Gareth Knight, offers … Continue reading
Posted in Esoteric, New books, Recommended reads, Uncategorized
Tagged Astral Plane, Cabbala, Channeling, Channelling, Coleridge, esoteric, Gareth Knight, Imagination, Kabbalah, Magic, meditation, Mysteries, Mystery Schools, Occult, Pathworking, qabala, Skylight Press, Sun Chalice Books, Symbolism, tarot, Trancework, Tree of Life, Visualization, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition
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The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend by Gareth Knight
The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend is the first of two important Gareth Knight reissues to come out this month, to be shortly followed by Magical Images and the Magical Imagination. On the one hand it is a remarkable study … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Literary Criticism, Literature, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged Ancient Britain, Ancient texts, archetype, Arthuriad, Arthurian Legends, Arthurian Tradition, Atlantis, atlantis and lemuria, Breton, British Literature, British mysteries, Brythonic Literature, Celtic Mythology, chrétien de troyes, Dion Fortune, England, esoteric, Faery Realms, France, french manuscripts, Gareth Knight, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Greek Mythology, holy grail, King Arthur, Lemuria, Literary analysis, literary scholar, Literature, Magic, Mallory, mediaeval, Medieval French History, Medieval History, Merlin, Middle Ages, Morte D'Arthur, mythology, Parsifal, Robert de Boron, Secret Tradition, Symbolism, Thomas Mallory, Tristan and Isolde, Wendy Berg, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition, Wolfram von Eschenbach
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The Chronicles of the Sidhe by Steve Blamires
Forth from his breast the old man drew A lute that once on a rowan-tree grew: And, speaking no words, began to play “Over the hills and far away.” For a thirteen-year period, the reclusive Scottish writer Fiona Macleod enthralled … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Literary Criticism, Literature, New books, Recommended reads, Reviews
Tagged esoteric, Western Mystery Tradition, faery, poetry, British Literature, Literature, mythology, Occult, Gaelic, Early Church, folklore, Western Mysteries, Faery Lore, Celtic Mythology, Golden Dawn, Scottish Literature, Fiona Macleod, Celtic twilight, Celtic traditions, Scottish history, William Sharp, Steve Blamires, Celtic Christianity, Faery Realms, Hebrides, Iona, Victorian History, Highlands, The Little Book of the Great Enchantment, Goddess, Chanelling, Invocation of Peace, Avalon, george orwell, authoritative biography, island landscape
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