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My Ongoing Obsession with the Bach Cello Suites

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Daniel

At the tail end of 2014 I came across a book I had been previously been unaware of at a library liquidation sale and bought it for less than the price of a cup of coffee. That the book aroused … Continue reading →

Posted in British History, Essays, Music, Recommended reads, Reviews | Tagged alchemy, Anner Bylsma, Bach, Bach Cello Suites, Baroque, Catalan, cello, Cello Suites, classical music, Composer, Compositions, double bass, Elgar, Eric Siblin, German Composer, German Music, guitar, Heinrich Schiff, Hungary, J.S. Bach, jacqueline du pre, János Starker, Mischa Maisky, Mstislav Rostropovich, music, Nature, Pablo Casals, Paolo Pandolfo, Paul Tortelier, Pierre Fournier, Pieter Wispelwey, Ralph Kirshbaum, Shakespeare, Spain, Steven Isserlis, Suites for solo cello, The Cello Suites, Truls Mork, viola, Viola da Gamba, xylophone, Yo Yo Ma | 4 Comments

Paul Sédir’s ‘Initiations’ translated by Gareth Knight

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Daniel

These savants proclaim that the material universe is perfectly organised, and that all will occur according to rule since, they say, everything is subject to laws of causation and the conservation of energy. Agreed. But they expect the moral universe … Continue reading →

Posted in Esoteric, Literature, New books, Recommended reads | Tagged 19th Century, alchemy, Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Breton, Brittany, Christian Mysticism, English Translation, esoteric, Esoteric Christianity, Esoteric Fraternities, fin-de-siècle, Flaubert, France, Freemasonry, Freemasons, Freethinkers, French History, French Literature, Gareth Knight, Gérard Encausse, gnosticism, hermeticism, Honoré de Balzac, Initiations, Jacob Boehme, Joséphin Péladan, Kabbalah, Laurent Tailhade, Martinist, Mouni Sadhu, mysticism, Occult, occultism, Papus, Paris, Paul Sédir, Qabalah, Rose Cross, Rosicrucian, secret societies, translation | Leave a comment

Patrick Harpur on Skylight Press

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Daniel

Born in Windsor, Patrick Harpur began writing professionally in 1983, aged 33. Previously, he had travelled for a year in Africa before going to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, to read English. Subsequently he did much of the reading and research … Continue reading →

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Conversation with Gareth Knight

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Daniel

Gareth Knight, an author of some forty books on a wide array of subjects following his training in Dion Fortune’s Society of the Inner Light, is now firmly established as one of the world’s foremost authorities on ritual magic, the … Continue reading →

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The Groundlings of Divine Will by Daniel Staniforth

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Rebsie

“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 →

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The Cult of Seizure by Rikki Ducornet

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Daniel

The lunatic algebra of Love. The frenzied orbits of Mood. The malarial temperatures of Wound. Symbols of the Cult of Seizure: This flesh, this amulet incised. This hot spoor of predators. This zodiac savaged in the sky. Anyone who has … Continue reading →

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Rikki Ducornet on Skylight Press

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Daniel

“My first novel, The Stain, was set into motion by a powerful dream. That dream unleashed enough energy to fuel four novels—and this to my astonishment. I was an artist, after all, not a writer. Entering Fire, Phosphor in Dreamland, … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literature, Literature, New authors, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads | Tagged Absurdism, alchemy, Alfred Jarry, American fiction, American novel, Andre Breton, Art, avant garde, Avant garde literature, Bard College, book illustration, Brian Evenson, de sade, Dreams, Entering Fire, European fiction, European novel, experimental fiction, fiction, Fine Art, Garcia Marquez, Gaston Bachelard, Gazelle, gnosticism, graphic illustration, irresistible voice, Italo Calvino, Jeff Vandermeer, Joanna Scott, Jorge Luis Borges, Kafka, Language poetry, Leeuwenhoek, Lewis Carroll, Literature, Magic Realism, Mandrake, Metafiction, Netsuke, novel, poetry, postmodernism, qabala, Rikki Ducornet, Robert Coover, speaking in tongues, Surrealism, The Butcher's Tales, The Fan Maker's Inquisition, The Fountains of Neptune, The Jade Cabinet, The Stain, Walter Benjamin, William Blake, writing | 1 Comment

A History of White Magic by Gareth Knight

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Daniel

Originally published by Mowbrays of Oxford, then reissued as Magic of the Western Mind by Llewellyn, A History of White Magic was an attempt by a then up-and-coming author (in his words) to “explain to the intelligent layperson that an interest … Continue reading →

Posted in Esoteric, New books | Tagged alchemy, Classical literature, Coleridge, Early Church, esoteric, Gareth Knight, hermeticism, Magic, Medieval, Neoplatonism, Occult, Religion, Renaissance, Science, Western Mystery Tradition | Leave a comment

Experience of the Inner Worlds by Gareth Knight

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Daniel

Skylight Press presents the brand new edition of Experience of the Inner Worlds by Gareth Knight, first published in 1975. This seminal work has become a classic textbook in many spiritual and esoteric circles. But don’t just take our word … Continue reading →

Posted in Esoteric, New books | Tagged alchemy, Carl Jung, christian, crusades, cube of space, Dante, esoteric, Gareth Knight, grail myth, hermeticism, inner planes, jung, Jungian psychology, Magic, meditation, Metaphysical, mysticism, Occult, pagan, qabala, ritual, sufi, Tree of Life, Western Mystery Tradition | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: alchemy

My Ongoing Obsession with the Bach Cello Suites

Paul Sédir’s ‘Initiations’ translated by Gareth Knight

Patrick Harpur on Skylight Press

Conversation with Gareth Knight

The Groundlings of Divine Will by Daniel Staniforth

The Cult of Seizure by Rikki Ducornet

Rikki Ducornet on Skylight Press

A History of White Magic by Gareth Knight

Experience of the Inner Worlds by Gareth Knight

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