Thelema NOW! Crowley, Ritual & Magick

Samuel David and Thelema Now host Harper Feist dig deep in a wide-ranging discussion that includes Christianity, Inanna, and all points in between. It's - in Samuel's words - Sexy, sultry, and sorceress!! Listen to find out more! You can buy Samuel's book, Lioness: The Song of Inanna at Miskatonic Books. You can see a video about the book on YouTube.  Enjoy!

Thelema Now host Harper Feist speaks to author and artist Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule. Merging the concepts of sexuality, Magick, and art, Defenestrate-Bascule explores the erotic nature that's within us all! You can view his art at www.esoterotica.art. He also discusses his film Solve et Coagula. View the trailer, reviews, and streaming here! Enjoy! 

The always awesome and entertaining Jason Miller returns to Thelema Now and discusses what it means to be a Sorcerer. TN host Harper Feist gets to the bottom of what it means to do the work, see the results, and get stuff done.  Jason has a new book - Consorting with Spirits: Your Guide to Working with Invisible Allies - check it out! 

TN host Harper Feist speaks to author Carl Abrahamsson! One of the privileged few who spent time with the “Black Pope” in the last decade of his life, Carl Abrahamsson met Anton LaVey in 1989, sparking an “infernally” empowering friendship.

In Carl's new book - Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan: Infernal Wisdom from the Devil's Den - he explores what LaVey was really about, where he came from, and how he shaped the esoteric landscape of the 1960s. 

Find out more here! 

Hey - did you know that Aleister Crowley had a tin ear and didn't like music that much?!  WHO KNEW?!  Listen to this fascinating conversation (no really, it is!) between TN's Harper Feist and musician/author/speaker Rodney Orpheus. He has a new Cassandra Complex release and it's AWESOME!! Check it out on Spotify! 

Thelema Now's Harper Feist talks to Algol from the band Mehenet.  Algol is also an OTO Brother, in addition to his other ritual practices.  Check out Mehenet's Bandcamp page - and check out the full song  Dona Sete at the end of the interview! Listen and enjoy!

Man Has The Right To Dress As He Will! History has been made!  This episode of Thelema Now is the first where both the host, Harper Fiest, and the guest, Trevor Gray, are nude! The perfect setting for author Trevor to discuss his book "A Whisper in the Silence: An Inspiring Naturist Love Story." Enjoy!

Jessica Grote is currently the presiding bishop of the Ecclesia Gnostic Aeterna and an advanced member of the Société Voudon Gnostique.  She is also a teacher and instructor. In her course, she will introduce you to the animistic worldview and magical practice of the Kosmic Modern Hetaera, which can enhance your existing path or form a holistic approach of its own. 

Find out more about Jessica and her upcoming courses which will illustrate how to merge your magical and mundane lives, integrate sexuality and eroticism in your magical work, and much more! 

Verónica Rivas (Melong Yeshe) is an Uruguayan author and researcher based in Brazil. Her cosmological and anthropological studies in magical practices among Eastern cultures led her to become interested in healing techniques. When she became a Reiki Master, she started to research the possibilities of integrating Reiki techniques with other forms of energy work, using her academic training in Philosophy as an epistemological background. 

In Kurukulla: Goddess of Bewitchment – A Devotional Path to the Red Enchantress of Uddiyana, author Verónica Rivas combines academic research with personal experience to offer a theoretical-practical study of Kurukulla, the goddess in Hinduism related to desire, lust, magic, and witchcraft. Listen and find out more! 

Author Jason Augustus Newcomb and TN host Harper Feist discuss aspects of Magick, and especially Tarot!  Do you like Thoth? Rider? Rider-Waite? What does the imagery say to you?  As Jason developed his own Tarot, New Hermetics Standard Tarot Deck, he took many things into account.  Check it out!  And visit Jason's website. 

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 his latest, The Two Antichrists, which discusses 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!) 

To find out more about these gents, visit: 

Zemaemidjehuty (Zemmi) is a poet-priest and theurgist in service to the Great God Djehuty. The founder of the Church of Flesh and Feather, 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 Feather. Check it out!

Deja Whitehouse completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Bristol: In Search of Frieda Harris in January 2020. During 2017, she 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! Deja is the author of Mercury is in a Very Like Ape Mood, which examines Lady Harris's complex relationship with the God Mercury.

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. But was she just a victim of harassment? Give a listen! The film will be released worldwide on February 9th!  The iTunes pre-order link is live -  https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-witch-of-kings-cross/id1546061846?ls=1.

find out more about the film - visit the website witchofkingscross.com. 

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. His practical work integrates the magical papyri, Italo-French grimoires, in particular, the Grimorium Verum and African traditional religions with a focus on Quimbanda and magia negra.

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.

Listen and learn!  And buy the book here! 

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!

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. 

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!