It appears that the upcoming episode of Ace of Cakes is going to feature a cake replica of Neuschwanstein, which was of course one of the castles of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

Suspiria- I'd been really looking forward to this one for quite a while and then it appeared from out of the blue in the "Watch Instantly" section of Netflix. I've seen heaping handfuls of movies which deal with the occult in one way or another but Suspiria seemed particularly promising because the cinematography is fairly notorious for being ( Read more... )

From a review of Francis Barett's The Magus:

"This book provided much Magickal information to our anscestors. It included much information from various tombs that were otherwise unavailable to the masses. For the student of Magickal History, the book is a necessity. To the practitioner of Magick today, the original tombs have become readily ( Read more... )

Its been five interesting years since I took my first leap into Initiation.

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I think I'm hallucinating... My Bloody Valentine to play first shows in 16 years
Indie legends My Bloody Valentine have announced details of their first live dates since 1992.
The band, who have not released an album since 1991's Loveless, will play three U.K. shows in summer 2008.

They will play:

London - Roundhouse (June 20)
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What are the odds? Seriously...

It's the first time I've ever read the music news on Yahoo and there were articles about my two favorite bands!
The debates on Intelligent Design would be far more interesting if mysticical concepts such as the Oath of the Abyss were part of the equation.

Type your cut contents here. NEW YORK (Billboard) - Forget ( Read more... )

This is a true story; no names have been changed to protect people who aren't innocent anyway.
So, there I am, laying in bed watching "Heavy: The History of Metal" on VH1.
They're going into Jimmy Page's affinity for Crowley and showing some rather nice pictures of the Prophet and the obligatory shot of Boleskine House. Robert Trujillo is reminiscing ( Read more... )

After two days of trying to get some help with my cell phone and the only result being that things were made worse, I have to wonder: Am I speaking a different language? 
The universe is sorely tempting me to go live in the Smashan and become the first Illinoisan Aghori.

So, another peculiar weekend ( Read more... )

A Brother and I were discussing the matter of his rather sceptical ex-girlfriend fairly recently.  He brought out the point that "She would never accept that Thelema is the way things should be..."
I thought it was interesting that he framed it in such a way;  I tend to think that most people, without having any idea that either we or Thelema even ( Read more... )