by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Apr 29, 2024 | Art, Information, Podcast, Publishing
On May 1st, 2024, the Grand Lodge of Australia is celebrating the release of Descent from the Cross: The Transformation of a Masochist Woman by Elaine Simard LaForêt. Seeing the book edited, designed, produced, and released in the two months since Elaine passed in...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Apr 1, 2024 | Art, Crowley, Publishing
Vols 1 and 2 of the Hagiography (Mandrake Press edition, 1929) Australian publisher Percy Reginald Stephensen (1901-1965) or ‘Inky’ as he was known, was Aleister Crowley’s publisher at the Mandrake Press in London over 1929-30. If it were not for Mandrake’s collapse...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Mar 4, 2024 | Art, Crowley, Information
The race for the Melbourne Cup – rounding the turn by the river, 1883; wood engraving published in the Illustrated Australian news. State Library Victoria. On 6 January 1927, Aleister Crowley wrote to an unnamed woman in Australia who he simply addressed as “Dear and...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Jan 9, 2024 | Art, Crowley, Information
(Source “Dame Edna at the royal wedding,”Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons) A little-known fact about the late Australian comedy legend, Barry Humphries (1934-2023) – renowned for his iconic portrayal of the flamboyant Dame Edna Everage...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Sep 27, 2022 | Crowley, Information, Publishing
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Living In the Sunlight by Steve King (Australia’s national Grand Master Shiva X°) was released on the 21st of September, and it is now available on online retailers: Book DepositoryAmazon (Aus) (UK)Barnes &...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | May 23, 2022 | Crowley, Events, Lecture, Ora Et Labora
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Ora et Labora is proud to announce the second in our series of online lectures with: J. Daniel Gunther “Revealing the Stèle of Ankh-ef-en-khonsu” J. Daniel Gunther is one of the foremost scholar-practitioners of...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Apr 7, 2022 | Events, Lecture, Ora Et Labora, Publishing
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. To Celebrate the release of Ora Et Labora – Volume 3, Grand Lodge of Australia is pleased to announce its upcoming virtual launch, including presentations from three prominent authors featured in this edition. We...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Nov 26, 2021 | Events, Lecture, Ora Et Labora
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Ora et Labora is proud to announce that we will now be hosting a series of lectures, free of charge, beginning with: J. Daniel Gunther “Christeos Luciftias – Messianism in the New Aeon.” Image credit...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Sep 22, 2021 | Information, Podcast
Welcome to season 2 of Hieros Gamos Radio! Our guest is a scholar whose work centers on the traditions of yoga and tantra and their impact on new religious movements in the West; Thelema; the cultural history of the 20th century, contemporary occultism, and...
by Grand Secretary General (GSG) | Sep 21, 2021 | Crowley, Publishing
Aleister Crowley and the Fake News Media In March of 2020, the Grand Lodge of Australia decided to re-issue a facsimile edition of Australian P.R. Stephensen’s 1930 examination of the disgusting campaign of personal vilification by the British gutter-press towards a...