The magician and Occultist Aleister Crowley appears on the cover of The Beatles’ 1967 masterpiece Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, situated on the back row of a crowd of people that the band admired. Crowley famously put forward in … Continue reading →
Arthur Evans and his notes on Illyria; the snake people and cultural identity in Albania and Kosovo For the past few years, I’ve been visiting Kosovo and Albania and have been working on a number of academic projects. One such … Continue reading →
Review of Goetic Evocation by Steve Savedow Hadean Press ISBN: 978-1-914166-15-0 Hardback price: £30.00 The new hardback edition of Steve Savedow’s Goetic Evocation by Hadean Press is a welcome re-presentation of a great occult work. Besides being a beautiful hardback … Continue reading →
I’ve been writing short stories since the early 1990s, and have amassed quite a collection over the years, so when I was asked by Surrealist artist Jens Rusch to donate a short story for his visual project The Magic Carpet … Continue reading →
The following paper examines the little known story of the Columbian Illuminati and has been edited from my recent publication Rediscovered Rituals of English Freemasonry. The book presents an in-depth examination of the Masonic work of the early nineteenth century … Continue reading →
It was with great pleasure that I recently had a short paper published with the excellent Journal of the Boleskine House Foundation, Issue 5, (December 2021), which supports the rebuilding of the famed Boleskine House, in which occultist Aleister Crowley … Continue reading →
During my recent visits to Kosovo and Albania, I had the honour to be invited to visit the Halveti, Saadi and Bektashi Tekke’s and to meet the various Masters. This led to some research and the writing and subsequent publication … Continue reading →
I’ve visited Kosovo and Albania a good number of times over the last few years, where I’ve had some Albanian language editions of some of my books published, notably A Quick Guide to Freemasonry, which was published in 2020 and … Continue reading →
A look inside the new edition of Richard Carlile’s Manual of Freemasonry, with foreword by Dr David Harrison, published by Masonica in 2021. The high degrees presented in The Manual of Freemasonry were discussed at length in my book Rediscovered … Continue reading →
This is a look into the very first edition of the Scriptorium Journal, published in Bucharest in Romania. An excellent journal revealing a high standard of Masonic research and including a great collection of peer reviewed papers and reviews. The … Continue reading →
