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[WitchesWorkshop] Digest Number 4942

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1a.

Re: New book on Rosaleen Norton & Austin Osman Spare

Posted by: "Ozpagan" timozpagan@witchesworkshop.com   wwwozpagancom

Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:43 am (PST)



Brilliant! I've ordered my copy, although I have to wait until after the solstice.

Have you read Nevill's other recent work "Homage to Pan"? This was a great read, with so much more detail, better researched material than the earlier "Pan's Daughter".

Vinum Sabbati,
Tim

--- In WitchesWorkshop@yahoogroups.com, "Caroline Tully" <heliade@...> wrote:
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> Dark Spirits: The Magical Art of Rosaleen Norton and Austin Osman Spare,
> Nevill Drury
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> Salamander & Sons, 2012, $126. Distributed through Weiser Antiquarian Books
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> Although they never met, the Australian witch Rosaleen Norton (1917-1979)
> and British visionary artist Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956) shared many
> points in common. As occult practitioners operating within the Western
> esoteric tradition, both artists were well versed in the literature of
> Western magic, Theosophy, kabbalah, Eastern mysticism, and modern
> psychoanalysis. Fascinated by mediæval magical grimoires, they also explored
> theseals associated with elemental spirit-beings and developed unique forms
> of sigil magic. Perhaps even more significantly, Norton and Spare utilised
> their own personal techniques of self-hypnosis and trance in order to
> produce their distinctive visionary artworks. As this book demonstrates,
> there is a clear parallel between the trance states associated with the Zos
> / Kia cosmology of Spare and the trance magic of Norton. Profiling both
> artists in detail, and with in excess of 120 colour and black and white
> images, Dark Spirits explores the unique contributions of both Spare and
> Norton as visionary outsiders and is necessary reading for anyone interested
> in the nether regions of the magical psyche.
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> Further details at
> http://www.salamanderandsons.com/modern-magistery/dark-spirits.html
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2a.

Re: Looking Glass Discussion Group

Posted by: "Christopher Michaels" thoughtful_outsider@yahoo.com   thoughtful_outsider

Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:21 pm (PST)



start with this group and start a meetup... put a message on Facebook... ask your friends... look at group on Yahoo, Google, and other social sites...

 
Christopher

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"to achieve change we must step outside and view the situation from a new angle"
"life doesn't travel so fast if you're paying attention."

from the movie 'stay'- Henry Letham: ...Tristan Rêveur quote about bad art? It's "bad art is more tragically beautiful than good art 'cause it documents human failure."

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