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The Rites of Roerich

by Mike Jay

[ march 04 ]

"A holiday. Let it be the one with which the victory of the springtime sun was always celebrated. When swift dances were danced, when all wished to please. The people rejoyced. Among them, art was born..."

Squidgygate revisited

by Garrick Alder

[ february 04 ]

The Princess of Wales may be dead and buried, but the controversy about her life and death certainly is not.

The magical world of Fernando Pessoa

by Gary Lachman

[ january 04 ]

"It offends my intelligence that a man can master the Devil without being able to master the Portuguese language." Life wasn't easy for the angst-ridden poet and occultist...

The Air Loom Gang: James Tilly Matthews and his visionary madness

by Mike Jay

[ july 03 ]

"For everyone who has since had messages beamed at them through fillings, mysterious implants or TV sets, or via hi-tech surveillance, MI5, Masonic lodges or UFOs, James Tilly Matthews is Patient Zero."

A puzzling text

by Doug Skinner

[ march 03 ]

Doug Skinner ponders 'Three Dreams on Metallic Transmutation', one of the more extended specimens of the alchemical dream vision

Hungry for God

by Gregory Whitehead

[ august 02 ]

The unbelievable tale of an obscure medieval heretical sect, people who devour books and other consumerist fantasies.

Blood culture: The heretic, vampire and the Jew

by Rebecca Riley

[ august 02 ]

Long ago and far away, a blood-sucking fiend was born, and he's not dead yet... The vampire's shape-shifting flight from Lilith to Dracula

'At leisure for love': amorous rhetoric in the Helfta Mystics

by Rebecca Riley

[ july 02 ]

When the Helfta nuns described themselves as Brides of Christ, they were serious...

Born to be wild

by Paul Sieveking

[ july 02 ]

For centuries there have been rumours of children reared by wild animals or surviving in the wild on their own. Time to delve into them a bit...

Baptizing dead people for fun and profit: organized religion's most imaginative scam

by Tom Bradley

[ june 02 ]

The Mormons have an interesting take on celestial vote-rigging.