I EARTH WORKS Our four-fathers came from North and South and East and West And our mother, and her daughters, Seven Sisters, Came from everywhere, I think. And our one father, from the North, With hammer and tongs Arrived with his ships, and his silver, And they heard his roar Continue Reading
Culture
Leabhar Draíocht – The Grimoire Diagrammaton
These are the collected Diagrammaton of the Hollow Collective, from 2000-2012. There are others, of course, and in due course, as we excavate the archives of the Hidden Library, they will be added au fur et à mesure. Venus in Furs, Mars to Measure. DIAGRAMMATON : appeared as one of Continue Reading
THE HIDDEN LIBRARY
Devlin’s Account of The Long Night Nov. 1st 1894 So it begins. The Game is underway, the seeds are sown, the dice are cast. And, despite some rotten looking bruises around the face and head, I’ll hazard that I’m winning already. Crowe can stuff it in his pipe. He told Continue Reading
LEAVES FROM THE LEABHAR DRAÍOCHT : SAINT SWITHIN’S DAY – HIGH SUMMER, 15 July 2012
We had come to the Lost Domain, leaving as the last of the night leaked from the sky under the last wedge of the Waning Moon. I carried with me a glyph of Will-Working, charged in an intense ceremony in which the Dark One-Eyed Wanderer stood before me, covered me Continue Reading
PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF
There is a sickness, and there is a gift. There is a power to heal, and there is a hurt that never heals, a wound that never knits closed; are they one and the same? Among many traditional shamanistic cultures, there is an idea of the “shaman sickness”, a preparatory Continue Reading
‘The Ever-undiscovered Country over the hill’ : The Temporality and the Geometry of Adventure
‘A proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art’; Robert Louis Stevenson adopts this provocative position in his 1884 essay, ‘A Humble Remonstrance’,[1] written as a rejoinder to Henry James’s ‘The Art of Fiction’,[2] which had appeared a few months earlier, also in Longman’s Continue Reading
STOP THE CAVALRY [MICK, DECEMBER 2009]
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A shaft of light across the bed in the dark before dawn, and she’d come back in, fully dressed, and nestled down beside him to say goodbye. He turned away, groaning, and her small body curled against his back. Kisses on the nape of his neck and his shoulder. Whispers Continue Reading
THE POLITICS OF HOLDING THE DOOR
You’ve all heard it, haven’t you? How now, if you hold a door for a woman, you’re some kind of a “sexist”; how now, if you compliment a woman, or flirt with a woman, or tell a woman she’s looking sexy today, or just gently brush up against her breast, Continue Reading
Devlin’s Posthumous Letter from Morocco
Editor’s Introduction : We present here a short excerpt from Martin Caulder’s recently discovered pseudonymous work, first published by Olympia Press in 1964 in the “Traveller’s Companion” series of erotica for gentlemen. The original title, The Devil in a Woman’s Form, is believed to have been chosen at the last Continue Reading
Credo : Rage and Love – Plan for Utopia, Act for Apocalypse
Ace of Swords – Eight of Wands Reversed – Queen of Swords Reversed : Our Lady of Pain, Obstacles Foreseen, Sword in the Hand So. I’ve been doing some pretty demanding soul-searching on the question of what to call myself, how to identify, spiritually and philosophically. Someone started discussing the Continue Reading