Joseph-Aimé (Joséphin) Péladan (1858 -1918) was a French novelist and Martinist. He was an artist, an eccentric and claimed to be the successor to a Toulouse branch of the Rose-Croix.
Poem to Péladan: From Bucharest with Love
Eighth Biannual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE)(Cork 2022)
I am very pleased to receive word of my acceptance on the programme of the Eighth Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (Cork 2022). I will discussing the l'Ordre des Chevaliers Maçons Élus Coëns de l'Univers. ESSWE8 is the 8th Biannual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism …
Ozymandias! The Rite of Misraïm in Scotland.
Between the formation of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in Scotland on the 4th August 1846 and the present day, a total of thirteen eminent Scottish freemasons have led the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in Scotland, the first of these Sovereign Grand Commanders was Dr Charles Morison of Greenfield …
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Clara of the Golden Hair That Went Wild With the Deer
An ancient Gaelic tale found in the unpublished notebooks of Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912)
Rwanda and Uganda with GLP
ANNOUNCEMENT: Very pleased at receiving word of my selection to join the Global Learning Partnership network in 2020. I will be spending a month in Rwanda and Uganda this summer. In partnership with Redearth Education Uganda and Inspire Educate and Empower Rwanda (IEE), I will be training local educators through professional learning reflecting local context.
Morocco.
With three distinct gold globes, the minaret of the Koutoubia Mosque dominates the Marrakesh horizon. Legend tells that one day during the month of Ramadan, the wife of Youcoub El Mansour (c. 1160- 1199) ate three small grapes. In penance, she melted down all her jewellery and moulded them into these three great gold spheres. …
Exile in Kabbalah: A Visit to The Old Tzfat Cemetery
Rabbi Yitzchak Luria ben Shlomo Ashkenazi (1534-1572), also known as the ‘Ari’ or ‘Lion of Safed’, was taught by the influential Rabbi Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522-1570). Known for instigating a new school of Kabbalistic thinking in Palestine known as Lurianic Kabbalah, Luria himself writes very little, and his work becomes known through its reference …
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In Rasputin’s hand: Images of the Mad Monk
During the summer of 1914, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (1869-1916) was stabbed in the stomach by a 33-year-old peasant woman named Chionya Guseva, outside his home in Pokrovskoye, along the Tura River in the Tobolsk guberniya (now Tyumen Oblast), Siberia. A former prostitute, Guseva purportedly screamed 'I have killed the Antichrist!'. Rasputin, near dead, was chased …
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The death announcement of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (18 January 1743 – 13 October 1803)
The text below was published in the broadsheet 'Journal des débats' on November 6, 1803. "M. de Saint-Martin, who had founded in Germany a religious sect known as the Martinists, has just died at Aunay, near Paris, at the home of Senator Lenoir-Laroche. He had acquired some celebrity for his bizarre opinions, his attachment to …
The Burning of the Clavie
At the start of the New Year, I had the pleasure of attending a traditional fire ritual known as 'The Burning of the Clavie'. The burning is an ancient Scottish custom still observed in the village of Burghead, a fishing village on the Moray Firth. The clavie is a collection of casks split in two, …
