Agreed! Love the silences on this album, I saw them last year in London

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Felix Taylor - Glad Rags at Dawn Felix Taylor: Glad Rags at Dawn

literaryreview.co.uk/glad-rags-at... For those who can see beyond the paywall, I wrote about the Order of the Golden Dawn's questionable 'cipher manuscript' and Yeats, Machen and A. E. Waite's investigations into it's authenticity for the Literary Review:

Cheers Richard, I couldn't have written the Crowley chapter without your Perdurabo

London: Monday, 13 April, I'm in-conversation with Travis Elborough at the legendary Colony Room (Green), Heddon Street, in the Mayfair/Soho borderlands, talking occult modernism in London, 1912, re my book Dead the Long Year! come ahhht!

Cheers Andrew!

Fascinating talk by @felixjrt.bsky.social at Watkins Books 🌒✨🪐

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - Felix John Taylor | Watkins Bookshop Join author and scholar Felix John Taylor for a talk on his new book on the legendary Victorian occult society The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Seems appropriate to be speaking at Watkins on Friday - a bookshop whose founder J.M. Watkins published the occult scholarship of several Order members: www.watkinsbooks.com/event-detail...

Magical (or should that be magikal?) evening at The Book Hive in Norwich for the launch of @felixjrt.bsky.social’s The Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn book.

Looking forward to reading this!

#BookSky

Kind words, cheers Fiona!

Fantastic evening at Atlantis Bookshop for Felix John Taylor's book launch of his study and history of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, released by @thamesandhudson.bsky.social

#thehermeticorderofthegoldendawn #magicarts #occultrevival #secretsociety #occulthistory

LONDON & LISBON screenings of We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher
Lisbon on Thurs. (26/3) at Damas plus João Kyron and I performing my Ghost Box Records stuff live for the first time!

LONDON on Sat. (28/3) at RIO Cinema Dalston, 3pm with cast & crew attending!
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The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Magic Arts and the Occult Revival by Felix John Taylor

Today’s #bookpost is @felixjrt.bsky.social’s study of the Golden Dawn tradition and its relationship with literature.

Published today! And #2 in Alchemy, what a chart topper

Just delivered to my Kindle - looks interesting The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Magic Arts and the Occult Revival: Amazon.co.uk: Taylor, Felix John: 9780500029183: Books share.google/8PQ4sdaTe4lmPx… @FelixJohnTaylor #books #goldendawn #inklings

Felix John Taylor: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - The Book Hive ‘A lucid study of the relationship between the modern ceremonial magic of the Golden Dawn tradition and the literary arts, showing the manner in which the former stimulated and transmuted […]

Norwich event, March 26th: www.thebookhive.co.uk/event/felix-...

Front window of Atlantis Bookshop (photo Matthew Shaw)

In Tune - Her Ensemble live in session - BBC Sounds Petroc welcomes Her Ensemble and author Eric McElroy to In Tune.

🎶 Listen to BBC Radio 3's In Tune to hear the conversation between Petroc Trelawny and author Eric McElroy about his book, Weird Music: Reading John Ireland and Arthur Machen. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/iOEwBwb

Sam Raimi's Walden

Come to my book launch at Atlantis Books if you fancy it, March 25! How many people can fit inside an occult bookshop? We shall find out theatlantisbookshop.com/events/event...

Book jacket for Weird Music: Reading John Ireland and Arthur Machen by Eric McElroy

Tune into BBC Radio 3's In Tune tomorrow (Wed) from 5pm as Eric McElroy talks about his new book, Weird Music: Reading John Ireland and Arthur Machen, with presenter Petroc Trelawny.

Illustration, three layers of two hills; a wolf howls in bottom layer, above him, six rabbits are dancing, above them, stands a blue-trunked tree with a magpie perched atop it. The magpie is holding a trumpet or horn type megaphone and wears pink boots. On the second hillock, there is a fox and a rabbit, the background is a grey sky with white clouds.

Hello Friday.
🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov

Write down maybe ten broad questions you can imagine your examiners asking; then sit down and type out some answers

new blog post about what happened when Aleister Crowley tried to seize the Golden Dawn's headquarters, and what W B Yeats did about it: felixtaylor.org/yeats-vs-cro...

Current task at work: try to repair this Yeats collection for a student.

N EIL PHILIP is a poet and folklorist. Among his books are The Watkins Book of English Folktales, The Cinderella Story, The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse, and The Tale of Sir Gawain. His Horse Hooves and Chicken Feet: Mexican Folktales won the Aesop Award of the American Folklore Society. Neil lives in the Cotswolds, and a stream sacred to the Hwicce goddess Cuda rises in his garden to flow down her valley. He loves cats, books, and wine. You've devoted your life to studying myths and folk tales. What drew you to it? Why would you say this is important? I think telling stories is the root of our humanity. We are all doing it all the time, whether we realise it or not. Folk tales in particular hold up a mirror to ourselves. It's why they have survived. As the hero or heroine, by going through deadly perils and achieving impossible things, discovers their true self, so do we.

Very sad to read of the passing of folklorist and poet Neil Philip. He was fascinating to talk to, and always kind and supportive.

When I interviewed him for issue 12, he quoted William Blake: “This world of Imagination is the world of Eternity”.

The 1908 edition of "Poems" by W. B. Yeats has an amazing gilt design on the front by Althea Gyles, full of occult symbolism.

Gyles was in The Order of the Golden Dawn with Yeats who described "a strange red-haired girl all whose thoughts were set upon painting & poetry"

Sylvia Townsend Warner's OPUS 7 is dedicated to her uncle, Arthur Machen.

#booksky

A sad truth, but the man had a deep antipathy for anything resembling leftist politics

Yes! And age is no excuse, but M was in his seventies by that time