Category Archives: Reviews

Reflection on Ritual

Posted on 2017-04-10 by freemanpresson

I was in a discussion a week ago that reminded me of another one sixteen years past. None of the same people were present, but there were two things strikingly similar: conflation of the different senses of the term “ritual,” … Continue reading →

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Standing Rock Update: Police Action

Posted on 2016-09-28 by freemanpresson

Looks like police are moving on the Standing Rock Water Protectors: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/09/standing-rock-breaking-news-surrounded.html #NoDAPL   Twitter is blocking this link. I’m ashamed of you, Twitter. Apparently Facebook may be, also; we’ll see.  

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Opus of the Parametamagus: an Antero Alli Wonderwork

Posted on 2016-05-13 by freemanpresson

I took a lot of notes during my first viewing of Antero Alli‘s “To Dream of Falling Upwards.” They mentioned the dreamlike opening, in which a woman walks a labyrinth, sits in the middle, is visited by a hummingbird, then … Continue reading →

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Review of Peter Stockinger’s STARS AND STONES: An Astro-Magical Lapidary

Posted on 2016-05-11 by freemanpresson

I didn’t realize, until I got the book in my hands, that this does a lot more for Hermetic astro-mages than just add to the lore of what stones and metals to use for talismans … Continue reading →

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Occult or Not?

Posted on 2015-12-28 by freemanpresson

Some recent online discussions, notably this one about Freemasonry, have resonated with a topic I’ve spent a lot of time on: the tides of intellectual fashion in how we think about our place in the Cosmos, and particularly about the … Continue reading →

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First Impressions are…

Posted on 2015-12-14 by freemanpresson

So,  I just got Robson’s The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology,  since that seems to be the go-to book. There are some statements in the Preface that make it abundantly clear that the author was not au courant with … Continue reading →

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Changes!

Posted on 2015-11-24 by freemanpresson

Looks like a cobweb blog,  doesn’t it? I got out of the book reviewing business because I was reading too many books that,  whatever their merits for someone else,  weren’t what I needed to be reading. In the meantime,  I … Continue reading →

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An Execration

Posted on 2015-04-19 by freemanpresson

Performed in due form by the Namen of Temple Zagduku before the shrines of Lilith, Inanna, Ereshkigal, Utu, Ea, and Ningishzida, on 2015-04-19 in an hour of Venus, appropriate for Inanna destroyer of mountains. I don’t usually curse, although I … Continue reading →

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How About an Illustrated Hardcover Picatrix?

Posted on 2015-04-10 by freemanpresson

Review copyright 2015() Freeman Presson, all rights reserved You can still get the the paperback Picatrix on Amazon, but there is now a hardcover edition of the same thing with a wealth of small (6.5cm x 6.5cm), monochrome talismanic pictures by … Continue reading →

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Hamlet’s Mill FINALLY in print again!

Posted on 2015-04-04 by freemanpresson

(P)review copyright 2015() Freeman Presson, all rights reserved I had been pestering Godine about the re-release of this book for…I won’t say how long (but I’ll show you the video if you want). You see, I have a very peculiar … Continue reading →

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