ISSN 1743-1735
4 papers in the library · publishing 1998-2025
Pomegranate May 21, 2025 Natalia Schwien Scott
Although numerous studies have identified animist practices invoking plants in non-Western cultures, limited attention has been granted towards similar practices present in Western cultures, whether historical or contemporary. In the study of Western esotericism, where research on alternative cosmologies and European Earth-based religions finds an academic home, discussions on plant personhood...
Pomegranate January 26, 2023 Amy Slagle
Gary Lachman, Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll and the Wickedest Man in the World (New York: Jeremy Tarcher/ 2014), 387 p, $19 (paper), $11.99 (ebook).
Pomegranate March 9, 2007 Christopher J Miles
The English artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) created a dense and fecund body of work that is built upon a foundation of automatism, the pursuit of a state of Vacuity, and the reification of what Spare termed “Self-Love.” Although a one-time student of Aleister Crowley and clearly influenced by some aspects of Western European esoteric currents, Spare has remained on the...
Pomegranate November 1, 1998 Jenny Blain
The Saga of Eirik the Red describes the visit of a spákona, a seeress, to a Greenland farm, one thousand years ago. Her clothing and shoes, her staff and cloak, are detailed. She is asked to predict the progress of the community; she eats a meal of the hearts of the farm animals, and the next day a “high seat” is made ready for her, where she will sit to foretell. She engages in ritual...