Seraphs, fallen angels and disciples

2025 in review

This year my work on Substack has pursued Thelema beyond Jack Parsons as I plot the forward trajectory of magick from the death of our beloved Antichrist.

For those not up to speed on Parsons, I recommend the documentary Master of the Temple produced by Atrocity Guide, who kindly included my perspective alongside those of David Shoemaker and NASA historian Roger Launius.

If that piques your interest, my study of Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard, The Two Antichrists will take that to the next level.

Having explored the work of Jack Parsons, I have followed the adventures of Cameron and her extraterrestrial encounters here on Substack:

Cameron’s story intersects with underground film maker Kenneth Anger and his own UFO epiphanies, and that requires introducing Bobby Beausoleil:

Anger then flirts with the new aristocracy of the Stones and Zeppelin to bring through his vision of Lucifer for a New Age of light:

As Anger pursued his quest, so too did a survivor from Agape Lodge, the warrior poet Grady McMurtry. The tragedy of Grady and his psychedelic misadventures made the modern American OTO:

Returning to Anger and Crowley’s abandoned Abbey of Thelema, the sexologist Alfred Kinsey enters the frame:

The next three stories deal with Kenneth Grant and Crowley:

This next one is a personal favourite, with Crowley, McMurtry and Grant all meeting at the crossroads of the Bell Inn:

The last of these connects my ‘Cult of Tanat’ series to the sequence with the founding of a witchcraft museum by Cecil Williamson.

Between Operation Capricorn and Keepers of the New Seed is the period of Crowley’s last days in Netherwood, and his death. I will fill that lacuna once my friends at Starfire publish Kenneth Grant’s letters which cover the period.

I am currently working on a piece on Frater Achad, and assessing what other threads I should follow. Certainly there will be more to say about Kenneth Grant. Comments and suggestions are welcome!

The texts I have written on the subject will ultimately be collected in a book and will soon begin to slip behind the paywall. Read them while you can, or consider becoming a paid subscriber for ongoing access.

I’ve also written a few works on Cornwall (a couple behind the paywall) and will continue to do so, as this land is where my magic is done.

In 2026 I will publish The Cult of Tanat which is serialised here on my Substack. That will necessitate more research at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, and local archives.

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All this has run parallel to the production and publication of Lucifer: Praxis. Reviews have been strong.

“it’s an extraordinary achievement and will mark a BC/AD point in 21st century magic. I consider it the first coherent articulation of a fully British practice post-revival.” – Richard

“a foundational book for today’s Luciferian” – Andrew Hanson via Amazon

“a definitive contemporary articulation of the Luciferian tradition from both a theoretical and an operative perspective, and a defining work in the evolutionary unfolding of the Western esoteric tradition.” – Peter Mark Adams, from his review for Paralibrum

“Like Princeps did back in the day, Lucifer Praxis has torn open the floorboards of my thinking again. Their Lucifer is not a symbol you contemplate – it’s a current you step into. A force pointed toward what’s coming. There’s a sense here that the future isn’t something we wait for – it’s something that hunts us. The writing is razor-sharp, the scholarship fierce, but what stands out is the pulse behind it. This is a channeled working, a transmission of revolution – not the polite kind, but the raw, disruptive, blood-and-fire kind.” – Sirius White, An Antidote to Magical Thinking

The culmination of eight years of process, this work marks a significant moment in my personal and magical life. My recent silence on Substack has been due to the impact of that, and the time-consuming work of shipping orders. Thanks for bearing with me.

You can buy Praxis direct from Scarlet Imprint in hardback, paperback or digital editions, or via Amazon in Europe, the US and worldwide. (Penance for the second option is leaving a review.)

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The stirrings of a return to in-person events were a welcome sign that the hold of the digital realm is waning. In late September I gave a workshop with Alkistis at the Thelemic Symposium in Oxford. In October I presented at the Occulture Conference, a landmark event where 500 people gathered in Berlin to attest to the living current of modern magic. The lectures will be uploaded sequentially from December 17 on their YouTube channel. A biennial event, professionally run, beautifully staged and phenomenally rich in ideas, artistry, ritual and performance; I cannot recommend it highly enough. You have time to plan before the next one, I’ll see you there.