Our first BLK Celebration 2019 content preview is the announcement that Caroline Wise and Kindle Cimmerian are currently collaborating on a very special presentation regarding –
Elen, the Goddess of the Ways.
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BLK Celebration 2019
Our 10th annual BLK Celebration will be held this year in Orlando, Florida.
It will feature an evening of lectures and an evening of entertainment.
Both will stimulate and/or break your heart and soul.
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Kindle of Black Lotus Kult as captured in Florida by The Dancers Eye – Fine Art Bellydance Photography (http://www.thedancerseye.com)
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News coming soon regarding
Black Celebration 2019
The Black Lotus Kult “LOVE KULT” design by Hagen von Tulien
BLK Celebration 2018 – Caroline Wise presents “The Blood Red Cord of Isis”
We’ve previously announced that Caroline Wise will be presenting “Nuit, Isis and the Nu-Isis Lodge” at this year’s BLK Celebration. We are happy to note that she will be adding a supplemental session,
“The Blood Red Cord of Isis”.
Kenneth Grant tends to get lumped in with H.P. Lovecraft and UFOs in the casual conversations of internet occultist. His work is far more complex and spans a wide variety of subjects.
Caroline will take us through a lesson on “the Goddess behind it all” as background to her talk on the Nu-Isis Lodge.
Caroline in the Spare Room
Caroline Wise instigated the republishing of Kenneth Grant’s books at Skoob Esocterica in 1989, which led to previously unpublished works coming into the light, including Grant’s novellas. She co-edited ‘The Secret Lore of London’ with John Matthews (Hodder and Stoughton 2016) and has contributed to several books on the goddesses of the Ancient World; on Austin Osman Spare, tarot artist Pamela Coleman Smith, and on magician Florence Farr, whose Egyptian themed plays she produced at The Rudolph Steiner Theatre in 1993. She gives talks and workshops on the goddesses in Britain, and in USA, Germany and Italy. She works with Starfire Publishing and has a special interest in the work of Kenneth Grant.
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BLK Celebration 2018 – Ariock Van de Voorde
At BLK Celebration 2018, one of your hosts will be
Ariock Van de Voorde
Ariock will act as the event MC throughout the weekend, will deliver two brief talks on. Friday will see “London Calling”, which will reflect on the influence Kenneth Grant has had on him. On Saturday, he will bring us “Chaud-Town”, a talk about his time spent in Chicago while writing “Meeting Le Maître: An Introduction to the Art of Michael Bertiaux” for Abraxas International Journal of Esoteric Studies.
Ariock is a writer, artist and musician living in the US Southeast. In the 1990’s he owned and managed an occult bookstore, which hosted an experimental magick group loosely based on Kenneth Grant’s New Isis Lodge.
As well as his duties within Bertiaux’s esoteric and religious orders, Ariock is also working with Michael on an art sales venture launching in 2019.
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BLK Celebration 2018 – Michael Bertiaux and Martin Starr!!!
A very special event has been added to the Saturday portion of
BLK Celebration
“The Occult History of Chicago”
Featuring Michael Bertiaux and Martin Starr
Martin and Michael will have a live discussion on Saturday entitled “The Occult History of Chicago.” Michael is internationally known through his books and art, but he was a young man with a dream when he arrived in Wheaton, IL in the 1960’s to report for his job with the Theosophical Society. He traveled frequently for lectures to Chicago, and fell in love with the city. Although readers of his work know about his Gnostic Voudon rituals, Church Orders and the work of the Ordo Templi Orientis Antiqua & La Couleuvre Noire and other groups he worked with over the years, Chicago’s occult history stretches back considerably further. Michael has an insatiable lust for knowledge, and being immersed in these bizarre legacies energized him and inspired him to discover more. Over the years, he has learned of the people, places and things of Hidden Chicago, and is eager to share these tales before they are lost.
This talk will cover the little-known “hot points” of the city’s esoteric history with a long-time participant/observer.
Martin P. Starr is an independent scholar of Western Esotericism and New Religious Movements with four decades of research and writing on the English synthetic occultist Aleister Crowley and his disciples Wilfred Talbot Smith, Charles Stansfeld Jones, C. F. Russell and Kenneth Grant. His current academic interests revolve around the interplay of Neo-Rosicrucianism, Independent Eucharistic Church Movements, Theosophy, and Freemasonry.
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BLK Celebration 2018 – Q&A with Michael Bertiaux, Michael Staley and Black Lotus Kult
BLK Celebration 2018 is coming next week to Chicago, IL – 14-16 Dec. Read further posts below on this page, or click HERE for details.
As part of the Centennial Celebration at the Occult Bookstore, we will see a special Q&A session with
Michael Bertiaux
Michael Staley of Starfire Publishing
and members of Black Lotus Kult.
