Booking now for Saturday 13th April 2024, live in London. Following the great success of Florence Farr and the Magical Imagination: A Celebration in July 2023, Caroline Wise and Sue Terry are creating a second celebratory magical event in central London for Spring 2024, “Florence Farr and the Magical Imagination: The Mystery of Time ”.

Saturday 13th April 2024, The Abbey Centre, 34 Great Smith Street, Westminster, London SW1P 3BU. A day focused on Florence Farr’s occult work including her Egyptian Rituals and featuring a very special magical reading of her masque, The Mystery of Time, a short play that has rarely been produced for an audience since 1905. Expect an exciting and engaging event of talks, the play, friendly discussion and more - all welcome. Speaker Programme announced:

Elaine Bailey ‘How Anna Bonus Kingsford Influenced Florence Farr's Exploration of Spirit Contacts'

Isabella Javor 'Magic as Art in Florence Farr's Evocation of Mercury

Fleur Shearman & Clive Harper 'Florence Farr's Egyptian Rites in Practice'

Sue Terry 'Florence Farr's Tarot Magic of the Golden Dawn'

Caroline Wise, ‘Florence Farr’s Magical Imagination: Images and Imagery’

Plus The Company of Players, Ruth Bayer, Cindy Caton, Isabella Javor, in 'The Mystery of Time', A Masque by Florence Farr

Donations and collection in aid of Breast Cancer charity. Enquires: sue.magickal.mail@gmail.com. BOOKINGS OPEN HERE

An exciting mid-week event focused on the work of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and a rare opportunity to explore some of the historic magical artefacts held at The Museum of Freemasonry, Covent Garden. Members of The Golden Dawn included Florence Farr, playwright, actor and advocate for women’s rights, W.B. Yeats, poet and politician, Annie Horniman, theatre producer and philanthropist, Moina Mathers, artist and Arthur Machen, writer. This study day is hosted by the University of Surrey and combines a full programme of talks with an introduction to the Golden Dawn Archive, offering plenty of opportunity for discussion in a friendly and welcoming environment. It will be of interest to literary and historical researchers of the Victorian era, fin de siecle and early modernism, those with an interest in magic, ritual, theatre, the history of spiritualism and religion. Speakers will present on a range of topics including Florence Farr and the women of the Golden Dawn, the history of ritual, Anna Bonus Kingsford and the origins of the Golden Dawn, and occult languages of spirit communication. Confirmed speakers: Caroline Wise, Publisher, researcher and author, Dr. Allan Kilner-Johnson, Associate Professor English Literature, University of Surrey, Elaine Bailey, M.A. Independent scholar, Sue Terry, PhD candidate University of Surrey and Susan Snell, Archivist and Records Manager, Museum of Freemasonry. Tickets £35, bookings from University of Surrey website HERE

An evening exploring the shifting nature of reality that emerges through the interplay of history, folklore and landscape within Alan Garner’s early novels of the 1960s, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, Elidor and Red Shift. An online event for those unable to join me in London in August, tonight will include an extended talk and plenty of time for discussion. It is the first session of an Owl House Alan Garner series for 2023 - 4 as part of my ongoing work on a book about his fiction.

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An evening online course on a classic novel of British popular occult fiction, ‘The Devil Rides Out’ , published in 1934 and made into a film by Hammer Horror in 1968 at the height of the ‘60s occult revival; more recently it has become associated with the Folk Horror genre, which has resulted in bringing new readers to this rollicking story of magic, Satanism and psychic plotting. Often described both as fun, very silly nonsense and as a mix of nail-biting pulp terror and esotericism, we’ll explore the novel’s setting and what it reveals about the culture and society of the interwar years.

Dennis Wheatley knew Aleister Crowley and demonstrates familiarity with the occult milieu of the 1930s: readers are drawn in by the appearance of authenticity and authority as Wheatley weaves his tale. The main characters, the Duke de Richleau, Simon Aron, Rex Van Ran and Richard Eaton are a group of well-heeled friends who become involved in a thrilling chase across Europe and around Salisbury Plain in an attempt to defeat a group of Satanists, led by the sinister Mocata, who have ensnared a young woman called Tanith, whose very soul is in jeopardy…Dennis Wheatley had a stroke of genius in blending the thriller genre with literature of the occult and in ‘The Devil Rides Out’ we discover magic rituals, esoteric technology and techniques such as Kabbalah and numerology in a tense, exciting novel that compels us to keep turning the pages. Join me tonight as we ride out! BOOK HERE