Critiquing the Counterculture: Occult Revival of the Sixties and
Seventies
Gary Lachman
Gary Lachman reflects on the Occult Revival of the Sixties and early
Seventies, tracing the core themes that arose from it which remain
relevant today. His book Turn off Your Mind achieved a cult status and
was acclaimed by both Christian Fundamentalists and satanists alike
(now just reissued, expanded, as The Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn
Off Your Mind). Tonight he gives his current thoughts on that Occult
Explosion, when rejected and ridiculed beliefs took centre stage,
reaching the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, saturating the the
hippies and flower power. Gary Lachman, as Gary Valentine, was a
founder member of Blondie, and co-wrote many of the group's early
hits. He is now a writer and literary critic, author of numerous
books, and contributing to broadsheet newspapers and literary
journals. Price: 7.00 Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start
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08 April 10 (Thursday)
The Incoming of the Aeon of Maat: Frater Achad and Gerald Yorke in
1948
Michael Staley (Starfire)
Shortly after Aleister Crowley died in late 1947, his long-term
friend and colleague Gerald Yorke wrote to Charles Stansfeld Jones
(Frater Achad), at one time Crowley’s collaborator and Magical Son.
The correspondence which arose dealt with Crowley’s relations with
Achad, interpretations of the Book of the Law, and other aspects of
Crowley’s work. Achad also here asserted the incoming of the Aeon of
Truth and Justice in April 1948, foreshadowed in Achad’s published
work of the early 1920s. Kenneth Grant referred to these exchanges in
his Outside the Circles of Time and elsewhere as ‘Official and
Unofficial Correspondence Concerning the Incoming of the Aeon of
Maat’. Michael Staley discusses this fascinating material, and looks
into Achad's intended meaning of the incoming of the Aeon of Truth and
Justice, how this relates to the concept of a succession of aeons, and
its relationship to the Aeon of Horus. Michael Staley is the founder
of Starfire Publishing, which will be publishing the correspondence in
summer 2010. Price: 7.00 Time: 7.15 for a 7.30 start
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