Hi Scott
I like yourself am a lurker on the threshold of the list (Lovecraftian
reference). Although I am a magical practitioner of many years' experience,
my degree is in Creative Writing and so I don't pop my head up here much.
Your interests sound rather similar to mine. I am an ex-TOPY member, OTO
initiate etc.
Have you read the book ISLANDS OF THE DAWN? Much useful material about
esoteric traditions in NZ.
Re: Lovecraft, it might be worth your joining the EOD (not the magical order
but the amateur press association headed by scholar S.T. Joshi). Contact me
if interested.
Currently I'm working on a long piece about the occult in the life and
writings of Lovecraft compadre Clark Ashton Smith.
cheers
Leigh Blackmore (Fr LVX/NOX)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Spencer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Introduction
Thanks for the welcome :)
There is a "Golden Dawn House" here which has a temple space in the
basement. The current owners have no interest in the occult but the
rooms are still intact. A good friend here has a wealth of info about
the history of the NZ Golden Dawn. We are hoping to get some kind of
access to the old rooms via the current resident when contact can be
made.
The folks here are very very nice. I think having such a small "scene"
creates a nice sense of community and cross pollination - st least
from my limited experience. I need to get out and about more!
Speaking of Lovecraft and New Zealand - its worth noting that the ship
"Alert" departs from Dunedin, NZ in the end of Call of Cthulhu :)
Thats a popular fact round here :) I do agree it was a missed
opportunity to really find fertile ground for some amazing mythos
related tales!
Scott
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:59 PM, D E <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> yep, didn't Israel Regardie send a load of material for the GD over to NZ
> as
> a kind of 'seed bank' in case of norhtern hemisphere situation going awry?
>
> like Sydney to Auckland, there's a lot of Europe that's "only" 3 or 4
> hours
> from here that i've never been to, don't sweat it : )
>
> and going back to Lovecraft in Scott's post, i'm disappointed HPL didn't
> know more about NZ, as i reckon he'd have woven the Mythos quite tightly
> into a country with such wilderness and diversity- coloured lakes and
> geysers, caverns, volcanoes, aurora in the skies, a suitably non-christian
> tribe inhabiting, and those absolutely huuuuuuuge cricket-like things that
> live in the caves, the Weta, hell, they're definitely the spawn of
> something
> unearthly....
>
> DE
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caroline Tully" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 11:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Introduction
>
>
>> Very active OTO in New Zealand and, I believe, a Golden Dawn *lineage*
>> (Pat
>> Zalewski). Actually, I've never been to NZ (which is pathetic of me), but
>> I
>> have written for some NZ Pagan mags, the Paganism there is also of a high
>> standard too, from what I can gather.
>>
>>
>> ~Caroline.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of D E
>> Sent: Sunday, 30 January 2011 10:44 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Introduction
>>
>> i forgot to say, having visited in 2007 i'd also be very envious of
>> living
>> in NZ : )
>>
>> i had a conversation about the OTO in a bar in Auckland with a
>> Maori-turned-Buddhist , which was pretty surreal
>>
>> DE
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