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f kingship when breaking with the order and establishing his new religion of thelema the l v x signs the l v x signs are a ritual expression of the formula of iao which concerns death and rebirth as crowley explained this formula is the principal and most characteristic formula of osiris of the redemption of mankind i is isis nature ruined by a apophis the destroyer and restored to life by the redeemer osiris crowley later identified the letter a in iao with the hebrew letter ayin which in magickal kabbalistic tarot is attributed to the devil the devil satan and set are identified with the messenger of the new aeon aiwass according to crowley 1929 35 6 this devil is called satan or shaitan and regarded with horror by people who are ignorant of his formula and imagining themselves to be evil accuse nature herself of their own phantasmal crime satan is saturn set abrasax adad adonis attis adam adonai etc the most serious charge against him is that he is the sun in the south the ancient initiates dwelling as they did in lands whose blood was the water of the nile or the euphrates connected the south with life withering heat and cursed that quarter where the solar darts were deadliest capricornus is moreover the sign which the sun enterers when he reaches his extreme southern declination at the winter solstice the season of the death of vegetation for the folk of the northern hemisphere this gave them a second cause for cursing the south a third the tyranny of hot dry poisonous winds the menace of deserts or oceans dreadful because mysterious and impassable these also were connected in their minds with the south but to us aware of astronomical facts this antagonism to the south is a silly superstition which the accidents of their local conditions suggested to our animistic ancestors we have therefore no scruple in restoring the devil worship of such ideas as those which the laws of sound and the phenomena of speech and hearing compel us to connect with the group of gods whose names are based upon sht or d vocalized by the free breath a for these names imply the qualities of courage frankness energy pride power and triumph they are the words which express the creative and paternal will it is this god of the south which has also inspired hale to interpret australia s red kangaroo as a figure pertaining to set barry william hale sketch of kangaroo waratah and sigils 1994 ink on paper creative acts exhibition state library victoria photo by eugene hyland to give the last word to hale he explains there is great power in the things that people are afraid of the devil is the name a new regime gives to the god s of those they oppress these repressed forces become the locus of forbidden power imprisoned by the walls of taboo for me these crowned anarchies become the agencies of liberation barry william hale wheels of heaven hell 231 creative acts artists and their inspirations runs until may 2026 and is in the victoria gallery at state library victoria 328 swanston street melbourne 3000 australia further reading crowley aleister 1929 magick in theory and practice paris lecram press griffiths john gwyn trans 1970 plutarch s de iside et osiride cardiff university of wales press lichtheim miriam 2019 ancient egyptian literature oakland university of california press te velde herman 1967 seth god of confusion leiden brill tully caroline 2024 lifting the veil of isis egyptian reception and the hermetic order of the golden dawn in alternative egyptology papers in honour of willem van haarlem edited by ben van den bercken allard pierson museum amsterdam tully caroline 2020 celtic egyptians isis priests of the lineage of scota in ancient egypt in the modern imagination edited by eleanor dobson and nichola tonks 145 160 london bloomsbury tully caroline 2018 egyptosophy in the british museum florence farr the egyptian adept and the ka in the occult imagination in britain 1875 1947 edited by christine ferguson and andrew radford 131 145 london routledge tully caroline 2010 walk like an egyptian egypt as authority in aleister crowley s reception of the book of the law the pomegranate international journal of pagan studies 12 1 2010 wilkinson richard h 1992 reading egyptian art a hieroglyphic guide to ancient egyptian painting and sculpture london thames and hudson wilkinson richard h 2003 the complete gods and goddesses of ancient egypt london thames and hudson wilson penelope 2003 hieroglyphs a very short introduction oxford oxford university press 1 although technically set is a storm god and was identified with the levantine storm god baal who was identified with the greek storm god zeus while osiris was an earth underworld god identified with the greek hades posted by caroline tully at 5 56 pm 2 comments friday october 31 2025 interview with dr caroline tully on the briefing about contemporary witchcraft deep dive witches have re entered the mainstream through the power of social media which has also catapulted the prevalence of the etsy and diy witch but with so many witches entering your tiktok feed or telling you about your future through a screen how do we know if what they re selling us is magic or marketing in this episode of the briefing helen smith is joined by dr caroline tully a scholar of modern pagan religions who explains the rise of the modern witch and why for many witchcraft is more than just a trend promo here https www youtube com watch v _jdcita0pts interview here second half https www youtube com watch v kqzyeppokew posted by caroline tully at 5 04 pm no comments interview on abc radio show god forbid on the ethics of witchcraft and hexing the far right two days prior to the assassination of right wing political activist charlie kirk a group of writers at us based feminist magazine jezebel published an article stating that they paid some etsy witches to curse charlie kirk the magazine has since pulled the article on the advice of their lawyers so as not to cause any confusion about their stance on political violence of any kind is it ever ethical to wish harm on someone even if that harm is theoretical or supernatural what code of ethics are witches bound to and why do witches have such a complex relationship with right wing politics guests dr caroline tully witchcraft maven archaeologist writer tarot reader and scholar of modern pagan religions dr kenneth freeman adjunct professor of social work at north carolina central university author of the research paper ethical parallels an exploration of the nasw code of ethics wiccan rede and the growing influence of wicca in the united states dr megan goodwin scholar of politics and american religions senior editor of religion dispatches and author of religion is not done with you listen here https www abc net au listen programs godforbid witches ethics charliekirk 105769446 posted by caroline tully at 4 56 pm no comments saturday october 18 2025 magical art magical art is a hot topic right now especially in the uk and usa australia has its own magical artist barry william hale b 1969 a visual and performance artist and an occultist who uses historical magical techniques in new and innovative ways to make original artworks interest in empowerment through magic has never been more popular and this explosion can be attributed to the internet the bbc reports that videos with the hashtag witchtok have amassed more than 30 billion views while the witch hashtag has received nearly 20 billion views witchtiktok has nearly two billion views and babywitch a hashtag for those new to the craft has more than 600 million views while much online magic is about self care and spruiking small businesses magic is actually an ancient intellectual and somatic practice concerned with accessing supernatural entities and forces for knowledge self development and power magical art can be traced back to the symbolists and decadents of the late 19 th century joséphin péladan founder of the salons de la rose croix combined catholicism rosicrucianism and occultism swedish artist hilma af klint was directly inspired by spiritual entities well known modern artists such as kazimir malevich and wassily kandinsky were inspired by occultism designers from the bauhaus school were engaged with occult spirituality and surrealists leonora carrington and remedios varro s works are suffused with magic and mystical imagery while historically magical art is reasonably new magic itself has an old pedigree and this is what barry william hale taps into when producing art his magical influences and methods span the centuries from the ancient world until today and include accessing the powers of ancient egyptian and greek gods kabbalistic mysticism renaissance hermetic magic the enochian system developed by elizabethan court magician john dee and the ritual techniques of famous twentieth century magicians aleister crowley and austin osman spare barry william hale s work demonomania rhizotoma is on display at the state library victoria until 31 may 2026 in an exhibition called creative acts curated by michelle moo angela bailey kate rhodes nandini sathyamurthy and me caroline tully posted by caroline tully at 6 38 pm no comments friday october 17 2025 what is magic barry william hale s magic case in the creative acts exhibition in my last blog post about the creative acts exhibition at state library victoria i explained that each case of objects in featured artist barry william hale s part of the exhibition would be explained we will focus on the relationship between the cases and hale s commissioned artwork his other artistic output and magickal practice in this blog post we will focus on the magic case in general subsequent posts will examine individual objects within this case what is magic the word magic derives from the ancient greek μαγεία mageia which referred to the ritual activity of persian priests or magoi and which was so different to greek religion that the greeks categorised it as magic over subsequent centuries there have been many definitions of magic as wouter hanegraaff says one will therefore receive very different answers depending on the historical period in question and the personal agendas of whoever is being asked hanegraaff observes that magic has been defined as ancient wisdom worship of demons natural philosophy and science occult philosophy pseudoscience an enchanted worldview and as psychology although magic is understood differently within diverse historical and cultural contexts in general it can be described as the use of ritualised words and actions usually outside the sanction of official religions which attract supernatural beings to influence events british magician aleister crowley 1875 1947 used the spelling magick which he defined as the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will magic may seem an obscure or fantastical practice but along with religion it is a method that has been used by humans to negotiate their relationship with the world for thousands of years barry william hale s magical influences and methods span the centuries from the ancient world until today they include the power of set the ancient egyptian god of the desert chaos storms and strength the openness to inspiration characteristic of bronze age minoan ecstatic religion and the physical sensation and raw emotion typical of the worship of the greek god dionysus barry s magical lineage continues through jewish kabbalistic letter mysticism the renaissance hermetic magic of heinrich cornelius agrippa von nettesheim and the system of enochian magic developed by elizabethan court magician john dee up to the magical revival in late 19th century france and england from there the magical current manifested in the most famous and notorious modern ceremonial magician aleister crowley his channelled text liber al vel legis the book of the law received clairaudiently in egypt in 1904 and the basis for the magical religion of thelema greek for will along with the grandfather of modern sigil magic austin osman spare are other direct influences on barry hale objects in hale s magic themed case include illustrations by austin osman spare 1886 1956 such as a double headed herm one of heinrich cornelius agrippa von nettesheim s 1486 1535 three books of occult philosophy facsimile composer larry sitsky s 1934 trio no 7 music enochian sonata for two violoncellos and piano an anonymous work from the david halperin collection kabbalah on the laws of the transmutation of letters and words of the hebrew alphabet and its combinations before 1864 aleister crowley s 1875 1947 the spirit of solitude an autohagiography subsequently re antichristened the confessions of aleister crowley 1929 aleister crowley s the book of the law liber al vel legis sub figura ccxx featuring a tattoo imprint by hale also featured are a statue of the egyptian god set from hale s personal collection a seth amulet dating to 1294 30 bce and a minoan gold signet ring with an ecstatic scene facsimile of cms ii 3 no 51 both borrowed from the chau chak wing museum a bowl in the form of a silenus mask 2 nd 4 th century ce and a greek lekythos vase depicting the god dionysus both loaned from the ian potter museum of art an aramaic incantation bowl was loaned by the australian institute of archaeology and an obsidian mirror made in mexico is a personal loan by hale the creative acts exhibition at state library victoria is on until 31 may 2026 come on down and check it out you might even run into barry or me there we re always happy to talk about the exhibition and related topics posted by caroline tully at 4 11 pm no comments saturday september 13 2025 curating barry william hale the mystery of the cases the creative acts exhibition at state library victoria explores the creative process and its intersection with cultural and spiritual practices that allow artists to transcend boundaries and push the limits of their experience the exhibition features writer peter carey artists dr deanne gilson barry william hale and bundit puangthong and choreographer and dancer dr chandrabhanu alongside state library victoria s archive of vali myers and incredible objects such as annie yoffa s 4000 automatic drawings these are complemented by display cases that explore the artists processes using objects from the collection some loans objects from individual artist s own archives and labels in the artist s words objects from the library s collection are used alone and in combination to shed light on the artists practice trace the roots of these practices explain concepts and to elaborate on the artists biography or practice i have had the great honour of curating renowned occult artist barry william hale for this exhibition to complement hale s commissioned artwork demonomania rhizomata i curated seven cases which feature a mix of material including books from the state collection antiquities loaned from other institutions and personal possessions of the arti...