Sef Salem and Mogg Morgan will open the Symposium and introduce the day.

Charlotte will give the first of three lectures in our morning bloc, which you can buy separately here.

Building on her earlier thoughts of spiritual DNA being represented by a constantly catalysing double helix of art dancing with spirituality, Charlotte explores the bridge that she considers to link these dynamic strands; animism manifested as memory. Her belief being that animism is not that everything holds a lifeforce, but rather an inherent memory; memory that strives to be acknowledged, articulated and expressed.

By peeling back over 40 years of layers of personal, magical and creative experiences with an onus on explorations in blood, bones and remnants of death, Charlotte will show how working with concepts of animism as encapsulated in memory has caused her to realise that what she initially considered to be an intuitive and somewhat eclectic practice was actually following a very strong and clear, atavistic current.

Charlotte Rodgers is an artist and author who is also an animist and nondenominational practising witch and magician. She conceived and co-edited A Contemporary Western Book of the Dead and wrote The Bloody Sacrifice and P is for Prostitution, all published by Mandrake of Oxford. Her work is published in magazines including The Cauldron, The Oracle and SilkMilk, FOLKWITCH, and The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies as well as in anthologies published by Avalonia, Scarlet Imprint and The Fenris Wolf. She had given talks at Edinburgh and York Universities, The Museum of Morbid Anatomy in New York and many conferences and events, most recently being the Artist in residence at The Magickal Women Conference in Birmingham.

In 2017 she was awarded an an arts Council grant to spend ten days investigating and blogging about the New York art world and a filmed exhibition of her work was made for CRASSH (Cambridge University Centre of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) Magic and Ecology Symposium 2021-2022. Charlotte’s art has been exhibited widely throughout the UK and also in Dublin and New York, and her sculptures are now on permanent display at the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art in Serbia.

Frieda Harris was a true spiritual seeker who had explored various aspects of mysticism and spirituality from an early age.

When she undertook to illustrate Aleister Crowley’s Book of Thoth, she undertook a course of study, not only to support the Work, but to explore every aspect of Magick itself. Although her training ceased with Crowley’s death, she continued to apply Thelemic principles to all aspects of her life.

This lecture will explore Harris’s esoteric journey and the enduring influence of Thelema to the end of her days.

Dr. Deja Whitehouse is an independent scholar, writer and lecturer. She was awarded her PhD for her research into the life and works of Frieda, Lady Harris, artist executant of Aleister Crowley’s Book of Thoth.

Deja has published various book chapters and journal articles, and presented her research at venues as diverse as the Theosophical Society in Edinburgh, the Glastonbury Occult Conferences, Magickal Women Conferences, Trans-States Conferences, Treadwell’s Occult Bookshop, London, and the Warburg Institute.

Her monograph, The Lady and the Beast: the Extraordinary Partnership between Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley, was published by Oxford University Press in December 2024. It is available via Amazon here or from OUP directly here.

Based on extensive studies and praxeis, in this talk, Dr. Bob will introduce to us how from the original Hieroglyphic texts the Ophidian and nightside current has provided western esoteric orders with the language, techniques, and function of Magick. It is directly from these ancient texts and iconography that provide a highly organised methodology that should indeed be familiar to most modern occult practitioners.

Dr. R. A. Plimer (Bob) was born in Edinburgh and then after a short stay in Egypt went to school in the city before moving to Kelso in the Scottish Borders. Bob’s degrees and postgraduate studies include Classics and Ancient History, Philosophy, Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind. Bob taught for over 20 years in Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology, Ancient Languages, Philosophy and Religious Studies and which added to his already growing magical interests.

As a speaker, Bob, has lectured at most occult conferences both here and abroad, and still runs monthly lectures at the Phoenix Club on the Isle of Wight. Discussions focus on various Occult subjects including Egyptian skrying techniques, Classical Magick, Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, the Grimoire tradition, Esoteric symbolism and astrosophy, ancient and modern Alchemical theoria et praxis along with the individuals who inspire the promotion of the Magical Revival.

Peter and Alkistis will deliver our keynote workshop, along with bringing books from Scarlet Imprint for you to peruse in the breaks! You can buy a limited number of tickets for only this workshop here.

Thelema is founded upon the received text, Liber AL vel Legis: The Book of the Law, a prophetic aeonic event. Yet that time scheme has been disrupted by a series of fresh revelations. None have achieved the notoriety or importance of Jack Parsons's Liber 49: The Book of Babalon. In this lecture and workshop we will consider the heretical children of Thelema, and ask what happens when a new prophecy is given.

The practical work will focus on Liber 49, and how we can work with this text in the performance of ritual using voice, gesture and actions to incarnate the revelation of the Goddess.

THE LESSER ORACLES OF THE GREAT BEAST: Aleister Crowley, the Ouija Board, & the Yi-King.

When it comes to the use of oracles, Aleister Crowley is best known for the 'Book of Thoth' Tarot deck he created with Lady Frieda Harris.

But The Master Therion was also a lifelong devotee of the Ancient Chinese I-Ching (or Yi-King.)

Additionally, although openly scathing about the general public's interest in séances & spiritualism, with his one-time student & protégé, Frater Achad (Charles Stansfield Jones), he discussed privately ways such methods could be used by the trained magician.

In this Workshop, author & occultist Matthew Levi Stevens will examine these lesser-known oracles of The Great Beast, and show how they can be put into the hands of all that attend.

Matthew Levi Stevens is the author of 'The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs' (Mandrake of Oxford, 2014) and various related texts. He has also published articles on Aleister Crowley, John Dee, and Kenneth Grant, as well as a range of print and online articles for Beatdom, FANEmag, The Fenris Wolf 12, Furfur, Reality Sandwich, Soft Need 23, and others.

In addition, he has spoken at The Last Tuesday Society, Occult Conference (Glastonbury), The Atlantis Bookshop, Treadwells, and The Horse Hospital.

You can buy a limited number of tickets for this workshop as a standalone, or entry is included with full day tickets.

Following the occult current from the mysterious shadowy depths of ritual and hidden lore into the ‘bright lights’ and superficial sensations of pop culture, Jason Atomic examines the way the lives (and legends) of Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard weave in and out of each other and the culture as a whole- from pulp fiction through magick to science-fact and back.

This presentation draws on Atomic’s research for a book of the same title, currently being developed for Aeon Books.

Jason Atomic is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, curator and performer. 

He has contributed to publications like Alternative London, The Illustrated Ape Magazine and Ambit, and has spoken on comics, cults and the Occult at venues as diverse as Orbital Comics, Helgi’s Bar, Treadwell’s Books and the Glastonbury Occult Conference.

Since discovering that an anagram of his name spells ‘Satanic Mojo’ he began publishing the infamous underground anthology comic "Satanic Mojo Comix" which led to the creation of the unfeasably popular Satanic Flea Market, a quarterly dark art fayre in London. 

Satanic Mojo Comix is an occult-themed anthology title that takes its inspiration from 60s underground comix, and features a global cast of Satanist Cartoonists including Savage Pencil, Mike Diana, Krent Able, Shaky Kane & more. 

His Crowley/R. Crumb pastiche ‘Do What Thou Wilt…Then Split’ T-shirt is on display in The Museum of Witchcraft & Magic. Jason Atomic's artwork is also exhibited in The Museum Of The Final Judgement in Rome, The Satanic Temple’s Salem Gallery, and the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft & Magick in Cleveland USA.

Recent work includes a fully illustrated edition of the Alex Sanders Lectures for Rose Ankh Publishing.

Having left London during the pandemic, Atomic currently resides in an Oxfordshire market town with his muse Manko and a three-legged cat Picasso.

Jason’s lecture leads into the Q&A all-speaker panel, and you pick up a ticket for only this section separately here.

Mics will be flying around the audience to provoke discourse and debate amongst our speakers, with plenty of time to unpack the events of the day.

Caroline will introduce a ritual reading of Florence Farr’s Shrine of the Golden Hawk, an exquisite ritual from the Victorian age of the Golden Dawn.

She and Dr. Sue Terry host the annual Florence Farr conference in London, and will showcase the ritual with some special guests!

Caroline Wise presents Florence Farr’s Ancient Egyptian themed play, the Shrine of the Golden Hawk, written in 1901 as Farr was becoming disenchanted with the Hermetic order of the Golden Dawn. It was first performed in November that year.

We’ll be looking at Farr’s Thelemic notions as an introduction to the one-act play, a play which Yeats described as “less plays than fragments of a forgotten ritual, the ritual of a beautiful forgotten worship”, and some magical players will enact a ritual reading.

“I look unharmed upon the face of the god, because his eyes are my eyes, and his power is my power, his spirit is my spirit.”

From the Shrine of the Golden Hawk.

Caroline has attended the Oxford Thelemic Symposiums from their beginning in 1986. She has contributed to several books on goddesses, and on women magical pioneers, such as Florence Farr of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. She first produced Farr’s Egyptian themed plays in 1993, reviving them for the first time in nearly 90s years. Caroline initiated the re-publishing of Kenneth Grant’s books in 1989 and continues to be involved via Starfire Publishing.

Through the ‘90s, she was organiser of goddess conferences in London, and also the Wildwood Conferences, which looked at the connections between folklore and modern paganism.

After a packed day of lectures and workshops, you can take time to dance and make merry with your fellow guests.

The inimitable stage-magician and magician-magician Danny Buckler will be entertaining us on stage, and the bar will cater to every taste.

We will be closing the event at 9.30pm, but until then:

Aye! Feast! Rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.