Description
Ansell, Robert; Harrington, Christina Oakley (Editors)
Fulgar Limited, London. Published 9th September 2014. Sewn Paperback. Limited Edition. 4to (290mm x 232mm). 160 large format pages of essays, poetry, interviews and art. Printed using state-of-the-art offset lithography, richly illustrated and employing a variety of papers.
“Abraxas #6 includes an interview by Anna Dorofeeva with the artist, Penelope Slinger, who also kindly designed the cover for this issue; an evocative photographic essay by Victoria Ballesteros of Marjorie Cameron performing a Chen-style sword form of tai-chi, published here for the first time; Matt Marble explores the Hermes of Harlem, Robert T. Browne; Kelly Hayes shares with us a powerful series of images documenting the spiritual lives of an Afro-Brazilian community just outside Rio de Janerio; and we are especially pleased to offer a special feature on Leonora Carrington, with essays from two leading scholars; Susan L. Aberth and Wouter J. Hanegraaff…”
SPECIAL FEATURE: Leonora Carrington
CONTENTS
– Editorial (Robert Ansell)
– Death and Roses: Santa Muerte, the Love Sorceress (R. Andrew Chesnut)
– The Alchemy of Liberation: An Interview with Penelope Slinger (Anna Dorofeeva)
– Heartbreak Wolf Vodu (Arturo Desimone)
– Chasing Cameron’s Light (Victoria Ballesteros)
– John Jacob Niles, Ambrose Bierce and Folk Song as Thoughtform (Michael Pursley)
– Hymn to Saraswat? (Joshua Mostafa)
– The Hermes of Harlem: Harlem Esoterics and the Secret Life of Robert T. Browne (Matt Marble)
– Leaden Turns Light (Liz Insogna)
– The Tomb of Pan (Lord Dunsany)
– Boy with Goat (Robert Kyle)
– Ella Young and Ross Nichols: Sourcing the Irish Gods (Mark A. Williams)
– Invoking the Numinous (Mary Vaughan)
– Sofia Returning to Jerusalem (Natalia Smirnova)
– Leonora Carrington and the Art of Invocation (Susan L. Aberth)
– A Visual World: Leonora Carrington and the Occult (Wouter J. Hanegraaff)
– A Birch Trunk Notched Times Seven (slippery elm)
– Saint or Satanist? Joseph-Antoine Boullan and Satanism in Nineteenth-Century France (Christian Giudice)
– Le Pendu (David Nez)
– Spirits of Shadows and Light (Kelly E. Hayes)
– The Black Magic Code (Leo Ruickbie)
– Love and Hate in the Same Man (Silvia Argiolas)
– The Aenigma Artists’ Group, 1918–1932 (Reinhold J. Fäth)
