Latest Correspondence Podcast Episodes
S1, Ep7: Tree Shakers and the Tunnel of Whispers
Dispatch to a Friend - May 31, 2018 09:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsAnnabelle contemplates becoming a fierce, angry woman mid pecan harvest, while Gillian parties in Denmark and has a coffee date with Claus Dalby in his famous garden in Aarhus. Dispatch to a Friend Website: https://dispatchtoafriend.com
S1, Ep6: On with the Daffs and a Dachsund Called Dahlia
Dispatch to a Friend - May 24, 2018 09:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsGillian contemplates slowing down time and childhood holidays while Annabelle, packing for her own camping trip is distracted by gardening videos. Dispatch to a Friend Website: https://dispatchtoafriend.com
S1, Ep4: Gillian to the Rescue as Annabelle’s Common Sense Fails
Dispatch to a Friend - May 17, 2018 09:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsAnnabelle has a mental breakdown in the kitchen while trying to bake a cake while Gillian texts instructions from a train in Japan. Dispatch to a Friend Website: www.dispatchtoafriend.com
S1, Ep5: Monks House, Pecans and Complicated Love Lives
Dispatch to a Friend - May 17, 2018 09:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsGillian dreams about Virginia Woolf's garden and lemons, while Annabelle is occupied with surprise cats and Navaho pecans. Dispatch to a Friend Website: https://dispatchtoafriend.com
S1, Ep3: Tears and Toilets
Dispatch to a Friend - May 10, 2018 09:15 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsGillian, distraught, writes to Annabelle and Annabelle replies with thoughts on Japanese loos. Dispatch to a Friend Website: https://www.dispatchtoafriend.com
S1, Ep2: Ice Cream Tubs and Pantry Moths
Dispatch to a Friend - May 09, 2018 21:15 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsAnnabelle underestimates her ice-cream tubs while Gillian wages war against the pantry moths. Dispatch to a Friend Website: https://www.dispatchtoafriend.com
S1, Ep1: Two Breads and a Pumpkin Pie
Dispatch to a Friend - May 09, 2018 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 85 ratingsAnnabelle writes the first dispatch to Gillian after Gillian visits and completely takes over her kitchen. Dispatch to a Friend Website: https://www.dispatchtoafriend.com
Lord Dunsany Journey of the King Part Two
Temple of Babalon - January 20, 2018 16:05 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsEpisode 21: We continue with the extraordinary fiction writing of Lord Dunsany. His early tale, Journey of the King, explored realms of Qabalah, magick and the Nightside years before Aleister Crowley and Kenneth Grant did so in a more technical manner. Here is the second and final part of the s...
Lord Dunsany Journey of the King Part One
Temple of Babalon - November 24, 2017 12:22 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsEpisode 20: We will discuss the extraordinary fiction writing of Lord Dunsany. His early tale, Journey of the King, explored and even illustrated realms of Qabalah, magick and the Nightside years before Aleister Crowley and Kenneth Grant did so in a more technical manner. Oliver St. John reads ...
Liber 373 Magick of Earth and Stars
Temple of Babalon - September 22, 2017 10:31 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsEpisode 19: We discuss Liber 373, the seven rites and seven seals of the Dragon Star. The Dragon Star is a series of tantrik initiations that has its basis in the Qabalah and Hermetic Tree of Life. The Elizabethan sorcerer and alchemist John Dee provided the blueprint for this. We also take a l...
Thelemic Mysticism and Jacob Boehme
Temple of Babalon - July 22, 2017 18:37 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsEpisode 18: We discuss Thelemic mysticism, with a particular emphasis on the practical side of things. The saints and sages down the ages were not all ‘up in the clouds’. We will demonstrate this with some readings from The Confessions of Jacob Boehme. Boehme had some encouraging and helpful advi...
The Phoenix and Nightside Astrology
Temple of Babalon - April 07, 2017 09:47 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsEpisode 17: We will look at the book entitled, The Phoenix and other Stellar Rites of Initiation. Heather Carmen and Oliver St. John perform a dramatisation of some of the Phoenix Ritual. We also include here Astrology of the Holy Guardian Angel Part Two. We cover what Edwin C. Steinbrecher cal...
Astrology of the Holy Guardian Angel
Temple of Babalon - March 08, 2017 08:48 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsEpisode 16: We move on to the grade of Dominus Liminis and investigate relations between the Holy Guardian Angel and the astrological natal chart. We therefore include an overview of the subject of Hermetic Astrology. Astrology is frequently neglected by modern students, and sometimes even comp...
Building an Astral Temple and Thelemic Initiation
Temple of Babalon - January 28, 2017 16:41 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsThe grade of Philosophus 4=7 is here discussed. We look at the subject of building an Astral Temple. The magical temple is conceived as a pyramid in the grade of Neophyte, but it does not stop there. The ‘Z’ formula by which the Probationer passes to Neophyte is used for talismans, evocation an...
HP Lovecraft Haunter of the Dark Part Two
Temple of Babalon - October 20, 2016 10:39 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsHere is the second and final part of the H. P. Lovecraft short story, The Haunter of the Dark, narrated by Oliver St. John. © Oliver St. John 2016 © ‘Endecha’ Prelude in D Minor by Francisco Tarrega performed and recorded by Oliver St. John; ‘Transition (improvisation)’ by Oliver St. John. ...
HP Lovecraft Haunter of the Dark Part One
Temple of Babalon - October 20, 2016 10:03 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsIn Episode 12 of this series we discussed the new book, ‘Dreaming Thelema of Kenneth Grant and H. P. Lovecraft’. The book features 17 surrealist paintings created as part of the project. It also includes three complete short stories by H. P. Lovecraft: Nyarlathotep, The Crawling Chaos, and The ...
Beyond Metaphysics: Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant and Gematria
Temple of Babalon - September 19, 2016 17:30 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsA short lecture on the grade of Practicus, the third initiated degree. We will be discussing various aspects of the grade work and Ordo Astri, the Order of the Star. Also included is an entertaining, illustrated talk focussed on the new book, ‘Dreaming Thelema of Kenneth Grant and H. P. Lovecra...
Thelema: Romance of the Magical Orders
Temple of Babalon - June 17, 2016 10:04 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsTemple of Babalon Podcast, Episode 11: Thelema: Romance of the Magical Orders. “What is a valid magical Order?” “What is Thelema?” These are frequently asked questions. As there is so much doubt and confusion around Thelemic magical Orders, Oliver St. John discusses the question of validity. He...
The Interview: Magical Life and Work of Oliver St John
Temple of Babalon - March 18, 2016 13:28 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsThis podcast episode features an in-depth interview with Oliver St. John, who is usually the host of this podcast. Oliver St. John is the author of books on a range of esoteric subjects, including the magical philosophy of Thelema, Hermetic Qabalah, ritual magick, esoteric astrology and the Tar...
Magical Pathworking
Temple of Babalon - October 23, 2015 09:54 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsWe are still dealing with the grade of Zelator, the second initiated degree. The grade of Zelator is symbolised by Yesod on the Hermetic Tree of Life, and symbolises the full entry into Yetzirah, the Qabalistic world better known as the Astral Plane. We will be discussing various aspects of the...
Enochian Magick
Temple of Babalon - July 25, 2015 15:01 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsWe now pass from the grade of Neophyte to that of Zelator, the second initiated degree. The grade of Zelator is symbolised by Yesod on the Hermetic Tree of Life, so sometimes the 2=9 grade or Second Degree is called the grade of Air. This seems an appropriate time to discuss Enochian Magick and...
Kenneth Grant and the Witches Sabbath
Temple of Babalon - May 02, 2015 14:09 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsWho or what is this Devil, adored by the witches? The term itself, “Witches Sabbath”, is archaic and bound up with many false trails. A Catholic clergyman dreamed up ‘Witchcraft’ in the 15th century – and all the trappings of frogs, black cats and women riding upon broomsticks. It was the same ...
Magical Talismans Part Two
Temple of Babalon - March 22, 2015 06:26 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsPreviously we explored some of the work of a Neophyte in the magical grade of Earth, especially the formula of magical talismans. Here we continue with the grade of Neophyte, and will complete our discussion of magical talismans with a dramatisation of the ceremonial method of consecrating and ...
Magical Talismans and the Neophyte Grade
Temple of Babalon - December 13, 2014 13:11 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsTemple of Babalon Podcast 05: Previously we explored the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram and the Middle Pillar Exercise. We now pass from the grade of Probationer to that of Neophyte, the first initiated degree. The grade of Neophyte is symbolised by Malkuth on the Hermetic Tree of Life, so some...
The Middle Pillar Exercise
Temple of Babalon - November 22, 2014 15:34 ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsTemple of Babalon Podcast 04: Previously we explored the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram in detail. Continuing with the Foundation work of a Probationer, we will now discuss a cornerstone of modern Hermetic Tantra-Yoga, known as the Middle Pillar Exercise. Later in the broadcast, Heather Carmen ...
Business problem solving and improvement
Business problem solving and improvement - for iPod/iPhone - March 26, 2010 04:33 - 33 seconds ★★★★ - 1 ratingA short introduction to this album.
Business problem solving and improvement
Business problem solving and improvement - for iPad/Mac/PC - March 26, 2010 04:33 - 33 secondsA short introduction to this album.
Transcript -- Business problem solving and improvement
Business problem solving and improvement - for iPad/Mac/PC - March 26, 2010 04:33 - application/pdfTranscript -- A short introduction to this album.
Transcript -- Business problem solving and improvement
Business problem solving and improvement - for iPod/iPhone - March 26, 2010 04:33 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 1 ratingTranscript -- A short introduction to this album.
COSi: Introducing the 'LEAN' approach
Business problem solving and improvement - for iPod/iPhone - September 03, 2008 19:21 - 6 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 1 ratingThe LEAN approach to business at a small cosmetics firm.