Book in the World

As The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was published in the UK just over a month ago (two weeks in the US), I want to post a few images from the launch events, partly for my own documentation but more to share the kind of visual responses that the book has inspired. I spoke at three bookshops, one New York-based museum (online) and a university. I met artists, writers, practitioners, academics and editors; I met freemasons and booksellers, all of them full of enthusiasm and eager to talk with me about their own experiences with (or scepticism of) the Golden Dawn. It’s over for now, and I can’t pretend that my introverted bookish self isn’t grateful — but here’s to many more events like these!

Surrounded by the Magician tarot. Image by Alan Outten.
At Thames & Hudson. Reader, I signed them all.
Watkins Books, 3rd April
Atlantis Books’ ad campaign
Shackled to the desk, I sign the stock. Atlantis, 25th March.
A tasteful window display? Atlantis Books.

Hermitix podcast

Last Friday I recorded a podcast with James of the Hermitix podcast — we go through the main literary and artistic characters in the Golden Dawn’s history (Yeats, Florence Farr, Arthur Machen, A. E. Waite, etc), and discuss why so many were attracted to the Order’s magic system in the 1890s and beyond.

Watch me thinking out loud for an hour! I’ll improve at these, I promise.