Starfire
Starfire Publishing
An occasional Journal of the New Aeon, dedicated to Thelema, it brims over with articles and artwork of relevance to the Thelemic current.
Website - http://www.starfirepublishing.co.uk/
Volume 1 - Issue 1
Great Dismal - Linda Falorio – a short story of the evocation of a creature from the chthonic depths of Great Dismal Swamp;
Going Beyond - Michael Staley – an essay on non-duality;
The Stélé of Revealing and the Abomination of Desolation - Stephen Dziklewicz – an essay considering the gematria and other aspects arising from these twin terms of The Book of the Law.
Volume 1 - Issue 2
Cults of Cthulhu - Peter Smith – an essay on H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Gnosis;
The Hiss of the Serpent - Stephen Dziklewicz – considerations of the serpent and related imagery in The Book of the Law.
Volume 1 - Issue 3
Lam Statement - Typhonian O.T.O
Peter Smith - Disciple of Dagon
Jack Parsons - the Babalon Working (with introductories by Michael Staley and Yukki Yaura
Michael Staley - Heart of Thelema
Volume 1 - Issue 4
Meditations on Liber AL - Lindsey Calvert – considerations of The Book of the Law;
Ciphers in Flesh - Mouse – on poetry as inspired text;
The Vision and the Voice - Michael Staley – an introductory essay on Crowley's 1909 Working.
Volume 1 - Issue 5
It's An Ill Wind That Bloweth... - The Editors
Consciousness & Liber AL - Robert Taylor
Sanctum Sigillum - Paul Lowe
Zos: The New Flesh of Desire - Gavin W.Semple
Lam: The Gateway - Michael Staley
Wisdom for the New Flesh - Andrew D. Chumbley
Manifestations of Nu - Stephen Dziklewicz
Morningstar: The Tradition and Odyssey of Austin Osman Spare - Randall K. Holmes
Supping at the Angel & Feathers - Michael Staley
Zero Equals Two - Frater Siva, 77 '.'
In Nomine Babalon / The Serpents Kiss - Paul Lowe
Volume 2 - Issue 1
The Dreaming Attention - Paul Lowe
Bastrum-Enoi/Ast Rubi-Onem - Soror Pasht-akhti
Ghostly Amalgam - Michael Staley & Soror Artemis 656 ·.·
Gerald Massey: His Life & Works - Rey Bowen
Magick for Fools - Margaret Ingalls
The Cult of the Divine Artist - Andrew D. Chumbley
Two Poems - Paul Lowe
Love Letters (for no-one that I loved) - Gavin W. Semple
The Gnostic Intensive - Zivorad Mihajlovic-Slavinski
The Lam-Serpent Sadhana - Michael Staley
Magick & Imagination - Robert Taylor
Marjorie Cameron: An Appreciation - Michael Staley
Volume 2 - Issue 2
The Dreaming Attention - Damian Sinclair
The Black Stone - Robert Taylor
Iridescent Undulations and the Sacred Fire - Michael Staley
How to Leap Forth by Standing Still - Nigel Aldrcroft-Jackson
Chaos Magick and Maat Magick - Margaret Ingells
Into the Depths of Severity and All Beauty - Nicholaj Frisvold
Pax Nobilis - Damian Sinclair
A Mantra for Evoking the Great Old Ones - Stephen Dziklewicz
Opening the Way for the Daemons of the Void - Andrew D. Chumbley
Transformation: Austin Spare and the Besz-Mass - Michael Staley
Liber AL Intelligence - Simon Hinton
Volume 2 - Issue 3
The Magic of Folly - Richard Ward – some considerations of ‘The Fool" card in the Tarot
Sinister Shades in Yellow - Alistair Coombs – an essay on the work of novelist Sax Rohmer
The Stone of Stars - Oliver St. John – a fascinating short story woven around a talismanic stone and the forces it calls down
Tzaddi is not the Star - Elmet Caradoc – some considerations on the Thoth deck
The Aphotic Oracle - Daniel Lett – on the rôle of the imagination in magic
Nightmare Sorcery - Richard Gavin – utilising the powers of dream
Maranatha: a Blessing or a Curse - Stephen Dziklewicz – an insightful analysis of this word
The Altar - Peter Smith
A Very Personal Tantrum - Joe Claxton – an account of consequences from some specific ritual work
Volume 2 - Issue 4
Scintillations in Mauve - Michael Staley
Images of the Mystery - Gary Dickinson
The Unity ofToltec and Thelema - Eric N. Peterson
On Toltec Art - Koyote the Blind
Grid Sigil Magick - Robert Parsons
Shades of Grey - Richard Gavin
The Ophidian Sabbat - Daniel Schulke
Maranatha and Beyond - Stephen Dziklewicz
From Aiwass to Lam - Richard Ward
The Emergence of Lam - Michael Staley
Two Fragments on Ataturk - Ithel Colquhoun
Echoes of Silence - Alistair Coombs
Sermon From a Haunted Cellar - Richard Gavin
Sleeping Buddha - Hector Djoun
Ecpyrosis - The Best of Volume 1
Starfire Publishing Ltd, London, 2010. Paperback, full-colour cover, sewn binding, large format, 304 pages, 2 colour plates.
Ecpyrosis is an alluring, informative and voluminous publication consisting of sixteen articles drawn from the first five issues of Starfire, together with the best of the artwork. Also included are two new colour plates: a frontispiece consisting of detail from the cover artwork by Kyle Fite, and an endispiece of the covers of the constituent issues of Starfire.Printed on a substantial coated paper in order to take the heavy blacks in much of the artwork, Ecpyrosis is a heavyweight volume is every sense of the word.
The first issue of Starfire was published in 1986, and the fifth issue appeared in 1994. These years encompass Volume One, the constituent issues of which have long been out of print and appear but rarely on the second-hand market. This selection of articles and artwork from these first five issues is newly typeset, the articles have been lightly edited where necessary, and the artwork has wherever possible been freshly scanned and cleaned to give sharper and clearer reproduction. The result is an enthralling and substantial collection of articles and artwork that embody the best of Starfire. The cover reproduced here to the left incorporates beautiful artwork by Kyle Fite.