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Treadwell's is trialling releasing some of our talks and lectures for free download.

Invocation, Voice, Poetry and Magic: Occultist Zachary Cox
The reclusive Thelemic-cult-figure Zachary Cox performed Crowley and other Edwardian occult poets. For those of you who are younger and may not know this living legend, Zach Cox, now almost 80 years old, has dedicated most of his adult life to magic – his speciality is excellence in ritual form and to the power of invocation and poetry.

He first got into Crowley in the mid-1950s, and took off from there. Then in the 1980s and 1990s he published and edited the occult journal Aquarian Arrow (famed for its Ramsay Dukes column). He, with his partner, ran a ritual training lodge for many years whose rites have become the stuff of underground legend. In the 1980s the Neopantheist Society issued a recording of Cox reading Crowley invocations, ritual poetry; it remains a benchmark of the art. Much of his more serious work, however, has taken place in the private sphere, particularly in recent years.

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Invocation, Voice, Poetry and Magic: A Night with Occultist Zachary Cox (Part 2)

Here is the MP3 of Zach Cox at Treadwell’s Bookshop in Covent Garden, London, on 3 June 2006. This evening contained more recitation than the previous one, and the poets featured were Crowley, Swinburne – and a couple by ZC himself. Comments on the performance of poetry in ritual were made – in connection with the Gnostic Mass. Also during questions at the end were some of ZC’s thoughts on translation of poems.

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