ABRAXAS JOURNAL #6

(Last copies - This title is now out of print)

Edited by Robert Ansell and Christina Oakley Harrington

Abraxas Issue #6 offers more than 160 large format pages of essays, poetry, interviews and art. Printed using state-of-the-art offset lithography to the usual high standard, contributions for Abraxas #6 include 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…

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 – Elizabeth 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: an Abraxas Special Feature

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