Editorial 1–4 Kennet Granholm. Ritual Black Metal: Popular Music as Occult Meditation and Practice 5–33 Matthew Twigg. The Temple-Mystical Background to a Valentinian Saying of the Saviour: The Interpretation of Knowledge (NHC XI, 1) 10.18–38 35–73 Ethan Doyle White. An Elusive Roebuck: Luciferianism and Paganism in Robert Cochrane’s Witchcraft 75–101 Johan Nilsson. Defending Paper Gods: Aleister Crowley and the Reception of Daoism in Early Twentieth Century Esotericism 103–127
Reviews Gary Lachman. Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality. Reviewed by Dave Vliegenhart 129–132
Aren Roukema, M.A. (Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam; B.A., English Literature, Trinity Western University) is a doctoral researcher at Birkbeck, University of London. He has co-edited Correspondences: Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism since its founding in 2013.