On Thursday May 4th, 2017 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will 

review and discuss "The Red Goddess" (2007) and "Lucifer Princeps" 

(2015) by Thelemic magician Peter Grey. The Red Goddess is devoted to 

establishing the history and mistique of the Thelemic composite pagan 

goddess "Babalon", which he correctly derives from Ishtar and Astarte. 

This evolution is for the most part well-researched and well reasoned 

from a Thelemic perspective, although Grey is critical of Crowley and 

seems to think that Babalon is too good for the Beast. Most importantly 

he supports the Divine feminine in magical religion. In "Lucifer 

Princeps" he does the same for Lucifer on the male side of the magical 

religious pantheon. In this case he works from Isaiah back to the Book 

of Enoch, correctly concluding that Lucifer was originally Semyaza and 

of Canaanite origin. With the exception of his interest in Simon Magus 

Grey seems to ignore the early Christian Gnostic contributions to Magick 

but his books are nonetheless readable and thought provoking -- so tune 

in and we shall look at our magical history through a glass darkly.