Sef Salem
Sef Salem is an occultist and sorcerer with twenty-five years’ experience of personal and group magical practice. Initially trained as a Gnostic Mystic, he joined Ordo Templi Orientis in 2010 and founded the international group Gentlemen 4 Jupiter shortly afterwards, before taking on and running the Occult Conference in Glastonbury between 2014 and 2018. Since 2019 he has co-led Star Club, a modern magical order co-founded with Dr. Halo Quin, teaching a variety of esoteric practices within a Western Mystery Tradition framework. Publishers have been chasing Sef for a book for over 15 years, and, in his own words, he has finally stopped running from writing ;) His forthcoming work for Theion is tentatively titled Epistles at Dawn – A 93/23 Synthesis and will bring together revised, new, and expanded writings by Sef and the late Peter J. Carroll, exploring Chaos Magick and Thelema.
Sef continues to work for the occult and esoteric community by running The Visible College, a non-profit based in South Gloucestershire which hosts events at a beautiful rural location, and facilitates events across Britain such as the International Thelemic Symposium in Oxford. He lives near Bristol with his wife and Priestess, and travels widely to offer lectures and workshops to groups large and small, most notably a five-day programme as part of the Occulture Retreat 2024 in Italy. Learn more about the system he teaches at www.star-club.org
His forthcoming work for Theion will be:
Epistles at Dawn – A 93/23 Synthesis
Peter J. Carroll once wrote: “The IOT most certainly arose partly in response and partly in opposition to the OTO. We compete for a similar demographic on what you might call the off-white wing of the esoteric tradition. Only history will tell which ideas will stand the test of meme-evolution, I suspect elements of both may do so.”
Sef Salem encountered Pete in 2014 when he politely asked to launch EPOCH: The Esotericon and Portals of Chaos at Sef’s event, The Occult Conference in Glastonbury. A dinner conversation led to a series of essays referred to privately by both magicians as ‘Epistles at Dawn’, from which the above quote illuminating the shared background of contemporary Chaos Magick and Thelema is drawn.
This volume, containing the first print publication of the essays, charts the course of Sef’s journey before, during, and after his discourse with the father of Chaos Magick to offer a dialectic understanding of modern occulture further elucidated through the lens of his own practice, in essays, lectures, and rituals. Fifteen years of written and spoken works demonstrate the similarities and differences between these two strands of occultism, and lead to the synthesis of the 93/23 current in Sef’s Neuro-Gnostic Model which underpins his successful modern magical order, Societas Astris.
As well as Pete and Sef’s essays, you will find contributions from other occultists and a workable manual of original and adapted rituals crafted by Sef to provoke and inform your own practice – from iterative Hermetic Qabalah to the mystical union of marriage. Epistles At Dawn is a true modern grimoire of a working practitioner, and an excellent example of moving in, with, and through the currents of Thelema and Chaos Magick.
Expected towards the end of 2026 / early 2027. More information to follow.
