Esoteric Scotland were delighted to be invited to participate in the Grand Opening of Boleskine house on the 10th and 11th of April 2026. Front of Boleskine House taken on the Grand Opening night, April 2026. Built in the eighteenth century on the south shore of Loch Ness, Boleskine House is perhaps most famous for its ownership by the English occultist and ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) and its subsequent owner the Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page (b.1944) which cemented...

Understanding the difficulties in tracing Scotland's esoteric past. Book Burnings in the Scottish Reformation (image unknown). One of the best ways we can engage with the ideas of history is through an assessment of manuscripts, books and the marginalia contained within them. However, tracing works with provenance to Medieval Scotland is not without its problems. For a country with a rich intellectual and religious history, the relative scarcity of surviving Medieval libraries can seem...

Scotland's earliest surviving discussion on Necromancy and Astrology. 15th century manuscript of Barbour's The Brus (c) NLS The Brus (c.1372) is the earliest surviving example of Scottish literature composed in middle Scots. It tells the tale of the rise and reign of King Robert I of Scotland (r.1306-1329). The poem is comprised of close to 14,000 lines and survives in two 15th century manuscripts; the incomplete Cambridge MS dating to 1487 and the full version held at the National Library...