Nema is an occultist and writer best known for her magical writings about the Ma'atian current. She has been practising and writing about magick (magical working, as defined by Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley , born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast, was an influential English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. He was also successful in various other...

) for over twenty-five years. From her experience with Thelemic

Thelema

Thelema is a religious philosophy that was established, defined and developed by the early 20th century British writer and ceremonial magician, Aleister Crowley. He believed himself to be the prophet of a new age, the Æon of Horus, based upon a religious experience that he had in Egypt in 1904...

 magick (a system designed by Crowley), she developed her own system of magic called Maat Magick which has the aim of transforming the human race. Her writings have appeared in many publications, including the Cincinnati Journal of Ceremonial Magick, Aeon, Starfire, and others.

In 1974, she allegedly channelled a short book called Liber Pennae Praenumbra. Her ideas have been featured in the writings of Kenneth Grant

Kenneth Grant

Kenneth Grant was a British occultist, novelist, and poet, who with his partner, the artist Steffi Grant, headed the magical order previously known as the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis but which is now referred to as the Typhonian Order.-Occult background:Grant's occult experiences began in 1939...

. In 1979, she co-founded the Horus-Maat Lodge. According to Donald Michael Kraig

Donald Michael Kraig

Donald Michael Kraig is an American occult author and practitioner of ceremonial magic. Kraig has published six books, including his 1988 introduction to ceremonial magic, Modern Magick...

:

"Nema has been one of the most influential occultists of the last quarter century although most occultists have never read her works. What Nema has done is influenced those who have been writers and teachers. They, in turn, influenced the rest of us."

Partial bibliography

• Liber Pennae Praenumbra. Cincinnati Journal of Ceremonial Magick. 1974.
• The Way of Mystery: Magick, Mysticism & Self-Transcendence. Llewellyn Publications. 1995. ISBN 0-7387-0290-0
• 2004: The Evolution of Maat Magick: from Cornfields to Cyberspace (Author's website. Text of lecture delivered 4/10/04 at the Thelemic Conference held at Conway Hall, London) in Silverstar, Issue 2, Autumn Equinox, 2004.

Discography

• Pan-Aeonic Magick (lecture on cassette) ACE
  Association for Consciousness Exploration
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Interviews

• Sargent, D. Maat Magick and the Way of Self Initiation: An Interview with Nema in The New Times (Seattle) reprinted in Silverstar, Issue 4, Autumn Equinox, 2005.

Reviews

• Fries, Jan
  Jan Fries
  Jan Fries is a German occultist freestyle shaman. He is a musician, artist, magician and author of several books.He lives in Frankfurt near the Taunus Mountains.-Biography:...
  
  . Review of The Way of Mystery: Magick, Mysticism & Self-Transcendence in Ashé Journal, Volume Two, Numbers 1 & 2

Source of this article

• Free Encyclopedia of Thelema. Nema. Retrieved April 18, 2006.

External links

• The Horus / Maat Lodge - author's website