More than in any other field, the esoteric seems to depend upon access to old book, and on the business of republishing them. They tend to go back as far as the mid-19th Century.
But then there are also things like Neo-Platonism that go back to the classical era. Most not in Great Books of the Western World.
Reading this:
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I learn of groups which have existed, and which might still exist. Their writings largely gone, but then resurfacing in the 80's and 90's. I read about all of this and it is too many authors for me to keep track of, and too much material which is not in English.
Lots of groups offering initiatory programs. I feel though that today many people do not really want this. Such a program requires you to make a commitment of time and money, and to accept having things spoon fed to you, and not really knowing where it goes until you have made a big investment of time and energy.
So to really know about all of this, you need handy access to the old books.
So Public and Academic Libraries are extremely weak here.
And then much of the material is extremely obscure, and often never having been translated into English.
So we have now a number of good Esoteric Publishers. They do good work and they seem to make good decisions on what to publish.
In the early 70's James Wasserman, from PA, ostensibly going to college in OH, started working for Samuel Weiser in NYC. Mostly it sounds like his work consisted of republishing pre-war books, and that he forgot about college.
And since he and his wife Nancy have become leaders, bishops, in the OTO / EGC. And they have their own publishing businesses in Florida, and they write their own books too.
So why are books that should be published, should be in print, should be translated, and should be in libraries, not already so?
Well, this is not the highest dollar revenue portion of the publishing industry. It caters to a strong but special taste demand.
And some people probably find some of it to be beyond the pale.
I have always considered the Harry Potter books to be harmless fun. But I also recognized right off that part of the appeal is that they are needling Christian Fundamentalists.
And then with Casual Vacancy, you can read through and divide the characters into the Good and the Bad, and then try to figure out which will get picked to fill the council vacancy.
This Hans Thomas Hakl, born in Austria 1947, now based in the Netherlands:
He really is quite impressive, as also are all of these new academic based esotericists.
And he specializes in the politics, because that is after all what it really comes down to. Many of these groups claim to be a-political, but that just means that they oppose progressive movements, they support the Right. And a large portion of them certainly do, but not all of them necessarily.
The Internet does seem to help. aiding with the spread of special interest information, text and video.
And then for me it is hard too, hard to get access to books, but then even with what I do get, being totally maxed out reading wise, and still struggling to get the kind of overview understanding which I want and need.
Some people believe that Marx, Engels, and Lenin were Masons. Either they were members, or they were influenced by it.
Now the standard Marxist position is that Masonry is just like religion, an opiate. And I can see this. But I can also see that within Masonry you do also have the roots of something like a Marxist view.
Well in Hakl's writings and in the above book, I do find forms of Western Esotericism and of Tantra, which are entirely progressive.
So things are improving.
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last commentHaving more of these Esoteric Academic Chairs would help. Some deliberate publishing initiatives, on top of what we have, would help.
My organization will run excellent libraries. And for me this is important. Even if you have money to pay for all the books you want to read, not going to have enough home shelf space. So need these libraries for The Organization.
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NeoLiberalism is not just economics and politics, it is also an occult practice which is very dangerous. Trump and his people are centered on this, and on worse.
Key thinkers of the radical right : behind the new threat to liberal democracy / edited by Mark Sedgwick (2019)
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Hermes explains : thirty questions about western esotericism : celebrating the 20th anniversary of the centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam / edited by Wouter J. Hanegraaff, Peter J. Forshaw and Marco Pasi (2019) in libraries now, but not quite available.
Aleister Crowley and the temptation of politics / Marco Pasi (2014) Available!
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The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs Kindle Edition
by Tim Freke (Author), Peter Gandy (Author)
Curious cover for Magia Sexualis
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So reading about Julius Evola. He only ran his UR Group from 1927 to 1929. Not clear that there actual practices are written about in accessible books. Lots of his Sex Magic seems to be about sexual refusal. Not interested in that. Worth reading some of his other numerous books, just to understand, and also to see how Fascism works, and how it can be opposed.
Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician (SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions) Paperback – November 14, 1996
by John Patrick Deveney (Author)
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Maria de Naglowska
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Maria de Naglowska (1883-1936)
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Born in St. Petersburg, legend she was initiated by Rasputin.
Translated PBR Magia Sexualis. Some say she put her own ideas in. Others say she greatly improved it.
She ran her own group in Paris. She was in Paris for only 6 years. Some of what she writes about might not have every happened. The religion she invented is a form of Satanism.
Her group had its own version of Naked Woman on the Altar, and for her group, there was definitely to be sex. To read her ideas, women are to give it up, plain and simple.
Thinking of Anais Ninn and her "Delta of Venus" and of Pauline Reage and her "Story of O", I wonder if they were influenced by Naglowska.
At the highest initiation level for Naglowska's group, there was a death and rebirth ritual.
She may have been influenced by Peledan and others.
So she translated Randolph. But her next book was a novel and it better lays out her own ideas:
The Sacred Rite of Magical Love.
and she talks about an "age of salvation through female sexuality".
And she published "The Light of Sex", and then "The Mystery of Hanging", this being about her initiatory group.
She has a sophisticated understanding of Satan.
As of today her books are not in libraries, by they are otherwise very available.
Maybe all of this is elitist, but I don't see it as trying to make a stratified society, or as otherwise fascist like Evola.
So, some videos about Naglowska:
de Naglowska: Open Letter to Pius XI & Initiatic Eroticism
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Port: Reading from de Naglowska's "Open Letter to Pope Pius XI" & "Initiatic Eroticism"
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Theism: A Thelemic Perspective
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Inner Traditions:
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So reading "Condensed Chaos" by Phil Hine.
Expecting a UK Publisher.
But I find, The Original Falcon Press, Tempe, AZ
By the name and the graphic, this sure looks to be another occult publisher.
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Not sure how much of this will be in libraries, but it looks great. What authors do they seem to have up front?
Christopher S. Hyatt
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Israel Regardie
Joseph C. Lisiewski
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This is really good, influenced me for like 20 years now.
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I actually only worked with the 5th chapter, because I was so taken with the story of Parceval.
People can endure surprising levels of hardship and not break, if they understand the forces and currents which are in play.
So them mythology becomes extremely important.
And of course the above book is inspired by Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung.
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Of course to be able to feel your feeling it is necessary to block off all of the ideologies of denial. The worst are Born Again Christianity, Motivationalism, and Psychotherapy.
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Author Mathers, S. L. MacGregor (Samuel Liddell MacGregor), 1854-1918
Title Kabbala denudata
The Kabbalah unveiled : containing the following books of the Zohar: The book of concealed mystery, The greater Holy assembly [and] The lesser Holy assembly / Translated into English from the Latin version of Knorr von Rosenroth and collated with the original Chaldee and Hebrew text by S. L. MacGregor Mathers
Imprint New York : S. Weiser, [1968, [1971]
Author Regardie, Israel
Title The Golden Dawn; an account of the teachings, rites, and ceremonies of the Order of the Golden Dawn
Imprint St. Paul, Llewellyn Publications, 1971
Edition Rev. and enl. [4th ed.]
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This was Regardie's first book, 1932. So it was about 3 years before Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah.
The Ciceroes have done a good job editing it. And they have added about another 2x of their own good material too.
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Eranos : an alternative intellectual history of the twentieth century / Hans Thomas Hakl ; translated by Christopher McIntosh ; with the collaboration of Hereward Tilton
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This is important because a lot of the esoteric groups directly or indirectly have supported some of the worst of the 20th Century.
Arthur Versluis
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Versluis is an editor of the Journal for the Study of Radicalism, and founding editor of Esoterica, which started as a journal, and is now a biannual print book series, Studies in Esotericism.
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Yes, this is interesting, I always felt that Versluis had this kind of poetential:
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So we have
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and then the Swiss Titus Burckhardt
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^^^^ written a lot about Islam and Sufism
And then Against the modern world : traditionalism and the secret intellectual history of the twentieth century / Mark Sedgwick, Sedgwick has also written about Islam and Sufism.
Transcendental magic, its doctrine and ritual / [by] Éliphas Lévi. Translated, annotated, and introduced by Arthur Edward Waite, but not seemingly available now.
Jacob Boehme : essential readings / edited and introduced by Robin Waterfield
Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624
Theosophy, imagination, tradition : studies in Western esotericism / Antoine Faivre ; translated by Christine Rhone [yes]
Theosophy : a modern expression of the wisdom of the ages / by Robert Ellwood
In search of truth : Augustine, Manichaeism and other gnosticism : studies for Johannes van Oort at sixty / edited by Jacob Albert van den Berg [and others] [available, small yezidi mention ]
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Heirs to forgotten kingdoms : journeys into the disappearing religions of the Middle East / Gerard Russell (2015)
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Eranos : an alternative intellectual history of the twentieth century / Hans Thomas Hakl ; translated by Christopher McIntosh ; with the collaboration of Hereward Tilton
need to understand because many of these 20th Century movements did connect to the far right, and they still do. But not all of them. Hans Thomas Hakl is an excellent person to be able to draw the distinction.
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^^^^^ Exactly the same applies to you right here in your post, Meat72
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^^^ hey homo, I’m not the one creating obscure threads off topic and bumping myself as the only participant in them like you do you goat fucker! Now go ride your huffy bike home from the library and walk down to your mom’s basement and play with your GI Joe dolls you fruitbowl.
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You are the one bumping threads by posting pure meta.
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You are the homo goat fucker talking crazy topics to himself posting meta narrative info about impertinent homosexual activity like this thread and several others you’ve bumped. What do you get from bumping your own threads while discussing it with nobody but yourself? Are you into self affirmation much?
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THis is someone talked about in the Stephen Flowers book about Fraternitas Saturni. Likely a kind of an influence on people back in the 1920's. German, as things dealing with Adonism usually are.
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Adonism is a Pagan and magical cult with a pronounced anti-Christian bias, interest in which has been growing steadily in the last years. Five small German and Austrian publishers are currently offering Adonistic works, and several small magical groups are even said to live and worship according to its principles. Adonism, however, is not the ancient religion that its contemporary followers think it to be, but the single-handed creation of Franz Sattler, a gifted and educated German orientalist, born in Bohemia in 1884. Unable to find work at a university he started to write adventure novels. Because of his extraordinary knowledge of foreign languages, he found ways to travel widely, even in the years of his youth, in the Balkan countries and in the Near East. After having written several bulky books on the occult sciences, still in print today, he founded a magical lodge in Vienna in 1925, pretending to be the German-speaking representative of Oriental masters. This order worshipped the mythological figures of Adonis and Dido as orgiastic counterparts to the "prudish" Christian creed. At the same time, however, he was a typical social reformer, advocating women's rights and sexual liberty. Due to lack of money he ended up selling quack medicine, talismans, and other occult paraphernalia. Apparently he also organized sexually permissive "occult" meetings. When the police searched for him, he fled from Vienna to Czechoslovakia and from there to Greece. From 1942 onwards there are no further traces of him. In spite of his mostly bogus occult fraternity, his teachings influenced the German magical scene in the last century quite heavily. Examples are the Fraternitas Saturni, Wilhelm Quintscher, and some say even the internationally known magus Franz Bardon.
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TY - JOUR
AU - Hakl, Hans
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T1 - Franz Sättler (Dr. Musallam) and the Twentieth-Century Cult of Adonism
VL - 12
DO - 10.1558/pome.v12i1.4
JO - Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies
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They say that Sattler was drawn to Kurdish Yazidis.
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Joseph Fitchtner
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The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena
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Somewhere in the above there is a chapter, "Thelemic Magick in America" (1983)
Well, I have found:
The Magick of Thelema: A Handbook of the Rituals of Aleister Crowley (1993)
Lon Milo DuQuette
Well, using keyword, "Magick Thelema" there are lots of books available, and all related to Crowley.
The Odic Force
The Odic Force; Letters on Od and Magnetism. Translation and Introd. by F. D. O�byrne. Foreword by Leslie Shepherd (1968)
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Karl Von (1788-1869) Reichenbach (I think these dates must be wrong)
well maybe the dates are right
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he has other books, like "Magicians of the Golden Dawn, and German Occult Organizations"
Hammer of the Gods: The Thule Society and the Birth of Nazism
Order of Nine Angles: What is this obscure Nazi Satanist group?
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h. t. f. rhodes the satanic mass (originally 1954)
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Albin Grau
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Heinrich Tränker
Heinrich Tränker was also the founder of the pansophic lodge , from which the Fraternitas Saturni later emerged on May 8, 1926 .
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International Theosophic Society (Franz Hartmann)
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Albin Grau
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Weida Conference - Weida-Konferenz
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Heinrich Tränker: The pansophy of the Hermetic Brotherhood of the Rosicrucian
This seems to be the above book cover, from 1920's Germany
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OTO in Germany
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Fraternitas Saturni
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Ordo Saturni
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English home page
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"Once a month on ”Saturn-day” we come together for celebrating the Saturn Ritual with which we spiritually connect to the cosmic powers. Furthermore study groups meet for practising the different magical and mystical subjects of occultism."
Magic in Practice, Rituals
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Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin (Expanded Edition) 2008, by Mel Gordon
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interesting pics in preview
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The Satanic cult / Gerhard Zacharias ; translated by Christine Trollope
Gerhard P Zacharias
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Gnosis : the nature and history of gnosticism / Kurt Rudolph ; translation edited by Robert McLachlan Wilson (1987)
Allison Coudert, Antonine Faivre, GRS Mead, Rudolph Bultmann, George Feuerstein
Robert Ellwood
The politics of myth : a study of C.G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell / Robert Ellwood (1999)
Many great books!
Western esotericism : a guide for the perplexed / Wouter J. Hanegraaff (2013)
Many great books!
The eternal Hermes : from Greek god to alchemical magus / Antoine Faivre ; translated by Joscelyn Godwin
Many great books!
Mystery religions in the ancient world / Joscelyn Godwin
The mysticism of innerworldly fulfillment : a study of Jacob Boehme / David Walsh (1983)
Devil-worship in France, or, The question of Lucifer ; a record of things seen and heard in the secret societies according to the evidence of initiates / by Arthur Edward Waite (1896)
A new encyclopaedia of freemasonry (ars magna latomorum) : and of cognate instituted mysteries : their rites, literature, and history / by Arthur Edward Waite, ... ; new introduction by Emmett McLoughlin ; with sixteen full-page plates and other illustrations ... ; two volumes in one (1970 combining the two volumes into one)
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Lords of the left-hand path : forbidden practices & spiritual heresies / Stephen E. Flowers. (2012)
The Magian Tarok : the origins of the tarot in the Mithraic and Hermetic traditions / Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D. (2019)
Original magic : the rituals and initiations of the Persian Magi / Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D. (2017)
The secret king : the myth and reality of Nazi occultism / by Stephen E. Flowers, Michael Moynihan. (2007)
The Satanists / edited by Peter Haining (1970)
Modern satanism: the facts / Peter Haining -- The satanic mass / Montague Summers -- The sanctuary / E. F. Benson -- Ancient sorceries / Algernon Blackwood -- The festival / H. P. Lovecraft -- The watcher from the sky / August Derleth -- The black magician / Dennis Wheatley -- The initiation / Aleister Crowley -- The book / Margaret Irwin -- No news today / Cleve Cartmill -- Spawn of the dark one / Robert Bloch -- Black magic battle in the church
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The Satanic cult / Gerhard Zacharias ; translated by Christine Trollope. (1980)
Title The satanic mass ; a sociological and criminological study.
Imprint New York : Citadel Press, [1955]
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THE ORDER OF PANSOPHIC BUILDERS
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FOR AN INDEPENDENT MASONIC OBEDIENCE AND STUDY GROUP
FOR THE PANSOPHIC RITES OF FREEMASONRY
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This might be the one dissident break away group of Fraternitas Saturni
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This seems to be the real German group
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Seen this before, english, has email address for a person too.
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It says, Orient Toronto. So not sure how this connects to Germany.
So I guess this is the breakaway group. It has an operation in Toronto and stuff in English. Most of it is though in German
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Yeah, Wikipedia says this is the official site, and that h with the dots is copywrited.
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Can't tell if this is the original group, or if it is a break away. What they use as an insignia is altered.
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Yes, this looks to me like the English page for a break away group. They still use the name and writings of the founder, as they claim to be his true lineage. Works like this, did for Crowley's OTO, until it was settled in a US law court. But many still disagree with that decision.
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and then this, a huge web site, lots and lots of documents.
I think this is one woman, Neema, who was with Kenneth Grant's group in London. She has made a name for herself and has quite a following. They generate lots and lots of content. I think now Neema is in Seattle.
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Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram
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Magic of the Pentagram
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Kabbalistic Cross
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Membership
Presently lodge meetings take place at the mother house in Mannheim, Germany. We are not represented in any other country and all our rituals and teachings are solely available in German.
We can accept only members who can attend regularly at least to the monthly lodge meetings and it is most desirable to attend the study groups too that take place additionally. We do not offer tele-membership or correspondence courses.
Once a month on ”Saturn-day” we come together for celebrating the Saturn Ritual with which we spiritually connect to the cosmic powers. Furthermore study groups meet for practising the different magical and mystical subjects of occultism.
The Communitas Saturni is a thelemic community of selected members who are determined to follow the path of Saturn. As an occult Freemasonic lodge the Communitas Saturni participates in the spiritual temple building of humanity by seeking for ennobling their members and others spiritually and magically for their own higher development and for a change of society for the better too.
At the centre of this striving for spiritual development is the Saturnian principle and Thelema, the Law of the Will. Saturn is the “Guardian of the Threshold” to a higher level of being and “Guardian of Karma” helping us to know our true divine will and to strive for divine perfection, for knowledge and perception in full karmic responsibility.
As a Saturn lodge we go the way of Gnosis, of knowledge, and not of belief. We therefore define ourselves as a lodge of knowledge and not as a community of faith. We follow no religious dogma and we refuse to worship entities out of this world. Each member contributes individually to the internal teachings of the lodge. Our magical-mystical orientation is thus as various as our members.
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The term “Saturn Gnosis” refers to the occult, cosmological concept perceived and developed by Gregor A. Gregorius. This complex system describes, with the lore of the aeons and demiurges, the Age of Aquarius that has just begun under the Thelemic law. “Saturngnosis” was also the name of an occult periodical which was published within 1928-1930 by Gregor A. Gregorius in his capacity as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge FRATERNITAS SATURNI. The periodical and its succeeding organ “Blaetter zur okkulten Lebenskunst” (scripts of the occult art of living) published from 1950 to 1954 were concerned with the approaching Thelemic age on nearly 4000 pages. This article can therefore only refer to a few important points of this ideology in short.
The gnostic doctrine and its history began with Mani (Manichaeism) and Zarathustra. The central statement of the Gnosis was and still is that the world is divided into polarities, in light and dark, positive and negative. The creative energy, which is the origin of existence, was perfect and consummate. From this source emanated the creators of the universes and ages, the so-called Archons and Demiurges. But there happened to be a separation within the said creative energy and so the duality in the world came into being. From this philosophic starting point various doctrines were developed in the course of the centuries, so that today “Gnosis” is a collective name for different kinds of currents. But dualism still is a central topic, as well as the question of light and darkness. Within the Christian gnosis, it was always a question of “good” and “evil”.
In the following I do not want to consider those Christian categories, but Gnosis within the meaning of knowledge and perception. The opposite of it is Pistis (belief) what the Abrahamian religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islamism) request from their followers.
The Saturn Gnosis implies that a man or a woman as microcosm is the reflected image of the macrocosm. Humans therefore possess the complete creative potentiality of the universe. This is expressed in the sentence “Every man and every woman is a star”. Now it is necessary to evolve this powerful and mighty potentiality within and to find the own true will. This is expressed in the Law of THELEMA which goes: “Do what thou wilt is the whole of the Law! There is no Law but: Do what thou wilt!” In the past ages quite a few people were able to perceive and to follow that, but there is a collective interest in the Age of Aquarius that will enable more people to translate the Law of Thelema into action.
The alternative is slavery and suppression by the dying Christian god, whose image has been maintained by the agony of his followers during the last 2000 years. The fading Age of Pisces has been ruled astrologically and/or astrosophically by the realms of Jupiter and Neptune. But this power, or in the diction of the Saturn Gnosis, this Demiurge has come to an end.
The dawning Age of Aquarius is influenced by Saturn and Uranus. Uranus as a revolutionist is the symbol for the upheaval of the dogmata and self-made laws. The Demiurge Saturn symbolises limits as well as the expansion of the human ego and its evolution. Furthermore, Saturn shows the individual path of the ego according to the Law of Thelema. The Saturn Gnosis also describes that the solar principle, the ego, is an essence of Saturn. To say it metaphorically, the essence of Saturn is the sun, and the essence of the sun is Saturn. This analogy reminds of the symbol of Yin and Yang, each including the contrary principle within. So now we have reached light and darkness, a central term of Gnosticism. The Saturn Gnosis however is about to unite and to rule the principles of dualism up to highest standards.
Chelates (students) hence try to follow the way of the dynamic balance and to awaken cosmic qualities inside beyond of religious and moral terms such as good and evil. The principle of counter-polarity finds its expression in brightness – darkness, Sun – Saturn, and in the term of the Black Light. The Law of Thelema refers to the same with the concept of “Love is the law! Love under will! Love without compassion!”. This love means that everything is cross-linked, and also refers to the permanent act of creation from dual principles, the union of male and female. In the Greek Kabbalah, the number of Thelema is 93, and the Greek word is Agape (love). Hence, from the Kabbalistic point of view, will and love are related. And so is sex magic, which in effect means to work with polarities, considered as the strongest magical principle.
It is to emphasise here again that Saturn is seen as causal principle to bring the ego forward to highest grades. Saturn is not supposed to be a deity according to the Abrahamian model, but rather the principle of knowledge and awareness in full karmic self-responsibility. This concept may help us to liberate from our own limitations and let us become deities, or otherwise reflect our own prison when lacking maturity. The first case is referred to as the higher octave of Saturn, in the latter case, as the lower octave. The higher octave of Saturn is often called Lucifer whereas the lower octave is characterised as Satan in the meaning of the Tarot card “The Devil” (refer to Crowley/Harris tarot). It is certainly the aim of the Saturnian path to recognise the own divinity and to push up the ego by the perception of the true will.
This concept therefore represents the Left-Hand Path. This principle is of course diametrically opposed to what Abrahamian religions expect: Obedience, blind faith and humility. Regardless of the way the hopefully well-disposed reader will choose in karmic self-responsibility, in the end of the aeon everybody will stand before the strict judgement seat of Saturn. If the flame of Lucifer has been kindled inside, the threshold of the abyss to the divine realm will be crossed. Otherwise the person will be cast into the abyss as a slave of his or her own.
The decision is up to you!
Today, the following secret lodges are concerned with the concept of the Saturn Gnosis and its development:
Grand Lodge Communitas Saturni
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Ordo Saturni
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The Kabbalistic Cross is a basic ritual that is used as a tool to become conscious of the own divine ego and to come into contact with the sources of power and creation.
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The 14th Arcana of the Tarot is usually Temperance:
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But some change it to Art.
Crowley changed it to Lust, his biggest change to the tarot, a naked woman riding crotch first on the Beast of Revelations.
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I guess we could say that Tarot Cards came from Playing Cards, or that Playing Cards came from Tarot Cards. I see the two as clearly related. And we could make games to be played with Tarot Cards. I don't see the fact that Playing Cards are used for common games and for gambling as diminishing their value. And lots of people want a kind of gut level basics fortune telling.
Traditionalists will want to see everything as coming from some primal teaching.
So would could say that both Playing Cards and Tarot Cards are expressions of this primal teaching. We can say this even though we don't know the exact choreography of their development. And then we can also say that the Egyptian Book of The Dead, Kabbalah, and Hermeticism, and a whole lot of other things, are also expressions of this same primal teaching.
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table of contents
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Chapter 5 talks about something I had never heard of.
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Adi Da passed away in 2008
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He had many names, one was Da Free John. I had met some people who had been part of his group in CA.
The guy who wrote the article runs his org in Chicago.
This goes along with a lot of Eastern derived teachings that I am not particualarly attracted to.
Now the idea of calling all of this "New Religious Movements", that is kind of a charitable designation, instead of calling them cults.
I do though suspect that these movements will eventually replace or influence mainline religion, and in some cases I believe that they already have.
I think it comes from this J. Gordon Melton.
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And really this is not much new in them, there are precedents for all of it in earlier eras.
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The Serpent's Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion
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The serpent's gift : gnostic reflections on the study of religion / Jeffrey J. Kripal. (2007)
Hidden intercourse : eros and sexuality in the history of Western esotericism / edited by Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Jeffrey J. Kripal. (2011)
Encountering Kali : in the margins, at the center, in the West / edited by Rachel Fell McDermott and Jeffrey J. Kripal. (2003)
Roads of excess, palaces of wisdom : eroticism & reflexivity in the study of mysticism / Jeffrey J. Kripal. (2001)
Secret body : erotic and esoteric currents in the history of religions / Jeffrey J. Kripal. (2017)
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Cults and new religions : a brief history / Douglas E. Cowan, Renison College, University of Waterloo and David G. Bromley, Virginia Commonwealth University. (2015)
Modern Wicca : a history from Gerald Gardner to the present / Michael Howard. (2009)
Witchcraft today / by Gerald B. Gardner ; introduction by Margaret Murray ; with additional material by Judy Harrow ... [et al.] (2004 50th anniversary edition)
Witchcraft today, 60 years on / edited by Trevor Greenfield (2014)
James Webb
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The occult establishment / James Webb. (1976)
The occult underground / James Webb (1988)
The harmonious circle : the lives and work of G. I. Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky, and their followers / by James Webb (1980)
Gurdjieff/de Hartmann Piano Music played by John Allen Watts
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Tarot Cards and Playing Cards
I think of the first time I handled playing cards. Right away I
recognized there was some arcane knowledge in play, in the way the
deck is organized, in the art work, and in the rules to the games.
The knowledge was there, but no one could explain to me why it was
there or where it came from.
And then the first time I handled tarot cards, the minor arcana, I
recognized immediately that these are the same as playing cards,
except for one key difference, having 4 court cards instead of 3. And
again, no explanation for this. These two have to have a common
origin.
So for Paul Foster Case, Eliphas Levi, and Court de Gebelin, that
common origin would be the tarot. But for Gordon White, at least in
Europe, playing cards came first, and coming from the Near East.
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You can't have any of these cards until you have a printing
technology. The cards have to look indistinguishable from the back
side.
Where the original ideas, for either type of card deck, came from, we
do not really know. And then the fact that playing cards are used for
common games and for gambling, makes them all the more appealing to
use for fortune telling. For most people, religion is nothing more
than superstition, and so they expect fortune telling to work the same
way.
If you didn't need to have cards, you could just print the pictures in books.
And in novelty and stage magic stores you can buy decks of playing
cards off all sizes, running from about 1" min to about 8" maximum.
You usually don't want to play card games with other people using
these. They don't fit human hands, they are hard to shuffle. But
when space is limited or you are playing solitaire, the small ones are
great. I think the big ones would be nice for most of the ways people
use tarot cards.
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There is no line you can draw to separate Meditation Aids, Fortune Telling, Divination, Intercessory Prayer, and Hermetic Magick.
The Abrahamic Faiths have always tried to prohibit Fortune Telling, Divination, and Magick. It was like they thought they could prohibit superstition. But what then is religion, what does it do?
It creates idols, gets people to make prostrations to them, and then gets money out of them.
It wants people to speak the name of the idol, and every time you do this you are committing to something which is false. It wants its people to be disabled, because this is what keeps the pews and the collection plate full.
Actually its the occultists and esotericists who are less likely to live a fear and superstition based existence. They trust their own will, intentionality, and perceptions. They have developed these over decades. They do not have to call out the name of popular idols to legitimate what they do.
The late Donald Michael Craig told his people to always do a tarot reading when they being to do a work of grey magick, that is, something which can effect other people.
He has ways of dealing out the cards, starting with just the Major Arcana, and then you turn them up card by card. Some cards are dealt out perpendicular. And so if perpendicular, or upside down, the card has a different meaning.
Is this a meditation exercise, or is it divination? And is it all meditation or hermetic magick? I submit to you that there is no difference.
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Reading Susan J. Palmer writing about the Raelians
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NOW FIRST LET ME STATE, I DO NOT TAKE THE RAELIANS SERIOUSLY. I FIND THEM TO BE COMIC RELIEF. I DO NOT WISH TO EMULATE THEM!
I do though think they are an interesting case study. Palmer has become the academic chronicler of them. She has written multiple books.
Also, I had a friend in their base, Montreal. I asked him about them.
I first learned of Palmer and of the Raelians from:
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This is a really interesting book, deals with women and sex in these movements. And it runs the full gamut. It shows that so long as you can get people to follow you, nothing is impossible.
Most people see the Raelians as comic relief and harmless. But this changed with the human cloning hoax. Most found that inexcusible.
Here though I am reading how Palmer chronicles the beginnings of Rael's "Angel Orders". There are orders reserved for young and beautiful women.
Palmer explains that in the Raelian movement, men out number women about 4 to 1. But it does draw a lot of women strippers and sex workers. And in an around Montreal it does have a lot of very striking and beautiful women. And the women really stand out, in their feminine attire and strikingly tasteful paint up.
Some of this seems to be Rael's personal charism in recruiting them, and in getting them into these Angel Orders. The women are really prizes. And if you have one as a GF, you get some serious respect.
Sometimes cults go on the androgynous or asexual side. Not the Raelians.
Palmer grew up mormon. And that is really another cult. She has left it, but it still obviously influences her. Rael like to talk Hugh Hefner type photos with beautiful women. Palmer bristles at this.
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about Gurdjieff:
Paul Beekman Taylor
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Jack Kornfield
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about Wicca and Related:
Beltane, then 6 months later Samhain or Hallows
the Great Rite
Gerald Gardner, Witchcraft Today (1954)
Ronald Hutton (1999) The Triumph of the Moon (also talks about Crowley's Gnostic Mass)
Jeffrey J. Kripal (2001) Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom
Frederic Lamond (1997)
Zell Oberon, of Church of All Worlds
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Church of the Eternal Source
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Hugh B. Urban (2006) Magia Sexualis
Summum ( does mumification and has pyramid in Salt Lake City )
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Corky, and ex-Mormon elder, founded Summum
Summum is a religion and philosophy that began in 1975 as a result of American citizen Claude "Corky" Nowell's claimed encounter with beings he described as "Summa Individuals". According to Nowell, these beings presented him with concepts regarding the nature of creation, concepts that have always existed and are continually re-introduced to humankind by advanced beings who work along the pathways of creation.
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hese principles flower in different forms and were outlined before in the writings of The Kybalion first published in 1908.[6] But Summum, considering The Kybalion incomplete and antiquated, rewrote the book after it entered the public domain.[7] The new derivative work utilized a more modern language and incorporated the new information said to have been presented by Ra to the Summa Individuals. Included in that information is an explanation and description of how creation came about.
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Sexual Ecstasy from Ancient Wisdom: The Joys of Permanent Sexual Ecstasy Spiral-bound – April 1, 1994
by Summum Bonum Amen Ra (Author), Vernon Carlson (Illustrator)
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Among the many branches of knowledge possessed by the ancients and recorded in hieroglyphics, that known as Sexual Ecstasy is the subject matter of this book. Here, made known for the first time, are the techniques that were taught and practiced by the most sophisticated society on earth for thousands of years. All nations and peoples have partaken liberally at the feast of sexual knowledge which the Masters of the Land of Ra and Isis so freely provided for them. So powerful was this original source of sexual knowledge that from it blossomed the many strange forms of sexual practices known today as Tantra, Kama Sutra, Taoism, etc. Nevertheless, this sexual knowledge has been restored to its purity at this time so that you can know the techniques which allowed the ancients to experience hours of "Sexual Ecstasy." Each page reveals hieroglyphic secrets translated for our modern day and time. Each of the twenty-four beautiful illustrations displays a hieroglyphic associated with the technique that is demonstrated. Truly a historical and educational text, this gift from the ancients can teach today's lovers the art of "Sexual Ecstasy" known by the ancients, but lost to modern man and woman until now.
Sacred Sexuality: Ancient Egyptian Tantric Yoga: The Neterian Guide To Love, Sexuality, Marriage, Relationships and the Secrets of Sexual Energy Cultivation, Sublimation, and Spiritual Enlightenment Paperback – November 3, 2005
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THE KEMETIC TREE OF LIFE: Newly Revealed Ancient Egyptian Cosmology Mysticism
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During the first few years of the 2nd World War Dion Fortune wrote a powerful meditation based on an innerworld journey into an imagined cavern within the Tor at Glastonbury. This meditation, which developed as the months went by and the world situation changed, was based on a series of prescribed topics that focussed on the concepts of Unity and Spiritual Purpose. The aim of this magical work was to channel spiritual light and energy to the land and people, and to help bring about a peaceful resolution of conflict.
Dion Fortune’s original meditation is published in ‘The Magical Battle of Britain: the War Letters of Dion Fortune’ edited by Gareth Knight and published by Skylight Press. This book contains some of DF's most explicitly described and powerful magical techniques, and is well worth reading in full. However, you will find sufficient information below to enable you to participate in the meditation.
The meditation
First, read through the complete meditation so that you are familiar with it and can easily bring it to mind while you are meditating. The instructions may initially seem complicated but you will soon get the feel of them.
Choose the topic that you would like to meditate on from the list below. Dion Fortune gave out a new topic each week to everyone taking part, but you may prefer to work with each topic for a longer period. Do what feels right.
When you are ready to begin the meditation, make sure that you are physically relaxed and calm and that your breathing is slow and regular.
Then, bring to mind the meditation topic you have chosen. Think about what it means, and try to realise its spiritual implications.
Next, take the innerworld journey described below, into the cavern within Glastonbury Tor. Visualise the scene as clearly as you can. If you are familiar with Glastonbury Tor so well and good, but if you are not, don't worry, just imagine it as best you can.
Take the path which ascends the Tor until you reach a large boulder by a hawthorn tree that marks the entrance to the interior. Pass inside the Tor, down a narrow passage which descends steeply. The passage turns to the right, and leads you into a large cavern which is directly beneath the tower on the summit of the Tor.
The cavern is filled with golden light. At its centre is a golden, equal-armed cross of great size. At the centre of the cross is a Rose. The Rose is outlined in Diamond Light (an intensely brilliant, scintillating, white light). Build these symbols in your mind's eye until they are real for you, realising that the Rose Cross is a symbol of perfect balance within yourself, and between spirit and earth.
You may become aware of seven figures standing beneath the Rose Cross. Each is robed in one of the colours of the rainbow.
When these scenes have built clearly in your mind's eye, think of yourself as part of the Group-Soul of the land and people; your life a part of its life, and its life the basis of yours. Your meditation is for the benefit of all. Try to make real the connection between Glastonbury Tor and the entire land.
Then, invoking the One Deity, open your mind as a channel for pure spiritual energy. Focus on allowing the spiritual force that you are bringing through, come through for all. Rely upon Cosmic Law to adapt it to individual needs or healing as appropriate.
You might now wish to bring to mind again your chosen topic.
Finally, return to the outside world, close down your meditation and return to normal consciousness. You may find it useful to keep a record of what you have seen and learnt.
Or, you might simply meditate on 'Love,' in its highest spiritual sense.
The realisation that a single and indivisible Life ensouls all people.
The principle of Unity.
The Unity underlying Diversity.
The spiritual principles of the New Age.
Making contact with the spiritual influences ruling our land, using for this purpose the symbol of the Rose upon the Cross.
The inevitableness of the victory of cosmic law over unbalanced force; therefore there is no need for fear.
The neutralising of unbalanced force by spiritual influences.
Meditate on the Angelic presences guarding the land.
Realise the comradeship of the Elder Brethren.
Try to establish contact with a Master (ie an Inner Plane guide or teacher) in order that you may stabilise your own conditions.
The power of Silence to bring Serenity.
The rising Aquarian tide.
CLASSICAL PHYSICS
Macroscopic, sensory, the material world
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QUANTUM MECHANICS
Microscopic world of atomic and nuclear physics
Yesod, Hod, Netzach
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
Relativistic relationship between particles and waves
Tiphereth, Geburah, Chesed
UNIFIED FIELD THEORY
Superstrings of vibrating energy. Pure consciousness
Supernals: – Binah, Chokmah, Kether
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The Mystical Qabalah, by Dion Fortune
The Cosmic Doctrine, by Dion Fortune
Students are strongly recommended to read Dion Fortune’s Practical Occultism in Daily Life, Sane Occultism, Esoteric Orders and Their Work, and The Training and Work of an Initiate.
The Society of the Inner Light’s prime purpose is to maintain and expand the bridge that exists between outer life in the world and spiritual forces upon the inner planes.
It was founded in 1924 by Dion Fortune – Violet Mary Firth – at the instance of an inner plane Master. That is to say by a spiritual being who, having experienced and learned the lessons of life on Earth, has no further need physically to incarnate and has undertaken to help humanity progress by giving spiritual insights to those who are attuned to receive them. The general aim of this is the balanced earthing of spiritual principles under the general headings of Power, Love and Wisdom.
Dion Fortune’s career began as a student of psychology, but she developed an interest in esoteric theory and practice as a result of psycho-spiritual experiences through the development of her natural psychic gifts, which made her more readily aware of the worlds of causation behind physical appearances, normally beyond physical perception.
Her major inner plane contacts were first made at Glastonbury, a charged spiritual centre with Christian spiritual roots centered upon the Abbey, legendary roots centered upon its Arthurian and Grail legends, and Elemental roots centered upon the Tor and surrounding hills.
The Society of the Inner Light’s prime purpose is to maintain and expand the bridge that exists between outer life in the world and spiritual forces upon the inner planes.
It was founded in 1924 by Dion Fortune – Violet Mary Firth – at the instance of an inner plane Master. That is to say by a spiritual being who, having experienced and learned the lessons of life on Earth, has no further need physically to incarnate and has undertaken to help humanity progress by giving spiritual insights to those who are attuned to receive them. The general aim of this is the balanced earthing of spiritual principles under the general headings of Power, Love and Wisdom.
Dion Fortune’s career began as a student of psychology, but she developed an interest in esoteric theory and practice as a result of psycho-spiritual experiences through the development of her natural psychic gifts, which made her more readily aware of the worlds of causation behind physical appearances, normally beyond physical perception.
Her major inner plane contacts were first made at Glastonbury, a charged spiritual centre with Christian spiritual roots centered upon the Abbey, legendary roots centered upon its Arthurian and Grail legends, and Elemental roots centered upon the Tor and surrounding hills.
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Aetherius, George King. Saw a link to this, did not know what it was.
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Based in Los Angeles and London, and extraterrestrial group.
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Aquarian Foundation
And then Gabriel, prophet of the Aquarian Foundation in Sedona AZ
Now moved to Tumacacori
TUMACACORI — An alternative and controversial religious group is leaving the Sedona area's vortexes for what it says is equally sacred space — a 165-acre ranch in this rural community south of Tucson.
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By all appearances the group forms a contented, peaceful community, but it has drawn the ire of some critics who say its leader, Gabriel of Urantia, exerts too much control over members, who surrender their financial assets when they join.
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Federation of Damanhur, Italy, about 30 miles north of Turin
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Damanhur is named after the Egyptian city of Damanhur which was the site of a temple dedicated to Horus.
It was founded in 1975 by Oberto Airaudi with around 24 followers, and by 2000 the number had grown to 800. The group holds a mix of New Age and neopagan beliefs.
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Books:
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Merrifield, Jeff (1998). Damanhur: The Real Dream. London: Thorsons. ISBN 0722534965. OCLC 647069892.
Merrifield, Jeff (2006). Damanhur: The Story of the Extraordinary Italian Artistic Community. Santa Cruz: Hanford Mead Publishers. ISBN 1592750109. OCLC 63116828.
Ananas, Esperide (2006). Damanhur: Temples of Humankind. New York: CoSM Press. ISBN 1556435770. OCLC 62172760.
Robertson, Ross (April 2007). "Atlantis in the Mountains of Italy". What Is Enlightenment?. No. 36. pp. 94–110. Archived from the original on 2010-08-21.
Atlantis in the Mountains of Italy
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Raelians:
Sexuality and New Religious Movements
Henrik Bogdan and James R. Lewis 2014
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I can't read about the Raelians without laughing.
Raëlism, also known as Raëlianism, is a UFO religion that was founded in the 1970s France by Claude Vorilhon, now known as Raël. Scholars of religion classify Raëlism as a new religious movement.
I realize that is so humorous because it is a parody. Is it a self parody? Kind of. It is also a parody of cults. And then Rael says that his Angel Orders are to be comparable to Catholic monastic orders.
The girls are selected for youthful beauty. Some have been in Playboy, and Rael has visited Hefner with them. Many are commercial lap dancers. Only a few in an elite group are reserved for the Elohim
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Brigitte Boisselier, left, was a genetic biologist, brought in to oversee the cloning mothers. But mostly she is just there to head up the angel orders. And so she has to keep up with the dressing and dolling up standard. She is Rael's designated successor
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References from Susan J. Palmer's excellent chapter:
Allen, Prudence. 1993. “Sex and Gender Differentiation in Hildegard of Bingen and Edith Stein.” Communio 20: 389–414.
Dawson, Lorne L. 2002. “Crises of Charismatic Legitimacy and Violent Behavior in New Religious Movements.” In Cults, Religion, and Violence, edited by David G. Bromley and J. Gordon Melton, 80–101. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Leguin, Ursula. 1969. The Lef Hand of Darkness. New York: Ace Book, Berkley Publishing Group.
Palmer, Susan. 2004. Aliens Adored: Rael’s UFO Religion. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
Reage, Pauline. 1954. Histoire d’O. Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert.
Wallis, Roy. 1984. The Elementary Forms of the New Religious Life. London: Rout-ledge and Kegan Paul.
Weber, Max. 1947. Theory of Social and Economic Organization. Translated by A. R. Anderson and Talcott Parsons. Edited by Talcott Parsons. New York: Free Press.
Worsley, Peter. 1968. The Trumpet Shall Sound: A Study of ‘Cargo Cults’ in Melanesia, 2nd ed. New York: Schocken Books.
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So above, Susan J. Palmer's chapter about the Raelians, is the first mention, a one word mention, I have ever seen of: Damanhur
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Damanhur is named after the Egyptian city of Damanhur which was the site of a temple dedicated to Horus.
30 miles North of Turin
It was founded in 1975 by Oberto Airaudi with around 24 followers, and by 2000 the number had grown to 800. The group holds a mix of New Age and neopagan beliefs.
New religious movements : challenge and response / edited by Bryan Wilson and Jamie Cresswell. (1999)
Damanhur : temples of humankind / text by Esperide Ananas ; foreword, Alex Grey ; introduction, Rob Calef ; poetry by Oberto Airaudi ; editd by Allyson Grey. (2006)
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Amber, don't care about the Harley, I care that she understands high heels, thigh high stockings, and makeup. That's what would be staying on her as things escalate.
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The book of synchronicity : the game of divination / Oberto Airaudi ; translated by Esperide Ananas, James Nye, Orata
Sincronico. English (2007)
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First I heard of this was a one word mention by Susan J. Palmer, an expert on women in the New Religious Movements
Damanhur is named after the Egyptian city of Damanhur which was the site of a temple dedicated to Horus.
30 miles North of Turin
It was founded in 1975 by Oberto Airaudi with around 24 followers, and by 2000 the number had grown to 800. The group holds a mix of New Age and neopagan beliefs.
New religious movements : challenge and response / edited by Bryan Wilson and Jamie Cresswell. (1999)
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This actually reminds me of Paolo Soleri and Arcosanti, in Arizona.
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Lou Reed live 2 hours
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Linda Maria Ronstadt was born in Tucson, Arizona
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High Flying Bird , Judy Henske , 1964 Vinyl
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Jefferson Airplane Monterey
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Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten up (1968)
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Archie Bell and The Drells - The Origins (FULL ALBUM)
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Rick Ross Cult Awareness casts a pretty broad net.
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The stuff the RickRoss people have posted is not flattering, and I don't think it can be dismissed. But this does not mean that there are not things which could be learned from the Damanhur example.
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Hugh B. Urban (2006) Magia Sexualis
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Sexuality and the occult arts have long been associated in the Western imagination, but it was not until the nineteenth century that a large and sophisticated body of literature on sexual magic--the use of sex as a source of magical power--emerged. This book, the first history of Western sexual magic as a modern spiritual tradition, places these practices in the context of the larger discourse surrounding sexuality in America and European society of the last 150 years to discover how sexual magic was transformed from a terrifying medieval nightmare of heresy and social subversion into a modern ideal of personal empowerment and social liberation. Focusing on a series of key figures including Paschal Beverly Randolph, Aleister Crowley, Julius Evola, Gerald Gardner, and Anton LaVey, Hugh Urban traces the emergence of sexual magic out of older Western esoteric traditions including Gnosticism and Kabbalah, which were progressively fused with recently discovered Eastern traditions such as Hindu and Buddhist Tantra. His study gives remarkable new insight in the modern era, specifically on issues such issues as the politics of birth control, the classification of sexual "deviance," debates over homosexuality and feminism, and the role of sexuality in our own ne work of postmodern spirituality, consumer capitalism, and the Internet.
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I would also add that Hugh Urban is an extremely sane and sober TheOSU academic writer.
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ERIC CLAPTON & PETER FRAMPTON - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (HD)
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Jeffrey Weeks, Sexuality and Its Discontents: Meanings, Myths, and Modern Sexualities
Paschal Beverly Randolph
Francis King
Hugh B. Urban
Donald Michael Kraig
Margo Anand
Antioine Faivre
Wounter Hanegraaff
David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity
Patrick Deneney, about Paschal Berverly Randolph
Nik Douglas, Spiritual Sex: Secrets of Tanta from the Ice Age to the New Millennium.
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Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
Grace Jantzen, Power, Gender, and Christian Mysticism (1995)
Lois NcNay, Foucault: A Critical Introduction (1994)
Georges Bataille, Eroticism: Death and Sensuality
.. .. .. .. .. .. The History of Eroticsm (Zone Books 1991)
Starhawks, Dreaming the Dark: Sex, Magic, and Politics (1988)
Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon
Godwin, Chanel, and Deveney, Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor
Frederic Jameson
Don Webb
Elaine Pagels, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent.
... ... .... ... The Gnostic Gospels
Malcolm Lambert, Cathars
Piers Paul Read, The Templars (1999)
Gershom Scholem
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The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor
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The Theosophical Enlightenment
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The theosophical enlightenment / by Joscelyn Godwin. (1994)
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Music and the occult : French musical philosophies, 1750-1950 / by Joscelyn Godwin. (1995)
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Jean Bardrillard, America
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subersion of Identity (1990)
Ioan P. Coulianu, Eros and Magic in the Renaissance, (1987)
Erik Davis, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of
Information (1998)
Nik Douglas, Spiritual Sex: Secrets of Tantra from the Ice Age to the
New Millennium (1997)
Julius Evola and the UR Group, Introduction to Magic: Rituals and
Magical Techniques for the Magus. Inner Traditions (2001)
Antoine Faivre
Frater U.D.
Wouter Hanegraaff
Stephen Harr, Simon Magus: The First Gnostic (2003)
Christopher S. Hyatt, Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation (2000)
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Stephen Harr, Simon Magus: The First Gnostic (2003)
David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity (1988)
Paul Heelas, The New Age Movement: The Celebration of Self and the
Sacralization of Modernity (1996)
Lisa Hilton, Athenais: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the Real
Queen of France (2002)
Athénaïs : the life of Louis XIV's mistress, the real queen of France
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Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Capitalism
Francis King
Eliphas Levi, Transendental Magic 1855
Jean -Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Conditin
Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
Angus McLaren, Twentieth-Century Sexuality
Dan Merkur, Gnosis: An Esoteric Tradition of Mystics Visions and Unions (1993)
Maria de Naglowska
A. R. Naylor, ed, Theodor Reuss and Aleister Crowley, O.T.O. Rituals,
and Sex Magick (1999)
Helen Nicholson, The Knights Templar (2001)
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Ronald Hutton, The Trimump of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft (1999)
Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow (1978)
Dion Fortune, The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage (1930)
Nevill Drury, The History of Magic in the Modern Age (1991)
**Farrar and Farrar, Witches' Way (1954), important in development of Wicca
Gerald Gardner, The Book of Shadows
Dennis Altman, Global Sex (1996)
Elizabeth Puttick, Women in New Religions: In Search of Community, Sexuality, and Spiritual Power (1997)
Mary Daly, Gyn / Ecology, Beacon Press
** ** ** , Beyond God the Father, Beacon Press
Starhawk, "Reclaiming"
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
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Robert A. Nye, Sexuality: A Reader, 1999
Alex Owen, The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern (2004)
Chaos Matrix
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Steven Best and Douglas Kellner, Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations (1991)
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Daniel Bell, Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)
Jean Baudrillard, America (1988)
Nikolas Schreck and Zeena Schreck, Demons of the Flesh (2002)
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New age, neopagan, and new religious movements : alternative spirituality in contemporary America / Hugh B. Urban (2015)
Secrecy : silence, power, and religion / Hugh B. Urban (2021)
Hidden intercourse : eros and sexuality in the history of Western esotericism / edited by Wouter J. Hanegraaff and Jeffrey J. Kripal (2008)
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Lords of the Left-Hand Path: Forbidden Practices and Spiritual Heresies
Stephen Flowers
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The Three Stages of Initiatic Spirituality
Craftsman, Warrior, Magician
by Angel Millar (2020)
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The Three Stages of Initiatic Spirituality
Craftsman, Warrior, Magician
By (Author) Angel Millar
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and angel millar has written other books dealing with freemasonry
The three stages of initiatic spirituality : craftsman, warrior, magician / Angel Millar.
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Freemasonry : a history / Angel Millar. (2005)
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Freemasonry: Foundation of the Western Esoteric Tradition (2013)
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Access to Western esotericism / Antoine Faivre (1994)
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Theosophy, imagination, tradition : studies in Western esotericism / Antoine Faivre ; translated by Christine Rhone. (2000)
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Western esotericism : a concise history / Antoine Faivre ; translated by Christine Rhone (2010)
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Modern esoteric spirituality / edited by Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman ; associate editor, Karen Voss (1992)
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The Hermetic Science of Transformation
The Initiatic Path of Natural and Divine Magic
Giuliano Kremmerz (1861 - 1930)
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Kremmerz sought to redefine magical initiation as well as other key components of the occult sciences. His aim was to bring the Hermetic path of initiation back into alignment with the strict procedures and symbolism that defined the spiritual practices of Pythagoras and the heirs to his tradition.
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