Tag: magic

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Gerhard Hallstatt is an Upper Austrian musician, photographer, and writer, though he currently focuses primarily on music with his experimental band Allerseelen. He previously served as the publisher of the small but influential underground magazines Aorta and Ahnstern, using the pseudonym Adam Kadmon. These limited-circulation publications focused primarily on esoteric philosophy, magic, sacred architecture, art history, and cultural poetry, as well as half-forgotten National Socialist artists and occultists. (more…)

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Being a former high school English teacher, every autumn the beginning of the new academic year brings back memories of my former life in the classroom, and some of its odder incidents – none odder than the time I was accused of possessing magical powers.

Teaching a play in which one character is highly superstitious, I asked students to list as many superstitions as they could. (more…)

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John Michael Greer
The King in Orange: The Magical and Occult Roots of Political Power
Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2021

In his book The King in Orange, John Michael Greer provides a magical perspective on the 2016 and 2020 elections which is highly pertinent with the 2024 election approaching.

It should be noted that contrary to modern misconceptions of magic (and the eldritch cover art), Greer’s definition of magic is very practical. (more…)

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Stephen E. Flowers
The Occult in National Socialism: The Symbolic, Scientific, and Magical Influences on the Third Reich
Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2022

In the realm of the occult and its intersection with the Third Reich, Stephen E. Flowers’ The Occult in National Socialism: The Symbolic, Scientific, and Magical Influences on the Third Reich stands out as perhaps the most comprehensive, profound, and objective investigation to date. (more…)

You can buy James J. O’Meara’s Mysticism After Modernism here.

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James J. O’Meara has a book out, Mysticism After Modernism: Crowley, Evola, Neville, Watts, Colin Wilson, and Other Populist Gurus, published by Manticore Press. The book is about where mysticism intersects with culture and politics, rather than being some purely academic look at mysticism and the occult. It is also about thinkers who used magic to enact real-world change.

Much of the Right is dismissive or derisive of the occult, their criticisms ranging from conspiracy theories about evil Illuminati occultists to dismissing the New Age scene as being solely for Left-wing hippies. Regardless, there is a lot of crossover appeal and syncretic occultism. (more…)

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Církev Satanova

Pro běžné lidi splývá definice pojmu zlo a Satan a tak se nesmíme divit, že pro většinu lidí budou pojmy jako mýtus Cthulhu a satanismus téměř totožné. (more…)

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Lovecraftovy hororové příběhy jsou dnes brány nejen jako literární klasika, ale také se postupem času staly vlivným kultem okultismu. Mýtus Cthulhu, Prastaří a Nevyslovitelná jména jsou evokováni, uctíváni a respektováni různými esoterickými proudy a u některých tvoří dokonce pomyslné jádro jejich magického učení. Tato esej má za cíl zkoumat nejvýznamnější řády, jednotlivce a doktríny, co se v minulosti zaobírali či se pořád ještě zaobírají Mýtem Cthulhu. (more…)

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Australian nationalist activist Blair Cottrell was Nick Jeelvy‘s guest on the most recent broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc where they discussed the phenomenon of pharmacology and its origins, as well as answer your questions, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

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Part 3 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here)

5. Critique of Magical Idealism

In this concluding section, I will discuss three major difficulties with magical idealism: (more…)

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Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

4. The Principles of Magical Idealism

Evola’s critique of transcendental idealism, which we examined in the last installment, is insightful and interesting — though grand choruses of academic voices would be raised against every step of it, insisting that Evola has misunderstood idealism. (more…)

Wonder of the world: The Pylas Combat Agate, an engraving standing 1.3 inches tall that has been dated to Crete in 1450 BCE.

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I began an investigation into astrology several months back, coincidentally around the time that many other Right-wingers were doing the same, according to PhilosophiCat. I didn’t know that at the time, and so it is like we were all tapped into the same wavelength. (more…)

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Host Nick Jeelvy was joined by seasoned warmage James J. O’Meara for a Spooky Writers’ Bloc on Halloween where they discussed the occult and magic, and it is now available for download and online listening.

Topics discussed include:

Magic thinking on the Right
Magic vs. magick
Evola on magic
Crowley on magick
Trump and meme magic (more…)

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When I was a boy my parents would take me to the cinema. (That’s the Proustian opener out of the way). It would be either my father or my mother but never both, as I had brothers five years younger than me, identical twins, and my parents would take turns looking after them (and they were a handful) while the other one took me to see a movie. I remember seeing Walter Matthau in the movie Prisoner of Second Avenue with my dad, and both my mother and I being scared out of our wits seeing Carrie. I also remember classic Disney films. (more…)