Were it not for Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare would have been the most influential occultist of the 20th century. This is both strange and impressive, as the entirety of his magical writings could be read in an afternoon. Primarily an artist, author and poet, he occupies a similar space in occult history to William Blake; less an occultist, more poet-mystic. His influence lies less in obscure iterations on masonic rites, more in poems and short screeds about the soul, paired with his sensual and grotesque art. Magic has always crossed...
2025-03-18 18:40:57 +0000 UTC
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Were it not for Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare would have been the most influential occultist of the 20th century. Primarily an artist, author and poet, he occupies a similar space in occult history to William Blake; less an occultist, more poet-mystic. His influence lies less in obscure iterations on masonic rites, more in poems and short screeds about the soul. Magic has always crossed over with art, but Spare makes this a central focus of his work. He made art about magic, and did magic about art.
For other occultists, i...
2025-03-16 16:33:44 +0000 UTC
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CHAOS MAGIC
Realistically we should start with Austin Osman Spare, who himself was a student of crowleys work. He influenced Peter Caroll, and the two guys who invented discordianism. Peter Caroll was the guy who founded the illuminates of Thanateros, which is the body of Chaos Magic.
SPARE
For the purposes of magical genealogy, Spare is considered a student of crowley, but he doesn’t quite fit the mold. Spare is closer to whatever William Blake is to the history of the occult; a poet-mystic who inspired a g...
2025-03-10 17:22:03 +0000 UTC
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CHAOS MAGIC
Realistically we should start with Austin Osman Spare, who himself was a student of crowleys work. He influenced Peter Caroll, and the two guys who invented discordianism. Peter Caroll was the guy who founded the illuminates of Thanateros, which is the body of Chaos Magic.
LIBER NULL
Chaos Magic itself starts with the Liber Null, which has two main pillars:
CHAOS MAGIC
Realistically we should start with Austin Osman Spare, who himself was a student of crowleys work. He influenced Peter Caroll, and the two guys who invented discordianism. Peter Caroll was the guy who founded the illuminates of Thanateros, which is the body of Chaos Magic.
Chaos Magic itself starts with the Liber Null, which has two main pillars:
THE NEW AGE
World War Two is over! People are frail, destiny is uncertain, death and disease are our constant companions, and Americans have cars now. These existential terrors have always existed, and there have always been folk practices who came up with responses to stave off that terror, but the world of 1970 is connected like never before. The catastrophe of the previous generation has given way to a breeding ground of new options and alternate ideas, for better and for worse.
The New Age was a movement that emerged du...
2025-02-25 17:54:17 +0000 UTC
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THE NEW AGE
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Emerged during the 1970s and increasingly in the 1980s
Term originated in Theosophical literature + new age cults
Post wwii millinerian tradition
Originally, New Age meant something along the lines of using Divination and healing as mehtods of transforming the world, but as the movement gained steam
Basically, it originally meant a millenarian belief system, but eventually came to mean the broader set of practices associated with that original s...
2025-02-21 20:14:09 +0000 UTC
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FRANZ ANTON MESMER and ANIMAL MAGNETISM
FRANZ ANTON MESMER and ANIMAL MAGNETISM
CROWLEY TIME
THESIS: If the Golden Dawn were trying to extract the “active ingredient” from religion, Crowley was the first to realize they were still beholden to the christian regime of signs.
Random thought: “God is beyond everything, beyond language, beyond thought, beyond understanding. A mystic attempts to speak beyond of something beyond speech, write of the ineffible, be with something beyond union. A mystic personally attempts the impossible.”
YOUNG CROWLEY:
Edward Alexander Crowley was Bor...
2025-02-12 18:05:40 +0000 UTC
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JUNG
Jung is perhaps the most influential occultist of the 20th century. His contributions to the vestigial field of psychology got us out of Freud. Where Freud theorized the psyche was a machine defined by sexuality, driven by sexuality, and that kept all the trauma in the trunk, Jung’s model of the psyche is a complex interplay between the multiple aspects of the self. This was undoubtedly a step forwards for the study of psychology, and opened the door for a far more complex and nuanced understanding of the human mind. That said, ...
2025-01-31 17:24:52 +0000 UTC
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JUNG
Jung is perhaps the most influential occultist of the 20th century. His contributions to the vestigial field of psychology got us out of Freud. Where Freud theorized the psyche was a machine defined by sexuality, driven by sexuality, and that kept all the trauma in the trunk, Jung’s model of the psyche is a complex interplay between the multiple aspects of the self. This was undoubtedly a step forwards for the study of psychology, and opened the door for a far more complex and nuanced understanding of the human mind. That said, ...
2025-01-29 18:40:25 +0000 UTC
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CROWLEY TIME
THESIS: If the Golden Dawn w
2025-01-26 18:17:47 +0000 UTC
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IT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
If people could be centuries, Mme Helena Petrovna Blavatsky would be the 19th.
Baboon-owner, ardent anti-colonialist, world-traveling occult trendsetter, founder of comparative religious studies, self-admitted huckster, proto-feminist marajuana icon, diehard anti-racist, and an innovator of antisemite, Mme Blavatsky would combine the mythology of spiritualism with the doctrine of western esoterica to create the paradigm-dominating cultural powerhouse that was Theosophy. A one-woman revolution. There is ...
2025-01-02 17:45:53 +0000 UTC
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THE GOLDEN DAWN
Founded March of 1888, em
2024-12-30 17:30:07 +0000 UTC
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CROWLEY TIME
THESIS: If the Golden Dawn were trying to extract the “active ingredient” from religion, Crowley was the first to realize they were still beholden to the christian regime of signs.
YOUNG CROWLEY:
Edward Alexander Crowley was Born in 1875 in Warwickshire England to a family of wealthy and pious alcohol magnates. The Crowleys were members of the Plymouth Brethren, a low church known for being some of the strictest religious fundamentalists in England. Young Edward did not seem to mind this. It wasn’t ...
2024-12-11 18:10:38 +0000 UTC
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CROWLEY TIME
THESIS: If the Golden Dawn were trying to extract the “active ingredient” from religion, Crowley was the first to realize they were still beholden to the christian regime of signs.
YOUNG CROWLEY:
Edward Alexander Crowley was Born in 1875 in Warwickshire England to a family of wealthy and pious alcohol magnates. The Crowleys were members of the Plymouth Brethren, a low church known for being some of the strictest religious fundamentalists in England. Young Edward did not seem to mind this. It wasn’t ...
2024-12-09 17:42:14 +0000 UTC
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CROWLEY TIME
THESIS: If the Golden Dawn were trying to extract the “active ingredient” from religion, Crowley was the first to realize they were still beholden to the christian regime of signs.
YOUNG CROWLEY:
Edward Alexander Crowley was Born in 1875 in Warwickshire England to a family of wealthy and pious alcohol magnates. The Crowleys were members of the Plymouth Brethren, a low church known for being some of the strictest religious fundamentalists in England. Young Edward did no...
2024-12-03 18:21:40 +0000 UTC
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THE GOLDEN DAWN
Founded March of 1888, emerged from the soup of para masonic sects and groups.
Its basically paramasonic structure + the doctrine of western esotericism.
OUTLINE
Basically, the HOGD is what brought magic into the 20th century
SECTION 1 DA EARLY YAERS
Nobody would let Kenneth Mackenzie practice magic. The world was full of secret societies and esoteric fraternities that promised the inner secrets of the world. So, he bec...
2024-11-30 17:56:47 +0000 UTC
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THE GOLDEN DAWN
Founded March of 1888, emerged from the soup of para masonic sects and groups.
Its basically paramasonic structure + the doctrine of western esotericism.
OUTLINE
Basically, the HOGD is what brought magic into the 20th century
SECTION 1 DA EARLY YAERS
Nobody would let Kenneth Mackenzie practice magic. The world was full of secret societies and esoteric fraternities that promised the inner secrets of the world. So, he bec...
2024-11-27 20:28:19 +0000 UTC
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THE GOLDEN DAWN
Founded March of 1888, emerged from the soup of para masonic sects and groups.
Its basically paramasonic structure + the doctrine of western esotericism.
OUTLINE
Basically, the HOGD is what brought magic into the 20th century
SECTION 1 DA EARLY YAERS
Nobody would let Kenneth Mackenzie practice magic. The world was full of secret societies and esoteric fraternities that promised the inner secrets of the world. So, he bec...
2024-11-26 17:35:56 +0000 UTC
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IT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
If people could be centuries, Mme Helena Petrovna Blavatsky would be the 19th.
Baboon-owner, ardent anti-colonialist, world-traveling occult trendsetter, founder of comparative religious studies, self-admitted huckster, proto-feminist marajuana icon, diehard anti-racist, and innovative antisemite, Mme Blavatsky would combine the mythology of spiritualism with the doctrine of western esoterica to create the paradigm-dominating cultural powerhouse that was Theosophy. A one-woman revolution. The...
2024-11-19 18:51:12 +0000 UTC
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IT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
If people could be centuries, Mme Helena Petrovna Blavatsky would be the 19th.
Baboon-owner, ardent anti-colonialist, world-traveling occult trendsetter, founder of comparative religious studies, self-admitted huckster, proto-feminist marajuana icon, diehard anti-racist, and innovative antisemite, Mme Blavatsky would combine the mythology of spiritualism with the doctrine of western esoterica. She is a revolution. There is occult history before Blavatsky, and there is occult history after Bla...
2024-11-09 17:24:12 +0000 UTC
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IT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
If people could be centuries, Mme Helena Petrovna Blavatsky would be the 19th.
Baboon-owner, ardent anti-colonialist, world-traveling occult trendsetter, founder of comparative religious studies, self-admitted huckster, proto-feminist marajuana icon, diehard anti-racist, and innovative antisemite, Mme Blavatsky would combine the mythology of spiritualism with the doctrine of western esoterica. She is a revolution. There is occult history before Blavatsky, and there is occult history after Bla...
2024-11-08 17:12:49 +0000 UTC
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IT IS BLAVATSKY TIME
If people could be centuries, Mme Helena Petrovna Blavatsky would be the 19th.
Baboon-owner, ardent anti-colonialist, world-traveling occult trendsetter, founder of comparative religious studies, self-admitted huckster, proto-feminist marajuana icon, diehard anti-racist, and innovative antisemite, Mme Blavatsky would combine the mythology of spiritualism with the doctrine of western esoterica. She is a revolution. There is occult history before Blavatsky, and there is occult history after Bla...
2024-11-02 17:56:09 +0000 UTC
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Here are all of my notes and writing so far, organized into a single file. In all of its unedited glory. At the moment, it is 203 pages. Good Luck.
2024-09-26 18:30:21 +0000 UTC
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THE GOLDEN DAWN
Founded March of 1888, emerged from the soup of para masonic sects and groups.
Its basically paramasonic structure + the doctrine of western esotericism.
Hanegraaf notes:
Starts on 576
The immediate inspiration for the Golden Dawn was a masonic Rosicrucian body, the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, that had been established in 1867.
People kept getting in to the SRIA wanting to study and practice magic, but that w...
2024-09-04 17:36:45 +0000 UTC
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THE GOLDEN DAWN
Founded March of 1888, emerged from the soup of para masonic sects and groups.
Its basically paramasonic structure + the doctrine of western esotericism.
Hanegraaf notes:
Starts on 576
The immediate inspiration for the Golden Dawn was a masonic Rosicrucian body, the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, that had been established in 1867.
People kept getting in to the SRIA wanting to study and practice magic, but that w...
2024-09-03 15:44:55 +0000 UTC
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I JUST NEEDED TO GET THIS DOWN ON PAPER
THE GOLDEN DAWN
Founded March of 1888, emerged from the soup of para masonic sects and groups.
Its basically paramasonic structure + the doctrine of western esotericism.
Hanegraaf notes:
Starts on 576
The immediate inspiration for the Golden Dawn was a masonic Rosicrucian body, the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, that had been established in 1867.
People kept getting in to the SRIA w...
2024-09-02 17:41:34 +0000 UTC
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CROWLEY TIME
THESIS: If the Golden Dawn were trying to extract the “active ingredient” from religion, Crowley was the first to realize they were still beholden to the christian regime of signs.
Young Crowley:
Edward Alexander Crowley was Born in 1875 in Warwickshire England to a family of wealthy and pious alcohol magnates. The Crowleys were members of the Plymouth Brethren, a low church known for being some of the strictest religious fundamentalists in England. Young Edward did not seem...
2024-08-22 17:52:40 +0000 UTC
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