Who wouldn't? A wet dream of anti-occultists.
... a broken-down old house that is now a Mecca for thelemite zealots.
Oh, goodnes. No, sadness. Just think what a cool place that dump would be if only someone had intervened and bought it when it was intact. But there's thing about hot temples ...
@shiva It is too bad that Kenneth Anger who went to so such trouble to document the murals, couldn't (or didn't) try to raise the funds to buy the property when it was still in okay shape.
The Dark Song.
That is a good one! I mentioned it here a while ago in connection with Abramelin.
The Occult Roots of Nazism by Nicholas Goodrick-Clark
Definitely one of the better books on the topic. Ravenscroft's book makes for good myth but not good reality.
But Michael Moynihan's The Secret King goes further and offers translations of Wiligut's own writings.
Never heard of Peter Moon until now
He and Preston Nichols wrote a series of books on the Montauk Project, that also tie in Amado Crowley
The man who did actual graphics of the "Talisman" was none other than Hans Heinz Ewers,
Interesting! I know of Ewers but did not know that he was involved in the making of Nosferatu!
And yes you mixed up some details of his life with Otto Rahn's
@katrice Are you familiar with Dennis Wheatly's They Used Dark Forces: A Black Mgic Story. A tour de force of a W.W. 2 spy novel, the occult, and science Fiction. Now that's a basis for a movie.
@katrice Are you familiar with Dennis Wheatly's They Used Dark Forces: A Black Mgic Story. A tour de force of a W.W. 2 spy novel, the occult, and science Fiction. Now that's a basis for a movie.
I am! I have wondered why Hammer never made a movie of that one. I enjoyed their other ones, especially The Devil Rides Out, which was discussed here a while ago. Wheatley got a lot of his information from trickster magician Rollo Ahmed, whose book The Black Art is an entertaining read, if a little Montague Summers-ish.
I am! I have wondered why Hammer never made a movie of that one. I enjoyed their other ones, especially The Devil Rides Out, which was discussed here a while ago. Wheatley got a lot of his information from trickster magician Rollo Ahmed, whose book The Black Art is an entertaining read, if a little Montague Summers-ish.
AH! Rollo Ahmed raises his head again! I may have mentioned in earlier posts that his book, The Black Arts was the very first book on the occult I ever read, and it opened the flood gates of interest in all things Magical. Also, you mentioned Montague Summers. I think I owned almost every book he wrote. (Many hardbound and First Editions) The Geography of Witchcraft, The Vampire, His Kilth and Kin, The History of Witchcraft, the Werewolf, and of course, his translation of the Malleus Maleficarum. I loved the way he quoted huge passages in Latin, giving his work a sense of arcane and forbidden scholarship. Also, he is just plain entertaining. I agree, it would be great if Hammer Studios, or some enterprising independent film makers would do more Dennis Wheatley inspired movies. Sadly, movies today are mindless, PC, Corporate think crapola.
AH! Rollo Ahmed raises his head again! I may have mentioned in earlier posts that his book, The Black Arts was the very first book on the occult I ever read, and it opened the flood gates of interest in all things Magical. Also, you mentioned Montague Summers.
I do find Ahmed interesting, and entertaining too. He was a lot more influential than he's given credit for. Summers is extremely interesting and entertaining too.
I agree, it would be great if Hammer Studios, or some enterprising independent film makers would do more Dennis Wheatley inspired movies.
I would like to see more Wheatley adaptations. There are a few interesting "Black Magic" type movies out there, as mentioned earlier in this thread, but primary coming out of indie studios.
New trailer. And, perhaps, we can connect the bit about the importance of "how hard you believe" to "inflaming oneself in prayer." Either way, it's gonna be great fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaZ6HoDE-8Q
@kidneyhawk Maybe. I hope so for the fans of the whole Indiana Jones series, then again, it could just be an attempt to inject embalming fluid into a dead corpse of a franchise. Anyway, if Disney is behind it, I won't go see it. I refuse to support a corporation that has destroyed everything that was wholesome and good about Walt Disney.
destroyed everything that was wholesome and good about Walt Disney.
Here's how it Works ... Somebody does something neat, or under Will, or spectacular. It becomes popular. The Black Lodge then moves in. They buy, steal, infiltrate, or do the hostile-takeover maneuver. This may happen before or after the somebody's death - it doesn't matter.
What matters is: All "good" things get appropriated by the creeps you despise, and then they make profits while pushing their agenda.
@shiva I completely agree. In my opinion, Walt Disney was the greatest American Magus who ever lived. I once watched the Adventures of Mathamagic Land, it has an episode titled, The Magic of the Pentagram, it was the "golden angle" sought by ancient Greek Mathematicians. Crowley wrote a poem entitled The Pentagram. The Pentagram is essential to the operations of Magic(k) He who has ears to hear, let him hear. I am being a little tongue in cheek, but the synchronicity is undeniable.
What matters is: All "good" things get appropriated by the creeps you despise, and then they make profits while pushing their agenda.
The spectacle defuses rebellion by absorbing it, making it in to a commodity it, and reselling a diluted version if it.
Of course, this can be used as pressure to keep things fresh with new expressions of rebellion or new approaches to old ones.
In my opinion, Walt Disney was the greatest American Magus who ever lived.
He worked his Will, manifested his visions, and changed the world with them.