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RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

- Per Faxneld. Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017 https://amzn.to/3ARvyAV

- Per Faxneld & Joan Nilsson (eds.). Satanism: A Reader, Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press.

- Per Faxneld & Jesper Aa. Petersen. The Devil’s Party: Satanism in Modernity, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. https://amzn.to/3TlUd7N

- Per Faxneld. “Bleed for the Devil: Ritualized Self-Harm as Transgressive Practice in Contemporary Satanism, and the Re-enchantement of Late Modernity”, Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2015, pp. 165–196.

- Per Faxneld. “Secret Lineages and De Facto Satanists: Anton LaVey’s Use of Esoteric Tradition”, in: Egil Asprem & Kennet Granholm (eds.), Contemporary Esotericism, London: Equinox, 2013, pp. 72–90.

- Per Faxneld. “Intuitive, Receptive, Dark: Negotiations of Femininity in the Contemporary Satanic and Left-Hand Path Milieu”, International Journal for the Study of New Religions, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2013.

- Per Faxneld. ”The Devil is Red: Socialist Satanism in the Nineteenth Century”, Numen: International Review for the History of Religions, Vol. 60, No. 5, 2013.

- Per Faxneld. “Blavatsky the Satanist: Luciferianism in Theosophy, and its Feminist Implications”, Temenos: Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion, Vol. 48. No. 2, 2012

- Per Faxneld. ”Feminist Vampires and the Romantic Satanist Tradition of Counter-readings”, in: Gabriela Madlo & Andrea Ruthven (eds.), Woman as Angel, Woman as Evil: Interrogating Boundaries, Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2012, pp. 55–75.

- Per Faxneld. “The Strange Case of Ben Kadosh: A Luciferian Pamphlet from 1906 and Its Current Renaissance”, Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2011.

- Per Faxneld. ”Satan as the Liberator of Woman in Four Gothic Novels, 1786–1820”, in: Maria Barrett (ed.), Grotesque Femininities: Evil, Women and the Feminine, Oxford: Inter- Disciplinary Press, 2010, pp. 27–40.

00:00:00 Intro to Dr Per Faxneld

00:02:06 What is satanism?

00:04:21 Cultural evolution of Satan, Lucifer, Devil

00:12:28 Early History of Satanism

00:18:05 Theistic and Atheistic Satanism

00:19:57 Satanism & the Left-Hand Path

00:24:17 Contemporary Forms of Satanism

00:26:35 Is Satanism linked to Christianity?

00:29:35 Difference between Lucifer, Satan and the Devil

00:32:49 Luciferian Witchcraft

00:41:31 Bonus content!

00:47:37 Outro

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Who is the Devil today? How has Satan become the good guy? a Hero of freedom, sexual liberation, and secular rights?

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REFERENCES

Granholm, K. (2014) Dark Enlightenment: The Historical, Sociological, and Discursive Contexts of Contemporary Esoteric Magic, BRILL.

Faxneld, P., Petersen, J. A. (2020), The Devil's Party: Satanism In Modernity, Oxford University Press.

Petersen, J. A. (2016) Contemporary Religious Satanism: A Critical Anthology, Routledge.

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#hecate #hekate #witchcraft

How do practitioners worship or work with Hekate? Jason Miller, Sorita D'Este, the Covenant of Hekate and Witchtok.

Paper delivered at the Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions, 2022, University College Cork.

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00:00 Introduction: Acknowledgements and methodology

02:10 Who was Hecate in history?

03:39 What modern authors say

06:11 In pop culture

11:17 The Goddess of Witchcraft and Magic

11:50 The dark side and Lucifer

14:38 Survey results

15:09 Hard vs Soft Polytheism

16:39 Historical knowledge vs experiential relationship

17:29 Linked to Magic and Shadow Work

18:30 Respondents opinions

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#hecate #hekate #paganism

Who is the Greek Goddess Hekate?

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REFERENCES

Clay, J.S., (1984). The Hecate of the Theogony. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 25(1), pp.27-38.

Henrichs, A. (2015) 'Hecate', in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.2957.

00:00 Introduction: Popular among Magic Practitioners, who is Hecate?

01:18 At first harmless later regarded as sinister

03:16 Forms of worship varied by place

05:42 The crossroads

07:17 Neoplatonist view of Hecate

07:56 The trimorphic Goddess

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#crowley #thelema #magick

Aleister Crowley and the psychological naturalistic explanation of the reality of magical entities, demons, spirits and occult phenomena.

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Pasi, M. 2012. Varieties of Magical Experience: Aleister Crowley’s Views on Occult Practice In: H. Bogdan and M. P. Starr, eds. Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism. Oxford University Press, pp.53–88.

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History of Rosicrucianism. Rosicrucian Fellowship, Lectorium Rosicrucianum, AMORC and other influential orders

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REFERENCE

Introvigne, M. 2006. Rosicrucianism III: 19th-20th Century In: W. J. Hanegraaff, ed. Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism. Leiden, London: Brill, pp.1018–1020.

FURTHER READINGS

McIntosh, C. 1992. The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason: Eighteenth-Century Rosicrucianism in Central Europe and its Relationship to the Enlightenment. Leiden ; New York: Brill.

Yates, F. 2015. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment 2nd edition. Routledge.

00:00 Introduction: Modern Rosicrucianism

01:20 European societies

04:21 Rosicrucianism in the US

05:34 The Netherlands and WWII and after

09:12 Three largest societies

12:50 AMORC structure & initiation

15:03 International spread

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Does Wicca come from Thelema? What was the relationship between Aleister Crowley and Gerald Gardner and how did that influence the Wiccan tradition?

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Hutton, R. (2012) Crowley and Wicca. In: H. Bogdan & M. P. Starr eds. Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism. 285-306, Oxford University Press.

00:00 Introduction: Did Crowley play a part in the birth of Wicca?

00:36 Ronald Hutton

01:00 Gardner & Crowley meetings

02:56 Crowley’s death

05:01 Gardner leaves the OTO

06:01 Crowley’s reason for not becoming a witch

07:33 The Minimalist Position

08:21 The Maximalist Position

08:46 Summary

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Who is Aleister Crowley and what is Thelema? Crowley's contribution to Western Esotericism, Wicca, Eclectic Witchcraft, Chaos Magick and more.

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Bogdan, H. & Starr, M.P. eds. (2012) Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism. Oxford University Press.

00:00 Introduction: The Wickedest Man alive

01:39 A harbinger of modernity

03:06 The Book of the Law

04:02 Crowley’s early life

04:50 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

06:52 Thelema & The A∴A∴

07:51 The Ordo Templi Orientis

08:10 Travels and obscurity

09:59 Crowley’s legacy

13:41 Magick is for all

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#naturalmagic #demonicmagic #witchcraft

Were all forms of magic forbidden in the Middle Ages?

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REFERENCE

Forshaw, P.J. 2016. The Occult Middle Ages In: C. Partridge, ed. The Occult World. London: Routledge, pp.34–48.

00:00 Introduction: Magic in Medieval times

00:13 How was magic defined?

00:49 The concept of natural magic

01:47 Natural magic as practical natural philosophy

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#pagan #paganism #polytheism

What are the different polytheistic views of the deities in Paganism? How do Pagans worship the God and the Goddess? Heathenry, Druidry, Wicca, Polytheistic Reconstructionism and eclectic Pagan witchcraft and how they work with the divine,

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REFERENCES

Calico, J.F. 2018. Being Viking: Heathenism in Contemporary America. Bristol: Equinox Publishing Ltd.

Harvey, G. 2000. Contemporary Paganism: Listening People, Speaking Earth. NYU Press.

Harvey, G. 2004. The Paganism Reader 1st edition. (C. Clifton, ed.). London ; New York: Routledge.

Hutton, R. 1995. The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft New Ed edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.

Pizza, M. and Lewis, J.R. (eds.). 2009. Handbook of Contemporary Paganism. Leiden-Boston: Brill.

York, M. 2005. Pagan Theology: Paganism as a World Religion. New York: New York University Press.

00:00 Introduction: What is Polytheism?

01:10 Variety in Paganism

02:22 Methodology

03:20 Wicca

04:58 Reconstructionism

06:44 Soft Polytheism

09:02 Hard Polytheism

11:17 Perennialism

12:46 Platonism

15:05 Summary

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