ANGELA'S SYMPOSIUM ๐Ÿ“– Academic Study on Witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, magick and the Occult

ANGELA'S SYMPOSIUM ๐Ÿ“– Academic Study on Witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, magick and the Occult

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  • Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck - History & Meaning

    #tarot #riderwaite #tarotcard


    Academic overview of the history, meaning and impact of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck.


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    REFERENCES

    Denisoff, D. (2017) Pamela Colman Smith, symbolism and spiritual synaesthesia. In: The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875โ€“1947. Routledge.

    Farley, H. (2009) A Cultural History of Tarot: From Entertainment to Esotericism. London, I B Tauris & Co Ltd.

    Gilbert, R.A. (1987) A.E.Waite: Magician of Many Parts. First Edition. Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, Aquarian Press.



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  • From Tantra to Sex Magic - Tantrism in Western Esotericism

    #tantra #thelema #sexmagic


    Academic history of tantric rituals in the occult. Tantra explained. From Paschal Beverly Randolph and his sexual practices derived from the Sufis to Aleister Crowley, the OTO and Kenneth Grant. We explore the interpretations of the left-hand path of Indian Tantra in the European and American esoteric milieu.



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    Urban, H.B. (2006) Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism. 1st edition. Berkeley, Calif, University of California Press.

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    Urban, H.B. (2003) Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion. Berkeley, University of California Press.

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    White, D.G.G. (2006) Kiss of the Yogini: โ€˜Tantric Sexโ€™ in its South Asian Contexts. New edition. Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Press.

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    White, M.H. (2020) The Eloquent Blood: The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism. Illustrated edition. New York, NY, Oxford University Press.

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  • World Druidry with Dr Larisa A White

    #druidry #druid #international

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    00:00:00 Intro to World Druidry with Dr Larisa White

    00:01:55 What is Druidry? What Druids do and believe

    00:15:54 Beliefs in Afterlife, Reincarnation, Meaning of Life

    00:21:39 Druids practice other Religions alongside Druidry

    00:25:59 Animism, Spirits, Soft & Hard Polytheism

    00:29:00 Is Druidry a form of Paganism?

    00:32:02 Defining Paganism

    00:36:00 Use of Magic in Paganism and Druidry

    00:42:20 Druidry across the World

    00:47:30 Methodology of the Survey

    01:00:16 Study and Initiation in Druidry (Andrew Reitemeyer)

    01:02:30 Indigeneity of Druidry



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  • History of TAROT. From Game to Divination

    #tarot #history #divination


    Academic overview of the origin of the Tarot, from the Arabic origin and first emergence in Italy in the fifteenth century to the evolution in a divinatory esoteric tool in eighteenth-century France. Mentioned along the process: the Visconti-Sforza deck, Tarot de Marseille, Book of Thoth, ร‰liphas Lรฉvi, Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley, A. E. Waite,


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    Farley, H. (2009) A Cultural History of Tarot: From Entertainment to Esotericism. London, I B Tauris.


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  • LEVIATHAN - Demonology, Satanism, Dragon Rouge

    #leviathan #satanism #dragonrouge


    What is the Leviathan? The sea dragon or snake of chaos. Academic overview from Mesopotamian mythology to the Demonizing operated by magicians and witches. Esoteric interpretations in Western Esotericism, Left-Hand Path, Rituals & symbols in Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible and Dragon Rouge.


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    REFERENCES

    Primary Sources

    Agrippa, H.C. (2015) Three Books of Occult Philosophy. 1st edition. A Yesterdayโ€™s World Publishing.

    Barrett, F. (2010) The Magus a Complete System of Occult Philosophy. Kessinger Publishing.

    Lovecraft, H.P. (2002) The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. London, Penguin Classics.

    Milton, J. (2005) Paradise Lost. 1st Edition. Oxfordโ€ฏ; New York, Oxford University Press.

    Simeon, A.B. (2011) The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage. Martino Fine Books.


    Secondary Sources

    Day, J. (1985) Godโ€™s Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea: Echoes of a Canaanite Myth in the Old Testament. Cambridge Cambridgeshireโ€ฏ; New York, Cambridge University Press.

    Fenton, M.C. (2005) Satanโ€™s Hope Abounding in โ€˜Paradise Lostโ€™. CEA Critic, 68 (1/2), pp.47โ€“59.

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

    Levack, B.P. (2014) The Horrors of Witchcraft and Demonic Possession. Social Research, 81 (4), pp.921โ€“939.

    Toorn, K. van der, Horst, P.W. van der & Becking, P.D.B. eds. (1998) Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible: Second Extensively Revised Edition. 2nd Revised edition. Leidenโ€ฏ; Bostonโ€ฏ: Grand Rapids, Mich, Brill.

    Wazana, N. (2009) Anzu and Ziz: Great Mythical Birds in Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Rabbinic Traditions. Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, 31 (1), p.2460.


    00:00 Introduction: Leviathan origins

    01:18 Etymology of the name

    02:25 Leviathan in the Bible

    05:45 Developed in the Middle Ages

    07:36 Refined in literature

    08:47 In modern Satanism and Left-Hand path traditions

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  • Conspiracy Theories & Magical Thinking with Dr David Robertson

    #conspiracy #magick #witchcraft


    Conspiracies, Esotericism and the Occult. Similarities and differences. We mention here UFOs, esoteric traditions, magick, Paganism, misconceptions about rationality and the myth of an opposing science-based dominant culture.


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    00:00 Intro to Dr David Robertson

    00:03:05 Parallels Magic & Conspiracy theories

    00:08:25 Perennialism & Holism

    00:11:11 Rejected Stigmatized Knowledge

    00:16:10 Rationality and Rational Beliefs, Concepts, Behaviour

    00:19:20 Disconnection from Dominant Worldview

    00:27:10 Evidence of Dangerous Practices

    00:28:30 Esotericism: Occultists and engagement with Conspiracies

    00:33:50 The survival of magic

    00:36:50 Scientific Thought is not dominant

    00:38:25 Belief-making, knowledge and behaviour

    00:47:25 Who stigmatizes ideas and beliefs

    00:49:42 Cults, indoctrination and dangers (Nick Tillman)

    00:55:46 Paganism, New Age & Conspiracies (Andrew Reitemeyer)

    01:00:25 Starseeds, Indigo Children, UFO (Andrew Reitemeyer)

    01:03:49 Politicians as Mythical figures (Alejandro Veintimilla)

    01:07:56 Gnostic tribes and the Vatican (Alejandro Veintimilla)

    01:11:16 Differentiation between the Magick and Schizoid Disorders (David Kirby)


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  • Arthur Edward Waite - History and Biography

    #waite #crowley #magick


    Waite is known for the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck but his impact on Western esotericism looms larger than that. Here we talk about Waite's life, view of magic, Christian mysticism. His involvement with the Golden Dawn, Freemasonry, Kabbalah, Martinism and the feud with Aleister Crowley.


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    REFERENCES

    Crowley, A. (1971) Moonchild, New impression edition., New York, Red Wheel/Weiser.

    Gilbert, R. A. (1983) A E Waite A Bibliography, First Edition., The Aquarian Press.

    Gilbert, R. A. (1986) โ€˜The Masonic Career of A. E. Waiteโ€™, Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, vol. 99.

    Gilbert, R. A. (1987) A.E.Waite: Magician of Many Parts, First Edition., Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, Aquarian Press.

    Waite, A. E. (2010) Shadows of Life and Thought, Kessinger Publishing.


    00:00 Introduction: Methodology

    02:25 Author and translator

    03:46 Early life and interest in the occult

    05:34 Occult societies

    07:48 Aleister Crowley

    10:50 The Tarot deck

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  • Magic in Paganism, Wicca, Druidry with Prof Ronald Hutton

    #paganism #magic #witchcraft


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    00:00:00 Prof Hutton on Witchcraft in Paganism

    00:02:37 The Role of Magic in Paganism

    00:05:20 Magic and Modernity

    00:07:38 Difference Magic and Witchcraft

    00:09:20 The Four Definitions of Witch

    00:12:30 Paganism in Italy, Britain and America

    00:14:40 Magic to โ€˜Otherโ€™, oppositions to Witchcraft

    00:16:32 Why is magic so feared?

    00:18:25 Why Witchcraft always survives

    00:20:12 Natural Magic and the Interconnection of Things

    00:22:30 High Magic, Ceremonial Magic

    00:23:45 Academic Concept of Magic versus What Practitioners think

    00:31:00 Religiosity of Magic

    00:34:20 The Scholarly Study of Magic, Attacks and Disagreements

    00:36:10 Recommendations for Early-career scholars

    00:43:20 Pantheism in Paganism (Wodenborn)

    00:45:45 Is Magic practised more for religion or for results? (Wodenborn)

    00:47:16 The Influence Academics play in (re)shaping Paganism (Dr Justin Sledge)

    00:53:35 The Future of Pagan Studies, Social Media, Online Data (Andrew Reitemeyer)

    00:58:26 A 'fetch' in systems of magic (Sean O'Flaherty)

    01:01:50 Personal Final Remarks


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  • Romanticizing Satan & Modern Satanism

    #satan #devil #lucifer


    Where did the idea of Satan as a hero of freedom and passionate lover emerge? Lucifer or the Devil is seen as a misunderstood fallen angel, in art and poetry from Romanticism up until the rise of Contemporary Satanism.


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    Luijk, R. van (2016) Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism, Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press.


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    00:00 Introduction: Romanticising of Lucifer

    01:26 The devil a Christian invention

    04:29 The romantic Satan

    05:39 The rebellious champion

    07:03 The rise of modern Satanism

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  • History of FLORALIA & Parallels with Beltane and May Day

    #flora #roman #paganism


    Are the Ludi Florales the origin of May Day or Beltaine? Goddess Flora, Chloris, Lupercalia and Parilia. Roman Festivals of fertility, sex and lust.



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    00:00 Introduction: The Roman festival of Floralia

    02:53 Methodology

    04:49 Public & private festivals in ancient Rome

    06:43 The nature of Roman deities

    08:40 The Roman calendar

    10:22 Floralia or Ludi Florales

    13:10 A parody of circus games

    15:49 The role of prostitutes

    19:36 Was Flora a goddess?

    25:40 Are there connections to Mayday and Beltane?

    29:29 Support Angelaโ€™s Symposium



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