ANGELA'S SYMPOSIUM 📖 Academic Study on Witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, magick and the Occult

By Dr Angela PucaReligion & Spirituality

ANGELA'S SYMPOSIUM 📖 Academic Study on Witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, magick and the Occult episodes

October 05, 2025 Paimon Explained: From Ancient Grimoires to Modern Occultism
This video explores the fascinating figure of Paimon, one of the most prominent kings of the Goetia, tracing his journey from early modern demonological catalogues to his reinvention in contemporary occultism and popular culture. We will examine how his image shifts across grimoires, from Johann Weyer’s Pseudomonarchia Daemonum to the Ars Goetia, and how his regal yet ambiguous traits became symbols of hidden wisdom, exotic authority, and intellectual mastery. The talk also considers Aleister Crowley’s psychological reinterpretation, the adaptations within Left-Hand Path traditions, and the transformation of Paimon into a mentor-like figure in modern demonolatry. Finally, we look at his unexpected entry into mainstream media through Ari Aster’s Hereditary and his reimagining in gaming and internet culture. Paimon’s enduring appeal lies not in stability but in continual reinvention, making him a key case study in the dynamics of Western esotericism.

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Agrippa, H. C. (1992). Three books of occult philosophy (J. Freake, Trans.; D. Tyson, Ed.). St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications. Original work published 1533.Church,D. (2020). Post-Horror: Art, Genre and Cultural Elevation. United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
Asprem, E. (2014). The problem of disenchantment: Scientific naturalism and esoteric discourse, 1900–1939. Leiden: Brill.
Asprem, E. (2021). The occult among us: Esotericism in the mirror of contemporary culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Aster, A. (Director). (2018). Hereditary [Film]. A24.
Carroll, P. J. (1987). Liber Null and Psychonaut. York Beach, ME: Weiser.
Clark, S. (1997). Thinking with demons: The idea of witchcraft in early modern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Connolly, S. (2010). The complete book of demonolatry. Tempe, AZ: DB Publishing.
Crowley, A. (1973). Liber ABA: Book four, parts I–IV. Weiser. Original work published 1909.
Crowley, A., & Mathers, S. L. M. (1976). The Goetia: The lesser key of Solomon the King. Samuel Weiser. Original work published 1904.
Davies, O. (2009). Grimoires: A history of magic books. Oxford University Press.
Gilbert, R. A. (1983). The Golden Dawn: Twilight of the magicians. : Aquarian Press.
Granholm, K. (2016). Dark enlightenment: The historical, sociological, and discursive contexts of contemporary esoteric magic. Leiden: Brill.
Hine, P. (1995). Condensed chaos: An introduction to chaos magic. Weiser.
Howe, E. (1972). The magicians of the Golden Dawn: A documentary history of a magical order, 1887–1923. Routledge & Kegan Paul
Karlsson, T. (2004). Qabalah, Qliphoth and Goetic magic. Ouroboros.
Karnowska, M. (2011). Magician means philosopher: Magic of Giordano Bruno. Studies in history and philosophy of science Part C: Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences, 42(3), 449–456.
Kieckhefer, R. (1997). Forbidden rites: A necromancer’s manual of the fifteenth century. Pennsylvania State University Press.
Peterson, J. H. (Ed.). (2001). The lesser key of Solomon: Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis. Weiser Books.

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September 28, 2025 Universal Divine or Cultural Construct? Perennialism vs Constructivism
Is there such a thing as a universal human experience of the divine, or are all encounters shaped by culture, language, and power? In this video, we explore the classic debate between perennialism and constructivism, from William James and Mircea Eliade to Steven Katz, Talal Asad, and beyond. Drawing on philosophy, anthropology, psychology, and neuroscience, we look at how claims of universality are entangled with history and how particular traditions cultivate what we call “religious experience.”

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Asad, T. (1993). Genealogies of religion: Discipline and reasons of power in Christianity and Islam. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Beauregard, M., & Paquette, V. (2006). Neural correlates of a mystical experience in Carmelite nuns. Neuroscience Letters, 405(3), 186–190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2006.06.060
Boyer, P. (2001). Religion explained: The evolutionary origins of religious thought. Basic Books.
d’Aquili, E., & Newberg, A. (1993). Religious and mystical states: A neuropsychological model. Zygon, 28(2), 177–200. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.1993.tb00918.x
d’Aquili, E., & Newberg, A. (1999). The mystical mind: Probing the biology of religious experience. Fortress Press.
Eliade, M. (1958). Patterns in comparative religion. Sheed & Ward.
Forman, R. K. C. (1990). The problem of pure consciousness: Mysticism and philosophy. Philosophy East and West, 40(4), 463–483. https://doi.org/10.2307/1399452
Forman, R. K. C. (1999). Mysticism, mind, consciousness. State University of New York Press.
Fuller, C. J. (1992). The camphor flame: Popular Hinduism and society in India. Princeton University Press.
Hood, R. W., Jr. (1975). The construction and preliminary validation of a measure of reported mystical experience. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 14(1), 29–41. https://doi.org/10.2307/1384454
Hood, R. W., Jr., Hill, P. C., & Spilka, B. (2001). The psychology of religion: An empirical approach (4th ed.). Guilford Press.
Hori, V. S. (1999). Teaching and learning in the Rinzai Zen monastery. Journal of Japanese Studies, 25(1), 5–39. https://doi.org/10.2307/133231
Humphrey, C., & Laidlaw, J. (1994). The archetypal actions of ritual: A theory of ritual illustrated by the Jain rite of worship. Clarendon Press.
James, W. (1902). The varieties of religious experience: A study in human nature. Longmans, Green.
Katz, S. T. (Ed.). (1978). Mysticism and philosophical analysis. Oxford University Press.
Keane, W. (2007). Christian moderns: Freedom and fetish in the mission encounter. University of California Press.
Luhrmann, T. M. (2012). When God talks back: Understanding the American evangelical relationship with God. Knopf.
Mahmood, S. (2005). Politics of piety: The Islamic revival and the feminist subject. Princeton University Press.
Meyer, B. (2009). Aesthetic formations: Media, religion and the senses. Palgrave Macmillan.
Meyer, B. (2011). Mediation and the genesis of presence. In D. Morgan (Ed.), Religion and material culture (pp. 84–102). Routledge.

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September 21, 2025 Why Science Can’t Prove Magic
In this episode, we explore the complex and often uneasy relationship between science and magic. Rather than asking whether magic is "real," we examine why scientific methods struggle to capture the essence of magical practices, and whether such validation is even desirable. From questions of measurement and philosophy to issues of cultural autonomy and demystification, this lecture reveals why attempts to prove magic scientifically may risk stripping it of its meaning, depth, and sacredness. Drawing on anthropology, history, and esotericism, we invite reflection on the value of magic beyond the lens of science.

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September 14, 2025 How Americans Reinvented Italian Witchcraft
What happens when Italian folk traditions cross the Atlantic? This video explores how Italian witchcraft, especially the healing practice of Segnature, has been reimagined, reinvented, and often misrepresented in the United States. From Leland’s Aradia to Wicca-inspired “Stregheria,” we’ll look at how Italian-American communities blended folklore, Catholic devotion, and Pagan spirituality to create new forms of practice. But are these the same as the vernacular traditions in Italy, or something entirely different?

This video is a recording of the paper I presented at the World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, held at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

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Cox, J. L. (2007). From primitive to indigenous: The academic study of indigenous religions. Ashgate.
De Martino, E. (1961). Sud e magia. Feltrinelli.
Hall, S. (1990). Cultural identity and diaspora. In J. Rutherford (Ed.), Identity: Community, culture, difference (pp. 222–237). Lawrence & Wishart.
Hobsbawm, E., & Ranger, T. (Eds.). (1983). The invention of tradition. Cambridge University Press.
Leland, C. G. (1899). Aradia, or the gospel of the witches. David Nutt.
Magliocco, S. (2004). Witching culture: Folklore and neo-paganism in America. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Magliocco, S. (2009). Italian American stregheria and Wicca: Ethnic ambivalence in American neopaganism. In M. F. Strmiska (Ed.), Modern paganism in world cultures: Comparative perspectives (pp. 55–86). ABC-CLIO.
Magliocco, S. (2026, forthcoming). Wicca alla marinara: La stregoneria neopagana italiana nella diaspora nordamericana. In M. Castagnetto Alessio, S. Palmisano, & N. Pannofino (Eds.), Rinascite pagane: Una religione dall'età della ragione alla postmodernità (pp. 45–67). Mondadori.
Owen, S. (2011). The appropriation of Native American spirituality. Continuum.
Pike, S. M. (2001). Earthly bodies, magical selves: Contemporary pagans and the search for community. University of California Press.

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August 31, 2025 Temple of Set: Diabolicon, Xeper, and the Path of Separation
Explore the teachings of the Temple of Set, one of the most influential yet misunderstood esoteric movements of the modern era. From Michael A. Aquino’s Diabolicon to the mysterious Leviathan Working, this lecture uncovers the philosophy of Xeper (self-becoming), the myth of Lucifer/Set, and the Temple’s quest for self-deification. Drawing on peer-reviewed scholarship and rare sources, we trace how Setianism reshaped the Left-Hand Path and challenged mainstream ideas of religion, magic, and identity.

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Dyrendal, A., Lewis, J. R., & Petersen, J. A. (2016). The invention of Satanism. Oxford University Press.
Flowers, S. E. (1999). Order of Leviathan papers. Privately circulated manuscript.
Granholm, K. (2012). The Left-Hand Path and post-Satanism: The example of the Temple of Set. In P. Faxneld & J. A. Petersen (Eds.), The devil's party: Satanism in modernity (pp. 209-228). Oxford University Press.
Granholm, K. (2014). Dark enlightenment: The historical, sociological, and discursive contexts of contemporary esoteric Satanism. Åbo Akademi University Press.
Petersen, J. A. (2012). The seeds of Satan: Conceptions of magic in contemporary Satanism. Aries, 12(1), 91-129.
Schipper, B. U. (2014). Ancient Egypt and modern occultism: Trajectories of religion from the pyramids to pyramidology. In A. B. Kilcher & P. Theisohn (Eds.), Die Enzyklopädik der Esoterik (pp. 413-431). Wilhelm Fink.
van Luijk, R. (2016). Children of Lucifer: The origins of modern religious Satanism. Oxford University Press.
Webb, D. (2004). Uncle Setnakt's essential guide to the Left Hand Path. Rûna-Raven Press.
Wimbush, V. L. (2015). Scripturalizing the Human: The Written as the Political.(2015). Taylor & Francis.

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August 24, 2025 The Vision and The Voice by Aleister Crowley explained
In this video, I explore Aleister Crowley’s The Vision and the Voice and why it remains one of the most powerful and unsettling texts in the Western esoteric tradition. I look at how the figure of Babalon emerges as both a theophany and a ritual of unmaking, and how this visionary work challenges our assumptions about magic, subjectivity, and divine encounter. I also trace the shifting image of Lilith, from biblical warning to occult icon, focusing on her reimagining in modern esotericism through figures like Kenneth Grant and the rise of feminist magical traditions. If you're interested in Thelema, mysticism, or the deeper currents behind the archetypes of the divine feminine, this lecture offers a chance to descend into the Aethyrs and return transformed.

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Agamben, G. (2009). The signature of all things: On method (L. D'Isanto with K. Attell, Trans.). Zone Books. (Original work published 2008)
Asprem, E. (2012). Arguing with angels: Enochian magic and modern occulture. State University of New York Press.
Crowley, A. (1998). The Vision and the Voice with commentary and other papers: The collected diaries of Aleister Crowley, volume II (1909–1914) (Vol. IV, No. 2 of The Equinox). S. Weiser.
Kripal, J. J. (2001). Roads of excess, palaces of wisdom: Eroticism and reflexivity in the study of mysticism. University of Chicago Press.
McGinn, B. (1998).The foundations of mysticism: Origins to the fifth century (Vol. 1 ofThe presence of God: A history of Western Christian mysticism). Crossroad Publishing Company.
Yates, F. A. (1964). The occult philosophy in the Elizabethan age. Routledge & Kegan Paul.

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August 15, 2025 Enochian Magic in Modern Occultism: From Dee to Chaos Magick and Beyond
What do angels, secret languages, and occult orders have in common? Enochian magic. In this episode, we trace its evolution from John Dee’s apocalyptic visions in Elizabethan England to the ritual systems of the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley’s initiatory drama, and its surprising reinventions in contemporary occultism—from chaos magic to digital ritual tech. Drawing on original sources and modern scholarship, this deep dive explores how a forgotten angelic language became one of the most enduring and mysterious magical systems in the Western tradition.

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Asprem, E. (2020). Enochian magic and modern occulture. Palgrave Macmillan.
Odeberg, H. (1928). 3 Enoch, or, The Hebrew Book of Enoch (Introduction, translation, and commentary). Cambridge University Press.
Peterson, J. H. (Ed.). (2003). John Dee’s five books of mystery: Original sourcebook of Enochian magic. Weiser Books.
Skinner, S. (Ed.). (2011). Dr. John Dee’s spiritual diaries (1583–1608). Golden Hoard Press.
Szőnyi, G. E. (2004). John Dee’s occultism: Magical exaltation through powerful signs. SUNY Press.

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August 10, 2025 Saint Cyprian’s Grimoire: Necromancy and Forbidden Magic
Who was Saint Cyprian: a holy bishop, a legendary sorcerer, or both? In this video, I explore the enigmatic figure of Saint Cyprian through the lens of history, folk magic, and grimoire traditions. Drawing on academic sources and rare magical texts, we trace the evolution of his legend from early Christian writings to the Black Books of Norway, the Clavis Inferni, and Latin American necromantic practices. Discover how this patron saint of cunning folk became a master of crossroads magic, feared and venerated by magicians across the centuries.

Based on peer-reviewed research and archival sources, this episode delves into the living tradition of Cyprianic magic, its dangers, ethics, and the enduring power of his mysterious book.

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August 03, 2025 Why Your Support Matters
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July 29, 2025 Lammas and Lughnasadh: The Real History
What do bread blessings, hilltop fairs, and a Celtic god of light have in common? In this video, I explore the real history of Lammas and Lughnasadh, the first harvest festival in the Pagan Wheel of the Year. Drawing on peer-reviewed scholarship and historical sources, I trace the festival’s roots in ancient Celtic rites, its Christian transformation into Loaf Mass, and its creative revival in modern Paganism. Join me as I unpack the myths, magic, and meanings behind this rich seasonal tradition.

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Danaher, K. (1972). The year in Ireland: Irish calendar customs. Cork: Mercier Press.
Hobsbawm, E., & Ranger, T. (Eds.). (1983). The invention of tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hutton, R. (1996). The stations of the sun: A history of the ritual year in Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
MacNeill, M. (1962). The festival of Lughnasa: A study of the survival of the Celtic festival of the beginning of harvest. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ó hÓgáin, D. (2002). The Celts: A history. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.
Pearson, J. (2007). Wicca and the Christian heritage: Ritual, sex and magic. London: Routledge.
York, M. (2003). Pagan theology: Paganism as a world religion. New York: NYU Press.

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About ANGELA'S SYMPOSIUM 📖 Academic Study on Witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, magick and the Occult

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As an academic and university lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies, I'll share peer-reviewed research on MAGIC, ESOTERICISM, WITCHCRAFT, PAGANISM, SHAMANISM and related currents.