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Samuel Mathers is Bane, not Wolverine.
People Mentioned:
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
H. P. Blavatsky
William Wynn Westcott
Aleister Crowley
John Dee
Edward Kelly
A. E. Waite
Erich Fromm and Wilhelm Reich
References:
Douglas Haig, the Battle of the Somme, and Séances
"On 20th September 1906, Haig attended a séance with his sister Henrietta where he sought advice as to whether the expansion of the Territorial Army would be more satisfactory on a company or battalions basis. He was advised by the spiritualist a Miss McCreadie to adopt the former rather than the latter. Apparently, when Ms McCreadie gave this advice she was under the control of a native girl called ‘Sunshine’, who had Napoleon by her side. Haig must have found this circumstance most reassuring."
Kant's Hilariously Stupid Anthropology of Blackness
Crowley Getting Kicked Down the Stairs by W. B. Yeats
Victorian Mummy Powder
Mahayana Buddhism
Lawrence v. Texas (2003) Last Repeal of Anti-Sodomy Law in America
The "Lost" Language of Senzar (Blavatsky)
Master Hilarion (Also Blavatsky)
Nazis Using Pendulums to (Not) Find British Ships
Out of their depth. By 1942, British Navy vessels had begun to shift the tide in the Atlantic battlefront, sinking more German U-boats than Hitler’s army could Allied submarines. Scientific progress proved a major factor in Allied dominance, with the development of Radar and Sonar technology significantly upping the odds of locating German vessels in deep water. But Germany Navy officials had a different strategy in mind: U-boat captain Hans Roeder convinced colleagues in arms the British were using pendulums to predict their boats’ location underwater. As an amateur pendulum dowser himself, the enterprising captain established the Pendulum Institute to pinpoint British ships, enlisting pendulum dowsers and occultists from across the country and tasking them with applying their clairvoyant powers to search for British vessels. Results were, unsurprisingly, not altogether successful.
Books Mentioned:
Perdurabo by Richard Kaczynski
The Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune
The Key to Theosophy by H. P. Blavatsky
John Dee and the Empire of Angels by Jason Louv
The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie
A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry By A. E. Waite
Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm
The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with a Commentary by Sri Swami Satchidanada
Aleister Crowley:
Liber 777
Eight Lectures on Yoga
Konx Om Pax - Light in Extension
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Samuel Mathers is Bane, not Wolverine.
People Mentioned:
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
H. P. Blavatsky
William Wynn Westcott
Aleister Crowley
John Dee
Edward Kelly
A. E. Waite
Erich Fromm and Wilhelm Reich
References:
Douglas Haig, the Battle of the Somme, and Séances
"On 20th September 1906, Haig attended a séance with his sister Henrietta where he sought advice as to whether the expansion of the Territorial Army would be more satisfactory on a company or battalions basis. He was advised by the spiritualist a Miss McCreadie to adopt the former rather than the latter. Apparently, when Ms McCreadie gave this advice she was under the control of a native girl called ‘Sunshine’, who had Napoleon by her side. Haig must have found this circumstance most reassuring."
Kant's Hilariously Stupid Anthropology of Blackness
Crowley Getting Kicked Down the Stairs by W. B. Yeats
Victorian Mummy Powder
Mahayana Buddhism
Lawrence v. Texas (2003) Last Repeal of Anti-Sodomy Law in America
The "Lost" Language of Senzar (Blavatsky)
Master Hilarion (Also Blavatsky)
Nazis Using Pendulums to (Not) Find British Ships
Out of their depth. By 1942, British Navy vessels had begun to shift the tide in the Atlantic battlefront, sinking more German U-boats than Hitler’s army could Allied submarines. Scientific progress proved a major factor in Allied dominance, with the development of Radar and Sonar technology significantly upping the odds of locating German vessels in deep water. But Germany Navy officials had a different strategy in mind: U-boat captain Hans Roeder convinced colleagues in arms the British were using pendulums to predict their boats’ location underwater. As an amateur pendulum dowser himself, the enterprising captain established the Pendulum Institute to pinpoint British ships, enlisting pendulum dowsers and occultists from across the country and tasking them with applying their clairvoyant powers to search for British vessels. Results were, unsurprisingly, not altogether successful.
Books Mentioned:
Perdurabo by Richard Kaczynski
The Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune
The Key to Theosophy by H. P. Blavatsky
John Dee and the Empire of Angels by Jason Louv
The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie
A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry By A. E. Waite
Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm
The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with a Commentary by Sri Swami Satchidanada
Aleister Crowley:
Liber 777
Eight Lectures on Yoga
Konx Om Pax - Light in Extension
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