In this episode I am once again joined by Lionel Snell, a contemporary English magician, publisher, and, under various pen names such as Ramsey Dukes, a renowned author on magic and philosophy.

Lionel explores the idea that people, societies, and even cultures cycle through 4 distinct phases with profound affects. Lionel traces the history of the last hundreds and even thousands of years and identifies the emergence of these phases with periods of religious fervour, scientific progress, magickal revivals, and artistic eruption.

Lionel explains the similarities and differences between magick and art, the archetypes of the feminine, and the fear of the free woman.

Lionel also provides analysis of our current time, reveals how finding the Trickster can unravel polarised and dualistic thinking, and how a deep understanding of the occult can be noted in leading political and cultural figures.

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Video version: https://www.guruviking.com/podcast/ep219-cycles-of-the-occult-ramsey-dukes-2

Also available on Youtube, iTunes, & Spotify – search ‘Guru Viking Podcast’.

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Topics Include:

00:00 - Intro

01:08 - Cycles and modes of thought and culture

03:52 - Cycles vs linear time

05:38 - Suspicion of thinking in cycles

07:01 - Time of magickal revival

08:47 - The art movements of the 1920s and the 1980s

11:31 - Cycles of Ramsey’s life

12:40 - Why magick emerges from science and religion

14:55 - Magick vs art

16:52 - The miracle of the axial age

18:29 - Magickal revival in the early ADs and the rise of alchemy

20:34 - The silent art of Greek medicine (ἰατρική)

22:40 - Ramsey on astrology

23:41 - Process of Pluto into Capricorn

26:01- Pluto into Aquarius and corrosion of democracy

27:24 - Danger of the free female

29:01 - Shadow projection onto the individual

31:50 - Social media, war, and the shadows of Aquarius

36:42 - Egregores and the power of othering

41:50 - God, Devil, Trickster

43:14 - Archetypes of the feminine

46:04 - Transcending duality

47:00 - The rich-poor cycle

51:49 - Political polarisation and spotting the trick

56:38 - Using polarity to act on the world

01:00:08 - The terror of the linear view

01:06:44 - Do politicians use magick to influence world events?

01:11:44 - Did Trump study the occult?

01:12:36 - Ramsey on the Illuminati

01:14:41 - Rosicrucianism, fact of fiction?

01:18:23 - Interactions between personal and societal cycles

01:27:09 - The skeptical movement and chaos magick

01:30:08 - Using cycles to inspire and infuriate

01:38:18 - How to work with cycles as an individual

01:44:00 - Addendum: What might the future hold?

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Previous episode with Ramsey Dukes:

- https://www.guruviking.com/podcast/ep209-the-english-magician-ramsay-dukes

To find out more about Ramsey Dukes, visit:

- https://ramseydukes.co.uk/

- https://www.youtube.com/@RamseyDukes

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- https://www.guruviking.com

Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James