400 years ago, a brazenly braggadocious begging ‘bedlamite’ possibly penned a poem so incantatorily-poignant, so wonder-woundedly-written, so symmetrically and cognitively bruising, that it demands to be memorized and chanted aloud. Let's dive into the song of Tom O'Bedlam.
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Tom O'Bedlam's Song
I. From the hag and hungry goblin
That into rags would rend ye,
The spirit that stands by the naked man
In the Book of Moons defend ye,
That of your five sound senses
You never be forsaken,
Nor wander from your selves with Tom Abroad to beg your bacon,
While I do sing, Any food, any feeding,
Feeding, drink, or clothing;
Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
Poor Tom will injure nothing.

II.
Of thirty bare years have I
Twice twenty been enragèd,
And of forty been three times fifteen
In durance soundly cagèd
On the lordly lofts of Bedlam,
With stubble soft and dainty,
Brave bracelets strong, sweet whips ding-dong,
With wholesome hunger plenty,
And now I sing, Any food, any feeding,
Feeding, drink, or clothing;
Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
Poor Tom will injure nothing.

III.
With a thought I took for Maudlin
And a cruse of cockle pottage,
With a thing thus tall, sky bless you all,
I befell into this dotage.
I slept not since the Conquest,
Till then I never wakèd,
Till the roguish boy of love where I lay
Me found and stript me nakèd.
And now I sing, Any food, any feeding,
Feeding, drink, or clothing;
Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
Poor Tom will injure nothing.

IV.
When I short have shorn my sow's face
And swigged my horny barrel,
In an oaken inn I pound my skin
As a suit of gilt apparel;
The moon's my constant mistress,
And the lowly owl my marrow;
The flaming drake and the night crow make
Me music to my sorrow.
While I do sing, Any food, any feeding,
Feeding, drink, or clothing;
 Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
Poor Tom will injure nothing.

V.
The palsy plagues my pulses
When I prig your pigs or pullen,
Your culvers take, or matchless make
Your Chanticleer or Sullen.
When I want provant with Humphrey
I sup, and when benighted,
I repose in Paul's with waking souls
Yet never am affrighted.
But I do sing, Any food, any feeding,
Feeding, drink, or clothing;
Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
Poor Tom will injure nothing.

VI. I know more than Apollo,
For oft, when he lies sleeping
I see the stars at bloody wars
In the wounded welkin weeping;
The moon embrace her shepherd,
And the Queen of Love her warrior,
While the first doth horn the star of morn,
And the next the heavenly Farrier.
While I do sing, Any food, any feeding,
Feeding, drink, or clothing;
Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
Poor Tom will injure nothing.

VII. The gypsies, Snap and Pedro,
Are none of Tom's comradoes,
The punk I scorn and the cutpurse sworn,
And the roaring boy's bravadoes.
The meek, the white, the gentle
Me handle, touch, and spare not;
But those that cross Tom Rynosseros
Do what the panther dare not.
Although I sing, Any food, any feeding,
Feeding, drink, or clothing; Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
Poor Tom will injure nothing.

VIII.
With a host of furious fancies
Whereof I am commander,
With a burning spear and a horse of air,
To the wilderness I wander.
By a knight of ghosts and shadows
I summoned am to tourney
Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end:
Methinks it is no journey.
Yet will I sing, Any food, any feeding,
Feeding, drink, or clothing;
Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
Poor Tom will injure nothing.
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08:18 Verse II.
11:04 Verse III.
12:31 Verse IV.
14:48 verse V.
17:00 Verse VI.
19:23 Verse VII.
22:38 Verse VII.
25:29 Concluding Thoughts

Carroll "Poke" Runyon founded the Ordo Templi Astartes in 1970, which is now America’s oldest continually operating ritual magick lodge. Poke is joined by OTA senior member Maximilian Raphael Paul, and film director (and composer) Johnny Royal, to talk about ‘American Magick’ a four-part television miniseries directed by Royal that unveils the OTA and Church of the Hermetic Sciences, following modern members through a powerful journey toward enlightenment. 
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How is Kabbalah dynamic and fluid? Why should we STOP treating Agrippa’s writings like a pick-and-choose-magical-buffet, and instead as a system of spiritual illumination? What is Merkavah Mysticism? Dr. Justin Sledge - scholar, author, professor and proprietor of the ESOTERICA YouTube channel - shares about his latest research, insights into academic scholarship and answers your Glitch Bottle Patreon questions!
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20:36 Destroying the  “Fossils are Safe” mentality
29:22 Kabbalistic ‘Tree of Life’
49:29 Hermetic view of afterlife
59:40 Amulet protection in Judaism
1:08:31 Top book recommendations
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Who is Mithras, and what were the Mythraic Mysteries practiced thousands of years ago? How was the cult organized? What role did Orphic metaphysics and architecture play in communicating its mysteries? Peter Mark Adams - author, poet and essayist specialising in the ethnography and visuality of ritual, sacred landscape, esotericism, consciousness and healing - shares about his latest tome: Ritual & Epiphany in the Mysteries of Mithras. The Secret Cult of Saturn in Imperial Rome, answers your Patreon supporter questions and more!
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Why should we challenge the assumption that the Greek magical text, the Hygromanteia, is really the source of the Key of Solomon? Why is Frankenstein’s Monster a better way to look at the collection of ‘Solomonic’ manuscripts? What is a ‘Solomonic network’ with ‘genes’, ‘nodes’ and ‘clusters’? Dr. Gal Sofer - scholar, medical doctor and translator - discusses his first book, Solomonic Magic: Methodology, Texts, and Histories (Brill 2025), answers your Patreon supporter questions and more!
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8:52 Deep Manuscript Interest
12:23 Genes, Nodes and Clusters
27:46 SSM and Manuscript Evolution
35:36 Role of Scribes in Narrative!
46:54 Liber Bileth Analysis
1:13:44 Key of Solomon Analysis
1:40:36 Ḥover Ḥaver and Babylonian Talmud
2:06:15 Hygromanteia Analysis
2:58:59 Future Work and Projects

What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Akin - Catholic theologian, philosopher, author and host of ‘Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World’ - goes deep into magic, theology, testing spirits, near-death-experiences, answers questions from Patrons and more!
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What *actually* makes exorcisms effective? What are demons? What is the Catholic teaching on magic, grimoires and spirit summoning? Jimmy Akin - Catholic theologian, philosopher, author and host of ‘Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World’ - goes deep into magic, theology, testing spirits, near-death-experiences, answers questions from Patrons and more!
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*St. Thomas Aquinas and the Occult - https://sqpn.com/2020/06/st-thomas-aquinas-and-the-occult/ 
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4:08 What are demons?
16:13 What is possession?
20:37 What is an exorcist?
25:25 Different schools of exorcism
40:18 Imprecatory vs Deprecatory prayers
43:04 Thinking systematically about magic
47:53 Ancient, Medieval Magical Practices
53:30 Spell for a Good Singing Voice!
1:03:11 The Wise Men and Following a Star
1:22:51 Catechism on Magic
1:27:58 Curiosity vs Studiousness?
1:35:24 'Clerical Underworld' 
1:52:58 Thoughts on the Supernatural

Why is invoking directional winds vital in ceremonial magic? Who is the Shekinah, and why is calling this powerful feminine presence actually encrypted in the Solomonic tradition? David Rankine - author, esoteric researcher and magician - shares about his upcoming tome from Hadean Press - Claves Spirituum: Expanding the Horizons of Grimoire Conjuration. 
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54:03 Updated Magical Circles
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What does the Twelver Shi‘i Hadith tradition say about jinn, astrology, angels and necromancy? Dr. Amina Inloes -  scholar, researcher, educator, public speaker, and translator with a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter - returns on the podcast to go deep into the Shi‘i hadith corpus!
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What is reverse divination? How do minerals, oils, and pigments reflect the deep alchemical process encrypted in painting? Amelia Passer - multidisciplinary artist, astrologer, and practitioner - shares about her creation process and her unique tarot deck composed of talismanic oil paintings called the Astro Magician’s Tarot which is currently live via Kickstarter!
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