Hello Seekers!
Welcome back to the 3rd installment of our ongoing Occult Objects: Where Are They Now? mini-series!
When we talk about the history of the occult, we're almost always talking about the people: charismatic cult leaders, philosophers, and (of course) Aliester Crowley. But everyone eventually passes on and, when that happens, the real physical anchors left behind are the objects: personal paperwork, ritual altars and cherished trinkets.
In today's episode, I am tracking the "paper trail" across the globe and asking one simple question: Where did it all go?
Inside OSP: Where Are They Now - Ep. 3, I cover:
- The Babalon Papers: How Jack Parsons' explosove rocket science and ritual magic with L. Ron Hubbard ended up split between high-security Texas archives and locked O.T.O. vaults.
- The Relics of Anton LaVey's Black House: What happened to the taxidermied wolves, Baphomet sigils and altar pieces after the wrecking ball hit 6114 California Street?
- The 2,000 Spoon Cadillac: Uri Geller's wild metallic art car and where it sits parked today.
- Edison's Spirit Phone: The real life glass vacuum tubes and lab notebooks from America's greatest inventor sitting in federal archives and waiting for the right necromatic schematics to come along.
As always, thank you all so much for getting weird with me today and enjoy the show!