The Hermetic Hour

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Tune in, turn on, and get magick with Poke Runyon, Archimage of the Ordo Templi Astartes. The O.T.A. is the oldest continually operating magical lodge in the US.

"Poke Runyon is the real deal ... an international magical treasure!" ~ Lon Milo DuQuette

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The Hermetic Hour episodes:

05.10.2024
The Tomb of Prester John Revisited
On Thursday February 3rd , 2022 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a dramatic reading of the first two chapters of his magical adventure novel “The Tomb of Prester John.” This is the second broadcast of the novel,...
05.03.2024
Salome: My First 2000 Years of Love
On Thursday May 2nd, 2024 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review the 1930 classic historical novel "Salome: My First 2000 years of Love", by George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge. This is the second of a three-decker...
04.26.2024
Aleister Crowley the Gourmet Chef
On Thursday January 13th, 2022 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review "Aleister Crowley in England" (2021) by Tobias Churton. This is the final part of Churton's serialized biography of The Great Beast, following on "The Beast in...
04.19.2024
"My First Two Thousand Years," by George Sylvester Viereck
On Thursday April 18th, 2024 -- The Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review the new publication of "My First Two Thousand Years" (1928) by George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge. This is a controversial but literary biography of...
04.12.2024
Lon DuQuette's Color It Yourself Tarot
On Thursday April 11th, 2024 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will have as his call in guest America's foremost ceremonial magician, Maestro Lon Milo DuQuette. The primary subject Lon will discuss is his latest project: a color it...
04.05.2024
The Tarot of Ceremonial Magick, New Edition with Lon DuQuette
The Hermetic Hour for Thursday December 12th, 2019 -- will feature a discussion and review of the new edition of The Tarot of Ceremonial Magick by Lon and Constance DuQuette which was first issued in 1995 along with the book of the...
03.29.2024
"Journey to The Castle" by Ann Finnin
On Thursday September 23rd, 2021, the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review Journey to the Castle (2021) by Ann Finnin who will join us on the show to guide us recalling her journey to find the roots of...
03.22.2024
Tartaria and the Legend of Prester John
On Thursday September 9th, 2021 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a discussion on the vast Central Asian kingdom of Tartaria and the medieval legend of Prester John, the mysterious Christian monarch who was said to have...
03.15.2024
Hermetics in a Futuristic Society
On Thursday August 26th, 2021, the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon, will explore the place of Hermetics and Hermetic Magicians in the coming Futurist society influenced and augmented by genetic engineering, nanotech, computer technology, artificial intelligence, and Clio-dynamics We...
03.08.2024
Jack Parsons, American Prophet -- Freedom Revisited
On Thursday August 19th the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present two Prophetic essays by American rocket scientist, magician and philosopher John Whiteside Parsons. Chapters Two and Three of "Freedom is a Two-Edged Sword taken from The Seventh...
03.01.2024
Memorial for Neo-Pagan Legend, Edward Sitch 1937 - 2024
On Thursday February 29th 2024, The Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will broadcast a memorial for Wiccan and Neo-Pagan elder Edward Sitch 1937 - 2024, with Pagan leaders and friends calling in sharing remembrances of Frater Ea and "Sitch...
02.23.2024
Magical Astrology from Ficino to Campanella with Michael Beeson
On Thursday August 5th, 2021 - the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a discussion on Magical (Electional) Astrology from Ficino to Campanella with Bishop Michael Beeson (V.H. Frater Suen). We will refer to D.P. Walker's book Demonic...
02.16.2024
The Ars Notoria
On Thursday July 8th, 2021, the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon and Very Honored Frater Suon will present a discussion on the Ars Notoria, a medieval Solomonic grimoire of prayers and meditations designed to assist in learning the Hermetic...
02.09.2024
Rosicrucian Corpus Christi Ceremony
On Thursday June 3rd, 2021 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a reading off the newly drafted Corpus Christi ceremony which will represent the Rosicrucian climax of the ancient pagan seasonal ceremony round. It will be performed...
02.01.2024
Feraferia's Enneasphere with Lady Jo Carson
On May 27th, 2021 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will have as honored guest Lady Jo Carson Avatrix of Feraferia who will discuss her restoration and fulfillment of Master Fred Adams cosmos encompassing mandala, the Enneasphere which incorporates...
01.26.2024
The Tomb of Prester John - The Saga Continues
On Thursday January 25th,2024 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will continue its periodic presentation of Poke Runyon's magical adventure novel: "The Tomb of Prester John" with a dramatic reading of Chapter's Seven and Eight: "The Revelations of Jezebel,...
01.19.2024
The Qabalah of Wizardry
On Thursday May 6th, 2021 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a revised chapter from the new edition of The Book of Solomon’s Magick, Chapter Five, the Qabalah of Wizardry. This revision is necessary because our version...
01.12.2024
Who Were the Three Initiates Who Wrote the Kybalion?
On Thursday January 11th the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will revisit the 1908 occult classic "The Kybalion" by Three Initiates and reveal just who those three initiates were. In 2008 Philip Deslippe issued the "Definitive Edition of the...
01.05.2024
Review of New Live Shows in 2023
On Thursday January 4th, 2024 Poke Runyon, host of the Hermetic Hour will review the eleven new live broadcasts we presented in 2023, starting with Letters on the Royal Art by J.B. Kerning on January 12th 2023 and ending with...
12.29.2023
Secrets of the First Conjuration of the Goetia
We have had a photocopy of a 300 year old magical manuscript in our archives for fifty years and have used it or research, study, rituals, and publications but until we began a serious study of Valentinian Gnosticism we had...
12.22.2023
Elizabethan Magick from Shakespeare to John Dee
In the Elizabethan period the Italian Renaissance came to England. Even though the English had broken with the Roman Church they were still following the Italians in astrology, philosophy, alchemy and Magick. During the reign of The Virgin Queen the...
12.15.2023
The Underground War and The Shaver Mystery
On Thursday March 4th, 2021 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a discussion on recent reports of an alleged underground war being waged by American special forces soldiers against a coalition of traitors and demonic aliens in...
12.08.2023
Al-Kindi's Theory of Stellar Rays
On Thursday February 4th, 2021 - the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a discussion on the 9th century Arab treatise on Stellar Rays by the Baghdad sage Abu Yusuf Al-Kindi. This work had a considerable influence on...
12.01.2023
The Outer Planets in Astrology and Magick
On Thursday January 21st, 2021 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon, Frater Thabion, will present a discussion on The Outer Planets in astrology and magick, joined by astrologer and occult author Ann Finnin, V.H. Soror Urania. As most of...
11.24.2023
Rivendell -- The House of Magick
On Thursday December 10th, 2020 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a report on Rivendell our Church and Order Headquarters in Silverado, California where we have our magical temple and outdoor Henge. Rivendell just survived its second...
11.17.2023
Renaissance Astrologer Guido Bonatti with Michael Beeson (rebroadcast)
On Thursday December 3rd, 2020 The Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will welcome V.H. Frater Suon, Michael Beeson, the host Wizard of YouTube and BitChute's "Hacking Fate" in a discussion of the 13th Century master astrologer Guido Bonatti and...
11.10.2023
The Seventh Ray Omnibus (rebroadcast)
We are finally going to publish the Seventh Ray Omnibus issue which we have been heralding for 20 years, reprinting the old journals from 1972 through 1978.The Seventh Ray, Book IV Omnibus Issue, The Violet Ray is a time capsule....
11.03.2023
"The Illustrated Goetia (2020)" with author Arundell Overman
On Thursday November 2nd, 2023 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review and discuss "The Illustrated Goetia (2020)" by Arundell Overman. The author will be our call in guest and we can guarantee a fascinating discussion that fans...
10.27.2023
Creative Freedom and Hermetic Philosophy (rebroadcast)
On Thursday September 10th, 2020 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present an essay on Creative Freedom and Hermetic Philosophy. We will discuss the nature of God in the Hermetic Corpus and the concept that all humans are...
10.20.2023
A Lost Chapter from the Book of Shamgar (rebroadcast)
On Thursday August 27th, the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a newly discovered lost chapter from the Book of Shamgar which describes how the Purple Dragon and the Prophet Bezek found the Stone Pillar of Jacob upon...
10.13.2023
"The Rose of Paracelsus" by Leonard Pickard (rebroadcast)
On Thursday August 6th, 2020 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a review of William Leonard Pickard’s magisterial novelized biography “The Rose of Paracelsus”(2019). This 650 page masterwork is already considered literature by the academic community. Like...
10.06.2023
An Astral Journey on the Soul Travel Boat (rebroadcast)
On Thursday July 2nd, 2020 - the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will reveal the lost Initiatory Scroll of the Soul Travel Boat written in the early days of the Order of the Temple of Astarte. This lost document...
09.29.2023
Hermetic Origins of the Sepher Yetzirah (rebroadcast)
On Thursday June 11th, 2020 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a discussion on the Pagan Hermetic origins of the Sepher Yetzirah. This ancient book is the Philosophical and mystical foundation of the Medieval Hebrew Kabbalah. And...
09.22.2023
The Twisted History of Christianity (rebroadcast)
On Thursday May 21st 2020 the Hermetic Hour, with host Poke Runyon will present a discussion on the Twisted History of Christianity. The general theme of this presentation is how the distortion of its original principles perverted its mission for...
09.15.2023
Doc Smith's Lensmen -- The Original Jedi (rebroadcast)
On Thursday April 30th, 2020 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a discussion and review of the 1934 to 1954 science-fiction Lensman series, by Edward Elmer Smith, PhD, a scientist in the food industry specializing in pastry,...
09.08.2023
The Grand Key of Solomon the King (rebroadcast)
On Thursday March 12th, 2020 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review and discuss "The Grand Key of Solomon the King" (2009) and other works translated by Mamdouh Al Daye otherwise known as Nineveh Shadrach. Nineveh is a Golden...
09.01.2023
Nan Madol Revisited with Lady Jo Carson
On Thursday August 31st the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon and his guest Lady Jo Carson of Feraferia will recall our adventures in our favorite Lemurian Jungle shrouded Lost City: Nan Madol -- way out in Pacific Micronesia. Lady...
08.25.2023
Poke Runyon interviews Thabion the Wizard
The Hermetic Hour for Thursday August 24th,2023 will feature a reading of the original introduction to the auto-biography of your host, Poke Runyon. This was a fictionalized version in which I, the fiction writer Poke Runyon interviews Thabion the Wizard....
08.18.2023
Enoch Adamson for President in 2024
On Thursday August 17th, 2023 we will announce and launch Enoch Adamson's candidacy for President in 2024 on the Hermetic Party ticket. His platform will be the same as it was when he ran in 2020 because the issues are...
08.11.2023
The Ideomotor Effect in Hermetic Magick (rebroadcast)
On Thursday February 27th, 2020 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a discussion of the mysterious Ideomotor effect which motivates such divinatory devices as the Ouiji Board, the Pendulum and the Golden Dawn Ring and Disc. It is also...
08.04.2023
The Lightning Flash and The Blasted Tower (rebroadcast)
On Thursday February 20th, 2020 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a lecture on the Lightning Flash or Flaming Sword on the Tree of Life and its relation to the Blasted Tower of the Tarot on the...
07.28.2023
Beginning Magical Training in the O.T.A. (rebroadcast)
On Thursday January 30th, 2020 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a discussion on the beginning of magical training which we sometimes call "Franz Bardon for Dummies". We will certainly concede our debt to Bardon, and to...
07.21.2023
Lucifer, the Cathars, and the Holy Grail (rebroadcast)
On January 16th, 2020 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a discussion on the controversial themes and symbols of the Medieval Holy Grail legend. We will first establish that the entire concept of “Lucifer the Light bringer”...
07.14.2023
"Aleister Crowley in India" by Tobias Churton (rebroadcast)
On Thursday November 21st. 2019 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review Tobias Churton's "Aleister Crowley in India." This is another in a series of books by Churton covering portions of Crowley's life and work, We have already...
07.07.2023
The Zero Lite and the "Bloody Mary" Evocation (rebroadcast)
On Thursday, November 7th, 2019 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a discussion on the scientific technology behind modern ceremonial magick and reveal for the first time a device he developed in the early 1970s for training...
06.30.2023
Enoch Adamson for President (rebroadcast)
On Thursday October 17th, 2019 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will announce and open Enoch Adamson's campaign for President of the United States. As the Hermetic Party candidate Adamson is uniquely qualified for the office, having mastered the...
06.23.2023
The Book of Abramelin - New Translation (rebroadcast)
On Thursday August 29th, 2919 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will review and discuss the new translation (2006) of the 15th century German Book of Abramelin attributed to Abraham von Worms, translated by Steven Guth and edited by...
06.16.2023
The Sibylline Oracles (rebroadcast)
On Thursday August 15th, 2019 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will present a discussion on the ancient "Sibylline Oracles" created, or re-created, in Greco-Roman Alexandria in the first centuries of the common era.These prophetic verses, attributed to the...
06.09.2023
"American Cosmic" by D. W. Pasulka (rebroadcast)
On Thursday July 18th, 2019 the Hermetic Hour will review and discuss "American Cosmic" by Diane Pasulka. Again our guest reviewer will be Frater Dumuzi. Diane Pasulka is a professor of religious studies and approaches the UFO phenomenon from her academic...
06.02.2023
Graham Hancock's "Magicians of the Gods"with Frater Dumuzi (rebroadcast)
On Thursday July 11th, 2019 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon and his colleague Frater Dumuzi will present a review and discussion of the recent Graham Hancock books Magicians of the Gods (2015) and America Before (2019). These works...

What's The Hermetic Hour about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Hermetic Hour episodes:

The Tomb of Prester John Revisited

Salome: My First 2000 Years of Love

Aleister Crowley the Gourmet Chef

"My First Two Thousand Years," by George Sylvester Viereck

Lon DuQuette's Color It Yourself Tarot

The Tarot of Ceremonial Magick, New Edition with Lon DuQuette

"Journey to The Castle" by Ann Finnin

Tartaria and the Legend of Prester John

Hermetics in a Futuristic Society

Jack Parsons, American Prophet -- Freedom Revisited

Memorial for Neo-Pagan Legend, Edward Sitch 1937 - 2024

Magical Astrology from Ficino to Campanella with Michael Beeson

The Ars Notoria

Rosicrucian Corpus Christi Ceremony

Feraferia's Enneasphere with Lady Jo Carson

The Tomb of Prester John - The Saga Continues

The Qabalah of Wizardry

Who Were the Three Initiates Who Wrote the Kybalion?

Review of New Live Shows in 2023

Secrets of the First Conjuration of the Goetia

Elizabethan Magick from Shakespeare to John Dee

The Underground War and The Shaver Mystery

Al-Kindi's Theory of Stellar Rays

The Outer Planets in Astrology and Magick

Rivendell -- The House of Magick

Renaissance Astrologer Guido Bonatti with Michael Beeson (rebroadcast)

The Seventh Ray Omnibus (rebroadcast)

"The Illustrated Goetia (2020)" with author Arundell Overman

Creative Freedom and Hermetic Philosophy (rebroadcast)

A Lost Chapter from the Book of Shamgar (rebroadcast)

"The Rose of Paracelsus" by Leonard Pickard (rebroadcast)

An Astral Journey on the Soul Travel Boat (rebroadcast)

Hermetic Origins of the Sepher Yetzirah (rebroadcast)

The Twisted History of Christianity (rebroadcast)

Doc Smith's Lensmen -- The Original Jedi (rebroadcast)

The Grand Key of Solomon the King (rebroadcast)

Nan Madol Revisited with Lady Jo Carson

Poke Runyon interviews Thabion the Wizard

Enoch Adamson for President in 2024

The Ideomotor Effect in Hermetic Magick (rebroadcast)

The Lightning Flash and The Blasted Tower (rebroadcast)

Beginning Magical Training in the O.T.A. (rebroadcast)

Lucifer, the Cathars, and the Holy Grail (rebroadcast)

"Aleister Crowley in India" by Tobias Churton (rebroadcast)

The Zero Lite and the "Bloody Mary" Evocation (rebroadcast)

Enoch Adamson for President (rebroadcast)

The Book of Abramelin - New Translation (rebroadcast)

The Sibylline Oracles (rebroadcast)

"American Cosmic" by D. W. Pasulka (rebroadcast)

Graham Hancock's "Magicians of the Gods"with Frater Dumuzi (rebroadcast)

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