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Occultists, Freemasons, And The Secret History of Radical Islam
Aleister Crowley in a Turban. In 1910, the English occultist, Freemason, and poet, Aleister Crowley, published a strange and now little-known work called The Scented Garden of Abdullah: The Satirist of...
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Tantra, Martial Arts, and The Metaphysics of Pain
From the the Christian image of the crucifixion to statues of a skeletal Buddha, pain and suffering, and pushing beyond them, have been perennial themes in religion and spirituality. Both in the East...
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Islam, Freemasonry, and Revolution: A Podcast at Occult of Personality
From the middle of the 19th century, Islam and Freemasonry came to be connected in strange but significant ways that, ultimately, helped shape the world we are living in today. Prominent Muslims that...
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M.I.A.’s Kung Fu Fighting
Featuring the controversial and highly-talented British rapper and artist M.I.A., Gener8ion has just released “The New International Sound Pt. II,” from a four-track EP. While I like the song a lot,...
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The History of Hippies, Yoga, and Vegetarianism
If you think you know the history of the Hippie movement, Yoga or vegetarianism in the West, and you haven’t read Gordon Kennedy’s Children of the Sun, think again. Packed with photos the late 19th...
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Initiation, Individuality, and the Alchemy of Danger
Danger, and an appreciation of one’s mortality, is of importance for most spiritual traditions, from Freemasonry to the Zen-informed worldview of the Japanese Samurai. In the Masonic Ritual, we find,...
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When I first became interested in esotericism and what was then called "alternative spirituality," I frequently heard the phrase "the alchemical transformation of the body." The post Forging the...
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