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(f)Uncanny
Listened to BBC Uncanny 3 part Summer special today, sublime. Goosebumps guaranteed once per episode. Recommend enjoying with curtains drawn and a single candle burning. You’ll find podcasts with deeper dives, better production values, more banter etc but for sheer narrative force, Uncanny tops the pile. Plus, refreshing British matter-of-factness lends credence to more absurd…
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The Spagyrical Revival
Ken Grant, Crowley et al, while tapped into a so-called magickal stellar current conducted rituals whose operations effectively laid down red carpets, ports of earth entry for misshapen forms from beyond the course of the zodiac. In the wake of OTO and affiliate lodge workings, an already porous reality was left riddled with entity-sized holes.…
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Ben Without Bull
Doesn’t add much but an obelisk’s tip symbolically represents benben, a primeval mound which rose flarelike from oceans of ever-enfolding chaos to became the first habitable land. In certain versions of this cosmogony, a ‘great god’ or ‘father god’ uses the terra firma as a foothold for the construction of the cosmos, and amidst waves…
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The Maid and the Menace
Would recommend anyone read J.K. Huysmans book La Bas, a slab of French decadence with prose purpler than a Roman Emperor’s cloak sporting a black eye, drinking Ribena. Book concerns one man’s attempt to construct a biography of holy heretic and reputed serial child murderer Gilles De Rais, Joan of Arc’s closest general and friend…
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