Darkness Visible, The Elizabethans, Part III
One thread connecting Renaissance magic with our own New Age magic is the belief in secret brotherhoods and utopian societies ruled by adepts in Hermetic magic, such as the lost continent of Atlantis.
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Wednesday’s Child: A Broken Home
Whatever Tolstoy may have opined, unhappy families are also all alike, at any rate all those that produce violent criminals.
Paper Moon White House
For days I have been haunted by the idea that Donald Trump, especially in his most recent incarnation as buffoon-in-chief, reminds me of someone.
View From England: “Don’t think you have, mate”
I was reminded of the power of ideology this week watching footage released by the police concerning the murder of the teenager Henry Nowak in the English port city of Southampton
I was reminded of the power of ideology this week watching footage released by the police concerning the murder of the teenager Henry Nowak in the English port city of Southampton
Darkness Visible: Elizabethan Black Magic, Part I
The men of the English Renaissance prided themselves on their rationality and their freedom from the barbarous superstitions of the Middle Ages
Darkness Visiible: Newton 3
The great English writers of the Elizabethan era and the 17th century owed a great deal to the Renascence of classical learning, which had taken place in Italy. One aspect of this Renaissance, however, involved an attempt to revive ancient paganism or rather anti-Christian neo-paganism.
Darkness Visible: Newton, part 2
Isaac Newton was deservedly knighted for his great accomplishments, but it is a mistake to minimize either his occult interests or his bad character.
Pope Leo and a Particular Issue
It is a peculiar feature of our culture that those outside the Catholic Church often appear acutely aware of the Church’s negative prescriptions on sexuality, if not the positive message they serve. Yet such matters are rarely mentioned in sermons at mass, to which the Church hopes eventually to welcome those currently outside it.
It is a peculiar feature of our culture that those outside the Catholic Church often appear acutely aware of the Church’s negative prescriptions on sexuality, if not the positive message they serve. Yet such matters are rarely mentioned in sermons at mass, to which the Church hopes eventually to welcome those currently outside it.
Dead Monkeys and the Living God
Sir Elton John has said that he would like to “ban religion completely” because it stirs up “hatred toward gay people.” Sir Elton probably does not hate all religion. Like so many giants of the entertainment industry, Elton John does not hate religion per se but only Christianity.
Read Along With Us
I am having to reread a lot of Victorian literature for this year’s Sumer School. If anyone wishes to join me, we can have some brief discussions. I am starting with Trollope’s rather dark novel, The Way We Live Now.
