Tag: ritual
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John Dee Painting Originally Had Circle of Human Skulls, X-Ray Imaging Reveals
John Dee was an eminent Elizabethan mathematician and astrologer. A painting of him has turned out to have a circle of skulls while he is performing an experiment for the Queen.
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They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside
from Wired.com: The master wears an amulet with a blue eye in the center. Before him, a candidate kneels in the candlelit room, surrounded by microscopes and surgical implements. The year is roughly 1746. The initiation has begun. The master places a piece of paper in front of the candidate and orders him to put…
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The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
from historytoday.com: Twenty-first century Britain is a society in which the fascination with the ‘occult’ is flourishing. Paul Kléber Monod’s new book seeks to illuminate one phase of the convoluted history of this phenomenon: its fate and fortunes during the long 18th century. The period 1650-1815 is synonymous with the onward march of scientific reason…
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Occult Death Series: Whitney Houston
Public events with occult overtones like Madonna’s 2012 Super Bowl halftime performance, resembling more an occult ceremony than anything, makes revisiting – celebrity deaths – imperative. How much does a person need to be slapped before rousing from the Matrix? An occult agenda intrudes upon our lives – their ceremonies out in the public now…
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P.B. Randolph: Sexual Magick in the 19th Century
from Hermetic.com: Paschal Beverly Randolph (October 8, 1825 – July 29, 1875) was an American medical doctor, occultist, spiritualist, trance medium, and writer. Randolph is notable as perhaps the first person to introduce the principles of sex magic to North America, and, according to A.E. White, establishing the earliest known Rosicrucian order in the United States. Excerpt…
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Princess Diana’s Death and Memorial: The Occult Meaning
Why did Elton John dub Lady Di ‘England’s Rose’? Was it because she was beautiful or because the rose has a deep occult meaning?
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2012 Olympics Death Ritual: Bell, Book and Candle
Occult researcher, Bob Schlenker spots another ritual at the 2012 Olympics! In Part 12, “2012 London Olympics – Death Rituals: A ‘Bell, Book and Candle’ Mega-Ritual on the BBC,” Schlenker sees only sinister symbolism. Bell, Book and Candle, is an excommunication ritual, practiced at one time in Roman Catholic Church. An implement used in witchcraft,…
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German Court Outlaws Ritual Circumcision
The district court of Cologne ruled this week that religious circumcision of a child is harmful and that a parent’s jurisdiction over his child does not extend to the practice of circumcision.
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US Eagle Center Struggles to Supply Birds for American Indian Rituals
Eagles are sacrosanct for many tribes, and Wiist and his colleagues at the National Eagle Repository provide them with feathers, wings and talons – and in some cases whole carcasses – for religious rituals. But the Indians’ demand outstrips the repository’s supply.
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Ancient Chinese Graveyard Ritual Goes Online
from kotaku.com: Tomb-sweeping is usually a very somber affair, usually. Now in a surge to promote eco-friendly “burials” and body disposals, China has gamified the tradition. Due to growing concerns about property ownership (you can only own land for 70 years in China) to the cost of funeral plots, China has been urging its people…
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Fetuses Destined for Santeria Ritual Confiscated at Miami Airport
Mail Online article reports, “two human fetuses that were to be used in a ‘religious ceremony’ were found in luggage coming from Cuba by customs agents at Miami International Airport, according to police.” Two women reported sixty to seventy years old, were taken into custody by Customs when X-Ray of Jar revealed a fetus. A…