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ESOTERICshade ago

The scene in question—Butler's latest and most grandiose display—was a public performance of Aleister Crowley's The Bartzabel Working. Based on techniques of evocation found in medieval grimoires, the ritual was written in 1910 and designed to manifest Bartzabel, a traditional spirit of Mars in Western occultism, through a hooded person placed in a magical triangle. The crowd, which packed the gallery's courtyard, was the largest ever assembled to witness a Crowleyan rite.

The satanic cult workings is known by its adherents as "The Old Time Religion" or The Old Religion" and dates at least back to Babylon and the Canaanites/Phoenicians and farther back than that.

UlyssesEMcGill ago

Do you have other sources?

ESOTERICshade ago

Check Jordon Maxwell. I think he explains the Old Time Religion too.

Forgetmenot ago

The movie: "Oh brother where art thou" uses the reference old time religion. A lot. There is also references to selling your soul to the devil.

ESOTERICshade ago

The movie: "Oh brother where art thou"

I absolutely love that movie!