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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.

cthulian_axioms ago

Holy fuck. Which link is that from?

a public performance of Aleister Crowley's The Bartzabel Working

OK, in order to illustrate how fucking bad of an idea someone doing that is, let me tell you a story.

In January-March 1946 (also in Los Angeles, strangely enough), rocket scientist and practicing occultist Jack Parsons, along with L. Ron Hubbard, performed a series of Crowleyan rituals called the "Babalon Working". Cite. Crowley himself told Parsons not to perform the ritual, but they went ahead and did it anyway. They didn't summon Babalon. They summoned Xenu.

Buttfuckmebigfoot ago

Goddammit this sounds like something out of a palahniuk novel. This info dump is super useful