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Enigmatic_Continuum ago

What was the original Hellfire Club like?

Meetings would be held twice a year. Invitations were sent by the Prior and costumes were required to be worn by attendees. These meetings were recorded in 1779 in a book called Nocturnal Revels.

Every member attending would be allowed to eat well and enjoy the company of “cheerful ladies of lively dispositions”. Sex and wine certainly seem to have been a major part of the rituals – even the landscape was sexualized.

The gardens included a Temple of Venus and Parlour of Venus as well as statues of Pan and Priapus – perfect for a club dedicated to divine procreation.

Who were the original members and what were they like?

Members included the notorious John Wilkes, whose political spat with fellow monk, and founding member, the Earl of Sandwich (yes, that was a real guy), would expose the activities of the club to censure and cement its notoriety in the public imagination, Benjamin Franklin, founding father of the USA and fan of the madness inducing glass harmonica, Chevalier D’Eon the sexually ambiguous cross-dressing French Spy, and George Selwyn the eighteenth centuries own necrophiliac ‘gentleman sadist’, to name but a few.

https://historyhustle.com/the-hellfire-club/ Modern Spinoffs of the Hellfire Club:

BRYAN SINGER attempted to pay homage to the HELLFIRE CLUB associated with MARVEL COMICS.

When Fox revealed the Hellfire Club premise a year or so ago, the pitch was focused on a young special agent tracking a woman with mutant powers in the 1960s. The mystery woman would've been involved with a secret society of millionaires intent on world domination. http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/what-happened-to-the-hellfire-club-tv-series-the-gifted-happened

Marvel Comics Hellfire Club http://marvel.com/comics/characters/1009340/hellfire_club

The Sydney Hellfire Club (NSFW) https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/376774579/the-sydney-hellfire-club/?hl=en

The_Real_Wahrheit ago

Not sure if it is relevant, but one of the most dangerous areas in the Ypres salient in WWI Belgium was called "Hellfire Corner".

Enigmatic_Continuum ago

Interesting! It very well might be related because it appears that the Hellfire club spread its tentacles into other countries.

The_Real_Wahrheit ago

And while it wasn't this Hellfire Corner, what a strange coincidence. Tunnels!

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/5822161

Enigmatic_Continuum ago

Oh, good find! Was this what the movie 'Dunkirk' was about? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5013056/

I never saw the movie, and if it is related to Hellfire Corner, I'm wondering if the tunnels were mentioned or casually ignored.

The_Real_Wahrheit ago

Not real sure about the flick but it does look like it was related to Dunkirk.

Enigmatic_Continuum ago

This is a good article about Dunkirk's history. Those tunnels are much older than WWII!

In the Second World War, atop Dover’s famous chalk cliffs, the medieval castle was the tip of the sword with which the country kept Nazi Germany at bay. For hidden in the bomb-proof tunnels beneath the ramparts was the control centre of defensive operations in the English Channel.

Deep in the tunnels – which date from the Napoleonic era –

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/dunkirk-77-years-army-signaller-remembers-operation-dynamo/

Dover Castle would be a good place to start a search to see who used the tunnels originally and what they did with them.

The_Real_Wahrheit ago

I'm wondering if Crowley and Chuchill were there.

Enigmatic_Continuum ago

Haven't found anything about them being visitors, but I'm still digging.

This article says they were converted and made radiation proof later on, and now they're just a tourist attraction. Although I wonder if parts of the tunnels are off limits. https://beyondcanvey.wordpress.com/historic-locations/kent/dover-castle/

This article says there's paranormal activity in the tunnels, but doesn't go into detail. http://www.ghost-story.co.uk/index.php/top-10-paranormal/391-the-top-10-most-haunted-castles-in-the-uk

Enigmatic_Continuum ago

Wow. You're a great digger!

The saxon church has an altar painting showing the only picture of lucifer complete with genitilia that I have seen in an English church.

The_Real_Wahrheit ago

Cheers for that, you too!

Not sure where this detour left us but Hellfire Corner appears to be ancient, elite (British class system issues) and with luciferian and tunnel ties.

The_Real_Wahrheit ago

Crowley books were published by at least 2 publishers: 1)Dover and 2)Castle.

Enigmatic_Continuum ago

Absolutely, and it is most likely more proof about how far this artery in Dublin extends.

Not sure if this is also part of it...

Soon realising it was an old church, Gloria found it laid out as a Satanic temple with a pagan alter and anti-Christian symbols.

"This annoyed me intensely," Bob recalled.

"I've been a Christian all my life and wasn't putting up with this on my patch.

"That very afternoon, I cleared all their rubbish out and burnt what I could."

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/524854/Lost-church-rescued-from-Satanists-saviour-Bob

The_Real_Wahrheit ago

This is the WWI Ypres version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKTRk7lrm7c

The_Real_Wahrheit ago

It was a British zone so I'm sure there were Irish soldiers there too.