So, the following video on Marina Abramovic by Run2Christ was the starting point for this post: Satanism is now MAINSTREAM (2018)
In it he delves into the origins of spirit cooking - the Cake of Light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake_of_Light
Cake of Light is the eucharistic host found within Thelema, the religion founded by author and occultist Aleister Crowley in 1904. It contains honey, oil, and particular bodily fluids(menstrual blood, semen, etc.), and is usually cooked in the shape of a small, flat wafer. It appears by name in two important Thelemic rituals: the Gnostic Mass and the Mass of the Phoenix.
The overall significance of the cakes is that it is considered to be a eucharist, a symbolic union between the microcosm, Man, and the macrocosm, the Divine; and the consumption of which completes a sacred circle, affirming an intimate connection between the two, which strengthens with each sacrament.
The Cakes of Light, traditionally composed of meal, honey, leavings of red wine lees, oil of Abramelin, olive oil and fresh blood as per the instructions in The Book of the Law is a perfume or incense when raw but also a cake when baked ("burned").
Abramelin oil, also called Oil of Abramelin, is a ceremonial magic oil blended from aromatic plant materials. Its name came about due to its having been described in a medieval grimoire called The Book of Abramelin written by Abraham the Jew (presumed to have lived from c.1362–c.1458). The recipe is adapted from the Jewish Holy anointing oil of the Tanakh, which is described in the Book of Exodus (30:22-25) attributed to Moses.
There are multiple recipes in use today and the oil continues to be used in several modern occult traditions, particularly Thelema (created in 1904 by Crowley) and the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica.
At the bottom of the wiki 'Cake of Light' page one of the links to 'organizations' is to the Agape Lodge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agape_Lodge
The Agape Lodge was a California-based chapter of the Ordo Templi Orientis founded in 1935 by Wilfred Talbot Smith. Following World War II, it was the sole surviving O.T.O. organization.[1]
In 1942, jet fuel engineer Jack Parsons was appointed head of the lodge, and the organization was headquartered out of Parson's mansion in Pasadena. In 1946, Parsons lost a great deal of money in a business venture with L. Ron Hubbard and Sarah Northrup, resulting in him selling the mansion. In 1949, the Agape Lodge ceased to hold regular meetings.
So, it was with this lodge that we have the origins of Dianetics, Scientology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Still thinking along the lines of the connections between mysticism, magick, modern 'art' and entertainment, I was reminded of an Eighties music group that has many songs to do with the politics of the day and possibly intelligence connections and their song the Temple of Love (Agape is the Greek word for Love and temple is another word for lodge in freemasonry):
The Temple of Love by the Sisters of Mercy with Ofra Haza
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sisters_of_Mercy
Under the insistence of the record company the band re-recorded their early single "Temple of Love" with Ofra Haza on additional vocals
Ofra Haza
Bat-Sheva Ofra Haza-Ashkenazi was an Israeli singer, actress and Grammy Award-nominee recording artist, commonly known as "The Israeli Madonna", or "Madonna of the East".
Ofra Haza died on February 23, 2000, at the age of 42, of AIDS-related pneumonia. Her husband believed Haza became infected because of a blood transfusion she received in a hospital following a miscarriage.
Ofra Haza: Madonna of the dark soul
Ten years after her death, do her final recordings answer any questions?
The day Ofra Haza died was actually the second time Israel had been plunged into a state of mourning for her.
For many Israelis, it was hard to detect "God's will" in the manner of Haza's eventual passing. Ten years ago, the news that she had died, aged 42, as a result of Aids-related illness, belied everything Israel thought it knew about her. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, she was almost a wholesome mirror image of the kind of star Madonna was in the west. "She kept a clean image," remembers Isthar Ashdoth, a producer and musician who worked with her. "You never saw a picture of her with a man or any dirty gossip. For her, it was all about the voice."
This is where the story gets interesting: https://voat.co/v/pizzagatewhatever/2166923/10681678
Now, with great trepidation, I introduce Shimon Peres. It was Peres who invited Haza to sing at the signing of the Oslo Accord and at the Nobel Prize ceremony, during which he won a prize for "peace." Recalling that Peres was in charge of the Israeli atomic program during the days when the Yemenite children were kidnapped and turned into guinea pigs for atomic experiments, her appearance beside him was more than a little disconcerting.
We all believe she was deliberately infected with AIDS.
He took her everywhere. If Margaret Thatcher was in town, he'd bring her along to serenade her. I have a picture of that event. His affair with her began way before the 'peace' process. He saw her first movie, Ha Frekha, (The Tart), and he took a shine to her. Peres had a contact to the film's director, Pashanel, who died last year. He was Gideon Zinger. He's the father of Yoel Zinger, the lawyer who drew up the Declaration Of Principles with the PLO. That's how he got to meet Ofra. Peres is a serial cad, but at least he rewards his conquests with great careers. However, he really took advantage of her.
Jack Parsons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_(rocket_engineer)
After Hubbard and Sara defrauded him of his life savings, Parsons resigned from the O.T.O. and went through various jobs while acting as a consultant for the Israeli rocket program. Amid the climate of McCarthyism, he was accused of espionage and left unable to work in rocketry. In 1952 Parsons died at the age of 37 in a home laboratory explosion that attracted national media attention; the police ruled it an accident, but many associates suspected suicide or murder.
One of Cameron's friends, the artist Renate Druks, later stated her belief that Parsons had died in a rite designed to create a homunculus.
ALCHEMICAL HOMUNCULUS, THE MAN-MADE MAN - https://blabelalchemy.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/chymical-homunculus-the-man-made-man/
Homunculus means “little man” and is, like the Golem, an anthropomorphic creature fashioned by human hand. The difference between the two is that while the homunculus is a small but accurate representation of a human being – even with some mutilated fragment of soul – the Golem is but an unconscious robot performing any task its creator tells it without a sense of will and intelligence.
Transhumanism?
https://unwinnable.com/2013/01/17/homunculus/
another occultist named Paracelsus wrote more explicitly of the creation of a “chymicall homunculus”:
Let the semen of a man putrefy by itself in a sealed cucurbite [glass vessel] within the highest putrefaction of the venter equinus [horse manure] for 40 days… After this time it will be…like a human being, but, nevertheless, transparent and without body. If it is nourished with the arcanum of human blood…it becomes, thenceforth, a true and living infant, having all the members of a child that is born from a woman, but much smaller.
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letsdothis2 ago
WELL, WELL, WELL:
The Degrees of OTO - http://www.geocities.ws/nu_isis/degrees.html