In my last video, I looked at some graffiti inside the Subterranean Chamber of Great Pyramid of Egypt, which looked to have an esoteric meaning mentioning a High Priest and High Priestess, Atlantis, Apollonius of Tyana, Apollo as well as other words I couldn’t make it.

It was scrawled above the entrance to the chamber in March 1905 and one of the video comments said: “In my opinion, this could well be the handy work of Aleister Crowley, as he was in the Great Pyramid around this time, and performed rituals there.” Many other viewers made similar claims.

The timing did seem about right and I knew that Aleister Crowley did go to Egypt some time after the turn of the 20th century, so this led me on another short research project. Could this writing actually be the handiwork of a man once called the “wickedest man in the world”?

In this video, we take a look at the life of Aleister Crowley and we specifically take a detailed look at his night inside the Great Pyramid of Egypt on November 22nd 1903, on his honeymoon with his new bridge Rose Edith Crowley (nee Kelly).

Sources:
The Book of Goetia:  The Book of Goetia of Solomon the King
Preliminary Invocation of the Goetia:  5-03 The Bornless Ritual
Confessions of Aleister Crowley Book:  The Confessions of Aleister Crowley - An Autobiography

#AncientArchitects #AleisterCrowley #GreatPyramid

In this visually compelling and thought provoking documentary, author, scholar and modern day Indiana Jones, Jay Weidner uncovers some of the deepest secrets of the ancient western tradition of Alchemy - the knowledge of the fatal season of the apocalypse, the end of time and the great and imminent transformation of humanity.

Notorious Bay Area kino-renegade Craig Baldwin tops his earlier found-footage operas SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM and SONIC OUTLAWS with the rapid-fire pulp serial-cum-political-tract piss-take on California's major industrial complexes: military, entertainment and religious. Hitting upon everything from Satanism to Scientology, the Beats to the jets (propulsion, that is), Baldwin revs-up his characteristic stock footage reappropriations with some live-action scenes of his own, adding an over-the-top pulp flair to the proceedings. The film focuses on three seemingly disparate characters to fuel this secret history of California: Jack Parsons, inventor of solid rocket fuel, founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Aleister Crowley acolyte; Marjorie Cameron, artist, beatnik and occultist; and L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer turned Scientology founder. Rather than offering straightforward profiles, Baldwin mashes up their histories with archival footage drawn from his vast collection of educational and governmental films, subverting their original narratives (and intent) to his own purposes. His live-action scenes and audio montages blend with these "seized histories," creating a bizarre new form of cinema, a collage narrative where the documentary images of yesteryear lend not truth but poetry, paranoia and fantasy. Arising with demonic force from the twentieth century's accumulated detritus of symbols, the film surveys "the repurposing of the popular imagination in postwar California," according to Baldwin, tracing the "simultaneous rise and convergence of New Age religious cults, the military/aerospace industrial complex and modern-day myths from Disney to certain sci-fi overlords." - Jason Sanders

Notorious Bay Area kino-renegade Craig Baldwin tops his earlier found-footage operas SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM and SONIC OUTLAWS with the rapid-fire pulp serial-cum-political-tract piss-take on California's major industrial complexes: military, entertainment and religious. Hitting upon everything from Satanism to Scientology, the Beats to the jets (propulsion, that is), Baldwin revs-up his characteristic stock footage reappropriations with some live-action scenes of his own, adding an over-the-top pulp flair to the proceedings. The film focuses on three seemingly disparate characters to fuel this secret history of California: Jack Parsons, inventor of solid rocket fuel, founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Aleister Crowley acolyte; Marjorie Cameron, artist, beatnik and occultist; and L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer turned Scientology founder. Rather than offering straightforward profiles, Baldwin mashes up their histories with archival footage drawn from his vast collection of educational and governmental films, subverting their original narratives (and intent) to his own purposes. His live-action scenes and audio montages blend with these "seized histories," creating a bizarre new form of cinema, a collage narrative where the documentary images of yesteryear lend not truth but poetry, paranoia and fantasy. Arising with demonic force from the twentieth century's accumulated detritus of symbols, the film surveys "the repurposing of the popular imagination in postwar California," according to Baldwin, tracing the "simultaneous rise and convergence of New Age religious cults, the military/aerospace industrial complex and modern-day myths from Disney to certain sci-fi overlords." - Jason Sanders

Manly Palmer Hall Lecture Collection

A Paul Weston lecture from Glastonbury Occult Conference March 21st 2015.

The story of the Babalon Working is an occult legend. Rocket scientist Jack Parsons, future founder of Scientology L Ron Hubbard, and fiercely individual witch-woman artist Marjorie Cameron used the ideas of Aleister Crowley to try and bring forth a goddess into the modern world of the A Bomb and Gnostic revival. The results were mysterious, controversial, and even catastrophic. Paul uses material from his book Aleister Crowley and the Aeon of Horus to give unique insight into this story, including a contentious take on the role of Hubbard.

Deliberately posted on the anniversary of Jack Parsons death.


Thanks to Ezra for filming.

Lilith is a name known everywhere in the world. When discussing the so-called “biblical” Lilith, most people can tell you that she was Adam’s first wife. Rarely, however, do they know where this tale comes from. Nearly everybody knows that piece of the story and those same people know that it’s also not actually biblical. The story of Lilith is a fascinating one and it spans much longer than one would think. From ancient Sumer to modern day America, the Lilith story has evolved to the point where it’s no longer recognizable. Today, I will be discussing the origins and evolution of the Lilith tale. From its simple beginnings to its esoteric present, this is Lilith in myth and history.

Sources:

Books:
James D.G. Dunn, John Rogerson – Eerdman’s Commentary on the Bible
Edward Cook, Martin Abegg, Michael Wise – The Dead Sea Scrolls
William Dever – Did God Have a Wife?
Michael Heiser – The Unseen Realm
Mark S. Smith – The Origins of Biblical Monotheism
Alan F. Segal – Life After Death
Arthur George, Elena George – The Mythology of Eden
Loren Stuckenbruck – The Myth of Rebellious Angels
Stephanie Dalley – Myths from Mesopotamia
Graham Cunningham – Deliver Me from Evil
Ziony Zevit – The Religions of Ancient Israel
Raphael Patai – The Hebrew Goddess
Gershom Scholem – Origins of the Kabbalah
Gershom Scholem – Zohar: The Book of Splendor
David Stern, Mark J. Mirsky – Rabbinic Fantasies
Howard Schwartz – Lilith's Cave
James A. Montgomery – Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur
Reginald C. Thompson – The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia
Andrew George - The Epic of Gilgamesh
Samuel Kramer – Gilgamesh and the Huluppu Tree
Adolphe Franck – The Kabbalah
Ronald H. Isaacs – Ascending Jacob’s Ladder
Jacob Elbaum - “Yalkut Shimoni,” Encyclopaedia Judaica
Joshua Trachtenberg – Jewish Magic and Superstition
The Zohar
Talmud – Nidah
Talmud – Eiruvin
Talmud – Shabbath

Papers:
Jo Milgrom – Giving Eve’s Daughters Their Due
Harry M. Geduld – The Lineage of Lilith
Frank Moore Cross, Richard J. Saley - Phoenician Incantations on a Plaque of the Seventh Century B. C. from Arslan Tash in Upper Syria
David Stern – The Alphabet of Ben Sira and the Early History of Parody in Jewish Literature
Rebecca Lesses - Exe(o)rcising Power: Women as Sorceresses, Exorcists, and Demonesses in Babylonian Jewish Society of Late Antiquity
S. Langdon - Babylonian and Hebrew Demonology with Reference to the Supposed Borrowing of Persian Dualism in Judaism and Christianity
Jacobus van Dijk - The Authenticity of the Arslan Tash Amulets
Douglas L. Penney, Michael O. Wise - By the Power of Beelzebub: An Aramaic Incantation Formula from Qumran (4Q560)
Jeffrey Hoffeld – Adam's Two Wives
Joseph Dan – Samael, Lilith, and the Concept of Evil in Early Kabbalah
Leonard A. Rotham - Jewish Midwives in Late Renaissance Venice and the Transition to Modernity