I can't say that I had heard of this fracas before, but I guess it shows one swift kick trumps magic:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/william-butler-yeats-aleister-crowley-magic-duel
https://loopline.com/wb-yeats-the-battle-of-blythe-road/
1900
aleister crowley
blythe road
bram stoker
ceremonial magic
duels
hammersmith
london
magic(k) & magicians
occultismoccultists & occultism
poets & poetry
richard ellman
ritual magic
secret societies
the hermetic order of the golden dawn
thelema
victorians
w. b. yeats
Browsing Twitter earlier this evening, I came across this supremely interesting and ongoing thread about this fabulous book below:
The thread begins: 'My flatmate has this amazing 1970 book which is basically a directory of various occult services and where to get them so had to share some of...
Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm doing some research for a book at the moment and need to access copies of THE OCCULT REVIEW from around the years of WORLD WAR I. I know FT Magazine has run stories dealing with the Occult Review in the past, but I'm looking for anyone who has copies...
I stumbled across a site that appears, upon first inspection, to construct a good narrative of the Hess flight drawing together many interesting threads and portraying him as the unwitting victim of British psychological warfare:
http://www.members.aol.com/LeonardIngrams/index.html
This...
1941
aleister crowley
black magic
conspiracy
exhumations
ian fleming
military
occultists & occultism
rudolph hess
spandau prison
suicides
the nazis
the second world war
Just read in Nikolas Schreck's The Satanic Screen about Albin Grau, aka Frater Pacitus of the OTO and how he inserted real magical symbols into the written words in the silent film Nosferatu.
What I would want to know is has anybody ever tried to find out if what he wrote was a working spell...
1922
1925
albin grau
brian robb
ceremonial magic
f. w. murnau
frater pacitus
fraternitas saturni
garcia stevenson
germany
grand pansophical lodge of the orient-berlin
hohenleuben
hollywood babylon
kenneth anger
nikolas schreck
nosferatu
nosferatu & the occultistsoccultists & occultism
ordo templi orientis
prana films
raymond owen
secret societies
television & film
the weida conference
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