secret societies

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/

This fraternity at the University of California, Berkeley, was modeled after Yale's Skull and Bones - i.e., a highly selective and secretive fraternity whose membership was mainly drawn from elites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_%26_Keys

Hi Everybody, I've just joined the forum earlier this evening. It was recommended that I post what happened to me here. It's my first thread and I hope I don't transgress any of the site rules in doing so nor make a general mess (such as links not working etc). If I do then please accept my...

Yes, Russian Masons, actually getting up to the skulduggery they are usually wrongfully accused of. Edit to amend title.

I couldn't find a thread on it so here it is. http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_2fraternityjul14,0,5270714.story?coll=all-news-hed

the tomb of skull and bones I wondered whether anyone ahd heard of this or whether there was a thread about it, Barbara

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...

I watched a very interesting programme on TV last night about Aleister Crowley. I'd heard of him and his connections with the occult, of course, but that was about the extent of my knowledge. By gum, he were a bad bugger!! What's your opinion of him? Did he really have the power to...

Knights Templar/Freemasonry What I'm looking for is the "definitive" (if there is such a thing) books on the Knights Templar, Freemasonry or other secret societies. Can anyone make some recommendations? What I'm after are those books which are not sensationalist, i.e. bollocks-free, and well...

Does anyone have any info on the infamous Hellfire club, is it true that at one meeting a monkey was presented and most of the members thought it was a devil, having never seen one before?

hey, can anyone fill me in on the history of the illuminati? and what exactly their objectives are? i have read about them here and there but i am not quite sure what they are out to do. but i do know that they have benn around for a long long time, right? zero