7: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, H. P. Blavatsky, Samuel Mathers, Victorian Magick, Theosophy, Kabbalah, Séances, and the Great Occult Poetry Larp

Keep this work free for everyone and unlock my entire corpus for $5 per month on Patreon!Samuel Mathers is Bane, not Wolverine.People Mentioned:Samuel Liddell MacGregor MathersH. P. BlavatskyWilliam Wynn WestcottAleister CrowleyJohn DeeEdward KellyA. E. WaiteErich Fromm and Wilhelm ReichReferences:Douglas Haig, the Battle of the Somme, and Séances"On 20th September 1906, Haig attended a séance with his sister Henrietta where he sought advice as to whether the expansion of the Territorial Army would be more satisfactory on a company or battalions basis. He was advised by the spiritualist a Miss McCreadie to adopt the former rather than the latter. Apparently, when Ms McCreadie gave this advice she was under the control of a native girl called ‘Sunshine’, who had Napoleon by her side. Haig must have found this circumstance most reassuring."Kant's Hilariously Stupid Anthropology of BlacknessCrowley Getting Kicked Down the Stairs by W. B. YeatsVictorian Mummy PowderMahayana BuddhismLawrence v. Texas (2003) Last Repeal of Anti-Sodomy Law in AmericaThe "Lost" Language of Senzar (Blavatsky)Master Hilarion (Also Blavatsky)Nazis Using Pendulums to (Not) Find British ShipsOut of their depth. By 1942, British Navy vessels had begun to shift the tide in the Atlantic battlefront, sinking more German U-boats than Hitler’s army could Allied submarines. Scientific progress proved a major factor in Allied dominance, with the development of Radar and Sonar technology significantly upping the odds of locating German vessels in deep water. But Germany Navy officials had a different strategy in mind: U-boat captain Hans Roeder convinced colleagues in arms the British were using pendulums to predict their boats’ location underwater. As an amateur pendulum dowser himself, the enterprising captain established the Pendulum Institute to pinpoint British ships, enlisting pendulum dowsers and occultists from across the country and tasking them with applying their clairvoyant powers to search for British vessels. Results were, unsurprisingly, not altogether successful.Books Mentioned:Perdurabo by Richard KaczynskiThe Mystical Qabalah by Dion FortuneThe Key to Theosophy by H. P. BlavatskyJohn Dee and the Empire of Angels by Jason LouvThe Golden Dawn by Israel RegardieA New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry By A. E. WaiteEscape From Freedom by Erich FrommThe Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm ReichThe Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with a Commentary by Sri Swami SatchidanadaAleister Crowley:Liber 777Eight Lectures on YogaKonx Om Pax - Light in Extension