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Tagsoccult (478), christianity (212), medieval (182), thelema (155), au br (132), graphic novel (123), to scan (120), au st (119), antiquity (112), freemasonry (111) — see all tags

GroupsChicagoans, Cthulhu Mythos, Early Reviewers, Freemasonry, Happy Heathens

Favorite authorsApuleius, James Branch Cabell, Giacomo Casanova, Henry Corbin, Aleister Crowley, Joscelyn Godwin, Anna Bonus Kingsford, R. A. Lafferty, Jean-Francois Lyotard, David Madsen, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marguerite Porete, Thomas Pynchon, Algernon Charles Swinburne (Shared favorites)

About me I am not an Atheist in your sense of the word: your doctrine is too coarse for any known blasphemy to shame it.
I am not an Atheist in your sense of the word: fancy a Priest let loose on Society!
As long as men and women shall bury their own perfect natures in fear, guilt, and shame--I am against Atheism, and for the Mysteries.
Every "rational enlightenment" has engendered new superstitions.

ABSURDUM EST UT CREDAM, SED CREDO QUIA ABSURDUS SUM.

About my library The volumes in my library are unlikely to circulate, and are more apt to crucify.

Some unusual tags defined:
au st and sb st indicate books whose authors and subjects (respectively) are saints of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
19c gd is the 19th-century manifestation of the Golden Dawn magical order, while neo-gd includes its putative successors and revivals in the 20th and 21st centuries.
While kabbalah is the Jewish mystical tradition beginning in the Middle Ages, cabala is its Christian esoteric derivatives from the Renaissance onward, and qabalah is the heuristic, non-doctrinal "hermetic qabalah" of 20th and 21st century occultists.

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