#The Esoteric Order

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EP Review: Quindecennial Horror by Puteraeon (Emanzipation Productions)

Swedish horror death metal stalwarts Puteraeon celebrate their 15 year anniversary with Quindecennial Horror, a rerecording of some tracks from their demos and debut. Quindecennial Horror is due for release on the 8th of March via Emanzipation Productions. Puteraeon have chosen to re-record five songs, most from early demos as well as Storm Over Devil’s Reef, the opening track from their full…

[salembehindbars]

To the untrained eye I may be off-putting and strange and even a loser but to the trained eye, I am a hauntingly esoteric dream girl with a poetic, mysterious aura and a hunger for knowledge.

[illustratus]

The Three Sacred Orders

The Ionic Order, The Corinthian Order, The Doric Order

by Miriam Escofet

[maeviuslynn]

A different take on the Golden Dawn's Rosy Cross in Taschen's Library of Esoterica.

Rosy Cross Blue by Jesse Bransford

[wishbow]

to hold - pam wishbow - oct 2020

[azhmodai]

"They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the nameless design--living and horrible"

- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow over Innsmouth"

bit.ly/azhmodai

[alchemisoul]

Freemason Sufi Druid | Robert Graves

Graves turned down a CBE in 1957 and was among a shortlist of authors considered for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, losing out to John Steinbeck. And while mostly remembered as an author and poet, his contributions to the comparative examination retracing the overlapping commonalites shared and missing links in between Western and Eastern esotericism, hermeticism, and mysticism are not as widely cited or as commonly known as those of Manly P. Hall, Madame Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, G.I Gurdjieff, P.D Ouspensky, Robert Anton Wilson, Rudolph Steiner, and Alan Watts but nevertheless stand on their own merit.

[everybodyknows-everybodydies]

...Quaranir just goes to hang out in the Frozen Hearth after showing up to be cryptic at the beginning of Good Intentions??

[hearthsandhistory]

Aleister Crowley vs. WB Yeats in The Battle of Blythe Road

This is a story about two magicians.

One of them was WB Yeats, writer, poet and politician.

One of them was Aleister Crowley.

You may not know that Yeats was a well-respected member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a very influential (if deeply problematic) esoteric and magical society. Other members included Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many other notable artists, writers, actors and political minds of the day.

Aleister Crowley was also a member (and an aspiring poet) and had a passionate rivalry with Yeats. Crowley, famously a complete shithead, was getting a reputation around town for being a total bastard and the rest of the Order of the Golden Dawn was getting sick of his shit. In 1900, they decided to kick him out of the order, which make Crowley absolutely lose his mind in anger.

Crowley decided that if he wouldn’t be let back into the club, he would storm the clubhouse and steal some of their secret papers to help found his own magical school.

He showed up one day at the meeting place of the Golden Dawn on Blythe Road in London - dressed like a highland warrior for some reason - trying to ascend the stairs into the building while shouting spells and curses.

Yeats and a few other members of the Golden Dawn stood at the top of the stairs, shouting back their own curses. Shockingly, neither set of incantations seemed to have any effect.

The two men stared one another down across the stairs as Crowley continued his approach, spells flying. Years of simmering resentment bubbled to the surface.

Suddenly, Crowley was upon them, reportedly armed with a dagger. Yeats had enough and stopped chanting.

As biographer Richard Elman later wrote, "the forces of good struck out with their feet and kicked him downstairs.”

Yeats booted Aleister Crowley full in the chest, who rolled down the stairs and was bodily thrown into the street.

That was the end of Crowley’s career in the Golden Dawn.

[hplovecraftmuseum]

In Lovecraft's masterful tale, THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH, we are told that the old Masonic Hall has been taken over by the invading and degenerate alien element that has insinuated itself into the once thriving little Yankee fishing village. This occurred at a time when Innsmouth was suffering an economic downturn. The hall now houses the unsavory and mysterious quasi religious organization called, The Esoteric Order of Dagon. The actual Free Mason organization was particularly popular in old New England. Though there have been all kinds of rumors and conspiracy theories that the group is connected to nefarious doings it is in reality a completely benign organization. Lovecraft no doubt found the rumors about the group interesting enough to warp it into something with a hideous transformation. By the way many of the men who have become president of the United States were also Masons. Masonic symbolism permeates much of the art and architecture of the U. S. Government too. (Exhibit 348)

[minotaurmerkaba]

[mouth-less]

some people get real excited about their metrosuits

[techniche]

In Advancement of Learning, [Francis] Bacon argues that just as there are 'brotherhoods' in families and those associated with certain skills (crafts guilds), there should also be a 'fraternity in learning and illumination.' By 1586, the Fra Rosi Crosse Society, or the Order of the Rosicrucians, which became a degree in the Knights of the Helmet. Bacon later gave the group the name of Acception Masons, who were to carry out the long-term objectives of societal reform outlined in the  Advancement of Learning...  ...At Gray's Inn, Bacon was a member of the Order of the Helmet, dedicated to the goddess Pallas Athena, who was most often represented dressed in armor like a male soldier, holding a spear in her right hand, with a serpent writhing at her feet, and wearing a Corinthian helmet raised high atop her forehead. Developed in the early seventeenth century BC, the 'Corinthian style' helmet had no earl holes, but had solid nose guard a phallic cap-shaped crown. It is also known as the Cap of Hades, Helm of Hades, or Helm of Darkness. Wearers of the cap in Greek myths include Athena, the goddess of wisdom, the messenger god of Hermes, and the hero Perseus. Rabelias called it the Helmet of Pluto, and Erasmus the Helmet of Orcus, a Roman god of the underworld. In classical mythology, the helmet was also known as the Cap of Invisibility that can turn the wearer invisible. According to Bacon, 'the helmet of Pluto, which maketh the politic man go invisible, is secrecy in the counsel, and celerity in the execution.' Thus the members of the Order of the Helmet likewise served 'invisible' to the world, much of their labour being published anonymously or under pseudonyms. To signify their vow of invisibility the knights of the order all had to kiss Athena's helmet. Pallas Athena was known as 'the Spear Shaker', or the 'Shaker of the Spear', while the cryptically hyphenated version of the name 'Shake-Speares' appeared on the title pages of certain plays of Shakespeare, and on every page of the first edition of his sonnets.

David Livingstone (Ordo Ab Chao: The Grand Lodge, Chapter 1: The Elizabethen Age: Knights of the Helmet, pg. 5-6, 2022)

[wishbow]

An Offering

A reminder that we are all connected in a cycle of life

[amusingmyselfsblog]

my biggest flex is I knew what the word esoteric meant in the tortured poets department album.

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… all thanks to Quatatch-Ichl (my favorite honorable undead necromantic invasion leader of the Esoteric Order of the Celestial Dragon).

[charmfamily]

Founded in 1622, in the city of Bleakmore within the Realm of the Porphyral Vale, The Esoteric Order of the Second Death, or the Ordo Secundi Mortis, was a secret society of wealthy and influential Untamed Spellcasters experimenting in the Black Arts of Necromancy and, later discovered, Forbidden Invocation. Spearheaded by Vladislav Straud, a world-renowned Necromantic Caster and Count of the Westrein-Broassau region of Eshuavania, The Order of the Second Death grew to great power, rivaling the authority of the Hall of Arcane Knowledge by the year 1690, due to their vast legion of soldiers comprised of the reanimated dead bound to their control. Count Straud as the Head of the Society was believed to have been long deceased during this most prosperous era, having passed the Order of the Prime Magus to his grandson, Vladimir, according to documents archived by Hall of Arcane Knowledge Historian at the time, Finchwick Charm. The true identity behind the alias of Vladimir, however, was the key to discovering that The Ordo Secundi Mortis had begun to delve much more deeply and recklessly into dangerous warlock magicks, particularly a ritual involving the summoning of Lilith, the mother of all demons, whom the Order revered as "Mother Night" or Mater Noctis. Trading the souls of their sacrifices to Lilith as their patron, tapping into magic no mortal was ever meant to perform, the Ordo Secundi Mortis struck a deal with the source of their Dark Power that would grant the Highest ranking members of the Order perfect immortality, intending to use this gift to their advantage as they plotted to wage a war against the Hall of Arcane Knowledge and overthrow the Council of The Four Sages.