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Further, the father of the Lurianic School of Kabbalah, Isaac Luria (known as the Ari HaKadosh, or the "Holy Lion"), was not yet 40 years old when he passed away.

Sverre Malling

His work, notable for its precision and intricacy, entwine references to classical art, botany, the occult, psychedelia, folk art and children’s illustrations.

To the Devil a Daughter

Occult writer John Verney (Widmark) is asked by Henry Beddows (Elliot) to pick up his daughter Catherine (Kinski) from the airport.


A. F. Kidd

She collaborated with Australian writer Rick Kennett on the collection No. 427 Cheyne Walk: Carnacki, the Untold Stories which continues the adventures of occult investigator Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, originated by William Hope Hodgson.

Alchemie

The album is a conglomeration of songs based heavily upon the medieval occult science for which the album is named (See Alchemy).

Alfred Schuler

The occult practices of the Blutleuchte was supposed to be a symbiosis of heathendom and "lordly leadership" in the service of a wayward humanity in need of a fundamental rebirth.

Bricaud

Jean Bricaud (1881–1934), a French student of the occult and esoteric matters

Carl L. Weschcke

He also began the Gnostic Aquarian Festivals in Minneapolis, also known as Gnosticon during the 1970s, which helped fuel the rise in awareness of occult and metaphysical teachings.

Cecil Williamson

As a hobby, he continued to investigate the occult, beginning to collect objects and became an acquaintance of Margaret Murray, Montague Summers and Aleister Crowley.

D. J. Conway

Conway (born 1939) is a non-fiction author of books in the field of magic, Wicca, Druidism, shamanism, metaphysics and the occult, and the author of three fantasy novels.

De Vermis Mysteriis

Prinn, Bloch writes, maintained that he was captured during the Ninth Crusade in 1271, and attributed his occult knowledge to studying under the "wizards and wonder-workers of Syria" during his captivity.

Dietrich Eckart

In part 4, Phase 1 of the 2000AD story Zenith by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell Eckardt is referred to and depicted as the poet and mystic who initiated a German army corporal (Adolf Hitler) into the occult group called the Cult of the Black Sun after recognizing his potential as a medium.

Edgar Cayce

Olav Hammer wrote that many of Cayce's readings discussed race and skin color and that the explanation for this is that Cayce was not a racist but was influenced by the occult ideas of Madame Blavatsky.

Herkimer diamond

Many of the New York crystals are known for their extreme clarity, and Wiccan and New Age belief systems often ascribe specific occult properties and a wide variety of mystical powers to them.

Hilda Lewis

The Witch and the Priest (1956) about the seventeenth century Lincolnshire witch trials is freely available in Dennis Wheatley's paperback Library of the Occult.

History of the Jews in Calabria

Despite Mosaic prohibitions against astrology, this occult art was popular with the Jews of Southern Italy, including Calabria, during the Byzantine era.

Italian occult psychedelia

Musically, Italian occult psychedelia is a cross of post-punk, krautrock, psychedelic rock, Italian progressive rock and Italian library music.

Jeremiah Films

It has produced films that investigate subjects as varied as terrorism, paganism, evolution, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, abortion, Halloween, Islam, Christianity, Cults, the occult, Jim Jones, Jehovah's Witness, and the Clinton presidency and scandals surrounding Gennifer Flowers and the alleged murder of Vince Foster.

Johann Kraus

It was largely he who researched and organized the mountains of files culled from the sub-basement of the Bureau's new base in the Colorado mountains, resulting in the revelation that Ben Daimio's grandmother had been a Nazi occult war criminal.

John Brennan Crutchley

This episode of "American Occult" includes interviews with "vampirism sociologist" Katherine Ramsland, PhD, as well as law enforcement officers from Brevard County, Florida Robert Leatherow and Jake Miller, and also identifies the victim as one Laura Murphy.

Kazunori Tani

Hideshi Hino's Occult Detective Club: The Doll Cemetery (2004), as Makihara Daisuke (牧原 大介)

Lionel Snell

He had been interested in the occult before, but this comparatively rigorous and modern style of it, largely shaped by fellow scientist Peter Carroll, drew his special attention.

Ludwig Straniak

Unholy Alliance: History of the Nazi Involvement With the Occult by Peter Levenda, (May 1, 2002, ISBN 0-8264-1409-5).

Luigi Russolo

As part of its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Italian Futurism, the Performa 09 biennial, in collaboration with the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, invited Luciano Chessa (author of the book Luigi Russolo, Futurist. Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult) to direct a reconstruction project to produce accurate replicas of Russolo’s legendary Intonarumori instruments.

Masonic conspiracy theories

That the 33rd degree of the Scottish Rite is more than an honorary degree, coupled with the belief that most Freemasons are unaware of hidden or secretive ruling bodies within their organization that govern them, conduct occult ritual, or control various positions of governmental power.

Megapolis

Our Lady of Darkness, a 1977 book, by Fritz Leiber, that contains a description of 'Megapolisomancy', a fictional occult science.

Meherji Rana

Legend has it that during Dastur Meherji's stay in Delhi a Hindu Tantrik (magician) claimed that with his occult powers he would make two suns shine in the sky.

Melechesh

The band’s goal was to create a type of black metal incorporating extensive Middle Eastern influences mainly based on Assyrian (Mesopotamian) and occult themes (both musically and lyrically); the band invented the title "Assyrian metal" to best describe their type of metal.

Michael Bertiaux

Bertiaux was also featured in the 1985 book and documentary by Nevill Drury, The Occult Experience.

Moon and Son

The series starred Millicent Martin as a clairvoyant, Gladys Moon, and John Michie as her very attractive psychic son, Trevor Moon, who travelled between Folkestone in the United Kingdom and France, doing readings and selling occult and astrological goods from their mobile "salon" (called "Visions") and getting involved in various adventures along the way.

Nar Williams

In 2012 his feature screenplay about YouTube, rocket science, and the occult was sold to Fox Digital Studio.

No. 666 Squadron RAF

In the Charles Stross novel "The Fuller Memorandum" 666 squadron is a secret RAF unit involved on occult activities.

Occult Reich

Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult by Peter Levenda

Shadow Fists

Warlock's study is decorated with various occult paraphernalia and a large portrait of Aleister Crowley.

Stanislas de Guaita

De Guaita became interested in occultism after reading a novel by Joséphin Péladan which was interwoven with Rosicrucian and occult themes.

T. Winter-Damon

His non-fiction specialties included world mythologies, Meso-American mythologies and ritual, serial murder, sexual sadism, cannibalism, and the occult, published in multiple issues.

The Ancestor Cell

Meanwhile, Fitz appears before a group of disenchanted, young Time Lords who are holding rituals based on the occult texts of Faction Paradox and finds himself unable to escape.

The Day of the Devil

Humphrey Appleton (Richard Griffiths) is a priest and an expert in the occult, who provides them with information.

The Initiate

The Initiate: Some Impressions of A Great Soul is a combined anthology and parable dealing with the occult, written by the British composer Cyril Scott in the early 1900s.

The Occult Review

The Occult Review was a British illustrated monthly magazine published between 1905 and 1951 containing articles and correspondence by many notable occultists and authors of the day, including Aleister Crowley, Meredith Starr, Walter Leslie Wilmshurst, Arthur Edward Waite, Franz Hartmann, Florence Farr, and Paul Brunton.

The Virgin Spring

The Virgin Spring contains a variety of themes (many of them focusing on the religious aspects of the film), including Christianity, Paganism, Norse mythology, vengeance, the occult, questioning of religious faith, sexual innocence, justice, and the nature of evil.

Theodor Reuss

Although not a member of a regular Masonic order, he had founded two occult fraternities: the Martinist group, l'Ordre des Supérieurs Inconnus and the Rosicrucian Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Croix.

TOTO

Typhonian Order, formerly known as Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis (TOTO), an occult magical order

Victoria Montesi

However, when pages from the Darkhold are distributed to unsuspecting mortals by a demonic Dwarf and Nash is rendered quadriplegic and comatose following an explosion intended to kill Victoria, she joins with occult expert Louise Hastings and Interpol agent Sam Buchanan to recover the pages as the Darkhold Redeemers.

White magic

In his 1978 book, A History of White Magic, recognised occult author Gareth Knight traces the origins of white magic to early adaptations of paleolithic religion and early religious history in general, including the polytheistic traditions of Ancient Egypt and the later monotheistic ideas of Judaism and early Christianity.

William Quan Judge

Madame Blavatsky often referred to the founding of the Society as coming about as a result of occult direction from her teachers.

Witchcult Today

Furthermore the album cover of "Witchcult Today" is edited from the poster for The Devil Rides Out and is reminiscent of a scene from the 1975 occult thriller Race with the Devil.

Yasutaka Nagai

He has also worked with his brother and Ken Ishikawa in several manga such as Maboroshi Panty, Haru Ichiban and Shinrei Tantei Occult Dan, among others.

Zanoni

Zanoni is an 1842 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a story of love and occult aspiration.


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