Decoded: The Lost Symbol
Tony Robinson examines Dan Brown’s fictional tale in Channel 4’s “Decoded: The Lost Symbol”.
(via Chris Hodapp)
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A response to The Lost Symbol
The Lost Symbol and Freemasonry is an online resource created in response to Dan Brown’s novel to provide factual information about the Craft. It is a joint project of The Masonic Society, The Masonic Service Association of North America, and the George Washington Masonic Memorial.
Esoteric Book Conference, interview with William J. Kiesel
In April I wrote about the Esoteric Book Conference, which will be taking place next weekend (September 19/20) in the Seattle Center. An extensive interview with William J. Kiesel, organizer of the event and publisher at Ouroboros Press is now available online.
Julius Evola’s Path of Cinnabar
This June Integral Tradition Publishing will release the first English translation of Julius Evola’s autobiography The Path of Cinnabar
Julius Evola is a renowned Dadaist artist, Idealist philosopher, theoretician of politics and Fascism (although not himself a Fascist), ‘mystic,’ anti-modernist, and scholar of world religions…. Much more than an autobiography, The Cinnabar Path in describing the course of Evola’s life illuminates how the traditionally-oriented individual might avoid the many pitfalls awaiting him in the modern world. More a record of Evola’s thought process than a recitation of biographical facts, one will here find the distilled essence of a lifetime spent in pursuit of wisdom, in what is surely one of his most important works.
(via Mark Sedgwick)
Cinema of the Occult
Carrol L. Fry, author of Cinema of the Occult: New Age, Satanism, Wicca, and Spiritualism in Film, is interviewed on John Morehead’s Theofantastique about his new book.
Movies about the occult are, well, movies after all and are made for profit not education. The occult is by its nature sensational and sensationalism sells. Filmmakers have target audiences, but they want to reach a broad spectrum of customers. And you have to remember that a lot of films that adapt occult paths are part of the horror genre, and that audience demands sensationalism. So even those Wiccan films that give a favorable spin to the Old Religion might well offend not only Wiccans but conservative Christians, the former because they don’t accurately reflect their beliefs and practices and the latter because they are made at all.
