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Occult Love Fest, September 2023

It’s Occult Love Fest-ursday! The last Thursday o’ this month, so time for occult roll call! Sound off!

Help me find the others doing occult, esoteric, or, you know, even any adjacent strange stuff anywhere across the Town-Gown-Tau divide and get in touch with what you’re doing!

And, if you find something interesting or want to help spread the word share this post with others … or links to anything at Hermetic Library and on the blog! If you’re in the ‘verse using Mastodon or soever, consider giving me a follow there, where I post the most, or, if not, then find all the things linked on the Hermetic Library and Hrmtc Underground main sites. Then say howdy!

Hey, you can even grab some Occult Love Fest merch, like buttons and t-shirts, to show your pride and fly your flag IRL!

Occult Love Fest!

Occult Love Fest, August 2023

It’s Occult Love Fest-ursday! The last Thursday o’ this month, so time for occult roll call! Sound off!

Help me find the others doing occult, esoteric, or, you know, even any adjacent strange stuff anywhere across the Town-Gown-Tau divide and get in touch with what you’re doing!

And, if you find something interesting or want to help spread the word share this post with others … or links to anything at Hermetic Library and on the blog! If you’re in the ‘verse using Mastodon or soever, consider giving me a follow there, or any of the other socials linked on the library’s main site. Then say howdy!

Hey, you can even grab some Occult Love Fest merch, like buttons and t-shirts, to show your pride and fly your flag IRL!

Occult Love Fest!

Occult Love Fest, July 2023

It’s Occult Love Fest-ursday! The last Thursday o’ this month, so time for occult roll call! Sound off!

Help me find the others doing occult, esoteric, or, you know, even any adjacent strange stuff anywhere across the Town-Gown-Tau divide and get in touch with what you’re doing!

And, if you find something interesting or want to help spread the word share this post with others … or links to anything at Hermetic Library and on the blog! If you’re on Threads or in the ‘verse using Mastodon or soever, consider giving me a follow in those places. I recently created new social profiles in those places, so say howdy!

Hey, you can even grab some Occult Love Fest merch, like buttons and t-shirts, to show your pride and fly your flag IRL!

Occult Love Fest!

Occult Love Fest, June 2023

It’s Occult Love Fest-ursday! The last Thursday o’ this month, so time for occult roll call! Sound off!

Help me find the others doing occult, esoteric, or, you know, even any adjacent strange stuff anywhere across the Town-Gown-Tau divide and get in touch with what you’re doing!

And, if you find something interesting or want to help spread the word share this post with others … or links to anything at Hermetic Library and on the blog!

Hey, you can even grab some Occult Love Fest merch, like buttons and t-shirts, to show your pride and fly your flag IRL!

Occult Love Fest!

Occult Love Fest, May 2023

It’s Occult Love Fest-ursday! The last Thursday o’ this month, the month of the year, and on this week, which happens to be around the anniversary of my birth. So, you know … it’s a whole thing. Not the least of which is that whole “lusty month of may” from the musical Camelot, amirite?

Occult roll call! Sound off!

Help me find the others doing occult, esoteric, or, you know, even any adjacent strange stuff anywhere across the Town-Gown-Tau divide and get in touch with what you’re doing!

And, if you find something interesting or want to help spread the word share this post with others … or any of my links to stuff at Hermetic Library and the blog!

Hey, you can even grab some Occult Love Fest merch, like buttons and t-shirts, to show your pride and fly your flag IRL!

Occult Love Fest!

Occult Love Fest, April 2023

It’s Occult Love Fest-ursday! The last Thursday o’ the month.

Occult roll call! Sound off!

Help me find the others doing occult, esoteric, or, you know, even any adjacent strange stuff anywhere across the Town-Gown-Tau divide and get in touch with what you’re doing!

And, if you find something interesting or want to help spread the word share this post with others … or any of my links to stuff at Hermetic Library and the blog!

Hey, you can even grab some Occult Love Fest merch, like buttons and t-shirts, to show your pride and fly your flag IRL!

Occult Love Fest!

And how could the Soul lend itself to any admixture? An essential is not mixed. Or of the intrusion of anything alien? If it did, it would be seeking the destruction of its own nature. Pain must be equally far from it. And Grief- how or for what could it grieve? Whatever possesses Existence is supremely free, dwelling, unchangeable, within its own peculiar nature. And can any increase bring joy, where nothing, not even anything good, can accrue? What such an Existent is, it is unchangeably.

Plotinus, The Six Enneads, The First Ennead

hermetic quote Plotinus The Six Enneads soul admixture essential not mixed intrusion alien destruction nature pain grief free dwelling unchangeable joy good

Nostalgia can be contained and marketed—but actual difference would threaten the hegemony of the one worldview. The “Gift Economy” of some nearly-extinguished “primitive tribe” makes excellent TV; our mourning for its disappearance can only boost the sales of whatever commodity might soothe our sense of loss. Mourning itself can become fetishized, as in the victorian era of onyx and jet and black-plumed graveyard horses. Death is good for Capital, because money is the sexuality of the dead. Corpses have already appeared in advertising—”real” corpses.

Hakim Bey, The Obelisk

Hermetic quote Bey Obelisk nostalgia contained marketed death good capital money sexuality dead corpses advertising

It is old. Older than the world itself. Some say it came from another place, somewhere far away; maybe even amongst the stars, if such a thing is possible. Whatever it is, I can’t say, for I’ve never seen it and anyone who has is sent insane.

Steven A McKay, Knight of the Cross: A Knights Hospitaller Novella

Hermetic quote McKay Cross insane