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February 2017

February 14, 2017

The Blooming Staff: Banish Trump, Exorcise Trump!

Occultists of all varieties need to banish the demonic principality of Donald Trump from our...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

The Blooming Staff: Crowley Didn’t Burn Hot Enough

Aleister Crowley is often labeled a Decadent for his obsession with sex magick. But traditional...

January 10, 2017

The Blooming Staff: On the Papal World-Tree, or, An Esoteric Meditation on the Papacy

Nicholas Laccetti reflects on the history of occult interpretations of the Papacy, and what the...

December 2016

December 27, 2016

The Blooming Staff: The Longest Night and the Mystery of the Incarnation

Every December 21, a NY church holds a "Longest Night" service. Nicholas Laccetti reflects on...

December 13, 2016

The Blooming Staff: Prisca Theologia, Pansophy, and Integral Truth – Some Notes on Universal Reformation

Universal Reformation has been a goal throughout Western esoteric history: for Renaissance magi, for Rosicrucians,...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

The Blooming Staff: “What We Shall Be” – Illuminati, Otherness, and the Grand Consummation

The idea of a peaceable planetary commonwealth, founded on the universal principles of wisdom enshrined...

October 11, 2016

The Blooming Staff: Eschatology – The Marker of Christian Occultism

As I continue my research into post-Crowley forms of Thelema, Christian theology, and other occult...

September 2016

September 13, 2016

The Blooming Staff: Praise Ialdabaoth!; or, Notes Toward a Treatise on Averse Gnosticism

In his essay "Base Materialism and Gnosticism," French philosopher Georges Bataille extols the potential value...

August 2016

August 23, 2016

The Blooming Staff: The Curious Conversion of Frater Achad

I can’t recall the number of times I have sat at my computer with a...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

The Blooming Staff: Getting Up on Our Stilts, or, Notes Toward a Manifesto of Catholic Decadence

Unlike the doomed protagonists of the Gothic novel and the later weird writers (H.P. Lovecraft...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

The Blooming Staff: The Decadent Crowley, a Neuropath of the Fin de Siècle

"Life holds the mirror up to Art," Wilde wrote, "and either reproduces some strange type...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

The Blooming Staff: On Thelemic Catholicism — Mary or Nu-Isis?

The practice of Catholic syncretism -- in which gods and spirits of non-Christian origin are...

April 2016

April 28, 2016

The Blooming Staff: Under the Hill

What is the meaning of this column’s title, The Blooming Staff? For a long time...

April 10, 2016

The Blooming Staff: “I Say Unto Thee, Arise!” – Emerging from the Tomb in the Aeon of Horus

There are other synchronicities, personal, ethical, and spiritual, that pushed me to finally visit my...