Remains of wizard's house of horrors are found... hidden inside a Quaker meeting place

Their crimes were so awful that they were executed and their house – thought to be teeming with evil spirits – was abandoned and left to decay for centuries before being knocked down. But in the best traditions of horror movies, it seems the Edinburgh home of occultist Major Thomas Weir and his sister Jean is back from the dead. The Weirs were executed in 1670 after admitting to shocking crimes including bestiality, incest and necromancy. According to folklore, their house, said to be the capital’s most haunted home, then stood empty before being demolished in the 19th century, this month's edition of the Fortean Times said. But researchers have discovered that the builders of a church, now the Quaker Meeting House in Victoria Terrace, actually incorporated the old dwelling into the structure.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2553674/Neighbours-hell-Remains-wizards-house-horrors-hidden-inside-Quaker-meeting-place.html

Antithesis “The Devil’s Arch"

Andrea Locatelli - Magic Scene

Andrea Locatelli was an Italian painter of landscapes. Born in Rome, he was the son and pupil of the painter Piero Locatelli, who had studied with the Florentine Ciro Ferri.

The painting affords a view into the ruins of a sacred-looking building whose vault is borne by ruinous columns. The tooth of time has gnawed at these structures with their antique spoils, and the force of nature has likewise left its mark: Stony remains such as the stump of a column on an elevated base are overgrown with mossy vegetation.

These details unite to present us with the creepy, rotting locus of an evil spirit, where reason sleeps. The witch-like figure of Ananke, the messenger of death, evokes associations of Cronos-Saturn’s dark realm of the dead.

The spectator inadvertently becomes a witness to occult acts, a magical ritual, a necromantic operation. The painting is evidently a very personal statement by the painter who, in 1741, at the end of his life, has come into circumstances of dire privation. At the same time, with its fantastical theme – occurring only this once throughout the artist’s oeuvre – the work also describes the mood of an ambivalent epoch in which, alongside enlightened ideas such as those of Voltaire, occult traditions, for example the dark arts of Cagliostro, have managed to survive.

Tibetan Ritual Skull

Vincent Price ‎– Witchcraft - Magic: An Adventure In Demonology (1969)

1. Prologue - The Tale of Master Seth
2. Hitler and Witchcraft - Witchcraft in History
3. Women as Witches - Witch Burning
4. Witch Tortures
5. Witch Tortures (continued) - The World of Spirits and Demons
6. Preparation for Magic - Instruments of Magic
7. How to Invoke Spirits, Demons, Unseen Forces - The Magic Bloodstone
8. The Witches' Cauldron - How to Communicate with the Spirits
9. How to Communicate with the Spirits (continued) - Gerald Yorke and Necromancy
10. How to Make a Pact with the Devil - How to Become a Witch
11. Curses, Spells, Charms
12. Curses, Spells, Charms (continued) - Potions
13. The Hand of Glory - The Witches' Sabbat
14. Witchcraft Today - Epilogue

http://www.discogs.com/Vincent-Price-Witchcraft-Magic-An-Adventure-In-Demonology/release/2706337

Elijah Bond's Ouija Board Grave

The man who first patented the Ouija Board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement

http://atlasobscura.com/place/elijah-bonds-gravesite-first-patentee-ouija-board

Mysteries of the Aztecs unearthed: 50 skulls used in sacrificial rituals found at sacred temple after lying hidden for 500 years

Mexican archaeologists have uncovered the largest number of skulls ever found in one offering at the most sacred temple of the Aztec empire dating back more than 500 years. The finding reveals new ways the pre-Colombian civilization used skulls in rituals at Mexico City's Templo Mayor, experts said. That's where the most important Aztec ceremonies took place between 1325 until the Spanish conquest in 1521. The 50 skulls were found at one sacrificial stone. Five were buried under the stone, and each had holes on both sides - signaling they were hung on a skull rack.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2213700/Mysteries-Aztecs-unearthed-50-skulls-used-sacrificial-rituals-sacred-temple.html

Magic Box

Ritual Human Skull On 18th century Rococo Pedestal

Ritual Human Skull On 18th century Rococo Pedestal, Containing Brass Lined Interior engraved with Pentagram and the Black Goat or Baphomet. England/France 1871.

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Tibetan Ritual Skull

Tibetan ritual skull with elaborate silver work and garuda on the forehead

Were six deaths attributed to the 'Curse of Tutankhamun' actually murders by arch-satanist Aleister Crowley?

The mysterious deaths gripped the nation back in the 1920s and 30s.

More than 20 people linked to the opening of Tutankhamun's burial chamber in Luxor in 1923 died in bizarre circumstances, six of them in London.

A frenzied public blamed the 'Curse of Tutankhamun' and speculated on the supernatural powers of the ancient Egyptians.

But a historian now claims the deaths in Britain were the work of a notorious satanist, Aleister Crowley.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2059084/Were-Curse-Tutankhamun-deaths-actually-murders-arch-satanist-Aleister-Crowley.html

In Search Of The Great Beast 666

Aleister Crowley "The Wickedest Man in the World."
Featuring the Voice of Joss Ackland and Music Score by Rick Wakeman. (c) Classic Media Group 2007

Theosophy: Cult of the Occult

Friday, July 19, 1968

In the days when student dissent took milder forms than it does now and the Death of God had not yet been widely announced, small groups of seminarians from fundamentalist Wheaton College used to appear at the edge of a 40-acre estate on the outskirts of Wheaton, Ill. They would kneel briefly in prayer and then scurry nervously away. Thirty years ago, it was an act that took courage: the estate had become headquarters of the Theosophical Society in America, a mysterious non-Christian movement often suspected of being more occult than cult. Praying for the souls of the benighted Theosophists, the seminarians feared that both they and the town would be hexed by the Devil.

Nothing ever happened to substantiate their fears. The Theosophists gradually became accepted by the community. They even joined the Chamber of Commerce. Last week, when leaders of the society's 4,500 U.S. members met in Wheaton for their annual national convention, theosophy was once again under some suspicion. The scarcely adequate reason is that Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's accused assassin, had asked for and received a copy of the society's most sacred book, The Secret Doctrine. Its author: Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-91), the Russian-born founder and high priestess of the movement.

Ancient Practice. Among Madame Blavatsky's teachings, charged Author Truman Capote on television appearance, "was a theory of how you could undermine the morale of a country and create a vacuum for revolution by systematically assassinating a series of prominent people." Not so, replied Theosophical Society President Joy Mills, a former schoolteacher, when the convention opened last week. "Mr. Capote is in complete confusion or abysmally ignorant of the society, its aims and teachings."

By definition, theosophy is a cross between theology and philosophy. In practice, it is a religion—although its 34,000 practitioners in 45 countries maintain that it is not. Theosophists have always claimed divine insight, revealed in some cases on shafts of mystical "astral light."

Their practice is an ancient one. Theosophy was taught by the sun-worshiping Egyptians, the oracular Greeks, the fire burners of Zarathustra. To one degree or another, its tenets are alive today among the Brahmans, Buddhists and Hindus of India, not to mention all the world's hippies. In the West, however, theosophical thought had been all but dead since the 7th century, when Moslem armies swept out of Arabia and disrupted communications between Europe and the East. Then, in the 19th century, came Madame Blavatsky.

H.P.B.—as she is known to her followers—was a large and lusty adventuress who rolled her own cigarettes, gave birth to at least one illegitimate son, and stage-managed seances to "prove" her claims to supernatural powers. Granddaughter of a Russian princess, she was married off to a czarist general at the age of 16, but deserted him after three months and eventually showed up in Cairo as a psychic medium. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1874, she took up with a former Civil War staff colonel named Henry Steel Olcott, persuaded him to help her found the theosophist society the following year—and spent the rest of her life writing the society's doctrine. Controversial wherever she went, she was accused in 1885 by the Society for Psychical Research in London of fraud, forgery and even of spying for the czar.

Madame Blavatsky's doctrine is a very strange and stringent creed, highly moral despite her own aberrations, bizarre but engrossing as a compendium of comparative religion. Although H.P.B. quoted knowingly and relevantly from such ancient tracts as the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Chaldean Kabalah, her main sources turned out to be 1) revelations from a secret inner circle of Eastern arahats ("masters of esoteric philosophy"), with whom she may have communicated by telepathy, and 2) "secret portions of the Book of Dzyan," a work so highly classified that only Madame Blavatsky ever heard of it. Also included in her Secret Doctrine is an ancient Greek incantation-"Aski -ka-taski -haix -tetrax -damname neus-aision"—supposedly powerful enough to cleanse a person possessed by devils.

Shadows of the Shadow. Madame Blavatsky proclaimed that all men are brothers—not only to one another but to all other animals, and to vegetables and minerals as well. Carried to its logical extreme, her doctrine would make a cannibal out of everyone who eats lunch, and many Theosophists have become vegetarians, presumably on the theory that cows are more brotherly than spinach.

H.P.B. divided the earth's inhabitants into seven successive "root races," each more immoral than the one before. The first two races, she proclaimed, were semi-spiritual "shadows of the shadow of God." The third was a race of fourarmed men who inhabited a lost continent named Lemuria and were doomed 60 million years ago when they discovered sex. The fourth, recognizably human, went down with Atlantis 12,000 years ago, sunk by sex plus power. Our own race, which got off to a bad start with Adam, is the fifth, and it too may be about to expire—or perhaps find strange new powers. In her magically mystical prose, H.P.B. forecast that "occultism must win the day, before the present era reaches Saturn's triple septenary of the present cycle in Europe—in other words, before the end of the 21st century A.D."

From: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,900292,00.html

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Hexentanz - The Sabbath Comes Softly

Composed with actual period instruments, synthetic ritual devices, human bones, and authentic arcane chants of medieval and modern occult practice.



HEXENTANZ

Coven - Satanic Mass

Altar Bell (Rung nine times to invoke the spirit Satan.)

Coven (Chanting Invocation in ancient language to conjure Satan from the infernal abyss)

"Bagabi laca bachabe Lamac lamec bachalyas
Lamac cahi achababe Cabahagy sabalyos
Karrelyos Baryolos
Lagoz atha cabyolas
Samahac et famyolas
Harrahya"

High Priest (Enters to center of the altar and chants, while crossing himself in a counterclockwise direction with his left hand)

“In nominee de nostre Satanas: Lucifere Excelsis!” (“In the name of our Satan; the glorious Lucifer!”)

High Priest (chants)

“Introibo ad alatare Satanas.” (“I will go up to the Altar of Satan.”)

Coven (chants)

“Ad Satanas, qui laetificat gloria meam.”(“To Satan, the giver of youth and glory.”)

Coven (chants ancient conjuration to yield their souls to the devil)

“Palas aron ozinomas Geheamel cla orlay
Baske bano tudan donas Berec he pantaras tay.”

High Priest “In the name of Satan, ruler of Earth, the King of the world, the Chief of the Serfs, I command the forces of darkness to bestow their infernal power upon us. Save us, Lord Satan, from the treacherous and the violent. Oh Satan, Spirit of the Earth, God of Liberty, open wide the gates of Hell, And come forth from the abyss by these names:”

High Priest and Coven “Satan! Beelzebub! Leviathon! Asmodeus! Abaddon!”

High Priest (chants)

“Gloria Satanas, et Belial et Spiritui maloso.” (“Glory be to Satan and Belial, and
to the evil spirits”)

Coven (responds)

“Sicut erat in principio, et nune, et simper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen” (“As it was in the be-ginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”)

High Priest (chants)

“Satanas vobiscum.” “Satan be with you.”

Coven (responds)

“Et cum spiritu tuo.” “And with thy spirit.”

High Priest (Calling the coven to prayer)

“Let us prey . . . Urged by our Lord Satan’s bidding, and schooled by his infernal ordinance, we make bold to say:”

High Priest and Coven (Recitation of the Lord’s Prayer, backwards)

“Amen . . . Evil from us deliver but . . . Temptation into not us lead and . . . Us against trespass who those forgive we as . . . Trespasses our us forgive and . . . Bread daily our day this us give . . . Heaven in is it as earth on . . . Done be will thy . . . Come kingdom thy . . . Name thy be hallowed . . . Heaven in art who . . . Father our.”

High Priest (Removes his headdress and approaches the coven, congregated a few feet in front of the altar)

“Children of my office. From high matters I spare the time to preside over this gathering. By the favor of our Lord Satan, I have the power to grant your wishes, should it please me to do so. Waste no moment in unnecessary babbling or you will incur my anger. Now, lift up your heads, and tell me your desires.”

(After a loud knock at the side door of the Altar Chamber)

“Who seeks entry here?”

Assistant Priestess “One who repents her past heresies and craves to be accepted into the grace of our Master, Satan . . . designated by the Creator. Lord of this World from beginning without end.”

High Priest “Enter, penitent, that you may abase yourself before the only true God.”

(The side door opens, revealing a scared young girl, who has been persuaded to join the coven. She enters, hesitantly, wearing a long white muslin garment, tied at the waist with a cord. Her ankles are bound in shackles)

“Penitent, the opportunity is offered you to redeem your past . . . Do you desire to take it?”

Probationer “Yes.”

High Priest “Are you prepared to serve our Lord Satan with your whole mind, body, and soul, permitting nothing to deter you from the furtherance of his work?

Probationer “Yes.” High Priest “As proof that you have purged your mind of all false teaching, you will now break this crucifix and throw the pieces from you.”

(Sound of crucifix breaking)

High Priest “Stand up, and raise your left hand! Repeat after me, sentence by sentence, the words I am about to say: High Priest and Probationer “I deny Jesus Christ the deceiver . . . and I abjure the Christian faith, holding in contempt all of its works. By the symbol of the Creator, I swear henceforth to be . . . a faithful servant of his most puissant Arch-Angel, the Prince Lucifer . . . whom the Creator designated as His Regent and Lord of this World. As a being now possessed of a human body in this world. I swear to give my full allegiance to its lawful Master: to worship Him, our Lord Satan and no other; to despise all manmade religions, and to bring contempt to them whenever possible; to undermine the faith of others in such false religions whenever possible; and bring them to the true faith when desirable. I swear to give my mind, body, and soul unreservedly . . . to the furtherance of the designs of our Lord Satan. If I betray my oath, I do now decree to have my throat cut, my tongue and heart torn out . . . and to be buried in the sand of the ocean that the waves of it may carry me away into an eternity of oblivion.”

High Priest “If you ever break this oath, we shall pronounce sentence upon you in the name of our Lord Satan . . . that you shall fall into dangerous disease and leprosy, and that, in the sign of his vengeance, you shall perish by a terrifying and horrible death, and that a fire shall consume and devour you on every side and utterly crush you . . . and that by the power of Satan, a flame shall go forth from His Mouth which shall burn you up and reduce you to nothing in Hell … ”

High Priest (Removes a bag from the altar; this bag contains the shavings of a clock)

“Now take these shavings in your hand and face the Goat of Mendes . . . repeat after me: High Priest and Probationer “I deny God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, and I adhere to thee, and believe in thee.”

High Priest (Leads the girl to the right side of the altar to a black throne, upon which is seated Satan in the materialization of a huge black goat with a human body, but with the hooves and head of a goat. The goat has three horns, the middle one being a lighted torch)

“Kiss the Goat!!”

(As the girl kisses the posterior of the goat from behind the throne, the ceremony of fidelity to Satan known as the Pax, the High Priest intones . . . )

“As the shavings of the clock do never return to the clock from which they are taken, so may your soul never return to Heaven.”

( . . . leading the girl back to the altar)

“Now . . . remove your garment and lie down at full length upon the altar.”

(As the girl drops her garment and lies naked on the altar, the High Priest stretches out her arms and places a lighted black candle in each outstretched hand. She is now a human altar in the shape of a crucifix; her ankles still being bound by the shackles. Some members of the assemblage, looking ahead to the ceremony where she must submit to the sexual desires of the coven, are beginning to express their emotions.)

“Brothers and sisters of the Left-Hand Path . . . the penitent has proved a worthy
neophyte in our high order. It is now my happy duty to free her from the bonds of ignorance and superstition.”

(The High Priest removes the shackles from the ankles of the young probationer/neophyte and proceeds with the rite symbolic of copulation with the devil. If the Lord Satan or one of his demons is present at this portion of the Mass, the High Priest will step aside and lead conjurations of lust while the ceremony is actually performed. After this rite, the neophyte, still serving as the altar, has the Chalice containing the host and a skull filled with blood placed upon her prone body. The host is generally stolen from a Catholic church, dyed black, and cut into a triangular shape. The blood is generally from a previously sacrificed animal of bird; although for a major high Sabbath, the most effective sacrifice is an unbaptised baby)

High Priest (chants)

“Satanas gratias.” “Thanks be to Satan”
“Satanas vobiscum.” “Satan be with you.”

Coven (responds)

“Et cum spiritu tuo” “And with thy spirit.”

High priest and Coven (Walks to left of human altar to begin the Offeratory. He holds up the Paten containing the consecrated host)

“Lucifer, Save us! Master, Save us!
Astaroth, Save us! Master, Save us!
Shaiton, Save us! Master, Save us!
Zabulon, Save us! Master, Save us!
Maloch, Save us! Master, Save us!”

(High Priest walks to the right of human altar, and holds up the skull or other Chalice containing the blood)

“Satan, Have mercy! Master, Have mercy!
Baal, Have mercy! Master, Have mercy!
Azazel, Have mercy! Master, Have mercy!
Dagon, Have mercy! Master, Have mercy!
Mammon, Have mercy! Master, Have mercy!”

High Priest (Taking Communion, consecrates the Paten and the Chalice with the blessing of Death)

“Blessed be the bread and wine of death . . . blessed a thousand times more than the flesh and blood of life, for you have not been harvested by human hands nor did any human creature mill and grind you. It was our Lord Satan who took you to the mill of the grave, so that you should thus become the bread and blood of revelation and revulsion. I spit upon you! And I cast you down! In the memory of Satan, because you preach punishment and shame to those who would emancipate themselves and repudiate the slavery of the church!”

(He casts the consecrated host and blood on the floor in front of the altar and spits on them. At this sign, the entire congregation rushes up amidst screams of hate and tramples upon the mixture. They also scramble and fight for remnants to be used in casting private spells)

(High Priest - tearing off his vestments and trampling them on the ground . . . )

“These ornaments, badges of authority, serve only to conceal the nakedness which is alone acceptable to our Lord Satan!”

(Entire coven rips off their cloaks and any other garments amidst bestial shrieks and growls. This is silenced by the High Priest who rings a gong, causing the reaction of a thunder clap. The High Priest holds his left hand aloft helping the unsteady, and seemingly drugged, young neophyte off the altar to stand naked before the now naked coven)

“Neophyte, you have served me well! Stand up and join these assembled here so that they may look upon you, and do with you as they desire …”

(The neophyte is pushed into the midst of the assemblage, who stare at her and gesture and whisper among themselves. Later, at the end of the Mass, she will be submitted to the carnal desires of any member or members of the coven who request her. She will also assist in mass perversions)

High Priest (Announcing the dismissal from the formal Mass, proclaiming the Benediction for increased virility, and calling for the homage to Satan through feasting, dancing, and a general orgy till dawn)

“I, Joel, Prince of the Bats and High Priest of the Lord Satan, by this act do dismiss you from this service . . . Prepare to receive through me the Benediction of Our Lord Satan, that you may honour the Creator by the rite symbolical of his work …”

(As the altar bell is again rung nine times, the High Priest wanders among the assemblage, touching the genitals of each member of the coven with a special Satanic blessing to insure the success of the orgy to follow)

“Eva, Ave Satanas! Vade Lilith, vade retro Pan! Deus maledictus est!! Gloria tibi! Domine Lucifere, per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen!!”

“Do What Thou Wilt, Shall Be the Whole of the Law!”

“Rege Satanas! Hail Satan!
Ave Satanas! Hail Satan!
Hail Satan!! Hail Satan!”

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia (pronounced: hexa-koseeoi-hexe-konta-hexaphobia) (derived from Ancient Greek roots ἑξακόσιοι (six hundred), ἑξήκοντα (sixty) , and ἕξ (six)) literally meaning "fear of [the number] six hundred sixty-six") is the fear that originated from the Biblical verse Revelation 13:18, which indicates that the number 666 is the Number of the Beast, linked to Satan or the Anti-Christ. Outside of the Christian faith, the phobia has been further popularized as a motif in various horror films. Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobes will strongly avoid things related to the number 666.

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The Black Cat (1934) - Ritual scene

Codex Gigas

Depictions of the devil were everywhere in medieval times, but the early 13th-century Codex Gigas – the largest medieval manuscript in existence – stands out. The story goes that a Czech monk, challenged to copy out a whole Bible in one night or spend the rest of his life walled in his cell, supposedly sold his soul to the devil to accomplish the task. The almost two-foot-tall picture of Satan, said to have been completed by the grateful monk, has a peculiar menace down not only to its sheer size, but also to its piercing eyes and claw-like hands, stretching out as if to drag you in.

From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/gallery/2010/sep/19/ten-best-devils#/?picture=366807333&index=4

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Gigas
http://www.kb.se/codex-gigas/eng/