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robincdouglas.bsky.social
Historian of religions and esotericism. Author, 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 (2024, Exeter University Press, co-author Francis Young). Forthcoming: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 (Equinox Publishing). Website: https://www.robindouglas.org
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This looks like a brilliant article.

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Pseudo-Clement had a different answer to this. Once they leave the mortal body, the souls of murdered people understand everything and realise that their murderer is going to be punished by God.

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"This is a world where the oak hates the olive 'with an inveterate hatred', where oil alone mixes with lime, both being averse to water. It is a world where, if you rub your hands with radish seed, you can handle a scorpion, where the blood of a goat can break the hardness of a diamond."

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"The Ancient Mysteries must remain as a sealed book to the reader unless he can realize that the divine loves, and can be loved by, the human, and that ecstatic union with divine forces is possible here and now." - Charles Seymour

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Alexander the Great's conquest of Mesopotamia led to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans and the start of the Renaissance - ?

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"A readable, intelligent account, devoid of romantic woolliness and charitable towards both past and present participants in pagan projects." Mattias Gassman on 'Paganism Persisting' in the International Journal of the Classical Tradition @robincdouglas.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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🚨 New episode of my podcast! 🚨 Prof. Chas Clifton - Reflections on Pagan Studies Writer and scholar Chas Clifton (@chasclifton.bsky.social) reflects on the discipline of Pagan Studies and his history in it. www.robindouglas.org/post/new-pod...

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The irony is that Krah is an ultra-traditionalist Catholic who was accused by other ultra-trads a few years ago of being a Jewish infiltrator into their movement. One might have hoped that that would have taught him something about the far right.

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🚨 New episode of my podcast! 🚨 Prof. Chas Clifton - Reflections on Pagan Studies Writer and scholar Chas Clifton (@chasclifton.bsky.social) reflects on the discipline of Pagan Studies and his history in it. www.robindouglas.org/post/new-pod...

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Looks like an interesting book. blog.chasclifton.com?p=13945

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"Religion is what an individual does with his own solitariness" Alfred North Whitehead

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"In order to be saved you must be born again", said the Pagan god. I've produced a new translation of Corpus Hermeticum XIII, a text which discusses a transcendent experience of rebirth in an ancient Graeco-Egyptian context. Any feedback is welcome! www.academia.edu/127827312/Co...

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Question for any mutuals with contacts in publishing... I'm currently finalising a proposal for my third book: a short history of the ancient Greek esoteric tradition, aimed at non-specialists If anyone happens to know a friendly commissioning editor, please feel free to message me... Many thanks!

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Julia Annas: Plato was so gay

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New post on my Substack about the strange society known as the Golden Dawn: "Fräulein Sprengel’s pronouns - Another story about a dodgy document" religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/fraulein-s...

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Colonel Seymour links the psychiatrist and the priest: "Today, thanks to the researches of Freud, Jung and others, we know that trained psychiatrists... can probe the soul and weigh it in the balance against the feather of truth in a manner that might well seem to our forebears to be miraculous."

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I'm delighted to be speaking at Treadwell's Books in London on 20 March about Pagan revivals through history. www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/pag...

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At CHS we continue to support diversity, equity and inclusion. Since we don't receive federal funds (like student loans), you don't have to worry about being cancelled here. www.cherryhillseminary.org

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Thanks to the positive responses to my suggestion of posting the writings of Colonel Charles "Griff" Seymour, an important but largely forgotten figure in esoteric history. I've started posting them on my website, and you can access them here: www.robindouglas.org/the-seymour-...

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Pope Francis health latest - RAI's Vatican service is on standby for a special broadcast. blog.messainlatino.it/2025/02/salu...

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Colonel Charles "Griff" Seymour (1880-1943) was one of the most interesting and influential esotericists of the 20th century. Very few people today have heard of him. /1

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A great second day at Occult Conference Glastonbury - highlights included Geraldine Beskin on Annie Horniman's career as a theatre impresario and Dr Sue Terry on the esoteric significance of Mary Poppins.

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A tale of folk magic from 1850s Yorkshire.

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Great first day at the Glastonbury Occult Conference today. Keynote speech was Ronald Hutton on the Morrigan. Other highlights included @mharastarling.bsky.social on fairies in Welsh culture. Looking forward to day 2 tomorrow 👍

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It's difficult to know who the audience is for this. Presumably Vance's own voters in America. British society is so overwhelmingly secular and pro-choice, even on the nationalist right wing, that Vance is harming his own cause. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Frederick Douglass spent nine months in Scotland in 1846 raising awareness of U.S. slavery in a series of anti-slavery lectures. At the time, the country was “ablaze with anti-slavery excitement” due to the activities of the Free Church of Scotland, which had accepted £3,000 from US slave owners.

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I'm happy to be in Glastonbury for this weekend's conference on esoteric studies, with luminaries including Prof. Ronald Hutton. Off to a Gnostic Mass tonight 👍

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“I’ve downloaded your article as a PDF somewhere” #honestacademicvalentines

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- outright counter-witchcraft (find the witch's house through horary astrology; wait till the witch is home, and then take a tile from the witch's roof. heat the tile over a fire, wetting tile with the bewitched's urine. books.google.com/books?id=cEx... )

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Podcast idea. I go through a series of Daoist esoteric texts and @edwardw2.bsky.social roasts each episode in the manner of Uncle Roger.

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Who would be interested in a new translation of Corpus Hermeticum XIII - a tract on being "born again" in a tradition of Pagan mysticism?

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