1920s occult

The Hett Art Gallery and Museum in Chesterfield, Indiana was built to house artifacts from the spiritualist movement, most notably artwork done by spiritualist mediums when in contact with the spirit world, referred to in their installation as “Psychic Art and Inspirational Painting.” There are portraits painted by, among others, the psychic Bangs sisters who painted portraits of spirits with whom they communicated, who were later identified as actual people who had passed on, and a rather…

Occult Ritual Ceremony

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Maxine Sanders

The Occult Digest - A Magazine for Everybody was a Chicago magazine published from 1925 until 1947. It was published for quite some time in a great looking building known as the "Occult Digest Center," which also included the "Occult Book Mart." This was located near what is now Lincoln Park (and coincidentally right around the corner from where Process Church and the Foundation Church of the Millennium would set up headquarters in the 1970s). They also published Psychic Power magazine in…

shadow wings

Aleister Crowley in 1912. Back in 1999 I found myself making notes for a short essay on the subtle and often tenuous presence of Aleister Crowley in cinema. Despite Crowley’s reputation in th…