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		<title>The Blooming Staff: Banish Trump, Exorcise Trump!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Laccetti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Occultists of all varieties need to banish the demonic principality of Donald Trump from our world. #BanishTrump! #ExorciseTrump! ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Blooming Staff: Crowley Didn&#8217;t Burn Hot Enough</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2017/01/blooming-staff-crowley-didnt-burn-hot-enough/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Laccetti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Aleister Crowley is often labeled a Decadent for his obsession with sex magick. But traditional mysticism is more radical in its understanding of sexuality.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Blooming Staff: On the Papal World-Tree, or, An Esoteric Meditation on the Papacy</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2017/01/meditation-esoteric-papacy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Laccetti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2017 22:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Laccetti reflects on the history of occult interpretations of the Papacy, and what the office of the Pope could mean for esotericism today.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Blooming Staff: The Longest Night and the Mystery of the Incarnation</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2016/12/blooming-staff-longest-night/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Laccetti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2016 23:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every December 21, a NY church holds a "Longest Night" service. Nicholas Laccetti reflects on this year's in the light of the Winter Solstice and Christmas.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Blooming Staff: Prisca Theologia, Pansophy, and Integral Truth – Some Notes on Universal Reformation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Laccetti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Universal Reformation has been a goal throughout Western esoteric history: for Renaissance magi, for Rosicrucians, and today in the Universal Brotherhood.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Blooming Staff: &#8220;What We Shall Be&#8221; – Illuminati, Otherness, and the Grand Consummation</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2016/10/the-blooming-staff-what-we-shall-be-illuminati-otherness-and-the-grand-consummation/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Laccetti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Grant]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The idea of a peaceable planetary commonwealth, founded on the universal principles of wisdom enshrined in the world’s great religious traditions, and respecting the inalienable rights of all human beings, seems to be a laudable goal. But the Illuminati quickly fell due to infighting, political repression, and the usual institutional failures.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Blooming Staff: Eschatology &#8211; The Marker of Christian Occultism</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2016/10/the-blooming-staff-eschatology-the-marker-of-christian-occultism/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Laccetti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2016 23:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I continue my research into post-Crowley forms of Thelema, Christian theology, and other occult traditions (especially the teachings of the Universal Brotherhood, which Frater Achad led as Mahaguru starting in the early 1930s), one major point of difference has emerged for me between Christian forms of occultism and non-Christian traditions like Thelema: eschatology.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Blooming Staff: Praise Ialdabaoth!; or, Notes Toward a Treatise on Averse Gnosticism</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2016/09/the-blooming-staff-praise-ialdabaoth-or-notes-toward-a-treatise-on-averse-gnosticism/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Laccetti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abbe Boullan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eugene Vintras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georges Bataille]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In his essay "Base Materialism and Gnosticism," French philosopher Georges Bataille extols the potential value of a kind of Averse Gnosticism -- a Gnosticism in which the demiurge of the material world, considered by the ancient Gnostics to be the "chief guard" of the prison of matter, and therefore a malevolent being, is in fact the object of worship and devotion.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Blooming Staff: The Curious Conversion of Frater Achad</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2016/08/the-blooming-staff-the-curious-conversion-of-frater-achad/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Laccetti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I can’t recall the number of times I have sat at my computer with a stack of books by my side in the middle of the night, say at 2:45 AM or maybe 4, bursting (silently) with excitement over some intellectual epiphany, some sudden realization or Eureka! moment in which I feel like I have finally cracked open the secrets of the universe. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Blooming Staff: Getting Up on Our Stilts, or, Notes Toward a Manifesto of Catholic Decadence</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2016/07/the-blooming-staff-getting-up-on-our-stilts-or-notes-toward-a-manifesto-of-catholic-decadence/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas Laccetti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Unlike the doomed protagonists of the Gothic novel and the later weird writers (H.P. Lovecraft and his circle), who attempted to subdue the forces of darkness with their philosophical reason and were crushed by the noumenal terror of a cosmos indifferent or hostile to humanity, the Decadent Catholics made themselves the villains of a gothic tale of their own making, an appropriate role for English Catholics who were the villains of the Protestant imaginary of the earlier generation.]]></description>
		
		
		
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