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‘Feeding Your Demons’ by Tsultrim Allione
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‘Feeding Your Demons’ by Tsultrim Allione

For make no mistake: Chöd is anything but a harmless placebo praxis, even in this broken-down version. As gentle and benevolent as the technique may come over; […] here it indeed becomes evident how the soft water persistently hollows the hard stone, grinds it down, reshapes and finally dissolves, in other words: eliminates it.

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‘Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult’ by R.B. Spence
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‘Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult’ by R.B. Spence

Very few researchers (…) of Hermeticism and Western Esotericism are likely to be familiar with the fact that at the end of the 19th century i.e. at the peak of the Victorian era, there was a publicly known occult organisation that was classified by the security authorities of the time as a most alarming hotbed of political terrorism, separatism and high treason.

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