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Episode 209: Touraj Daryaee on Zoroastrianism in the Seventh Century and Beyond

With the Arab conquest of Sasanian Persia, a new religion enters the west. Once the great religious Other to the Græco-Roman world, the Zoroastrians are now part of the story of western esotericism. We explore their extraordinary religion with Touraj Daryaee.

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Coming Back for More, Part III: Platonism and Reincarnation

Having reviewed the roots of reincarnationism in the west, we move forward in time, looking at the Hellenistic and especially the imperial man eras. We then focus in on the inheritors of the Pythagorean/Platonic legacy, the Platonists.

Roots of Magic episode

Frank Simons on the Mesopotamian Šurpu Ritual

We explore the ancient Mesopotamian ritual-series known as Šurpu with Frank Simons. This interview is a window onto very, very ancient magical practice, but has a surprising amount to tell us about magic today.

Oddcast episode

Members only: Into the Otherworld with Samuel Gillis Hogan

We delve further into the learned fairie-summoning tradition with Samuel Gillis Hogan. Fairies evolve into non-human persons, the mainstream and fringe news take an interest in research into fairies, and the methodology for studying a world-view in which fairies are obviously real is discussed.

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Samuel Gillis Hogan on Fairies in English Ritual Magic and Occult Philosophy, 1400-1700

Did you know that there is a whole practical and occult-philosophic corpus dealing with the summoning and controlling of faeries? Samuel Gillis Hogan tells us about his research in the archives of early-modern British faerie-magic.

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Episode 208: Ahab Bdaiwi on the Rise of Shī‘ī Esotericism

In Part I we looked at the political events leading up to the formation of the Shi'a. In Part II we see that it did not take long for things to get very esoteric. Come for the programmatic esoteric hermeneutics, stay for the occult sciences.

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An introduction to the podcast, discussing briefly what we mean by ‘western esotericism’. This episode also answers the burning question, ‘What’s so “secret” about The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast?’ and features a short quiz to test your knowledge of western esoteric history.

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