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The Occult Knowledge Podcast explores the history and symbolism of occult philosophy, esoteric traditions, and hidden spiritual systems.
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The Eye of Horus: Why This Ancient Symbol Became an Occult Icon (opens the original)
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The wedjat, commonly called the Eye of Horus, survives on coffins, amulets, a mummy’s arm, and a funerary papyrus from ancient Egypt. Its most intimate surviving setting may be the outer coffin of Myt, a child buried at Deir el-Bahri during the Middle Kingdom. This episode follows the image through documented Egyptian objects: Myt’s coffin, the nested coffins of Hapiankhtifi, excavated amulets from Lisht and Malqata, a wedjat placed on a mummy’s left arm, and the Greenfield Papyrus. It then cros
Sigil Magic: How Symbols Became Tools of Intention (opens the original)
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A private symbol made from a written desire may appear to be a modern invention, but its history reaches through centuries of talismans, planetary seals, spirit diagrams, and ritual manuscripts. This episode follows the crucial change introduced by Austin Osman Spare: the movement from inherited occult seals to a symbol designed by the practitioner from a personal intention. From British Library manuscripts and the grimoire tradition to Spare's The Book of Pleasure, Kenneth Grant's posthumous re
The 72 Demons: How Demonology Became an Organized System (opens the original)
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The seventy-two spirits of the Ars Goetia are frequently presented as an intact ancient hierarchy inherited from King Solomon. The surviving record tells a more complicated story of medieval manuscripts, Renaissance printing, anonymous compilers, altered names, shifting ranks, added spirits, and increasingly elaborate ritual diagrams. In 1577, Johann Weyer printed Pseudomonarchia Daemonum in Basel. His catalogue contained sixty-nine named spirits, not seventy-two, and he reported withholding pra
The Occult Origins of Tarot Cards (opens the original)
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Tarot is associated today with divination, Hermeticism, Hermetic Qabalah, astrology, ceremonial magic, psychological reflection, and hidden knowledge. Yet the earliest documented tarot cards appeared in fifteenth-century northern Italy as cards for a trick-taking game. Among the most remarkable survivors are the lavish Visconti-Sforza decks, painted for elite Milanese households with gold, allegorical figures, religious imagery, rulers, virtues, fortune, death, and cosmic order. This episode fol
The Secret History of Demonology (opens the original)
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Demonology is the historical effort to describe, confront, and explain hostile spirits. This episode follows that effort from Mesopotamian protective objects and ancient spirit traditions through Greek daimones, Jewish and Christian writings, medieval theology, handwritten grimoires, witchcraft prosecutions, Catholic exorcism, nineteenth-century illustration, and the modern occult revival. At the center are the books that gave demonology its distinctive form: the Testament of Solomon, the Key of
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