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On Jul 5, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Samuel Wagar wrote: > Clifton's book has a few giant holes, though. He pretty well starts > with the books going across the sea in the late 1950s. But has > nothing about the broader occulture, especially in esoteric > Masonry, the folk magick (Appalachian and Pennsylvania Deutsch > conjuring, African derived practices like Hoodoo) and the streams > of sex magick from Paschal Randolph and the Holy Brotherhood of Luxor. If you want to write the "Compleat History of American Occulture," Sam, be my guest! P.B. Randolph is mentioned on p. 129, and for those who wish to know more about this hidden star of sexual magic, I recommend John Deveney's excellent bioography, "Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician" (SUNY Press, 1997). regards, Chas S. Clifton, editor The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/POM alternate email: [log in to unmask]