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