Dr Robin Douglas
@robincdouglas.bsky.social
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Since we’re talking about books and money, I’ll also talk specifically to new occult authors, because I watch new people go through this every single season: your first book might change your life, but almost surely not in the way you think.
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Since we’re talking about books and money, I’ll also talk specifically to new occult authors, because I watch new people go through this every single season: your first book might change your life, but almost surely not in the way you think.
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Sherlock the cat a big fan of @robincdouglas.bsky.social & @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social 's 'Paganism Persisting'
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Sherlock the cat a big fan of @robincdouglas.bsky.social & @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social 's 'Paganism Persisting'
"If John Henry Newman had been born in 1851 rather than 1801, he would have joined the Golden Dawn. If he had been born in 1881, he would have joined the OTO."
Discuss.
Discuss.
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"If John Henry Newman had been born in 1851 rather than 1801, he would have joined the Golden Dawn. If he had been born in 1881, he would have joined the OTO."
Discuss.
Discuss.
It's a good book.
@chasclifton.bsky.social
· now
Caffeinating while looking out at gray Boston streets, getting ready for the first Contemporary Pagan Studies section at #AARSBL2005. Fortunately it's next door to my hotel! Giovanna Parmigiani will preside--check out her new book! amzn.to/3MiyGxF
· now
Caffeinating while looking out at gray Boston streets, getting ready for the first Contemporary Pagan Studies section at #AARSBL2005. Fortunately it's next door to my hotel! Giovanna Parmigiani will preside--check out her new book! amzn.to/3MiyGxF
November 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It's a good book.
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They’re saying from each according to his ability — and I have the best ability, a soldier came up to me and told me, tears in his eyes, she said “you saved America, sir,” she said, cold day, she had these rosy cheeks, unlike Rosie O’Donnell, no ability — to each, to each according to his needs.
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
They’re saying from each according to his ability — and I have the best ability, a soldier came up to me and told me, tears in his eyes, she said “you saved America, sir,” she said, cold day, she had these rosy cheeks, unlike Rosie O’Donnell, no ability — to each, to each according to his needs.
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🚨 New on my Substack!
THE END OF THE WORLD
A piece on the weird world of apocalyptic literature
People really like to imagine how the world will end
religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
THE END OF THE WORLD
A piece on the weird world of apocalyptic literature
People really like to imagine how the world will end
religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
The end of the world
The strange genre of apocalyptic literature
religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
🚨 New on my Substack!
THE END OF THE WORLD
A piece on the weird world of apocalyptic literature
People really like to imagine how the world will end
religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
THE END OF THE WORLD
A piece on the weird world of apocalyptic literature
People really like to imagine how the world will end
religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
🚨 New on my Substack!
THE END OF THE WORLD
A piece on the weird world of apocalyptic literature
People really like to imagine how the world will end
religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
THE END OF THE WORLD
A piece on the weird world of apocalyptic literature
People really like to imagine how the world will end
religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
The end of the world
The strange genre of apocalyptic literature
religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
🚨 New on my Substack!
THE END OF THE WORLD
A piece on the weird world of apocalyptic literature
People really like to imagine how the world will end
religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
THE END OF THE WORLD
A piece on the weird world of apocalyptic literature
People really like to imagine how the world will end
religionoffthebeatentrack.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
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For those interested in how Catholic Social Teaching is responding to AI, this in-passing remark of Pope Leo XIV when receiving an audience of actors and film producers is quite striking: "The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what 'works', but art opens up what is possible."
Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech
Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech
deadline.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
For those interested in how Catholic Social Teaching is responding to AI, this in-passing remark of Pope Leo XIV when receiving an audience of actors and film producers is quite striking: "The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what 'works', but art opens up what is possible."
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This has to be the funniest @churchtimes.bsky.social headline of the year, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This has to be the funniest @churchtimes.bsky.social headline of the year, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
1763 - an amusingly hyperbolic denunciation of Methodism
I have always considered Methodism, taken in the most favourable Light, as the most destructive and dangerous System, to Government and Society, that ever was established:
I have always considered Methodism, taken in the most favourable Light, as the most destructive and dangerous System, to Government and Society, that ever was established:
November 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
1763 - an amusingly hyperbolic denunciation of Methodism
I have always considered Methodism, taken in the most favourable Light, as the most destructive and dangerous System, to Government and Society, that ever was established:
I have always considered Methodism, taken in the most favourable Light, as the most destructive and dangerous System, to Government and Society, that ever was established:
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
"‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey: Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"‘Demonic’ Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey: Woman told to remove or cover up garment featuring 1908 illustration of Pan lest it offend worshippers"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Way back in '004 @petermanseau.bsky.social & I published a book called Killing the Buddha, for chapter of which we stayed w/ a military coven at a Pagan gathering. It was great. Paganism then was fastest growing affiliation. Good work, Pagans! Bonus points for freaking out Close-Shave Pete.
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Way back in '004 @petermanseau.bsky.social & I published a book called Killing the Buddha, for chapter of which we stayed w/ a military coven at a Pagan gathering. It was great. Paganism then was fastest growing affiliation. Good work, Pagans! Bonus points for freaking out Close-Shave Pete.
ICYMI
"In order to be saved you must be born again", said the pagan god.
I've produced a new translation of Corpus Hermeticum XIII, a text which discusses a transcendent experience of rebirth in an ancient Graeco-Egyptian context.
Any comments are welcome....
www.academia.edu/127827312/Co...
"In order to be saved you must be born again", said the pagan god.
I've produced a new translation of Corpus Hermeticum XIII, a text which discusses a transcendent experience of rebirth in an ancient Graeco-Egyptian context.
Any comments are welcome....
www.academia.edu/127827312/Co...
Corpus Hermeticum XIII - A new translation
Corpus Hermeticum XIII - A new translation
www.academia.edu
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
ICYMI
"In order to be saved you must be born again", said the pagan god.
I've produced a new translation of Corpus Hermeticum XIII, a text which discusses a transcendent experience of rebirth in an ancient Graeco-Egyptian context.
Any comments are welcome....
www.academia.edu/127827312/Co...
"In order to be saved you must be born again", said the pagan god.
I've produced a new translation of Corpus Hermeticum XIII, a text which discusses a transcendent experience of rebirth in an ancient Graeco-Egyptian context.
Any comments are welcome....
www.academia.edu/127827312/Co...
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Bond is, in fact, the sovereignty goddess of Britain, existing simultaneously as youthful and crone, wooed by successive unsuitable temporary partners until the true sovereign (Judy Dench) reveals herself
“It’s impossible to reboot Bond” says production team who decided Bond first got his licence to kill in the 21st Century, as Daniel Craig, then got incredibly old within two films and was being put out to pasture, but also had Sean Connery’s 1960s car.
It’s Bond. Just do whatever the fuck you like.
It’s Bond. Just do whatever the fuck you like.
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Bond is, in fact, the sovereignty goddess of Britain, existing simultaneously as youthful and crone, wooed by successive unsuitable temporary partners until the true sovereign (Judy Dench) reveals herself
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It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
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iirc Robert van Gulik noted that in Chinese culture- and sex manuals- kissing was considered a sexual act, only to be done in private.
This led europeans to conclude the Chinese never kissed, and the Chinese to conclude all European women were prostitutes.
This led europeans to conclude the Chinese never kissed, and the Chinese to conclude all European women were prostitutes.
In 1666, Pope Alexander VII affirmed that it is a mortal sin to kiss someone "for reason of the carnal and sensual pleasure which arises from the kiss".
(Reference: Denzinger, 1140)
(Reference: Denzinger, 1140)
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
iirc Robert van Gulik noted that in Chinese culture- and sex manuals- kissing was considered a sexual act, only to be done in private.
This led europeans to conclude the Chinese never kissed, and the Chinese to conclude all European women were prostitutes.
This led europeans to conclude the Chinese never kissed, and the Chinese to conclude all European women were prostitutes.
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Today in 1965, the first British law against racial discrimination was enacted.
I've written about what the parliamentary debates tell us about how little we've come in the intervening 60 years.
"The First Race Relations Act"
pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com/p/the-first-...
I've written about what the parliamentary debates tell us about how little we've come in the intervening 60 years.
"The First Race Relations Act"
pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com/p/the-first-...
The first Race Relations Act
How little has changed since 1965
pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Today in 1965, the first British law against racial discrimination was enacted.
I've written about what the parliamentary debates tell us about how little we've come in the intervening 60 years.
"The First Race Relations Act"
pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com/p/the-first-...
I've written about what the parliamentary debates tell us about how little we've come in the intervening 60 years.
"The First Race Relations Act"
pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com/p/the-first-...
In 1666, Pope Alexander VII affirmed that it is a mortal sin to kiss someone "for reason of the carnal and sensual pleasure which arises from the kiss".
(Reference: Denzinger, 1140)
(Reference: Denzinger, 1140)
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
In 1666, Pope Alexander VII affirmed that it is a mortal sin to kiss someone "for reason of the carnal and sensual pleasure which arises from the kiss".
(Reference: Denzinger, 1140)
(Reference: Denzinger, 1140)
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My 1st trip to London was in Dec.'79, I was 19: coming from Rome, the presence of people from many countries and 'races' was something that really struck me & my friends
Funny fact: one night we decided to go to a disco, following advice of a guide booklet which turned out to be out of date! 1 ->
Funny fact: one night we decided to go to a disco, following advice of a guide booklet which turned out to be out of date! 1 ->
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 AM
My 1st trip to London was in Dec.'79, I was 19: coming from Rome, the presence of people from many countries and 'races' was something that really struck me & my friends
Funny fact: one night we decided to go to a disco, following advice of a guide booklet which turned out to be out of date! 1 ->
Funny fact: one night we decided to go to a disco, following advice of a guide booklet which turned out to be out of date! 1 ->
Today in 1965, the first British law against racial discrimination was enacted.
I've written about what the parliamentary debates tell us about how little we've come in the intervening 60 years.
"The First Race Relations Act"
pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com/p/the-first-...
I've written about what the parliamentary debates tell us about how little we've come in the intervening 60 years.
"The First Race Relations Act"
pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com/p/the-first-...
The first Race Relations Act
How little has changed since 1965
pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Today in 1965, the first British law against racial discrimination was enacted.
I've written about what the parliamentary debates tell us about how little we've come in the intervening 60 years.
"The First Race Relations Act"
pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com/p/the-first-...
I've written about what the parliamentary debates tell us about how little we've come in the intervening 60 years.
"The First Race Relations Act"
pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com/p/the-first-...
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THE DAY THE BRITISH STATE ABOLISHED HELL
Anglicanism is what you get when the English encounter the Catholic doctrines of sin and damnation and think "they can't be talking about us".
/1
Anglicanism is what you get when the English encounter the Catholic doctrines of sin and damnation and think "they can't be talking about us".
/1
November 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
THE DAY THE BRITISH STATE ABOLISHED HELL
Anglicanism is what you get when the English encounter the Catholic doctrines of sin and damnation and think "they can't be talking about us".
/1
Anglicanism is what you get when the English encounter the Catholic doctrines of sin and damnation and think "they can't be talking about us".
/1
THE DAY THE BRITISH STATE ABOLISHED HELL
Anglicanism is what you get when the English encounter the Catholic doctrines of sin and damnation and think "they can't be talking about us".
/1
Anglicanism is what you get when the English encounter the Catholic doctrines of sin and damnation and think "they can't be talking about us".
/1
November 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
THE DAY THE BRITISH STATE ABOLISHED HELL
Anglicanism is what you get when the English encounter the Catholic doctrines of sin and damnation and think "they can't be talking about us".
/1
Anglicanism is what you get when the English encounter the Catholic doctrines of sin and damnation and think "they can't be talking about us".
/1
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ICE won't allow communion to be given in detention centers because demons quail and shiver at the divine presence in the Host.
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
ICE won't allow communion to be given in detention centers because demons quail and shiver at the divine presence in the Host.
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Roman snake bracelet with a medallion of the goddess Selene, circa 1st century AD.
November 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Roman snake bracelet with a medallion of the goddess Selene, circa 1st century AD.