The Occult: Hidden Knowledge in the World of Darkness with Josh Heath

Terry Robinson chats with Josh Heath, COO of High Level Games and host of Werewolf: The Podcast discuss the occult.

Show Notes

• How different game lines in World of Darkness handles the occult
• The Eldritch horrors of H.P. Lovecraft
• Aleister Crowley’s Thelema and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
• The Yazidis
• Neo-Paganism
• Occult understanding vs occult knowledge
• Orders within the World of Darkness most associated with the occult
• Secrets and mysteries
• Initiatory magic
• Expressions of the occult in Vampire: The Masquerade
• The Sabbat
• The Cain and Abel/vampire paradox
• The Tremere
• Vaulderie and Quintessence
• Nephandi
• Guide to the Sabbat: A Sourcebook for Vampire the Masquerade
• Mudang
• RPGs as storytelling and LARPs as theatre; “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”
• Yoga as an occult practice; hidden knowledge; wisdom passed down in lineages
• Mystery cults bearing the hallmarks of the occult
• Jack Tripp
• Opus Dei
• Sufism; Kabbalah
• The Wyrm; Gnosticism
• Street level occultism
• The Arcanum
• Rituals in society and rituals in occult; Snowhaven

Books to read to further your occult knowledge:

• The Mystery-Religions
• Three Books of Occult Philosophy
• Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation
• Songs of the Shaman: The Ritual Chants of the Korean Mudang
• The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order
• The Book of the Law

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