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The Secret History of MasSUSchusetts (Pt. 2A): Historical Materia Ultima
🕑 Added 2023-07-04 18:37:15 +0000 UTC***Hey folks, Klonny here. Finally getting all of the free feed EPs uploaded. My nose has been pressed to the grindstone, hard at work preparing a batch of new episodes. The final part of our "Comparative Paranoid Analysis of The Crying of Lot 49 & Lodge 49" will be dropping shortly, followed by the first installment in a brand new, in-depth miniseries tracing occult & pagan influences on Nazism & the Third Reich—starting w/ an examination of Theosophy, Thule-Gesselschaft, & a return to New England to cover William Dudley Pelley & his Silver Shirts. There's also a follow-up on German Rosicrucianism in colonial Philadelphia & the third part of the "Fin De Siècle Symbolists, Satanists, & French-British Sex Trafficking Networks" series on the way. Stay tuned!***
The second episode of ParaPower Mapping continues our investigation of The Secret History of MasSUSchusetts and kicks off a mini-series within the series, throughout which we will map the New England node of a transatlantic alchemical & Rosicrucian brotherhood that set the English colonization of America in motion, founded plantations & settlements patterned after alchemical "utopian" visions, and pushed for the colonies to institute slavery in the service of "economic development".
Episode II includes: Protestant eschatological schemes of world domination; accompanying philosophies such as millenarianism and pansophism; the life of Jan Comenius; some basic Christian alchemical terminology; the archwizard John Dee, his plans for a Protestant British global empire, his Arthurian justifications for colonizing the New World, his influence on American alchemists like John Winthrop Jr., & his belief that his work was inspired by angels (perhaps he was wrong… and he was conversing with demons instead); the relationship between Francis Bacon & John Dee and their influence on Rosicrucianism; a discussion of the Rosicrucian manifestos Fama Fraternitatis, Confessio, & The Chymical Wedding; the Invisible College/ Royal Society; a ton of Rosicrucian Enlightenment figures, such as Isaac Newton, Elias Ashmole, Michael Maier, Samuel Hartlib & the Hartlib Circle, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, Robert Boyle, Robert Fludd; the introduction of American alchemists like John Winthrop the Younger & George Starkey; the odyssey of Scottish alchemist Alexander Seton, who toured Europe performing the transmutation of metals into gold; the Rosicrucian royals Frederick & Elizabeth of Bohemia and their brief reign prior to the Thirty Years War; connections between Rosicrucianism and speculative Scottish Freemasonry; the Ancient & Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis (AMORC); a possible voyage to Massachusetts by the Scottish Sinclair family (who are connected to the Templars, Rosicrucianism, & Freemasonry) and a Venetian prince named Zeno; Puritan and Protestant practitioners of Cabala, alchemy, and magic; the prevalence of the occult in colonial New England and Puritan interpretations of Biblical magic; various judges of the Court of Oyer & Terminer from the Salem Trials & their connections to alchemy & witches; Col. Israel Stoughton, father-in-law of alchemist George Starkey, and his involvement in the Pequot War and the enslavement of Native Americans and connections to the slave-trading Endecott family; Cotton Mather's interests in astrology, bibliomancy, and Cabala; the Harvard alchemical curriculum and various Ivy League practitioners of alchemy; the Pequot War; John Winthrop Jr.’s alchemical plantation in Connecticut; a psychogeographic history of King’s Chapel and the King’s Chapel Burying Ground; the podcaster's uncanny experience photographing the tombstone of the Winthrop family tomb in the King's Chapel Burying Ground and a blue orb appearing; evidence from Levenda for a Massachusetts curse; the beginnings of a thesis of the alchemical transmutation of America into a land of unbridled profits for the capitalist ruling elite; etc.
Some of the texts cited in this episode:
| Dame Frances Yates - The Rosicrucian Enlightenment & The Occult in the Elizabethan Age |
| Peter Levenda - Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft |
| Jason Louv - John Dee and the Empire of Angels |
| Steven Sora - Rosicrucian America |
| D. Michael Quinn - Early Mormonism and the Magic World View |
| Lewis Putnam Turco - Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England & New England |
| Walter H. Woodward - Prospero’s America: John Winthrop Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture |
Songs:
| XTC - Human Alchemy |
| Wheel of Fortune (Australia) - Theme from 1981 - 1985 |
| Boldy James (Prod. Alchemist) - Pinto |
| The Sugarcubes - Dear Plastic |
| Cathedral - Alchemist of Sorrow |
