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"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness" Aleister Crowley.

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Dion Fortune (1890 - 1946)

occult writer of novels and non-fiction books

adept in ceremonial magick

pioneer psychiatrist on religious thought in occultism.

Born Violet Mary Firth in Bryn-y-Bia, Llandudno, North Wales on 6th December 1890, the daughter of a solicitor. She showed mediumistic abilities at an early age reputedly having had visions and dreams of Atlantis as early as four years old. Later she claimed to have been a priestess there in a past life. 

(http://www.servantsofthelight.org/aboutSOL/bio-dion-fortune.html)

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Tamsin Blight (1798-1856)

Also known as Tammy Blee,was the so-called ' Witch of Helston,'and undoubtedly the greatest of the Cornish conjurors during the nineteenth-century.She was well respected by many in her time for her skills in areas of charm making, divination, healing, herb lore, necromancy and spell breaking. Tammy may even have employed ‘Shamanic' style methods in communicating with spirits and seeing the future for she would make use of hallucinogenic substances to aid her trance induced workings.

An old Cornish folk tale called “The Ghost of Stythians” tells the tale of Tamsin Blight raising the spirit (in Stythians graveyard) of an old woman, who had recently died, for a male relative who wanted to know were she had stashed the money she was supposed to have left him. The ritual involved the construction of a charmed ring to protect the man, and a long, slowly-pronounced incantation. She then appealed to the spirits of Fire, Air, Earth, and Water, and amid strange sounds of crashing and rending of wood and stones, mingled with painful moans, groans and shrieks, which seemed to come from the old woman's grave, the spirit of the dead woman was raised and questioned.

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Marie Laveau (September 10, 1782 – June 16, 1881)

Laveau was a Creole practitioner of Voodoo  born and renown in New Orleans. 

Her daughter Marie Laveau II (1827 — c. 1895) also practiced Voudoun, and historical accounts often confuse the two. She and her mother had great influence over their multiracial following. "In 1874 as many as twelve thousand spectators, swarmed to the shores of Lake Pontchartrain  to catch a glimpse of Marie Laveau II performing her legendary rites on St. Jon's Eve (June 23–24).

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Caption: Hans Holzer and British psychic medium Sybil Leek question the ghost of Hungry Lucy from a case with actress June Havoc. Photo courtesy Alexandra Holzer.

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Lady Molly Leighs' cottage.

"Molly Leigh, Molly Leigh, Chase me around the apple tree."

There are stories that her ghost appeared to walk the streets of Burslem apologising for her sins. Further stories claim that her spirit was exorcised by a group of several priests and that while it was successful, some of them died in the process.

Some claim that if one skips around her grave three times chanting the mantra abovementioned  her spirit will return. 

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Lady Sybil Leek (1917-1982)

Astrologer, Witch, Psychic and Occultist.

Born on 22 February 1917 in the village of Normacot in Staffordshire, England. Sybil claimed to have a long family history of witchcraft which she traced back to the 16th century and to her ancestor Molly Leigh, who had been accused during the witch hunt.

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Edward Crowley (c.1830–1887)

Aleister Crowley's father.

The Crowley family were Christian; Aleister's father had been been born a Quaker, but had converted to the Exclusive Brethren, a more conservative faction of a denomination known as the Plymouth Brethren.

“If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.”

Aleister Crowley

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Emily Bertha Bishop (1848-1917)

Aleister Crowley's mother

"...her powerful maternal instincts were suppressed by religion to the point that she became, after her husband's death, a brainless bigot of the most narrow, logical and inhuman type" 

Aleister Crowley

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"One must have a house where proper precautions against disturbance can be taken; this being arranged, there is really nothing to do but to aspire with increasing fervor and concentration, for six months, towards the obtaining of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel".

Aleister Crowley. 

Boleskine House was the estate of Aleister Crowley from 1899 to 1913. It is located on the South-Eastern shore of Loch Ness in Scotland. It was built in the late 18th century by Archibald Fraser.

Crowley purchased the home in order to perform the operation found in The Book of the Sacred Magick of Abra-Melin the Mage. In order to perform it.

Although Crowley, who grandly claimed to be the Devil's representative on earth, died in 1947, the house continues to be the subject of some supernatural debate, with visitors there often complaining of feeling a strange and sinister atmosphere.

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"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales."

Aleister Crowley

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"I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman."

Aleister Crowley