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The Modern Occultist Interview  #22 Nick: Host of "The Occult Rejects Podcast" Nick is the host of The Occult Rejects and founder of the Occult Research Institute . His journey began with an interest in conspiracy theories before developing into a deeper study of ceremonial magic, Qabalah, planetary magic, meditation, and occult philosophy. Drawing from his background in the OTO, he brings together practitioners, researchers, and scholars from widely different traditions, with the goal of connecting serious historical research, practical experience, and overlooked areas of esoteric thought.   MODERN OCCULTIST You come at this from an OTO background, but the show hosts everything from Voodoo to Plotinus to elemental witchcraft. Do you find yourself translating other traditions into ceremonial-magic terms to make sense of them, or has hosting so many different practitioners actually changed how you think about your own system?   NICK I think the answer is both....

ON THIS DAY IN OCCULT HISTORY November 15 The Grimoires of Albertus Magnus (Affiliate disclosure: Some links on this blog may earn us a small commission at no cost to you. Every bit helps keep the lantern lit.) In the winter of 1249, so the story goes, a Dominican friar in Cologne invited William of Holland, King of the Romans, to dine with him. The king and his courtiers arrived to find the tables laid outdoors in the convent garden, deep in snow, and grumbled at their host’s folly. Then, as they sat down, the snow melted away, the sun blazed, the trees burst into leaf and blossom, and birds began to sing. The moment the meal ended, winter returned. Astonished, the king granted the friar the land he wanted. It never happened. But the friar was real, and he died in Cologne on November 15, 1280. He was a bishop, a teacher of saints, one of the greatest scientists of the Middle Ages, and eventually a saint himself, and yet for seven centuries his name has been printed on the cove...