Category Archives: occultism
Letter from W.D. Fard to Elijah Mohammed, dated Dec. 18, 1933
Those who’ve perused the kobek.com mainsite know that I have a long and abiding interest in early 20th century esoteric African-American and Afro-Caribbean religion; this was, at one point, intended to be the subject of an anthology of original writings … Continue reading
The Oldest History of the World (1926) by Benny Evangelist
The first and foremost of my sub rosa publishing efforts, a reissue of the 1926 Freak Masterpiece, The Oldest History of the World Discovered by Occult Science in Detroit Michigan by Benny Evangelist, is now available in handy PDF format. … Continue reading
Archival Purposes: John Whiteside Parsons a/k/a/ Jack Parsons FBI Files
(Normal people should ignore this post.) FBI Freedom of Information Act Files on Jack Parsons. Part One Part Two
From the Archives: Ted Serios & Thoughtography
The Thoughtography of Ted Serios was a phenomena of the 1960s– as credulous a decade as this country has ever seen– and it produced an excellent work of Fortean literature, The World of Ted Serios: “Thoughtographic” Studies of an Extraordinary … Continue reading
Lilith and the Starman
1972: Bowie is a Soul Brother Warrior Hipster from Outer Space and Marianne Faithful is a junky just back from Egypt and the Black Forest of Germany, where she’d played the role of Lilith in Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising:
Prophet Olga, Los Angeles, Echo Park, and Me
So there’s this woman in Los Angeles named Prophet Olga Soto, who is infamous for predicting the appearance of Jesus at the lake in Echo Park. If you aren’t from LA, you know Echo Park and its lake from the … Continue reading
One last chance to make it real
Any individual monitoring the pre-primary Election 2008 chatter, can’t have missed that one of the biggest issues thus far has been Mitt Romney’s Mormonism and what it means. There are many good reasons to find Romney disturbing– like his apparent … Continue reading