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Elizabeth Weinberg's avatar

The connection with Reagan to MPH is so interesting. I feel blessed to live practically around the corner from the PRS. I’m also intrigued by the theory that he was murdered by grifters… (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-22-me-11645-story.html)

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𝐌𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳's avatar

I write about Hall's tragic death in Occult America and Modern Occultism. My conclusion is that he was not murdered but was a victim of what we today would call "elder abuse."

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Elizabeth Weinberg's avatar

I have to get reading! My book pile is daunting. I’m still working on One Simple Idea and this Thomas Troward tome that’s like 800 lb 😆

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Bradley Vee's avatar

Well done, Mitch.

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Undistorted, Radical Clarity's avatar

This is the kind of layered, careful work that’s rarely attempted—let alone pulled off. You walk the razor’s edge between respect for myth and accountability to the historical record without collapsing into the extremes of blind belief or cynical dismissal. I deeply appreciated how you gave Hall his due as a synthesizer of meaning, while also interrogating the romanticism and omissions that still echo in spiritual Americana today.

Your framing of Freemasonry not as a nefarious cabal but as a protective container for seekers resisting dogma was especially clarifying. I also found the inclusion of Prince Hall Masonry and the correction of its historical timeline incredibly important—not just as an archival point, but because it reframes how Black esoteric tradition was foundational, not marginal, to American spiritual identity.

You’re doing real excavation here—of ideas, symbols, and distortions that still shape our collective psyche. Thank you for not turning away from the mess and myth of it all.

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Peace River's avatar

... the Mayan ritualized violence traditionsare codified 'false feeling of life' bestowed by experiencing or witnessing violence, which is AKA "appetite for aggression' or simply 'bloodlust'. I recognize this in the bread and circuses plantation of big sports, in NRA and their cosplay as military and their religious ecstasy of school shooting rituals, and in the rhetoric of MAGA and its adherents:

The 'F..Biden' flags put where children can see. The aggressive wearing of trumpery merch to illicit responses from 'the Adversary', the constant smug hope of unrest and predictions of civil War and End Times.

Our USA, at this point, will probably go down in remembered history as a death cult, everything good overshadowed by this hungry ghost appetite for aggression that MAGA requires to feel alive.

And oh yeah, Reagan was the very epitome of the 'Satanist' on which his whole Satanic Panic fearmongering Way was based. All is projection in the Novus Ordo Seclorum. If impact is Greater than Intent, our right to individual search for freedom truth and way is what makes America Great. No individual is my enemy, no Ordo my friend.

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