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Marco Visconti

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News, Books & Magick ➡️ www.marcovisconti.org Author, Occult Researcher & Alchemy Enthusiast

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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 27/09/2026
In the first episode of my October cemetery series, I explore Nunhead Cemetery through the lenses of ghost hunting and psychogeography as I search for the genius loci.
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I Went Ghost Hunting at Nunhead Cemetery... but Found Something Stranger
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 26/09/2026
My review of Lon Milo DuQuette's classic primer is now on the TABI page 🤘
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Book Review: The Magick of Aleister Crowley: A Handbook of the Rituals of Thelema
Author: Lon Milo DuQuette Publisher: Weiser Books (an imprint of Red Wheel Weiser) Publication Year: 2022 RRP: US $24.95 / UK £21.99 ISBN-10 : 1578637880 ISBN-13 : 978-1578637881 Reviewed by: Marco…
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cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Being bitter about the work of other is not a default writer setting, it is a choice. A bloody awful choice. Don’t do it kids. It withers your soul and the rest of us get bored hearing about it.
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Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Last night were honoured to celebrate the creator and community of @hookland.bsky.social . Christina and David in the subterranean Hades before the main event.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 23/09/2026
May we all find a way to unlock what needs unlocking.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 21/09/2026
Magicians, witches, neopagans... here's your annual reminder of the actual Equinox date, as well as the fact that "Mabon" is a Welsh divine figure that has nothing to do with it.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 18/09/2026
Another day, another must-read book. In the final months of 2026, buy these instead of yet another occult book that will not help you in any shape or form understand the world we live in.
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Peter Thiel's Anti-Christ Obsession and the Coming Civil War
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 17/09/2026
Small mercies: after being dropped from Ed Sheeran’s "Loop Tour," Macklemore pledged his full $1 million earnings to six Palestinian relief organisations (including PCRF and HEAL Palestine) and challenged billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft (who pressured promoters to remove him) to match it.
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Francesco Dimitri @francescodimitri.com · 16/09/2026
An old friend, who was the inspiration for a key character in the book, talks of Pan, the passing of time, and the curse of Greyface… @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social @marcovisconti.org www.marcovisconti.org/news/frances...
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 16/09/2026
This will be a must-read book, coming out in the next few days.
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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 15/09/2026
Today is the anniversary of both the birth and death of Andrew D. Chumbley, the original Magister of the Cultus Sabbati and one of the most interesting occult artists of the modern era.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 14/09/2026
REVIEWS NEEDED! Your usual reminder to spend 5 minutes leaving a review for my books if you haven't done it yet, both on Amazon and on Goodreads. Links below. Thanks 🙏🏻 📚 GOODREADS: www.goodreads.com/author/list/... 📚 AMAZON: www.amazon.com/stores/Marco...
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 13/09/2026
"Marco, I thought I would see you at [Insert British/European Occult Conference], why weren't you there?" Because I stopped going to events organised by genocide-denying zionists, "sex realists", conspiracy theorists, and/or people who have no qualms about working with these types.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 12/09/2026
I am seeing a "Christian Witch" beginning to get an algorithmic push on social media, and I am old enough to remember the "ChristoWicca" of the early 00s. 🧵⬇️
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 10/09/2026
Anybody who has spent much time around the magical revival of the past decade has probably had quite enough of synchronicity. Especially if it's been completely hijacked.
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WHAT HAPPENED TO SYNCHRONICITY?
Are You Seeing Signs, or Just Being Targeted?
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 09/09/2026
New day, new scam from people posing as literary agents...
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 08/09/2026
As a corollary to the previous post, let's not forget that one of the two leaders of Germany’s AfD, Alice Weidel, is a lesbian woman living with her Sri Lankan-born Swiss female partner and their two sons, whom Weidel adopted...
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 07/09/2026
Some 20 years ago, when I was deeply involved in the industrial-goth scene and touring the German festivals extensively every year, I started lamenting the danger of a resurgence of love for fascist aesthetics and themes far beyond what the goths and riveheads of the 80s and 90s flirted with.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 04/09/2026
I just ran a little experiment, and I can now confirm that a properly trained LLM (that is, one given specific, tailored sources) can ace any A∴A∴ student examination I ever saw or prepared. I wonder how the various lineages will deal with this little issue.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 03/09/2026
Imagine spending your actual time to write a comment like this. One has to realise that no thought went into it. No more than five seconds were spent checking who you were writing to or what was being discussed. Just the pure reactive mind. We are so, so screwed as a society.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 02/09/2026
BABALON UNVEILED 🍷 I can finally share the news. The contract is signed, and Babalon Unveiled is officially on its way. The book will be a bold and accessible exploration of one of the most powerful and misunderstood figures in modern occultism.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 01/09/2026
Your average interaction in any occult or esoteric group nowadays: an AI-generated slop image, a quote attributed to someone who never said it, and people experiencing a full-scale religious psychosis. Truly, the great occult revival we were promised. I don’t think it has ever been worse.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 31/08/2026
"La Mistica di Aleister Crowley", in arrivo il 15 Novembre per i tipi de Lo Scarabeo Tarot 📖 amzn.eu/d/050Vczqr
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 30/08/2026
One of the most important discussions to have in occulture. Well done, Angela!
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Is Ancient Magic Really More Powerful? The Truth About Old vs New Magic
YouTube video by Angela's Symposium
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 29/08/2026
Checking out the shelfie threads on Reddit and spotting your books is always a nice feeling.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 29/08/2026
A great resource about what the O.T.O. experience is really like, by someone who has been there, done that, and got the scars: lapis-mercurii.org/lvx/oto-a-hi...
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Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.): An Analysis of a High-Control Group – Light in Extension
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 27/08/2026
“Marco, why are you always writing against the idea of an occult community?” It’s because I inhabited several versions of it and almost all are made by ultra-reactionaries, zionists, “sex realists”, “race realists”, and other despicable individuals.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 26/08/2026
In this new piece, I look at the Masonic roots of Thelemic initiation, the candidate as a kind of living talisman, the role of the lodge egregore, and what happens when the institution survives but the current itself has gone.
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THE LODGE YOU THINK YOU WANT MAY NO LONGER EXIST
Why Thelemites still Dream of Initiation, What Freemasonry actually Gave Us, and What Happens when the Current Dies
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 24/08/2026
Black Stars in Dim Carcosa just reached 666 cumulative sales across physical, digital, and audiobook formats! I am currently exploring how IngramSpark works, so I can finally offer it to the several booksellers who asked about it... Watch this space for more information soon.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 24/08/2026
"Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart? Where I am these are not. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler." AL II.46-48
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 23/08/2026
The rise of support in the USA for figures like Hasan Piker and the Democratic Socialists of America is one of the few genuinely good news stories of the last year.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 18/08/2026
Since another new ager posted the same bullshit, and blocked me when I corrected him, lets remind everyone that there was no literal “Battle of Blythe Road.” Ellic Howe coined that wonderfully dramatic phrase as the title of Chapter 15 of The Magicians of the Golden Dawn. 🧵⬇️
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 17/08/2026
Every single time I glance back at Shitter, I find more and more insanity. The pandemic really broke these people's tiny brains.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 17/08/2026
Guess what... the website that has been promoted non-stop as "app for unbiased news" is another psyop.
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Is Ground News a Psy-Op?
YouTube video by Literate Machine
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 17/08/2026
It always breaks my heart when I see a younger person who discovered Thelema over the last decade, especially during the pandemic boom, start attending O.T.O. events in their local community and get excited about having finally “found like-minded individuals.”
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 15/08/2026
“But Marco, if you translated Bertiaux’s Lucky Hoodoo into Italian back in 2004, why didn’t you publish your first book until 2023?” Mostly because I spent the intervening twenty-odd years doing this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um5n...
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Faderhead - When The Freaks Come Out (Official Music Video)
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 12/08/2026
Tonight, the Sun will almost disappear over Britain, and despite what WitchTok will tell you, astrology has never regarded eclipses as benevolent “portals”; yet an interruption of this magnitude can still become the instrument of serious magical work.
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WHEN THE SUN IS WOUNDED
The Astrology and Magick of the 12 August Eclipse
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 11/08/2026
Since social media is always about projecting a fake image of constant success, I just sent my 75th literary agency query, and I received my first rejection. Welcome to real life.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 10/08/2026
What happens when Thelema stops asking Aleister Crowley for permission?
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THE LAW MUST OUTLIVE THE PROPHET
What Happens When Thelema Stops Asking Aleister Crowley for Permission?
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 09/08/2026
Can a Thelemite truly be compassionate when Liber AL declares that “compassion is the vice of kings”?
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COMPASSION IS THE VICE OF KINGS
Pity, Cruelty, and the Sacrament of Suffering in Thelema
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The withering of the year has come early. The land tells its distress in brittle grass bleached as bone, tells it in paths made of furious dust. It screams to us through drought cicatrix of cracked earth. We walk a territory of trauma. We should expect ghosts. – #DAKilroy
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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A Hookland sea serpent, not just for #SeaSerpentDay 🖤🌀🤍
an undulating sea creature emerging from the watery depths with a black and white coastline in the background. Linocut bookmark, black and white, Maria Strutz
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 07/08/2026
48 — Ordinary Primate. The Restored Manuscript. cadence 72 · vigil 19 · lexicon 50 · polish 89 · drift 12 · chorus 55 Six lines read off all 1,663 of my posts. A percentile among 77 accounts, not an AI detector. b.mino.mobi/palm/?u=marcovisconti.o…
A six-spoke radar chart of stylometric readings for @marcovisconti.org. Cadence (how metronomic you are) 72th percentile; Vigil (how little you sleep) 19th percentile; Lexicon (how narrow your words) 50th percentile; Polish (how immaculate you are) 89th percentile; Drift (how unchanging you are) 12th percentile; Chorus (how much you broadcast) 55th percentile. Composite 48 of 100, "Ordinary Primate", archetype "The Restored Manuscript" — Impeccable, and about something else entirely now. (Polish 89 over Drift 12). The scale runs from Pan (least machine-like) to the Loom (most). These are percentiles among 77 real accounts, not a probability that anything was machine-written.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 07/08/2026
I am currently being berated in the comment section of my popular Instagram reel about Barbara Bush having nothing to do with Crowley by an ultra-queer Latino man who goes by "sailor_goon666" and insists I cannot speak English and that Crowley was connected to Epstein. How did we get here?
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 06/08/2026
Mercury has now fully cleared its retrograde shadow in Cancer. We are now in relatively clear astrological territory until late October. Take a breath, move ahead with those contracts and decisions, and enjoy the temporary return of cosmic order.
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 04/08/2026
Everybody hates influencers, right? And rightly so. Too bad this ongoing trend keeps spelling doom for everyone trying to work outside the boundaries of a job market that doesn't even truly exist anymore. Late-stage capitalism working exactly as intended.
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The recession has finally hit the influencer economy
YouTube video by Ashley Embers
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 03/08/2026
Do you still listen to podcasts as much as you did during the pandemic years? I used to hoover them up, now I only keep up with a couple .
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 02/08/2026
My latest for Mere Thelema: www.merethelema.com/2026/08/02/w...
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When Occultists Go Back to Church
As contemporary occultists increasingly turn to traditional Christianity for ritual and community, Marco Visconti warns against letting aesthetic appeal blind us to the political dangers of religio…
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Marco Visconti @marcovisconti.org · 01/08/2026
I have been shouting it from the roofs for a while already. Because if it’s bad for journalists, imagine how bad it must be for people in niche interests. Every single time an established “voice” joins a platform it doesn’t help widening the audience: it cannibalises the little that’s left.
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The Real Reason that Substack is Collapsing
The Subscription Model Has Maxed Out
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
No work will be done in Hookland today. It's the Puck Fairs. Epic bouts of storytelling, drinking, love-making and other funs of the fair. #Lughnasadh
August 1st – Puck Fairs 
Starting on the old Celtic festival of Lughnasadh and lasting for two days, the Puck Fair is a pre-mediaeval tradition that is still going strong in Hookland. Associated with St. Urian and the faery folk, legend has it that the fairs started as the one point in the year when Hookland and Faeryland were close enough that trade between the two realms was possible. This is often offered as an explanation as to why the fairs used to be held on hilltops sacred to the faery. Whatever their actual origins, the Puck Fairs have become two days when an annual horse and cattle fair is supplemented by traditional matchmaking such as the 24-hour trial marriage (where the couple put together may separate at the end of the fair without any consequence), dances, bouts of wrestling and stick-fighting, horse races, story-telling contests and colossal amounts of drinking. Brutally suppressed during the Cromwellian Commonwealth, condemned by Methodists, often a source of modern moral outrage and an aggravation to the police, the Puck Fairs have proven to be a tradition that is exceptionally hard to kill off. Some have noted there is an increase in the number of people who disappear around the time of the Puck Fairs.
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