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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm giving a talk on my new book on ancient Greek mystical traditions on Thursday 19 November at 7pm GMT.... It's being livestreamed, so you can attend virtually! www.youtube.com/live/YbUMd6Q...

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Children of Starry Heaven

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚨 OUT NOW!! 🚨 My new book "Children of Starry Heaven" A complete introduction to the ancient Greek esoteric traditions. Published by Cherry Hill Seminary (@chseminary.bsky.social). 1/

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Je n'entre pas en débat avec cet homme. Je ne sais pas qui a créé l'image (c'est une question pour l'éditeur), et il existe des avis différents sur l'AI, mais aborder ce sujet en réponse à un tweet célébrant un nouveau livre, c'est un vrai dick move. Je l'ai bloqué.

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Grievous Angel @grievousangel.net · 02/10/2026

Copped this and reading it now. Well written, comprehensive and fascinating. Excellent.

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It covers everything from the Orphics to the Neoplatonists, and from Eleusis to the PGM. It is the book that I would have wanted to read as a student. /3

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the only book currently available on the market that provides a solid general introduction to ancient Greek esotericism - it is academically credible but assumes no prior knowledge from the reader. /2

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🚨 OUT NOW!! 🚨 My new book "Children of Starry Heaven" A complete introduction to the ancient Greek esoteric traditions. Published by Cherry Hill Seminary (@chseminary.bsky.social). 1/

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I do wonder, though, how far belief was ever really the point (outside devout and clerical circles). Christianity in its different forms often functions as an orthopractic ethnic religion. In some manifestations it's not unlike Judaism or Shinto.

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I like being an Anglican because of the cool dressing up and big organs, even though I'm not really sure about all the God stuff." - Prof. Sir Roger Scruton

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On Lefebvre: "I remember Archbishop Lefèbvre with respect and affection – as a much misunderstood and much maligned man. Just because I can no longer believe what he did, that does not stop me still admiring the man I knew personally."

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The seminary routine: "One of my professors was an ex-British Army officer, and he once remarked to me: 'Many of my men would not last a week here!' It was indeed run like a military academy."

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Love in the seminary: "my dark-haired young man had been refused the tonsure, as they had doubts about his suitability. From then on we spent more and more time together.... I fell head over heels in love with him. We even managed to spend several nights together locked in loving embraces!"

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On a retreat: "the priest got me to confess to “sodomy” and reduced me to a tearful nervous wreck.... It wasn’t until decades later that I realized what the stupid bastard... had done. I... thought it was an archaic term for a male kissing and cuddling another male and, yes, having a mutual wank"

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On his conversion experience: "When I saw a biretta on a pile of books in the room to which he had led me, I knew that I had found what I had been looking for."

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Really fascinating account from a gay British seminarian at the SSPX seminary in Econe in the late 1970s. (He left before he was ordained.) www.reddit.com/r/ExTraditio...

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have a new online article: "The most based church ever: The forgotten history of the Labour Church" A Victorian experiment in combining a spirituality deriving from immanentist theology with Labour politics. Based. robindouglas.org/2026/09/18/t...

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The most based church ever

The forgotten history of the Labour Church May the strength and joy of God’s presence be with all who love their brethren in sincerity, Amen. This piece is about a now-forgotten experiment in moder…

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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The most based church ever

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm delighted to confirm that my forthcoming book, "The Myth of the Jewish Conspiracy" is now listed on the Exeter University Press website. The price is £30, and the publication date is 7 December 2027. www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/the...

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The Myth of the Jewish Conspiracy

The idea that a conspiracy of Jews is attempting to control the world is one of the most enduring myths of the modern age. In The Myth of the Jewish Conspiracy, Robin Douglas traces the history of thi...

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

After 9/11, various people in the West went in search of the ideology which had inspired the attacks and attempted to trace it to its sources. Here are some old notes on Islamism which I'm republishing from my old blog: pagesfromahistoriansnotebook.substack.com/p/some-notes...

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Some notes on Islamism

I’m reposting here some material on Islamism that I originally posted some years ago on my old blog.

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Beatles had this magickal quality - the Stones didn't. Taylor Swift has it - Charli XCX doesn't. Michael Jackson had it - Stevie Wonder didn't. David Bowie had it - Bob Dylan didn't. 2/2

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Paul McCartney once described the Beatles as having the quality of magick, with a k. There are some acts who are like this and some who just aren't, no matter how talented and original they are. 1/2

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well, Arthur was probably a bit of a Tory. There are limits, though.

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think a few muffled cries and general sounds of rotating were heard from Arthur's grave when Boris became PM.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Though there is a amusing thought that AI researchers might find that instead of creating the scientific super-intelligence of an Asimov novel they end up getting the machine equivalent of an erratic but well-read penniless intellectual that you'd find in a 19th century Istanbul or Vienna coffehouse

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

FREE LAUNCH EVENT in Glastonbury 🚨 I'll be speaking about my book at 7pm at Becket's Inn in Glasto on Friday 9 October. Please come along!

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Anyone is free to read the Substack.

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Here it is: www.facebook.com/groups/17291... I have also started a Substack on the Abramelin here: abramelinpapers.substack.com

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Are you interested in joining an online study group on the Book of Abramelin? (You'll know immediately if you are or not!) If so, please click on the link in the next tweet. Please also retweet this for publicity 🙏

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Darth Vader briefly celebrated as a hero on Bluesky after it is discovered at least one insurance CEO or banker was on Alderaan but is swiftly cancelled upon the revelation he built a clanker as a child.

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

29 August - British ambassador gives note to Hitler 30 August - Hitler’s reply considered 31 August - Hitler sets up defence council 1 September - Hitler demands Danzig 2 September - Britain issues ultimatum /End

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

23 August - Emergency powers legislation proposed 24 August - Hitler rejects British guarantee of Poland 25 August - Emergency powers legislation enacted 26 August - Hitler cancels scheduled engagement 28 August - Hitler demands Danzig /7

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

15 August - Escaped prisoner caught 16 August - Mobbing of film star 17 August - Boy who nearly drowned 18 August - Boy bitten by snake 19 August - “Baby is towed six miles by car” 21 August - Cabinet hurrying back to London 22 August - People killed by lightning strike /6

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

7 August - People sleeping in the open at night 8 August - Lost luggage of holidaymakers 9 August - A plane crash 10 August - Lost luggage of holidaymakers again 11 August - Rich man in iron lung gets married 12 August - A murder 14 August - Axis war plans /5

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here is the complete list of headlines: 1 August 1939 - A boy is birched (cc @edwardW2) 2 August 1939 - Protests in the military about food 3 August - A racehorse owner quits horseracing 4 August - Nazi agents in Britain 5 August - Gas explosion in London /4

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It looks like, until a very late stage, people didn't know - and weren't told - what was coming. /3

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I looked up the Daily Mirror's main front page headlines from 1 August to 2 September 1939. Of the 29 headlines, only 13 referred to the coming war, and 11 of those were concentrated in the final two weeks. /2

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A thread for the anniversary of the start of World War II. It is remarkable how the news headlines in the immediate run-up to the outbreak of war were *not* dominated by the growing crisis. /1

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Tony Blair's encyclical was a rather forlorn attempt to advocate for one.

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It is the book that I would have wanted to read when I first encountered this area!

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The book will be an introduction to what might be termed esoteric currents in ancient Greek religion, including the Orphic movement, the mystery cults of Eleusis and Isis, the Platonist tradition, and theurgical magic.

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm delighted to say that my next book, "Children of Starry Heaven: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek Transcendental Tradition", is now approaching publication with Cherry Hill Seminary Press. It will hopefully be in print in the next few weeks 🙂

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I think the belief is that it's ok to venerate the spirit of the earth on the understanding that she exists under the sovereignty of the Holy Trinity. On that basis, this sort of thing is unorthodox but not idolatrous.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The prevalent 1987-1992, 2011, 1848 or 1789 perspective of regimes falling through some grand and sudden revolt in the big cities often doesn't accurately reflect how the power of an authoritarian regime bleeds out often for years and decades before that in countrysides that journalists rarely visit

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Dr Robin Douglas @robincdouglas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Modern western religious culture is sometimes referred to as a "spiritual supermarket": buyers are presented with a bewildering array of choices in an environment in which the consumer is king. This model of religious plurality can be traced back to Victorian times. 1/

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