Mahatmas, 49
Malefic, 223, 224
Mamas and the Papas, 54
Manning, Terry, 87–88, 89
Manson, Charles, xv, 61, 83, 87, 99, 108, 114, 155
Manson, Marilyn, 152–53, 165
mantra (personal), 48
Man Who Fell to Earth (movie), 139
Man Who Sold the World, The (Bowie), 142, 145
Marshall, Polly, 128
Martian Chronicles (Bradbury), 193
Marvel Comics, 107
masks and makeup, 138, 152–53
Master and Margarita, The (Bulgakov), 85
Master Musicians of Joujouka, 160
Mathers, Samuel Liddell MacGregor, 131, 162
Max, Peter, 44
Mayan people, 189
McCartney, Paul, xiv, xv, 48, 51–52, 58–59, 99, 100
McDonald, Ian, 195
Meaning of Witchcraft, The (Gardner), 72
Mechanical Animals (Manson), 153
Meetings with Remarkable Men (Gurdjieff), 205
Meher Baba, 92
Melody Maker, 200
“Memory of Free Festival†(Bowie), 142
Memphis Minnie, 97
Memphis Three, 209–11, 215
Mendelsohn, John, 196
Mephistophelean vibe, 85, 100
“Mephisto Waltzes†(Liszt), 109
Mercyful Fate, 122, 152
Mesmer, Franz, 135, 136
Metallica, 210
Metzger, Richard, 156
Metzner, Ralph, 38, 39
Michelle Remembers (Pazder), 122–23
Middle Ages, 117
milk apology, “god of hellfire,†126
Milton, John, 86
Milton Bradley, 106
“Mindbending,†86
Minimoog, 185
Misfits, 120
Miskelley, Jessie, Jr., 210
Mitchell, Joni, 172
mojo hand, 8
monochord, 27
monster craze, 106–8, 118, 146
Monster Manual (D&D), 111, 123–24
Monterey Pop Festival, California, 54–55
Moog, Robert, 180–83, 184–86, 187, 190, 191, 192, 200
Moogfest, New York City, 191
Moorcock, Michael, 178–80
Moore, Alan, 221
Moralia (Plutarch), 28
Moréas, Jean, 41
Morley, Paul, 167
Morning of the Magicians (Pauwels and Bergier), 143, 149
Morocco, 159, 160
Morrison, Jim, xxv
Mowitt, John, 184
Moynihan, Michael, 110
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 155
“Mr. Crowley†(Osbourne), 105, 148
MTV, 216
Mucha, Alphonse, 42–43, 44
Muddy Waters, 97
Muir, Jamie, 201
murderers and music, xv, 60–61, 99
Murnau, F. W., 154
Murphy, Peter, 168
Murray, Margaret, 71, 72
Musicka Mystica Maxima Festival, New York City, 222
“musicnauts,†178
“musique concrète,†183–84, 187, 200
Mysterious Rose Garden, The (Beardsley), 41–42
mystical experience independent of religious community, 38–40
mysticism. See Eastern mysticism
“My Sweet Lord†(Harrison), 62
mythopoeia tradition, 199–200, 204
“myth-science,†177
Naked Lunch (Burroughs), 157
Nameless Ghouls, 227
Narada, 206
Nazis, 149, 150, 161, 165, 166, 183
Necronomicon, xiv, 187
neoclassicism, 184
Neoplatonism, xxvii, 118
Neville Spearman Limited, 187
New Age, xxiii–xxiv, xxviii, 115, 144, 191, 206–7, 227–28, 229
New Musical Express, 95
Newsweek, 55
new wave music, 168, 206
New World Order, 219
New Worlds magazine, 179
New York Public Theater, 67
New York Times, 72, 73
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, 168
Nine Inch Nails, 156, 165
NME, 102, 109, 120, 150, 167, 195
Norris, Rufus, 221
Nugent, Ted, 68
Oates, John, xxv
occult influence on rock, xiii–xxxiii
definition of occult, xxvii–xxxi
devil rides out, 75–76, 77–124
golden dawn, the, 209–29
initiates, xiii–xviii
relax and float downstream, 28–29, 31–76, 192, 201
space ritual, 171–207
tree of life, 124, 125–70
(you make me wanna) shout, 1–29
See also album cover art; Christianity; devil; Eastern mysticism; rock and roll; sexuality; specific albums, artists, songs
Occult Revival of the 19th century, xxix, 40, 48, 74, 90, 133, 221
occult revival of the golden dawn, 221–29
“Oh! You Pretty Things†(Bowie), 143, 148
Oldfield, Mike, 206–7
Olorun (transcendent creator God), 5
Om, 228–29
O’Malley, Stephen, 223–24
Omen, The (movie), 146
1001 Nights in Tangiers, 159, 160
“one with the universe,†36, 37, 38
“On to the Next One†(Jay Z), 211
“Opel†(Barrett), 45
Oram, Daphne, 187
Ordo Templi Orientis, 189, 222
orisha, 1, 4, 5, 75
Osbourne, Ozzy, 104–6, 108, 109, 112, 148
Otto, Walter, 138
Ouija board, xvi, 65, 136
“Pact with Lucifer†(Coven), 118
Paganini, xxii–xxiii
paganism, 11, 14, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28
Page, Jimmy, 87–88, 88–89, 91, 92–95, 95–96, 97, 99, 101, 102, 104, 140, 145
Palace Theater, England, 220
Pallenberg, Anita, 83
Palmer, Greg, 197, 199
Pan, 28, 34, 35, 74, 80, 86, 103–4, 165
Paradise Lost (Milton), 86
Paranoid (Black Sabbath), 111
Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), 121–22
Parliament-Funkadelic, 191
Pater, Walter, 127
Pauwels, Louis, 143, 149
Pazder, Lawrence, 122–23
Pegg, Nicholas, 143
Péladan, Joséphin, 41
Penniman, Richard Wayne (Little Richard), 20–22
Pentagon, levitating, 66, 73
Pentagram, 120, 121
pentagrams, 105, 157
Pentecostalism, xix, 10–11, 19, 32
Pentheus, xxxiii
Pepsi commercial, 44
Phantom of the Paradise (movie), 152
“Philosopher’s Stone†(Garson), 186
Pictures at an Exhibition tour (ELP), 185
Pilkington, Mark, 165
Pink Fairies, 171
Pink Floyd, xiv, 31, 32, 34–35, 36–37, 43, 45, 46, 47, 100, 128, 190
Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The (Pink Floyd), 34–35, 36–37
Plant, Robert, xxxiii, 69, 95, 97, 98, 101,
104
Playboy, 68
Plutarch, 28
Polanski, Roman, 61
Police, xxv
politics and spirituality, 63–66
Pop, Iggy, 161
pop music, 211, 215–16, 218–19, 220–22
Popol Vuh, 189
P-Orridge, Genesis Breyer, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161–62, 164
“Possessed†(Venom), 122
possession by the gods, 16, 19
poster art, 40–44
Powell, Aubrey, 100
Presley, Elvis, 10, 11–12, 19, 20, 97, 215
Price, Vincent, 106
Prince, 121
Process Church of the Final Judgment, 85–86, 114
progressive rock, xxiv, xxv, 192–206
projection art, 43–44
Prometheus: A Poem of Fire (Scriabin), 133
Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Leary, Metzner, Alpert), 38, 39
psychedelic rock. See relax and float downstream
“psychic hygiene,†160
Psychic Self-Defense (Fortune), 147–48
Psychic TV, 161–62, 163–64, 166
Psychomania (movie), 146
Psychotherapy East and West (Watts), 49
Public Enemy, 213
punk rock, 120, 155, 167, 168, 200, 205–6, 211
Purple Rain (Prince), 121
pyramids of Egypt, 175, 203
Pythagoras, 184
“Quicksand†(Bowie), 143
Quicksilver Messenger Service, 63, 65
Rabinovitch, Dina, 216
Raboteau, Albert J., 6
racism, 148–49
Radha Krishna Temple, 62
Raiders of the Lost Ark (movie), 149
Ramakrishna, 201
Ramases, 203
Ravenscroft, Trevor, 150, 187
Redding, Otis, 54
Red (King Crimson), 204
Red Scare of the 1950s, 123
Regardie, Israel, 147
relax and float downstream, 28–29, 31–76, 192, 201
“Religious Instruction of the Negroes in Liberty County, Georgia,†14
Renaissance, xix, xxvii, xxix, 59, 84, 118, 126, 217–18
retroactive memory, 111–12
“Revolution 9†(Beatles), xv, 58
Reynolds, Simon, 155, 168
Reznor, Trent, 165
Rice, Anne, 170
Rice, Boyd, 166
Richards, Keith, 83
ring dancing and singing, 12–13, 15, 16, 17–18, 20
Rip It Up and Start Again (Reynolds), 155
Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, The (Bowie), 144–45, 154, 219
rock and roll, xviii–xxvi
rock association with occult creation myth (crossroads legend), 1–3, 4, 9–10, 97
See also occult influence on rock
“Rock and Roll Suicide†(Bowie), 151
“Rock ‘n’ Roll’s On Way Down, Say 3 Experts,†23–24
Roeg, Nicolas, 139
Rolling Stone, 21, 62, 91, 92, 95, 109, 111, 115, 139, 144, 207
Rolling Stones, xxiv, 77–79, 80, 81, 83–84, 85, 86–87, 115, 159, 172, 194
Rollins, Henry, 211
Roman myths, xxvii, 101, 221, 228
Romanticism, 35–36, 40, 41, 169, 198–99
“root races,†148
Rosemary’s Baby (movie), 61
Rosen, Steve, 204
Rosenkreutz, Christian, 130
Rosicrucians, 41, 58, 129–30, 131, 213
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 91
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 163
Royal Albert Hall, 101
Royale club, Boston, 226–27, 228
Sabrina the Teenage Witch, 69
Sacred Book of Abramelin the Mage, 94
Sacred Songs (Hall), xxv
Sacrifice (Black Widow), 116
Salome (Wilde), 41
Salon des Rose+Croix, 41
Sanchez, Tony, 83
Sanders, Alex “King of the Witches,†116–17
San Francisco Oracle, 63, 64
Sante, Luc, 28
Sant Mat philosophy, 34
“Satanic Beliefs, Criminal Actions,†123
“Satanic Mass†(Coven), 116
Satanism, 80–81, 86, 89, 90, 103, 110, 111, 113, 114–15, 116, 117, 119, 122–23, 124, 165, 174, 210
See also devil
Satie, Erik, xxx, 41, 129
Scatology (Coil), 164
Schaeffer, Pierre, xxx, 183, 184, 187
Scher, Paula, 59
Schmidt, Irmin, 189
“School’s Out†(Alice Cooper), 138
Schuyler, Lambert and Patricia, 19–20
science fiction, 171, 173, 178–79
See also space ritual
Scientology, 64, 85, 213
Scorpio Rising (movie), 82
Scriabin, Alexander, 132, 133
“Season of the Witch†(Donovan), 69–70, 70–71
Secret Doctrine (Blavatsky), 148
sefirot, 218
Self-Realization Fellowship, 201
Semele, xxxi–xxxii
September 11 terrorist attacks, 219
Seventh-day Adventists, 20–21
7UP commercial, 44
sexuality, xiii, xiv, xv, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxiv
devil rides out, 78, 79, 80, 81, 86, 88, 90, 98, 101, 104, 106, 113, 118, 119, 122
golden dawn, the, 218
relax and float downstream, 32, 41, 51, 67, 70, 74
tree of life, 141, 142, 148, 156, 162, 164, 165, 168, 169
(you make me wanna) shout, 7, 10–11, 14, 19–20, 21, 23, 24, 28
See also occult influence on rock
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles), 58, 59, 60, 84, 91, 193
Shadwick, Keith, 101
Shakespeare, William, 197
shamanism, xxv, 124, 125, 127–28, 135, 136, 137, 138–39, 146, 165, 173, 180
Shankar, Ravi, 54, 55–56, 62
shastras, 201
“Shave ’em Dry†(Bogan), 7
“Shaving of the Horn that Speared You, A†(Sunn O)))), 223
shekinah, 228–29
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 35
“She’s a Rainbow†(Rolling Stones), 84
“shew stone,†220
“Shine On You Crazy Diamond†(Pink Floyd), 46
Shiva (Hindu deity), 66, 229
Shock Theater (movies), 107
shout, the, 13, 15, 16, 17–18, 19, 20, 21, 28
See also (you make me wanna) shout
Siddhartha (Hermann), 25–26
sigil magic, 99–100, 162–64
Simmons, Gene “Demon,†137, 138
Simmons, Sylvie, 137
Simon and Garfunkel, 54
Simon’s Sanctorum (TV show), 107
Sinclair, John, 178
Sinfield, Peter, 197, 204
Siouxsie and the Banshees, 168–69
Sirius Mystery, The (Temple), 176
Sistine Chapel, xxviii
sitar playing, 56, 84
Skerl, Jennie, 158
“sky-people,†175
&nbs
p; Slave Religion (Raboteau), 6
slaves/slavery, xxii, xxvi, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12–17, 20
Slayer, 120
Sleep, 225
Slick, Grace, 116
“Slouching Towards Bethlehem†(Didion), 67
Smith, Harry, 26–27, 28
Smith, Huston, 46
Smith, Michelle, 122–23
Smith, Patti, xxv, xxxiii
Smith, Ray, 25
Snyder, Gary, 25
“so above, so below,†xxvii
Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA), 131
Soft Machine, 43, 128
“Solomon’s Ring†(Garson), 186
Sommerville, Ian, 160–61
Song Remains the Same, The (movie), 93, 98–99
“sonic attack,†174
Sound magazine, 137, 173
Southern, Eileen, 20
Space Hymns (Ramases), 203
Space Is the Place (movie), 177
Space Oddity (Bowie), 141–42
space ritual, 171–207
Space Ritual (Hawkwind), 178, 179
Spare, Austin Osman, xxix, 162–63, 165
Spear of Destiny, The (Ravenscroft), 150, 187
Spender, Jon Michael, 16
Spiders from Mars, 151
Spitz, Mark, 146
Sri Aurobindo, 188
Stacia (dancer), 174, 178
“Stairway to Heaven†(Led Zeppelin), 100, 103
Stanley, Paul “Starchild,†137
“Starless†(King Crimson), 204
Star Trek (TV show), 176
Station to Station (Bowie), 154–55
Sting, xxv
Stipe, Michael, 161
Stockhausen, Karlheinz, xxx, 188–89, 190
Stoker, Bram, 169–70
Stonehenge, 175, 178, 229
“stoner rock,†225
Straight Theater, Haight-Ashbury, 82
Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein), 154
Strawberry Alarm Clock, 69
Stritch, Samuel (Cardinal), 23
Stump, Paul, 207
Subud, 64–65
Sufism, 64, 135, 160
“Suicide Solution†(Osbourne), 105
Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 66–67
Summers, Andy, xxv
Sunn O))), 223–24
Sun Ra (Herman Blount), 176–78
Sunshine Superman (Donovan), 69–70
Super Bowl (2012), 215–16, 218–19
“Sweet Thing†(Bowie), 145
swing, 26
Swords Against Darkness, 96
Symbolists, 40, 41
“Sympathy for the Devil†(Rolling Stones), 77, 85
Synchronicity (Police), xxv
synesthesia phenomenon, 132–33
synthesizers, 180–82, 183–84, 185–86, 186–87, 190–91, 192, 200, 206
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