Season of the Witch : How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll (9780698143722)

by Peter Bebergal

  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

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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