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Lucifer Rising
(movie),
82
,
83
,
86
,
102

“Lucifer Sam” (Pink Floyd),
36

Luna 9
(Russian spacecraft),
114

Lydon, Michael,
55

Lysistrata
(Aristophanes),
41

MacBeth
(Shakespeare),
197

Machen, Arthur,
xxix

Madcap Laughs
(Barrett),
45
–46

Madonna,
215
–16,
218
–19

magic,
18
,
27
,
33
,
133
–34

See also
tree of life

Magick,
90
,
91
,
92
,
95
,
96
,
102

Magick Powerhouse of Oz,
82

Magick Without Tears
(Crowley),
xxv

Magma,
203

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
48
,
50
,
51
,
53
,
57
,
62
,
96

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

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