Blown Fields or Flowerful Closes

[princeofcairo]

In the eternal struggle between myself and Fields Book Store -- pound for pound and title for title the best occult book store in the English-speaking world -- I win some and I lose some. This time, I lost some. I just walked into the punch, and never walked it off. I don't even remember putting up much of a fight: I actually bought a book off the

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[bunj]

If I had an ancestor who sang such a catchy tune, I'd be tempted to start an ancestor cult, too.

Re: Re Shakespeare and Rosicrucianism

[princeofcairo]

Time-slip from the Princess Elizabeth's court (when she briefly becomes Queen of Bohemia in 1617) creates a giant shadowed Winter's Tale manifesting as the sound of the sea all around.

Alternate Universe Rahm

[anonymous]

Have you been following @MayorEmanuel?

The Two Mayors
The Last Hours of @MayorEmanuel

Re: Alternate Universe Rahm

[princeofcairo]

I have indeed. I did wonder why Anton Cermak isn't buried on the roof of City Hall, though.

Nazi Occult

[ext_442787]

Hi Ken. If you'd have to recommend three books on Nazi occultism to someone who feebly insists to himself that he would never, under any circumstances, read more than three such books, what would they be? (If you can believe it, I've never read anything on the subject.)

Re: Nazi Occult

[princeofcairo]

A nice crazy view of the topic can be found in Peter Levenda's Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke covers the real history of the topic in The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology; the third should depend on what flavor you're looking for. If you're looking for the mad science angle, then the Joseph Farrell book I got this year at Fields (or really any of them) is perfectly acceptable. Or you could get the best of all three with GURPS Weird War II.

Re: Nazi Occult

[ext_442787]

Thanks, much appreciated!

[cleireac]

I understand your deep-seated antipathy for anything Dan Brown. However, while browsing my local B&N, I ran across Secrets of the Widow's Son. It seems to be a discussion of the Masonic influence on the founding of the United States. What caught my attention was the appendix on secret codes and symbolism, in fact, it almost got me to fork over the cover price. I resisted, but was wondering if you could recommend the appendix or even any part of it?

[princeofcairo]

I haven't seen it, but I assume that it's no worse than any other roundup of Masonic lore and such.