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Unlocked: Myth of the Month 8: "The West"

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Mysticism of Astrology

A lot of our scientific heroes, like galileo and copernicus, were believers in astrology. And spengler's philosophy too, has a heavy mystical overtonek. Alister crowley was one of the founders of the wicka movement. The germans consulted astrologers and astrological charts as part of their war strategy. They arguably even saw the sort of mass slaughter of jews and other undesirables as a kind of mystical sacrifice.

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