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Radio Free Golgotha is a semi-regular podcast of the occult and esoteric ramblings of Al Cummins & Jesse Hathaway Diaz, and their guests. Each episode is based around a chosen Saint or Angel, Demon or Devil, Herb, Stone, Geomantic Figure, Tarot Trump, and more as the intersections and trajectories are explored through the discussions between these two friends.

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Radio Free Golgotha is a semi-regular podcast of the occult and esoteric ramblings of Al Cummins & Jesse Hathaway Diaz, and their guests. Each episode is based around a chosen Saint or Angel, Demon or Devil, Herb, Stone, Geomantic Figure, Tarot Trump, and more as the intersections and trajectories are explored through the discussions between these two friends.

    Episode 32: The Leap-Feast of Saint Oswald of Worcester

    Episode 32: The Leap-Feast of Saint Oswald of Worcester

    We bid you a transcendently merry Leap-Feast of Saint Oswald of Worcester! Here in the time-out-of-time we at RFG weave our usual merry way through our Sesame Streetlamp-lit special topics of the episode, beginning with the Saint(s) Oswald; that is, Saint Oswald of Worcester who died on February 29th washing the feet of the poor, “revived” English monasticism, and should not be confused – unless you want – with the raven saint Oswald of Northumbria...

    Our Demon of the Month features an unboxing of Choronzon (or Coronzon ((or even Coronzom))) tracing the dispersals of this entity-concept across the Enochiana of dear Dr Dee, the Thelema of renowned mountaineer, OG yoga influencer, and Great Beast Aleister Crowley, and out into the experimental currents of Chaos Magick, and the philosophies of non-duality, shadow work, and ego death.

    We invite you to our own little Night-blooming Cereus party for our Herb of the episode as we celebrate the wish-granting and immortality of this singularly-flowering dragon-maiden who comes when she will and counsels to keep up the unseen work that creates a perfectly perfumed moment.

    Our Genre of Magic has us enthusing about Metrics of Time – what we do at the turn of the seasons, how we may mark the ritually operative as well as ceremonial festivities, how the jam of talismans acts as a battery of stored momentum, the secret seasonal names of the Earth and Sun, and how we may grasp the new in the experience-quenched patina of the previous.

    We declare a beach day in delighted discussed of our timely Mineral of Sand; in which we hot-step across sand baths, hourglasses, the grandfathers of mountains, and the potentiating memory of the multitudinous to retain myriad sorcerous programmings and punctuations. The geomantic figure of Populus makes an appearance in our celebration of the millions of tiny grains and moments that make an hourglass and the seconds it counts.

    Our Arcana of the episode presents a before and after of Judgment and the Aeon; touching further on time’s lessons in the forms of the find out that inevitable follows the consequences of our folking around.

    Finally, our Dead Magician of the episode leans into the mythic with some love for that cambion shapeshifter prophet druid wizard magus Merlin himself; from his amalgams of origin, his fourteen centuries of rich popularity, his defiantly backwards aging, and his adaptations across time to serve a variety of intellectual and political agendas of the age.

    From us in our astral RFG wizard tower floating in the kairotic in-between of The Leap to you in yours, we wish you a wonderful Time listening to our co-enthusings!

    Episode 31: The Feast of Saint Anthony the Great

    Episode 31: The Feast of Saint Anthony the Great

    New Year! New episode! Happy Feast of St Anthony the Great! (aka Anthony of Egypt, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Hermit, and more!)

    Welcome one and all to our thirty-first very special episode of Radio Free Golgotha, and our seven year anniversary! We are delighted to mark and celebrate the Feast of Saint Anthony the Great, and offer you some tempting co-rambles and enthusings on hermitude, satyrs, and what happens in the wilderness that may or may not stay in the wilderness…

    We are also honoured to mark the one-year anniversary of the passing of our friend and yours, the late Jake Stratton-Kent, and to celebrate his work, his life, and his influence in all things folk necromantic and beyond.

    We begin as is our custom by discussing the legacy and lessons of the Father of Monasticism, (the other) Saint Anthony, offering some appreciation and sympathies for being bothered by demons, considering how pagan spirits are said to have got religion, and reflecting on how exactly a “desert” was depicted by medieval artists who may have never actually seen one.

    This episode is also brought to you by extended discussion of the demon Scirlin, that intermediary spirit par excellence of the Grimorium Verum; tracing this most potent spirit through a range of historical manuscripts and comparing their intermediary role with fellow GV intermediary Duke Syrach, as well as the offices of Tantavalerion and Golgothiell in the wider early modern goetic corpus.

    Our frothily-lauded flora of the day is Hops which we celebrate for its hop(e)ful blessings of sleep, dream, and of course beer; that most delectable fermented plant ally and patron of after-conference drinks and discussion, especially for the (AL EDIT: totally reasonable and normal) amount of pints that English magicians can put away.

    Our mineral of the day is the mighty and true-moving Lodestone, whom we honour for its magnetism (however that works), its historical model of sympathetic action-at-a-distance, and its folkloric links to Polaris and the beams of both the stars and our ceilings; as well as getting very excited about its Adamical historiola and mysteries, and how we compass our morals, our practices, and our hearts.

    Being an episode dedicated to JSK, we could not but make his favourite grimoire, the Grimorium Verum, our style of magic; discussing its sinister reputation as an infamous handbook of black magic, its pagan roots, and its immense practicality of use; via detailed reflection on (inter alia) the First Character, the Orison of (any and all) Instruments, the spellcrafts of the GV’s Natural & Supernatural Secrets, and of course the adoptions/adaptations of components of its hierarchy and infrastructure into traditions of Quimbanda.

    Our patron geomantic figure for this very special episode is Albus, the white-haired peaceful sage in the library tending to the yellowing scrolls and tomes that make up the bodies of work of our predecessors, considering its capacities to throw necromantic dance parties, and comparing this figure to its counterparted homo-form Odu Oturopon Meji, to consider cats, divined destinies, and ways to live our best lives.

    Our Tarot Arcana of the episode is, naturally, The Devil, prompting considerations of demonic pacts, what we chain ourselves to, and how to keep the home hellfires burning in the face of temptations, intoxications, ego, and the costs as well as benefits of our decisions down at the crossroads.

    Lastly, though certainly never least-ly, we dedicate this episode to the late Jake Stratton-Kent most directly by nominating him our beloved Dead Magician of the hour, as we honour, remember, and express gratitude for his influence, his friendship, and his passionate rabble-rousing: from his monumental Encyclopedia Goetica and other revolutionising books on magic, to his spearheading of renewed interest in Paracelsian, Albertine and Cyprianic traditions in grimoire magic, and from his championing of the importanc

    Episode 30: The Feast of Saint Olga of Kyiv

    Episode 30: The Feast of Saint Olga of Kyiv

    Happy Feast of Saint Olga of Kyiv! There are a great many Saints that lend themselves to magic, to folk expressions, to sorcerous doublings and syncretic masques; and there are some saints whose stories are so bold they become storehouses of witch power and strength in the mere recounting- Olga of Kyiv is notoriously one such Saint!

    Join us in this very special episode, where our sister in serpent-shed and good friend Katarina Pejovic and the Goat and the Good Doctor discuss the fantastic St. Olga of Kyiv, recognized in both the Catholic and Orthodox Churches; the demoness “mistress of sorceresses” and oftime mother of Asmodeus, Agrat bat Mahlat; the bark and bite of the fabled Dogwood tree; the bezoar pearl revered as the Toadstone; the power and practice of Naming; the geomantic figure of Rubeus; the Tarot Trump of the Star, and the complex mythological sorceress Medea as our Dead Magician.

    Episode 29: Saints Salome & Judith

    Episode 29: Saints Salome & Judith

    On this Feast of the anchorite saints Judith and Salome, we are most pleased to bring you another episode of RFG! Ahhh….. the merry month, where did go?! Perhaps into hiding with our sweet anchorites, not to be confused with a myriad of other Saints Judith and Salome, or the hagiographic (hag because saint, not because crone) blur with two badass ladies of the Hebrew Testament–but a happy feast to you all the same! Brought to you by the Demon King (or Queen, some say…) Beleth; the get-away-from-me-unless-you’re-lightning and beloved source of medieval nut milk, the illustrious tree and good herb Walnut; the blackest of Tourmalines for our stone; and the Hermit as our Tarot Trump this day.

    We explore the geomantic figure of loss-but-not-sadness, Amissio, and its homo-form of Os(h)e Meji from the Ifa and Orisha corpus; and discuss the myriad magics of seclusion and exile, following in the footsteps of our anchorite inspirations. (When there was only one set of footprints, it is because I left you to live in a small cell and retire from the weary, well-worn world….)

    And finally we discuss and explore the life and works of the divinely inspired artist and priestess Susanne Wenger, also known by her Yoruba name, Adunni Olorisa, an Austrian artist who expatriated to Nigeria and manifested her love of traditional Yoruba religion in her art and architecture, bringing new life to old temples and bringing the Divine to earthly form.

    Now and always, may it always be a cell of our choosing, dear ones. See you next episode! Enjoy!

    Episode 28: The Feast of Saint Joan of Arc

    Episode 28: The Feast of Saint Joan of Arc

    Welcome welcome welcome to another very special episode of Radio Free Golgotha! This, our twenty-eighth outpouring, comes to you in honour of the Feast of Joan of Arc, and we are delighted to step into the fray and discuss all sorts of business around the revealed mysteries of God and the unseen secrets of state, the celebration of women, and the cultivation of Strength, the development of spirit-hearing as well as spirit-sight, and a remembrance of another persecuted Joan…

    The reason for the season, this episode is primarily brought to you by this our Feast of the Maid of Orleans, and we will be paying bibliographic and as well as theological homage to her legend, life, and loyalties.

    This episode is also brought to you by the Demon Musifin (aka Reschin) and his counterparted Exu Capa Preta, “Mr Black Cape”; via whom we discuss oaths, secrets, pacts, and both the sorcerous revealing and beclouding of private information and public trust alike.

    Our cherished herb of the hour is the noble Iris, named for a messenger-divinity whose aura was celebrated in the fields of the meadow and the ring around the Moon. Celebrating from bud to root, we also consider the unguents and glamours wrought by the employment of queenly Orris Root.

    Our mineral is a metal, and the coldest one at that: Iron. We discuss armours and armaments, protections and perturbations, the rust of blood and red hot pokers, ther security of blades and the warding off of ill omens.

    This episode is additionally brought to you by discussion of Clairaudience; what it means to divine by sound, hearing as well as seeing spirits, and where the voices refine and not simply overwhelm the other sensory faculties of developing mediumship.

    Our geomantic figure of the episode is Puella, the Maiden, or rather simply the Hostess-with-the-Mostess. We discuss what it means to be the figure of feminine craft, power, art, and mystery emergent from a patriarchal pre-modern European mindset, and how to hear the empowering skills and cautions in this figure’s voice across a shield chart, and consider some comparisons with the homo-formic Ifa figure of Odu Otura Meji.

    This episode is also brought to you by celebration of the Tarot Arcana of Strength; and we converse of the history of this card and its predecessors, reflect on innocence and force, and even get a little downright Babalonian…

    Finally, this episode is lastly brought to you by a little history lesson on the labour dispute that led to witchcraft hangings, honouring Joan Flower of the accused Belvoir Witches, along with her daughters and a host of further accusations and confessions, as our Dead Magician of the day.

    We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed putting it together!

    Episode 27: The Feast of the Holy Martyrs of Ostia

    Episode 27: The Feast of the Holy Martyrs of Ostia

    With a perspicacious opacity, we bring you this twenty seventh episode of Radio Free Golgotha in celebration of the Holy Martyrs of Ostia, those criminals turned martyrs, whose feast of April 10th coincides with the third of day of the writing of the Book of the Law, which informs the rest of our surveyed topics, and brings us to welcome our special guest, Joshua Adam Sharp, to the show! Our Demon is that voice-from-over-the-left-shoulder, Aiwass, who delivered the book, styled the Holy Guardian Angel of Crowley himself, who is our necessary Dead Magician of the episode. We have chosen the Poppy as our herb for its dangerous dreamings and as tribute of fallen warriors; the Topaz as our Stone, to see what it might “shew” us still.

    As a practice we highlight the concept of channelling, with the complexities and nuances such a practice demands. The audacious Puer is our Geomantic figure, and its homoform of the Odu Irete Meji, aka Merindilogun Meji. We also invite that noble Juggler of the Trumps, the Magician, to the discussion. Our special guest Joshua Adam Sharp is a card carrying fez wearing O:.T:.O:. member, co-owner of Botanica Macumba in New Orleans, a crowned olorisha and a quimbandeiro. Catch him if you dare/can.

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