Viking Youth News & Events

Michael Bertiaux, the well regarded author of the classic “Voudon Gnostic Workbook“, will be making a rare public appearance at Chicago’s Occult Book Store on November 2. Viking Jason and myself will be there, we’ll be the one’s with bells on.

From the website:

“Bertiaux stands unique in the spiritual world. His system of occultism and gnosis is unlike any other. Instead of reworking the occult past and clinging to classical theories, he works mainly on gnostic-radionic lines and esoteric creativity. Deeply rooted and based in the magical world and traditions of Esoteric Voudon, a very elaborate and specialized form of Voudon taught to Bertiaux by his Haitian master Jean-Maine, Bertiaux has managed to introduce a great number of other spiritual currents into his system and thus empowering it even further. Esoteric Voudon being a highly complex and living tradition, allowed the adepts of the Ordo Templi Orientis Antiqua and La Couleuvre Noire headed by Jean-Maine and Bertiaux, to absorb other systems in a true syncretic and universal gnostic fashion. To unite areas so seemingly apart as German Idealism and theosophy, to Shinto and Bon-Po, Bertiaux has spun a metaphysical web connecting and bringing them into occult harmony through the threads and cabalah of Esoteric Voudon. Throughout the papers that form the lessons of the O.T.O.A. and L.C.N., Bertiaux outlines not only a system of occult practice but also a spiritual philosophy through which students may develop a technology applicable to any desired working. The raw energy generated by the elemental sorcery and congress of adepts, spirits and Les Vudu are used to empower the phantastic worlds of esoteric logic, enabling the fiends and fiendesses of the system to completely transform themselves, move outside the circles of time and to enter a state of absolute immortality and infinity.”

Be aware you need to RSVP to attend this event.

They’ve got some more very interesting looking events coming up in the future:

* Mysteries of the Dogon
* Enochian Book and Lecture | Lon Milo Duquette
* Anthroposophy of Rudolf Stiener Lecture | September
* Real Hatian Voodoo with Mambo Racine

It’s stuff like this that really makes me happy I live in this city.