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By Jennifer Emick, About.com Guide to Alternative Religions since 2002

"Red String Theory," Missing Da Vinci fresco, interesting Crowley/Golden Dawn Items

Thursday June 16, 2005

If you're not already aq bit creeped out by the celebrity infused Kabbalah Center, this might raise a few hairs on your neck: The Kabbalah Chronicles, Radar's investigative report on the burgeoning cash-cult.

Aleister Crowley is apparently the dead guy of the moment, having popped up in a slew of news stories lately (including an odd art exhibit in which his face was rendered in gunpowder). This time it's an inexplicable cameo in a story of an unusual death in 1920s Iona.

Here's something unusual: a biography of the Golden Dawn's John William Brodie-Innes, founder of the Amen-Ra Temple in Scotland. Did I mention that "The Scotsman" is becoming one of my favorite reads?

Another self-identified Wiccan has been convicted of a horrendous crime in the rape and molestation of two young boys. An aspect of this sad story that I find almost as disturbing goes without comment- that the family of one of the victims has seemingly abandoned the child to a "group home" for his trauma induced misbehavior. Well, that's certainly a way to tell a child he's an innocent victim? I have to say, sometimes I really, truly despise the human race. (This made me feel a little better)

Is a missing Da Vinci Fresco hiding behind a palazzo wall? Time will tell.

This is weird (and a bit smug): Interview with the anti-Christ

More on that stupid (and hideous) "Samantha" statue.

This, apparently, will never end. (and if that's not stupid enough, you can pay ten bucks to find the link to it. Sigh)

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