Forbidden Occult

Anthropologist and Ceremonial Magician, Poke Runyon explains and demonstrates the authentic techniques of ancient Ritual Magick. Learn how to invoke Angels and evoke Spirits to visible appearance. Stand in the Magick Circle with Masters of the Art as they conjure the Spirits of Bael and Astaroth (Baal and Astarte) to visible appearance in the Dark Mirror upon Solomon's Triangle.

The Rites of Magick is a feature length dramatic documentary on the rites, ceremonies and meditative practices of America's oldest continually operating Magical tradition: The Order of the Temple of Astarte in Southern California. The O.T.A. is the religious-fraternal order of The Church of the Hermetic Sciences incorporated in 1971.

What is the Occult? Is it a dark and sinister practice developed by mankind over the millennia in order to manipulate others? Or is it simply that which is not seen by the naked eye? In this film, O.H. Krill, Brian Allan and James Earnshaw come together to unlock the mystery, and for the first time definitively explain this enigmatic realm of hidden wisdom.

On January 3rd, 2001, documentary writer/producer Wayne Darwen brought a professional tv news crew into the Temple of the O.T.A. to visually record a remarkable event: the summoning of the ancient spirit Vassago. On February 1st, the Los Angeles affiliate of a National tv Network broadcast an edited version of Vassago's Prophecy, confirming that the Spirit had predicted a major news event.