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.

Beyond Lemuria is an allegory of good and evil. The sinister "Draconians" search for ancient super-scientific secrets of power in the caverns under Mt. Shasta, while their counterparts, the "Lothinians" seek spiritual enlightenment by climbing America's Holy Mountain. Both groups find what they are seeking and get what they deserve.

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.