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The True
History
of The
Lamp of Thoth®

The recent success of the 'Doom Metal' band 'Lamp of Thoth' has produced many references on the internet. Interviews with the leader of the group, Simon, have resulted in unreliable statements which require to be corrected.

Simon is reported in Hellride Music as saying:

"We had no name and ................. Around this time I discovered the local legend of The Lamp Of Thoth, and some strange melancholic muse descended upon me. The first song I wrote was You Will Obey, then came Pagan Daze, the idea behind it being a strange old Lord reminiscing about the heathen ceremonies of his youth; Blood on Satan's Claw soon followed...

The Lamp of Thoth was the name of a magazine published by an obscure occult group who operated in Keighley around 1888 (the same year The Golden Dawn set up their Horus temple in nearby Bradford.) They sometimes went by this moniker amongst others, and were made up of some very influential people from in and around the Keighley area.

Only two issues of this magazine were originally published (although other people have published magazines on the occult and used the name) , and in the short space of their existence (or before they went underground), they managed to put the willies up Madame Blavatsky and MacGregor Mathers who urged their followers to stay well away from the teachings of this group. They accused them of ‘sacrificing goats and raising elementals' and their notoriety was sealed in print through a memo sent to Golden Dawn members, and a warning printed in a Theosophist magazine – Crowley would have loved them! "

Now we are sure that Simon and his band are well-meaning but this story appears to have been worked up to present a dark aspect to fuel the stereotypes appropriate to their fan base. There is enough obscurantism in the occult already so the real history of the name Lamp of Thoth® follows.

  • (1) The proper title of the occult order was The Rosicrucian Fathers of Keighley.
  • (2) Their order journal was a handwritten folio newsletter which was titled The Lamp of Thoth of which there are several copies still extant which we hold.
  • (3) The Rosicrucian Fathers of Keighley were active in 1870 not 1888. 1888 is the date that the Horus Temple of The Golden Dawn was inaugurated in Bradford therefore the Rosicrucian Fathers of Keighley predated that G.D. Temple and it is thought there would have been a cross-over between members.
  • (4) As can be seen clearly from their order title they were a freemasonic styled Rosicrucian order and despite the smears of competing groups at the time had nothing whatsoever to do with Satanism or Paganism but specialised in a blend of spiritualism linked to qabbalism as the magazines clearly show.
  • (5) The activities of the group can only be gauged by the few copies of the handwritten Lamp of Thoth which are now extant and it is clear that the writer of that first Lamp of Thoth was very knowledgeable about Monotheistic Theurgy. He would no doubt have been appalled at the suggestions by Simon that they were in some way linked with Satanic or Pagan practices.

DARK GOINGS ON IN KEIGHLEY?

Simon makes another misleading statement when he said that 'other' magazines (plural) have used the name Lamp of Thoth.

Since the late 1880s when the Rosicrucian Fathers of Keighley disbanded there have been no other Lamp of Thoth® magazines save for our own which is widely known amongst genuine occultists and which was born out of the researches of Frater Marabas who runs The Sorcere's Apprentice Esoteric Suppliers in Leeds. This is so because until we wrote about and publicised the original handwritten Lamp of Thoth and the Rosicrucian Fathers of Keighley in the 1980s nobody else knew they existed! (they were originally a secret order and had no branches elsewhere).

Marabas inaugurated the current Lamp of Thoth® (LOT)in the 1980s and twenty six (26) issues were published containing , as you can see from the example copies on this page, some of the most important, crucial and initiated occult information ever to be printed. One of the first things we did was to publish an extract from the original, handwritten Lamp of Thoth concerning the use of a lamp as a magic mirror and made it clear that we were continuing the magical intent and heritage of the original publication. In fact we surpassed it in every instance.

So revealing and daring was the current Lamp of Thoth® Magazine that the establishment set their press-dogs onto us in a failed attempt to suppress the information we were putting out. These were years of crusading when the LOT acted as a cruciable for initiates world-wide and informed and moulded the destinies of many 'occult celebrirties' today. All of this happened whilst Simon was still in nappies and so his reference to the 'dark legend' of the Lamp of Thoth magazine probably refers to OUR magazine, not the original handwritten copies which were completely innoccuous and non-controversial.

It is difficult to understand how this band could have studied the occult sub-culture in this area and its history in connection with the Lamp of Thoth and not known about The Lamp of Thoth® magazine and the Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Nevertheless with the publication of this article there is now something on the net which is checkable and which goes some way to illuminating the situation and protecting the reputation and very real work of the Rosicrucian Fathers of Keighley; unsung heroes of the esoteric rennaissance who, like us, fought tooth and nail to create a climate where musicians and artistes can give vent to artistic expression without being censored.

How disappointing then to find them censoring this important history through glib talk designed to portray themselves and history as something other. Webmasters may use this article copyright free providing they include a link back to this site http://www.sorcerers-apprentice.co.uk The use of the title 'The Lamp of Thoth' is copyrighted by The Sorcerer's Apprentice and those who breach it without permission will be pursued in litigation.

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LAMP OF THOTH® 13 (Vol:III No.1)

  • THE ANCIENT VIEW OF THE TREE & ORIGINS OF THE STT - Chris Bray
  • THE MARXIST TAROT by Rafal T. Prinke
  • CHAOS MAGIC by Pete Carrol
  • DEMONS OF THE QLIPPOTH by Frater Irtal.
  • TESTED METHODS OF ASTRAL PROJECTION by Linda Dice
  • THE MARK OF THE BEAST - an intro to Thelema by Rodney Orpheus
  • SEX MAGIC IN THE CRAFT - Peter Whitaker
  • A LOOK AT FOURTH WAY WORK (N. Tereshchenko)
  • INITIATION & ILLUSION; the Nightmare of Rejection. by A.C. Evans
  • VICTOR BRAUNER, artist & visionary (Dave Grimbleby)
  • AUNT SALLY ANSWERS - world's best occult problem page
  • AN EVENING WITH THE EMIN (Pete Carrol)
  • THE TULPA OF THE HUMAN BONE FLUTE experiences with a shamanistic relic. (Bob Williams)
  • THE ROSICRUCIANS AND THE GOLDEN DAWN Their Elemental Doctrines Restored (L.Ramsey)
  • THE TALKING STONES - Simple runic divination John Paul
  • MOUNI-SADHU AS I KNEW HIM - Nicholas Tereshchenko gives personal insight into a master Initiate.
  • THE ICON & THE ASTRAL ATLAS Discovering the spheres of reality (Paul Ryan)
  • THE MAGIC FLUTE- an essay on shamanistic music.
  • THE SINGING BOWLS OF TIBET
  • LEY LINE MATRIXES & MOTHER EARTH by P Bamforth
  • THE BOOK OF SHADOWS - A true relic or false compilation?
  • HOW TO SEARCH FOR OCCULT CONTACTS (Paul Macdonald)
  • GALADRIEL ON THE PAGAN FESTIVALS - initiated perspectives
  • THE I.A.O. FORMULA - the Alchemy of letters
  • THE PURPOSE OF THE WORK by Tom Connelly
  • THE MYSTIC NUMBER 13 - Carlyle Pushing
  • DEVELOPING PSYCHIC SENSES (Rupert Greenwich)
  • GOLEM'S GOSSIP - world's best occult insider gossip
  • PANDORA'S BOX LETTERS PAGE & OCCULT CONTACT ADVERTS.

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LAMP OF THOTH® 24 (Vol:IV No.6)

  • THE SUPPRESSION OF OCCULTISM (Chris Bray)
  • PANDORA'S BOX readers' letters page
  • GOLEM'S GOSSIP - humorous insider info on the occult scene.
  • MIND CONTROL & 1984 (Fra Marabas)
  • ATHENE & TRANSCENDENTAL ASTROLOGY (K Fairgrieve)
  • THE EVIL EYE (M J Kelly)
  • THE S.A.F.F. RESEARCH LIBRARY
  • MANES XEROXUM: The Ghost in the Machine (Rupert Forsyth)
  • BRAIN WASHING (Chris Bray)
  • OLD SOULS, PAST LIVES & REINCARNATION (Mike Jamieson)
  • WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO WITCHES? The soft underbelly of paganism by Meriem Clay-Eggerton
  • KNOW YOUR RIGHTS & HOW THEY AFFECT YOU (M Morrisroe)
  • SUPERSTITION VERSUS SUPERNATURE (Martin Keane)
  • TONY RHODES INTERVIEWS CHRIS BRAY about the firebombing and the campaign against the S.A.
  • MAGIC A REFUGE FOR FAILURES? Hilary Hayes investigates a working \ definition of magic.
  • HYPNOSIS IN MAGIC - David North)
  • THE SUPPRESSION OF KNOWLEDGE The Big Secrets the establishment kept under wraps - Michael Roll
  • LAUREL & HARDY SATANISM - 'That's Another Fine Mess You Got Me Into: '. ..John Freedom reveals the truth about the part the Temple of Set played in the promotion of the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth
  • A CONCISE ANATOMY OF OCCULTISM by Pete Carroll praemonstrator of the Illuminates of Thanateros.
  • AUNT SALLY occult problem page,
  • CONTACT ADVERTISEMENTS

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