{"id":1056,"date":"2008-09-01T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2008-09-01T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T23:28:00","slug":"lucifer-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"Lucifer Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took a little trip back into the 1970s today to watch occult\/underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is not about Satanism but more about invoking energies of nature, a highly symbolic short film with not a word of dialog on the soundtrack.<\/p>\n

Or you could say that it is about the aesthetics of ceremonial magick. <\/p>\n

You can watch a low-quality version online<\/a>, but I rented it as part of a Kenneth Anger collection from Netflix.<\/p>\n

Even the story of its music<\/a> is a masterpiece of Psychedelic Age gossip, involving a composer<\/a> imprisoned for murder as part of the Manson Family<\/a>, after Anger’s first choice, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, failed to deliver.<\/p>\n

Another article on Anger’s use of color symbolism is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took a little trip back into the 1970s today to watch occult\/underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising. It is not about Satanism but more about invoking energies of nature, a highly symbolic short film with not a word of dialog on the soundtrack. 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