Madeline Montalban (1910–1982) was an English astrologer and
ceremonial magician who co-founded the esoteric organisation known as
the Order of the Morning Star (OMS), through which she propagated her
own form of Luciferianism. After moving to London in the early 1930s and
immersing herself in its esoteric subculture, she taught herself
ceremonial magic and associated with significant occultists, including
Aleister Crowley and Kenneth Grant, and Wiccans like Gerald Gardner and
Alex Sanders. From 1933 until her death she wrote magazine articles on
astrology and other esoteric topics. In 1952 she met Nicholas Heron,
with whom she entered into a relationship, and they founded the OMS as a
correspondence course in 1956, teaching subscribers their own magical
rites. Viewing Lucifer as a benevolent angelic deity, she believed
Luciferianism had its origins in ancient Babylon, and encouraged her
followers to contact angelic beings associated with the planetary bodies
to aid their spiritual development. Having refused to publish her ideas
in books, Montalban became largely forgotten following her death,
although the OMS continued under new leadership.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline_Montalban>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
829:
Theophilos ascended to the throne of the Byzantine Empire, the
last emperor to support iconoclasm.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilos_(emperor)>
1535:
French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed along the St. Lawrence
River and reached the Iroquois fortified village Hochelaga on the island
now known as Montreal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cartier>
1950:
Peanuts, the syndicated comic strip by Charles M. Schulz,
featuring Charlie Brown and his pet Snoopy, was first published in major
newspapers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanuts>
1967:
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall>
2007:
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun walked across the Military
Demarcation Line on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North
Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Korean_Summit>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
splurge:
1. To gush, to flow or move in a rush.
2. To spend (usually money) lavishly or extravagantly.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/splurge>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I know that I have still before me a difficult path to
traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his
own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no
salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
--Mahatma Gandhi
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi>