Index
Tracts
Long-form sourced essays on occult and esoteric traditions, the historical contexts that produced them, and their documented intersections with the wider cultural record.
Where the tradition entries cover what individual orders, religions, and currents are and what their published doctrines hold, the tracts cover questions that cut across those entries — historical conditions, documented intersections with other institutions, the relationship between an esoteric tradition and the moment that produced it. Each tract is written to its own outline rather than to a fixed template, but the editorial discipline is the same: sourced, structurally consistent, with speculation labelled and unsupported claims excluded.
New tracts appear as research is completed and sources are checked, listed below with the most recent first. The standards governing the tradition entries govern the tracts as well; see the methodology page for the working source hierarchy and editorial policy.
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Satanic Ritual Abuse
2026-05-13 · 36 min readA documentary framework for the category of crime that the 1980s moral panic was weaponised against — drawn from court records, government inquiries, declassified intelligence material, and the clinical-trauma literature. Distinct from, and not invalidated by, the panic-era false-prosecution wave.
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The Satanic Panic
2026-05-13 · 10 min readA documentary history of the 1980–1995 wave of allegations, prosecutions, and television coverage claiming a national network of satanic abusers — and what the FBI, the appellate courts, and the professional psychology establishment formally concluded about it.
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The Left-Hand Path and the American Security State
2026-05-10 · 11 min readA cultural and intellectual history of where the postwar American security state and the Western left-hand path crossed paths — and what the documentary record actually supports, against the much louder version repeated in conspiracy literature.