Ep.40: The Michael Bertiaux Special

It's episode 40, and that means its time for another special, and this time we cover the most controversial and fascinating living occultist that we can think of. Micahel Bertiaux has been called many things; a prophet and a charlatan, a teacher and a huckster, a genius and a hack. The patriarch of the Voudon Gnostic Current, leader of countless occult organizations, and an artist and writer of a singular quality, Bertiaux has had many hats and many tales through his life, and shifting through the truth and fiction is something so impossible we don't even try. Instead, we explain the origins of Bertiaux as they have come down to us, stopping to mention when things contradict, give thoughts of his contemporaries both good and ill, and discuss our own experience with reading and working with what are arguably his two most important works; The Gnost ...