• 22:35 - 27:18
Ronnie Pontiac | Remembering Manly P. Hall, American Metaphysical Religion, & The Pagan Pilgrim
Alchemical Bibliographies, Bodily Fluids, and Curing a Thief
Ronnie Pontiac details his work removing references to bodily fluids from alchemical recipes at Manly P. Hall's request, as Hall felt the public was not ready for that level of practice. Pontiac also shares a story about his internal struggle with the urge to steal rare books from the PRS library. Through a series of synchronicities and a specific parable told by Hall about an outlaw named Dominic, Pontiac felt "poked" by Hall’s intuition. This experience eventually cured his impulse to steal and led him to help secure the library's most vulnerable volumes in the vault.