Monday, January 05, 2026

Paradise Lost, Prometheus Reborn


The Secret Sun Network has hit the ground running in 2026. First up is the latest chapter in the Paradise Lost, Lucifer Unmasked saga, where we get ever closer to stripping away all the various disguises that a very, very ancient belief system still hides behind.


Don't forget to give yourself 
the precious gift of Secret Sunshine
and burn away the post-holiday blahs.
You deserve it.


Here's how it goes...
In this series, we’ve been tracing the steps backward from John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and seeing how his Lucifer seems to be a veiled stand-in for the scandalous Giordano Bruno.

But Milton’s tableau of Lucifer bringing back legions of old gods to wage war on the angels of Heaven seems to tap into something far deeper and far older than the Nolan: and that’s the strangely common myth of a race of older gods who looked more kindly on humanity than the new gods who cast their forerunners down and imprisoned them, either under the earth or the oceans.

This story was told in Greece (the Titans), and then amongst the Jewish diaspora (the Watchers), and before them both in Mesopotamia (the Anunaki). Is this a case of simple cultural diffusion, or is there something deeper - and stranger - at work here?

And how exactly did “Lucifer” — a title used for Jesus Christ in the early Church’s liturgy and the Book of Revelation, as well as several saints and luminaries — come to be identified with Satan, despite having no legitimate basis in Scripture? It really doesn’t make much sense on the face of it.

Well, there’s one particular Titan that may crack that mystery, so let’s get back to business...

Friday, January 02, 2026

Occult Pop: Eighties Indie meets the Golden Dawn

If I were asked to pick the absolute last place I'd imagine occultism to manifest itself in pop music, it would be in a music video for Aztec Camera's "Oblivious." 

But, oh, how wrong I would be. 

Sunday, December 28, 2025

Atlantis Aeturnus: "They Shall Become Sirens"


Given that it was itself highly influenced by the pop culture of the day, it's no real surprise that the Theosophical movement of the 19th Century set the template for literally all of the science fiction and fantasy that would emerge in its wake. 


Friday, December 26, 2025

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Atlantis and the Villa of the (AstroGnostic) Mysteries

 

Seeing that I briefly touched on 1985's hit film Cocoon during the Atlantis livestream, I thought now's the perfect time to take a, um, deep dive into some of the cleverly-embedded esoteric symbolism in the film.