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CTHULHU AND GENESIS P-ORRIDGE

Gavin Baddeley speaks of him in his book LUCIFER RISING: SIN, DEVIL WORSHIP & ROCK 'N' ROLL:

Perhaps the most influential new occult order of the 1980s was a countercultural chaos magic group known as Thee Temple OV Psychic Youth (TOPY). Founded in 1981 by avant-garde musician and self-styled 'esoterrorist' Genesis P-Orridge, TOPY was as much an artistic movement in the tradition of the Dadaists or surrealists as it was a magical order. Broadly anarchic in perspective, TOPY occupied a grey area between art school experimentation, post-punk political activism and mind-altering magic ritual, its idiosyncratic spelling supposedly being one of its methods of breaking the chains of conventionality.

P-Orridge had been with the band Throbbing Gristle, a seminal act on the industrial music scene, and would front the experimental musical project Psychic TV during his years with TOPY. The use of musical beats to alter consciousness and the concert experience as ritual were primary concerns, and the group can take a large cut of the blame for popularising the acid-hjouse scene in Europe. Similarly, spiritual extremes of pleasure and pain were prominent features of TOPY ritual, playing a prominent part in inspiring the fashion for 'body modification' and piercing. (p. 156)

Some of the material from the Psychic TV project can be seen here. There is mention of the "Cthulhu Mythos Magick & writings of H.P.L." You can also read the "Rite of Communion with Cthulhu" by Tenebrous. Go over there and read the text for that Rite of Communion. They are attempting a materialization using a Host. Note this part of the text:

At the moment of possession, the power and identity of the Great God Cthulhu will be drawn into the body of the Host. At the last instance before total possession, the Host calls forth the name of the God, and the Temple falls silent. His power is radiated forth by the Priest/Priestess, who holds out the Chalice to collect these negatively-charged emanations (Dreams from R'lyeh).

Heaven only knows what they collect into the chalice of salt water and then distribute as communion. This is a black mass, folks. This is what Jimmy Akin introduces with his Cthulhu blog. Are you proud to call that Catholic?

Here is a link to the Temple of Psychic Youth. WARNING, you will not like the contents. It is pornographic.

P-Orridge is no longer associated with TOPY. He moved to the U.S. after his home in England was raided by law enforcement. Apparently he was implicated in a ritual sex abuse event while he was out of the country. Baddeley writes:

In February 1992, officers from the Obscene Publications Squad raided a house in Brighton, on the English South Coast. The raid was inspired by a decidedly fuzzy video of a 'ritual' which informants alleged had taken place in the cellar of the house (though the house, in fact, had no cellar). It belonged to Genesis P-Orridge, who was in Thailand with his family at the time, aiding Tibetan refugees. The video in question depicted P-Orridge, and others broadly associated with TOPY, in a collage of intercut film sequences portraying a kind of performance-art Black Mass.

What it did not depict was what advocates of the Satanic ritual abuse myth claimed was occurring onscreen: child abuse, abortions and anal sex. The appearance by P-Orridge's heavily-pregnant wife, Paula, in this cheaply-filmed ritual, was somehow interpreted as a woman being forcibly made to abort. (p. 156-157)

Baddeley further says of the video that "the 'evidence' of Satanic abuse was, in fact, a performance-art video, Stations of the Cross, made for TOPY by highly-respected avant-garde film-maker Derek Jarman in 1983." So the charges of abuse that caused P-Orridge to move to California may have been false, but no one denies that a performance ritual black mass took place.

According to this bio. he was an "Early pioneer/innovator of Acid House/Rave Movement in UK and USA from early 80’s-mid-90’s."

If we were talking about great literature such as Shakespeare, there would be redeeming value in the material that could override its use by an organization such as TOPY. But we are not talking about great literature. We are talking about pulp fiction that was either ignored or disparaged at the time it was written, and which has now been taken up by a sex cult that has spread its influence into the mainstream culture. That, and only that, is the source of the popularity of the Cthulhu mythos. And that is what I found in a Catholic apologists blog. It made me feel physically ill to discover that. And if the rest of you can't see the problem here, then God help you!