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This latest episode is a very special one as my guest has already been on the show shortly before the first lockdowns started back in spring 2020. Many of you may be familiar with his name and work, as he is a certainly well-known and widely respected practitioner, author and co-owner of Theion Publishing, source of quite a lot of meaningful in-depth books on the occult. It is a huge pleasure to welcome David Beth again and talk with him about Arthur Moros’ ‘The Cult of the Black Cube’ which has been released this year in a second edition.
We’ll open up our conversation with the impact of Covid on David personally, on Theion Publishing and how certain creative processes had to endure an involuntary break. Of course, the psychological effects of the pandemic will be a topic as well as the question what a proper process of editing and publishing takes.
We then start to explore ‘The Cult of the Black Cube’ which has been written under the pseudonym Dr. Arthur Moros and reveal a bit of information about the author next to discussing the background of its first edition 3 years ago and shedding some light onto what role Saturn itself played in the creative process.
David provides us with a basic outline of the indeed densely written book’s structure and explains the Saturnian experience as a cross-cultural one and Saturnian power as something that is capable to obscure progress but despite all of its negatively perceived aspects is still able to bring us forward by alchemical transmutation.
Another aspect of the discussion will be whether and if, how exactly the pandemic might be perceived as an expression of Saturnian forces. In this context we’ll talk about linearity of ‘logocentric’ worldviews, ‘wokeness’, ‘cancel culture’ and a lot more.

Hi new listener here. I overall enjoyed the episode but found the comments on Africa’s response to covid as opposed to the west to be uninstructed and feeding on a discourse that’s long been debunked by scholars and activists of the late century who fought hard to strip out the idea of the uncivilized other. I believe it is very important to watch out for how language is powerful in that it reinforces structures that are not only harmful but undermining to the people it signifies. On another note, capitalism is a plague that feeds on all of us, we are all after linear, result oriented endeavors aka money – it is comical to say Africans are not.
Hi Rudolf, I was listening to this episode on the commute to the first day of a new job this past Monday, thinking the Saturnian themes of work and discipline would be thematic, and lo! I got a little shout-out from you for posting music links on older episodes. It put me in a good mood and frame of mind for the new venture I was beginning. Thank you for the recognition and another good talk with David Beth!
Hi Elsa,
I am very happy to hear that you did not only like this interview, but that it was also somehow helpful to you. I wish you all the best in your new job and hope you will continue to listen to my podcast.