Kenneth Anger: Lucifer Rising, Hollywood Babylon, Cinema, Agape O.T.O, and Films That Became Rituals

 Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, February 3, 1927 – May 11, 2023) was never a card-carrying member of any formal occult order after the early 1950s, yet his entire adult life was a sustained, deliberate act of ceremonial magick conducted through the medium of film. He did not merely borrow from Aleister Crowley; he internalized Crowley’s aesthetic of provocation, sexual freedom, and the conviction that art could function as higher magick. To the mainstream he remained an eccentric avant-garde filmmaker. To those who have worked the lunar and solar currents of the Babalon and Beast archetypes, he was something closer to a living hieroglyph.