Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In this house I chanced to find a volume of the works of Cornelius Agrippa. I opened it with apathy; the theory which he attempts to ...

Last Sunday evening at the Silent Movie Theater, a clip from the 1938 astrological murder mystery “When Were You Born?” was shown as part of an “Occult L.A.” program curated by the author Erik Davis.

Everyone loves a secret, and they’re more accessible than ever these days inside the Philosophical Research Society, hidden in plain sight at 3910 Los Feliz Blvd. “We’ve driven past this place for 30 ...