The 1982 debut studio album by the English group Psychic TV, released on Some Bizzare and led by Genesis P-Orridge following the dissolution of Throbbing Gristle. Its opening track, "Message From The Temple", is the founding manifesto and introductory propaganda piece of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY), the magickal and philosophical organization Psychic TV co-founded the same year, voiced on the recording by filmmaker Derek Jarman as the Temple's own representative. Academic study reads the album as inseparable from TOPY's formation: it is not merely music about the Temple's ideas but the vehicle through which those ideas were first publicly propagated.
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Religious Subject MatterThee Temple ov Psychick Youth's own magickal philosophy, chaos magick and ritual practice as propagated by Psychic TV 2 Documented Liturgical Use"Message From The Temple" served as TOPY's introductory propaganda piece, functioning as the Temple's own recruiting manifesto rather than as music about it. 2 Scholarly ReceptionStudied by Dines and Grimes (2021) as a case for how magick, occultism and ritual were asserted through popular music, and situated within wider scholarship on Psychic TV's occupation of a space between music, performance art and chaos magick. 2 Production
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Source "Message From Thee Temple": Magick, Occultism, Mysticism and Psychic TV (Dines and Grimes)Mike Dines and Matt R. Grimes
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1. Force the Hand of Chance (Wikipedia)
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Force the Hand of Chance is the debut studio album by English experimental group Psychic TV, released in 1982 by record label Some Bizzare.
2. "Message From Thee Temple": Magick, Occultism, Mysticism and Psychic TV (Dines and Grimes)
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