On Thursday March 5th, 2015 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will

have a discussion on the magical heroic fantasy fiction of British

literary lion Michael Moorcock. Although Moorcock did not coin

the term Multiverse he did much to popularize it in his Elric of

Melnibone series. H.G. Wells used it in Men like Gods, and Richard

Shaver's Red Dwarf called it the "Simultane." Parallel Worlds is perhaps

the best description of it. What Moorcock did coin was the "Chaosphere"

that mace-like symbol of the black ball with eight spearheads emerging

that was adopted by Peter Carroll as the symbol for their Chaos Magick

system. Moorcock's literary concept of the Chaos world is presented as

an ocean of swirling colors and energies dashing against the cliffs of

his fantasy world -- and periodically invading and claiming lands ruled

by the Lords of Law. The Lords of Chaos, one of which is Elric's patron,

play a constant game with men as the pawns. Moorcock was perhaps

influanced by Vance's Cudgel, to create his anti-hero The Albino

ex-emperor Elric of Melnibone, who struggles to overcome the sociopathic

heritage of his race and finally secumbs to it under the influence of

his black-magick sword which is a vampiric weapon with a evil mind of

its own. This was a perfect fictional character for the darkness that

followed the era of the flower children, a presage of the current goth

and black metal fads. Moorcock describes himself as an anarchist and is

a controversial literary figure in Britain. He is presently writing a

Dr. Who novel, his first using someone else's character. So if you want

to discover the magick of Michael Moorcock tune in and we'll navigate

the multiverse.