In 1941, Hitler initiated Aktion Hess, part of a campaign by Goebbels to make patsies of occult practitioners and humiliate Obergruppenführer Hess, an occultist himself. Over 600 occult practitioners, from astrologers to necromancers, were sent to concentration camps. Hess was tried at Nuremberg and was given a life sentence. He committed suicide in prison at age the age of 93. The seal on this artwork protects all just occultists who use magic for social good from cooptation by fascists and from persecution by authoritarian regimes. 

Lauren Marie Taylor is a Bay Area conceptual artist whose work has been recognized by Teaching Tolerance and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Taylor has shown at Bay Area Now (BAN 7) at YBCA, where she is currently an Equity Fellow, as well as StoreFrontLab, Root Division, La Pocha Nostra and Southern Exposure, among others. In 2013 she was the first Artist in Residence at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. In 2015 she was an Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, through which she worked with the Vatican Astronomical Observatory. She holds a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Tufts joint degree program, an MEd from Portland State University and an MFA in Social Practice from the California College of the Arts. Taylor is the currently the Senior Education Manager at the Bay Area Video Coalition.