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Author : Gertrude M. Hort,Richard Basil Ince,William Perkes Swainson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Occultism
ISBN : UCAL:$B285867
Author : R. B. Hort
Publisher : Health Research Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0787304190
The Occult Book Society. Contents: Dr. John Dee by G. M. Host; Franz Anton Mesmer by R. B. Ince; Thomas Lake Harris by W. P. Swainson.
Author : G. M. Hort,W. P. Swainson
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 149781006X
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
Author : G.M. Hort,R.B. Ince,W.P. Swainson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1858104823
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
Author : Bill Ellis
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780813182933
Despite their centuries-old history and traditions, witchcraft and magic are still very much a part of modern Anglo-American culture. In Lucifer Ascending, Bill Ellis looks at modern practices that are universally defined as "occult," from commonplace habits such as carrying a rabbit's foot for good luck or using a Ouija board, to more esoteric traditions, such as the use of spell books. In particular, Ellis shows how the occult has been a common element in youth culture for hundreds of years. Using materials from little known publications and archives, Lucifer Ascending details the true social function of individuals' dabbling with the occult. In his survey of what Ellis terms "vernacular occultism," the author is poised on a middle ground between a skeptical point of view that defines belief in witchcraft and Satan as irrational and an interpretation of witchcraft as an underground religion opposing Christianity. Lucifer Ascending examines the occult not as an alternative to religion but rather as a means for ordinary people to participate directly in the mythic realm.
Author : Joshua Gunn
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817356569
A broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in America cultural, political, and religious discourse. The occult has traditionally been understood as the study of secrets of the practice of mysticism or magic. This book broadens our understanding of the occult by treating it as a rhetorical phenomenon tied to language and symbols and more central to American culture than is commonly assumed. Joshua Gunn approaches the occult as an idiom, examining the ways in which acts of textual criticism and interpretation are occultic in nature, as evident in practices as diverse as academic scholarship, Freemasonry, and television production. Gunn probes, for instance, the ways in which jargon employed by various social and professional groups creates barriers and fosters secrecy. From the theory wars of cultural studies to the Satanic Panic that swept the national mass media in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Gunn shows how the paradox of a hidden, buried, or secret meaning that cannot be expressed in language appears time and time again in Western culture. These recurrent patterns, Gunn argues, arise from a generalized, popular anxiety about language and its limitations. Ultimately, Modern Occult Rhetoric demonstrates the indissoluble relationship between language, secrecy, and publicity, and the centrality of suspicion in our daily lives.
Author : Simon Cox,Mark Foster
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000062627207
The Knowledge Of The Hidden That Is The Meaning Of The Latin Occultus, From Which We Take Our Modern Phrase The Occult . Why Is It That This Subject Stirs Up So Much Controversy? Is The Answer Present In That Very Definition: The Idea That Studies Into The Occult Are Pushing At The Very Boundaries Of Human Knowledge? In This Simple-To-Follow A To Z Guide, You Will Discover The Details Of Both Studies Into The Occult And The Truth About Occultists, Who, From The Earliest Times In History, Have Attempted To Remove The Veil That Shrouds The Knowledge Of The Hidden . " What Were The World S Greatest Occultists, Including Plato, Nostradamus, Isaac Newton And William Blake, Searching For? " What Are The True Origins Of Alchemy? " What Secret Knowledge Is Concealed Within The Tarot Deck? " Was The Infamous Aleister Crowley Really The Wickedest Man In The World ? " Did The Ancient Egyptians Believe In Magic? Simon Cox And Mark Foster Guide You Along The Pathways Of The Occult And Attempt To Bring The Hidden Into Full View.
Author : Ralph Shirley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Mediums
ISBN : UCAL:$B285866
Author : Christian Giudice
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197610244
Christian Giudice's Occult Imperium explores Italian national forms of Occultism, chiefly analyzing Arturo Reghini (1878-1946), his copious writings, and Roman Traditionalism. Trained as a mathematician at the prestigious University of Pisa, Reghini was one of the three giants of occult and esoteric thought in Italy, alongside his colleagues Julius Evola (1898-1974) and Giulian Kremmerz (1861-1930). Using Reghini's articles, books, and letters, as a guide, Giudice explores the interaction between occultism, Traditionalism, and different facets of modernity in early-twentieth-century Italy. The book takes into consideration many factors particular to the Italian peninsula: the ties with avant-garde movements such as the Florentine Scapigliatura and Futurism, the occult vogues typical to Italy, the rise to power of Benito Mussolini and Fascism, and, lastly, the power of the Holy See over different expressions of spirituality. Occult Imperium explores the convergence of new forms of spirituality in early twentieth-century Italy.
Author : Simon
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780061748950
It is acknowledged Church doctrine that sorcery is the specific domain of the Devil. Yet occult tales are liberally sprinkled throughout the Old and New Testaments, from the spirit-invoking Witch of Endor to the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. Throughout its 2,000 year history, the Church has spawned numerous mystical religious orders, like the Knights Templar, that may have been engaged in supernatural pursuits, while no fewer than three popes were believed to be involved in occult practices. Christian scriptures tell us that the occult is real, while Catholic priests are thought to have spiritual power over ghosts and evil entities. But if a priest can cast out demons during the rites of exorcism, does it not imply he has the ability to summon them as well? In this eye-opening, provocative work, leading occult scholar Simon examines the Church's unspoken relationship with forbidden magic by exploring the infamous seventeenth-century document considered by some to be the most demonic of all occult texts—the Grimoire of Pope Honorius III—and illuminates the Vatican's darkest hidden corners.
Author : Mitch Horowitz
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780553385151
From its earliest days, America served as an arena for the revolutions in alternative spirituality that eventually swept the globe. Esoteric philosophies and personas—from Freemasonry to Spiritualism, from Madame H. P. Blavatsky to Edgar Cayce—dramatically altered the nation’s culture, politics, and religion. Yet the mystical roots of our identity are often ignored or overlooked. Opening a new window on the past, Occult America presents a dramatic, pioneering study of the esoteric undercurrents of our history and their profound impact across modern life.
Author : Alan Ramón Clinton
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820469432
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, technology and spirituality formed uncanny alliances in countless manifestations of automatism. From Victorian mediums to the psychiatrists who studied them, from the Fordist assembly line to the Hollywood studios that adopted its practices, from Surrealism on the left to Futurism and Vorticism on the right, the unpredictable paths of automatic practice and ideology present a means by which to explore both the utopian and dystopian possibilities of technological and cultural innovation. Focusing on the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Butler Yeats, Alan Ramon Clinton argues that, given the wide-reaching influence of automatism, as much can be learned from these writers' means of production as from their finished products. At a time when criticism has grown polarized between political and aesthetic approaches to high modernism, this book provocatively develops its own automatic procedures to explore the works of these writers as fields rich in potential choices, some more spectral than others.
Author : Miriam Wallraven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317581390
Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century. Bestselling novels such as The Da Vinci Code play with magic and the fascination of hidden knowledge, while occult and esoteric subjects have become very visible in literature during the twentieth century. This study analyses literature by women occultists such as Alice Bailey, Dion Fortune, and Starhawk, and revisits texts with occult motifs by canonical authors such as Sylvia Townsend Warner, Leonora Carrington, and Angela Carter. This material, which has never been analysed in a literary context, covers influential movements such as Theosophy, Spiritualism, Golden Dawn, Wicca, and Goddess spirituality. Wallraven engages with the question of how literature functions as the medium for creating occult worlds and powerful identities, particularly the female Lucifer, witch, priestess, and Goddess. Based on the concept of ancient wisdom, the occult in literature also incorporates topical discourses of the twentieth century, including psychoanalysis, feminism, pacifism, and ecology. Hence, as an ever-evolving discursive universe, it presents alternatives to religious truth claims that often lead to various forms of fundamentalism that we encounter today. This book offers a ground-breaking approach to interpreting the forms and functions of occult texts for scholars and students of literary and cultural studies, religious studies, sociology, and gender studies.
Author : Andrea J Miles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1739973313
A magical trip around the zodiac with perceptive and accessible astro-profiles of Pagan and Wiccan celebrities. An insightful read that goes beyond Sun signs with new birth charts coupled with biographical information plus many rarely seen photos. The era in which they lived did not have the same freedoms which many practitioners have today. These people blazed a trail for everyone.
Author : Francis Barrett
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781605203010
Its author is as mysterious as its subject matter. The one appearance of English occultist FRANCIS BARRETT (b. circa 1770) upon the literary scene is this mammoth 1801 work, a complete study of ritual magic, in practice and in its theoretical underpinnings. Drawing on numerous works of the arcane and the occult, this one-of-a-kind book ignited a fervor for magic, in all its forms, in the Europe in the early 19th century, and may have even influenced Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church.Subtitling his tome Celestial Intelligencer, Barrett promises here to present a "complete system of occult philosophy," containing the "ancient and modern practice of the Cabalistic art," and showing "the wondering effects that may be performed by a Knowledge of the celestial influences, the occult properties of metals, herbs, and stones." Alchemy, talismanic magic, magnetism, ceremonial magic, the conjuration of spirits... Barrett reveals the secrets of all these disciplines, and more.Featuring all the original charts, diagrams, and illustrations, and including Barrett's biographies of famous occultists from Agrippa to Zoroaster, this is a fascinating work of occult and cultural history.
