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Author : Francis King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Occultism
ISBN : 0450013464
Author : Francis King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015023952404
Author : Tanya M. Luhrmann
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631151974
Profiles the surprising number of otherwise "normal" people who practice magic and witchcraft in England today, detailing how they became involved in witchcraft, the history and tradition of magic, and other fascinating details
Author : Ronald Hutton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192562296
'a brilliant history' The Sunday Times 'makes for riveting reading' The Independent Modern pagan witchcraft is arguably the only fully-formed religion England has given the world, and has now spread across four continents. This second edition of The Triumph of the Moon extensively revises the first full-scale scholarly study of modern pagan witchcraft. Ronald Hutton examines the nature and development of this religion, and offers a history of attitudes to witchcraft, paganism and magic in British society since 1800. Its pages reveal village cunning folk, Victorian ritual magicians, classicists and archaeologists, leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements, Freemasons, and members of rural secret societies. We also find some of the leading figures of English literature, from the Romantic poets to W. B. Yeats, D. H. Lawrence and Robert Graves, as well as the main personalities who have represented pagan witchcraft to the public world since 1950. Thriller writers like Dennis Wheatley, and films and television programmes, get similar coverage, as does tabloid journalism. The material is by its nature often sensational, and care is taken throughout to distinguish fact from fantasy, in a manner not previously applied to most of the stories involved. Meticulously researched, The Triumph of the Moon presents an authoritative insight into an aspect of modern cultural history which has attracted sensational publicity but has hitherto been little understood. This edition incorporates new research carried out by the author as well as research by others who have been inspired by this book over the twenty years since its first publication.
Author : Gordon Strong
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781782795780
The Esoteric Order of The Golden Dawn was a school of magic, founded during the late nineteenth century, one vowing to reveal all manner of occult knowledge to its members. Celebrated among these were Florence Farr, W.B Yeats, Charles Williams, A.E. Waite and Pamela Colman-Smith. Its figurehead, the autocratic Samuel MacGregor Mathers, inaugurated ceremonies that melded Christian Mysticism, the Qabalah and Hermeticism. Such a potent brew would eventually ensure that the Golden Dawn would burst asunder in an esoteric apocalypse.
Author : Alexandra Heidle,J.A.M. Snoek
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047425861
This volume concentrates on two aspects of the participation of women in Freemasonry: Women’s agency (i.e. the power women gained and exercised in this context) and rituals (i.e. the role of man and women in changing and shaping the rituals women work with).
Author : Egil Asprem
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438441924
This fascinating work explores John Dee's Enochian magic and the history of its reception. Dee (1527–1608/9), an accomplished natural philosopher and member of Queen Elizabeth I's court, was also an esoteric researcher whose diaries detail years of conversations with angels achieved with the aid of crystal-gazer Edward Kelley. His Enochian magic offers a method for contacting angels and demons based on secrets found in the apocryphal Book of Enoch. Examining this magical system from its Renaissance origins to present day occultism, Egil Asprem shows how the reception of Dee's magic is replete with struggles to construct and negotiate authoritative interpretational frameworks for doing magic. Arguing with Angels offers a novel, nuanced approach to questions about how ritual magic has survived the advent of modernity and demonstrates the ways in which modern culture has recreated magical discourse.
Author : Henrik Bogdan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791480106
Historical exploration of Masonic rituals of initiation.
Author : Peregin Wildoak
Publisher : Skylight Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781908011503
The Golden Dawn (GD) system of magic is the main source of the esoteric and magical wisdom and techniques practiced in the West today. While the rituals and bare teachings of the tradition have been published for sixty years, the inner workings and esoteric keys that empower those rituals have largely remained unpublished or unexplored in contemporary works. By Names and Images remedies this lack by providing detailed and clear instructions for the visualisations, spiritual connections and energetic practices required for every major GD practice and ritual, as well as several unpublished techniques. Focusing on the meanings and use of sacred names and practical techniques of visualisation, the book thoroughly explores meditation and divination, purification ritual, invocation and evocation, grades of initiation, and direct experience of the inner realms. Also covered is an explanation of the Qabalah and its use as a magical framework. While the book is sufficiently practical and clearly explained to be of huge benefit to a newcomer to magic, its primary aim is to allow people already practicing the Golden Dawn system to do so more effectively, and to be touched by the amazing spiritual blessings the rituals offer.
Author : Jean Sybil La Fontaine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998-02-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0521629349
Allegations of satanic child abuse became widespread in North America in the 1980s. Shortly afterwards, there were similar reports in Britain of sexual abuse, torture and murder, associated with worship of the Devil. Professor Jean La Fontaine, a senior British anthropologist, conducted a two year research project into these allegations, which found that they were without foundation. Her detailed analysis of a number of specific cases, and an extensive review of the literature, revealed no evidence of devil-worship. She concludes that the child witnesses come to believe that they are describing what actually happened to them, but that adults are manipulating the accusations. She draws parallels with classic instances of witchcraft accusations and witch-hunts in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe, and shows that beneath the hysteria there is a social movement, which is fostered by a climate of social and economic insecurity. Persuasively argued, this is an authoritative and scholarly account of an emotive issue.
Author : Joanne Pearson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781134524273
What is Wicca? Is it witchcraft, Paganism, occultism, esotericism, magic, spirituality, mysticism, nature religion, secrecy, gnosis, the exotic or 'other'? Wicca has been defined by and explored within all these contexts over the past thirty years by anthropologists, sociologists and historians, but there has been a tendency to sublimate and negate the role of Christianity in Wicca's historical and contemporary contexts. Joanne Pearson 'prowls the borderlands of Christianity' to uncover the untold history of Wicca. Exploring the problematic nature of the Wiccan claim of marginality, it contains a groundbreaking analysis of themes in Christian traditions that are inherent in the development of contemporary Wicca. These focus on the accusations which have been levelled against Catholisicm, heterodoxy and witchcraft throughout history: ritual, deviant sexuality and magic.
Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810863456
Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs. As the mythical past was displaced in Western estimation by the historical past and novelists became increasingly preoccupied with the present, fantasy was temporarily marginalized until the late 20th century, when it enjoyed a spectacular resurgence in every stratum of the literary marketplace. Stableford provides an invaluable guide to this sequence of events and to the current state of the field. The chronology tracks the evolution of fantasy from the origins of literature to the 21st century. The introduction explains the nature of the impulses creating and shaping fantasy literature, the problems of its definition and the reasons for its changing historical fortunes. The dictionary includes cross-referenced entries on more than 700 authors, ranging across the entire historical spectrum, while more than 200 other entries describe the fantasy subgenres, key images in fantasy literature, technical terms used in fantasy criticism, and the intimately convoluted relationship between literary fantasies, scholarly fantasies, and lifestyle fantasies. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography that ranges from general textbooks and specialized accounts of the history and scholarship of fantasy literature, through bibliographies and accounts of the fantasy literature of different nations, to individual author studies and useful websites.
Author : Murphy Pizza,James R. Lewis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004163737
Contemporary Paganism is a movement that is still young and establishing its identity and place on the global religious landscape. The members of the movement are simultaneously growing, unifying, and maintaining its characteristic diversity of traditions, identities, and rituals. The modern Pagan movement has had a restless formation period but has also been the catalyst for some of the most innovative religious expressions, praxis, theologies, and communities. As Contemporary Paganism continues to grow and mature, new angles of inquiry about it have emerged and are explored in this collection. This examination and study of contemporary Paganism contributes new ways to observe and examine other religions, where innovations, paradoxes, and inconsistencies can be more accurately documented and explained.
Author : Michael D. Bailey
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780810870277
A great deal has been written about the history of witchcraft, but much of what has been written is unreliable, exaggerated, or inaccurate. This problem is especially acute in regard to modern witchcraft, or Wicca, and its supposed connections to historical witchcraft in medieval and early modern Europe. The A to Z of Witchcraft provides a reliable reference source for both academics and general readers interested in the actual historical development of witchcraft in the western world.
Author : Sarah M. Pike
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520220867
This book incorporates the author's personal experience and scholarly work concerning ritual, sacred space, self-identity, and narrative.