... Raymond Williams's thesis that “culture is ordinary”.31 Hence, while the use of the term “occult” in “occulture” suggests the hidden, the exotic and the elite (which, of course, is a large part of the bookish, secretive, gnostic appeal ...
... Raymond Williams's thesis that “culture is ordinary”.31 Hence, while the use of the term “occult” in “occulture” suggests the hidden, the exotic and the elite (which, of course, is a large part of the bookish, secretive, gnostic appeal ...
... Rune Yoga and Liebenfels's Order of the New Templars (Ordo Novi Templi), to the Thule Society, which sponsored the burgeoning Nazi Party and included important party members such as Rudolf Hess and Dietrich Eckart. This völkisch ...
... Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science,” Astounding Science Fiction 45, no. 3 (1950), 43–87; Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health (Los Angeles: Bridge Publications, 2007). Hubbard, Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science, 9. Ibid ...
... The Cloud upon the Sanctuary by Councillor von Eckartshausen. With this book I retired to Wastdale Head for the Easter vacation of 1898.”6 What he found in The Cloud upon the Sanctuary was a series of enticing accounts of a hidden ...
Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: "There Is a Mystery"...
... 120 foundational lessons (called the “120”). Upon being equipped with these lessons, Gods would be able to “show and prove” their inherent divinity by “sciencing out” or finding deeper meanings within the world through their use of the 120 ...
... Naglowska , Maria . Le Mystère de la pendaison - initiation satanique selon la doctrine du Troisième Terme de la Trinité . Paris : Éditions de la Flèche , 1934 . Naglowska , Maria de . " La trinité et le triangle . " La Flèche - Organe ...
Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture
... Paracelsus Research Society of Salt Lake City , directed by Albert Riedel ( alias Frater Albertus , d . 1984 ) , is a typical example , but there are many other circles of that type , often neo - Paracelsian like that of Alexander von ...
Initiation, Human & Solar: Treatise on Theosophy and Esotericism
Initiation, Human and Solar is book by Alice Bailey in which is explained her theory of the hierarchy of sacred entities, and the part initiation plays in that system.
... nigredo ( work in the black , first stage in the course of the work ) that simple aesthetic jubila- tion would risk losing sight of . Nigredo , albedo , rubedo , correspond to a three- stage path that can be undertaken without our ...
... occult. This was not a new interest for Goossens: books on the occult and ... erotica as well as the occult, and had both the money and connections to ... esoteric sphere) has been, for me, the making conscious of that which was ...
Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses
... Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn were founded—this collection was ... original Order, and there took the name by which she is best known (from the ... Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order, 7th ed ...
... Underground and The Occult Establishment (Open Court: La Salle, IL 1974, 1976) remain very useful as introductions. Joscelyn Godwin's The Theosophical ... Occult in Russia and Soviet Culture SOURCES AND RESOURCES 175 The modernist occult.
... Ockeghem's Missa Quinti toni conceals motivic permutation to an extent hitherto unrecognized in scholarship . Second , I will identify con- ceptual links between the two most salient features of Ockeghem's Missa Prolationum and ...
... Rosae Crucis & Solis Alati, informational document, 2007). The organisation actually consists of two orders, corresponding to the two first orders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The aim of the first order, Sodalitas Rosae Crucis ...
Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret Knowledge
... Corpus Hermeticum, the book in the but Muslim leaving world aside (see the slender above, chance pp. 29-30), that the only Sabaeans the Asclepius preserved was known in a Latin version. Given this background, it is easy to imagine how ...
... Shiva Samhita and to a lesser extent the Shiva Svarodaya ( Śivasvarodaya , portions of which may date from the twelfth century CE ) , were translated and published by highly liter- ate Indian colonial - era Sanskrit pandits and authors ...
The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism
... The Golden Dawn. The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. (Orig. ed. 1937–1940.) St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1989. Starr, Martin P. The Unknown God: W. T. Smith and ...
... kabbalah was typified by programmatic syncretism: as Waite noted, occultists alignedkabbalahwiththeChaldeanOracles,Zoroastrianism,theDruids,Norse myth, ancient Egypt, and even, as seen in the writings of Blavatsky and other Theosophists ...
... Nigredo,Albedo, and Rubedo are sometimes extended to include a fourth phase, Citrinitas or the yellow stage, considered to take place between Albedo and Rubedo. This was known already by the Greek alchemists. For instance, Maria the ...
Abraham Abulafia’s Esotericism: Secrets and Doubts
Secrets and Doubts Moshe Idel. This stark divergence sharply differentiates between the two types of Kabbalistic literature. Nevertheless, the two literatures share the same background of encounters between Sephardi and Ashkenazi masters ...
Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present
... electrum magicum (“magical electrum”), that is, an alloy made of all the seven planetary metals,69 and then a goes on to provide detailed instructions on how to fashion. 63 Farmer, Syncretism in the West, 497 (9>9). 64 Secret, Les ...
Studies on Western Esotericism in Central and Eastern Europe
... Maria “de Naglowska”3 is one of the best (female) examples of promulgation of Russian/Slavic culture in Europe, and in Western Esotericism. It is testified not only by her works, which I had a glimpse of, but her own actions. Naglowska's ...
A Different Christianity: Early Christian Esotericism and Modern Thought
