John Bramble, an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College Oxford, lectured in Classics at Oxford University, UK. His publications as a classicist include Persius and the Programmatic Satire (1974, reissued 2010), and contributions to The Cambridge History of Classical Literature Vol. 2 (1983). As a historian of mystical syncretism and religio-cultural mixing, he has contributed to The Subtle Body in Asia and the West (2013).

'A brilliant and revelatory study of the central importance for European modernism of the syncretism of Eastern and Western in the occult revivals during the age of the high European empires.' - Philip Hardie, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK 'Anyone wanting to understand modernism needs to read Bramble's book.' - Paul Edwards, Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies

• 1. Empire and Occultism 2. Modernist Interworlds 3. Destruction-Creation: from Decadence to Dada 4. Call to Order, Occultist Geopolitics, Spirit Wars 5. 'Zen' in the Second Abstraction 6. Owning, Disowning and Trivializing the Occult Notes Select Bibliography Index