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Satanic Feminism
Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Av Per Faxneld
Inbunden, 2017
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
708 kr
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According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries. The notion of woman as the Devil's accomplice is prominent throughout Christian history and has been used to legitimize the subordination of …
The Foundations of Re-Enchantment
Freemasonry, Theosophy, and the Occult Revival
Inbunden, 2025
920 kr
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In 1875, in a small apartment in New York City, a handful of freemasons and spiritualists met in secret. After hours spent debating advances in science and the spiritual mysteries of the Orient, the assembled guests settled on an idea. What the 19th century needed most, they concluded, was an …
The Magical Diaries of Leah Hirsig, 1923-1925
Aleister Crowley, Magick, and the New Occult Woman
Av Manon Hedenborg White, Henrik Bogdan
Inbunden, 2025
1233 kr
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Leah Hirsig was a Swiss-American occultist, follower and lover of the prominent British occultist Aleister Crowley in the 1920s. The self-styled Great Beast 666, Crowley was also the founder and prophet of the new religion Thelema. This annotated edition of Hirsig's complete magical diaries and …
Freemasonry and Kabbalah
The Masonic-Kabbalistic Art of Rabbi David Rosenberg
Inbunden, 2027
977 kr
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David Rosenberg, a Freemason rabbi and artist active in the Paris of the July Monarchy (1830 to 1848), was creatively inspired by the unlikely combination of two intellectual traditions within the realm of Western esotericism: Freemasonry and Kabbalah. In his chosen medium of œuvre, Rosenberg …
Imagining the East
The Early Theosophical Society
Av Tim Rudbog, Erik Sand
Inbunden, 2020
1540 kr
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The Theosophical Society (est. 1875 in New York by H. P. Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott and others) is increasingly becoming recognized for its influential role in shaping the alternative new religious and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth and the twentieth century, especially as an early promoter …
Occult Imperium
Arturo Reghini, Roman Traditionalism, and the Anti-Modern Reaction in Fascist Italy
Inbunden, 2022
1469 kr
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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 …
Light on the Path
Advancing Occultism Through Esoteric Fiction, 1880-1940
Inbunden, 2026
1058 kr
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the US and UK experienced an occult revival, a flourishing "occulture" that signalled the increasing presence of the occult in the popular imagination. This period also witnessed another major cultural development--a rapid expansion of print …
The Eloquent Blood
The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism
Inbunden, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
2260 kr
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In the conventional dichotomy of chaste, pure Madonna and libidinous whore, the former has usually been viewed as the ideal form of femininity. However, there is a modern religious movement in which the negative stereotype of the harlot is inverted and exalted. The Eloquent Blood focuses on the …
Gurdjieff
Mysticism, Contemplation, and Exercises
Av Joseph Azize
Inbunden, 2020
2265 kr
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The Armenian-born mystic, philosopher, and spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff (c.1866-1949) is an enigmatic figure, the subject of a great deal of interest and speculation, but not easily fitting into any of the common categories of "esoteric," "occult," or "New Age." Scholars have for the most part …
Spiritual Alchemy
From Jacob Boehme to Mary Anne Atwood
Inbunden, 2022
1974 kr
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Most professional historians see the relationship between pre-modern and modern alchemy as one of discontinuity and contrast. Mike A. Zuber challenges this dominant understanding and explores aspects of alchemy that have been neglected by recent work in the history of science. The predominant focus …
Mystifying Kabbalah
Academic Scholarship, National Theology, and New Age Spirituality
Av Boaz Huss
Inbunden, 2020
1811 kr
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Most scholars of Judaism take the term "Jewish mysticism" for granted, and do not engage in a critical discussion of the essentialist perceptions that underlie it. Mystifying Kabbalah studies the evolution of the concept of Jewish mysticism. It examines the major developments in the academic study …
Children of Lucifer
The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism
Inbunden, 2016
988 kr
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Children of Lucifer explores the historical origins of Satanism, the "anti-religion" that adopts Satan, the Judeo-Christian representative of evil, as an object of veneration. Ruben van Luijk traces its development from a concept invented by the Christian church to demonize its internal and …
Among the Scientologists
History, Theology, and Praxis
Inbunden, 2018
681 kr
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The Church of Scientology is one of the most recognizable American-born new religions, but perhaps the least understood. With academic and popular interest on the rise, many books have been written about Scientology and surely more will follow. Although academics have begun to pay more attention to …
The Siblys of London
A Family on the Esoteric Fringes of Georgian England
Inbunden, 2018
1718 kr
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Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture, which claimed …
What Is It Like To Be Dead?
Near-Death Experiences, Christianity, and the Occult
Inbunden, 2018
867 kr
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Studies of "near-death experiences" show that such experiences not only provide a new certainty of post-mortem survival, but often function as a call for fundamental change in the present. Reported aftereffects encompass changes in attitudes, beliefs, and life orientation. It is said that …
Initiating the Millennium
The Avignon Society and Illuminism in Europe
Av Robert Collis, Natalie Bayer
Inbunden, 2020
1940 kr
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In Initiating the Millennium, Robert Collis and Natalie Bayer fill a substantial lacuna in the study of an initiatic society--known variously as the Illuminés d'Avignon, the Avignon Society, the New Israel Society, and the Union--that flourished across Europe between 1779 and 1807. Based on …
Recycled Lives
A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky's Theosophy
Av Julie Chajes
Inbunden, 2019
1943 kr
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A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions now believe in reincarnation. The rise in popularity of this belief over the last century and a half is directly traceable to the impact of the nineteenth century's largest and most influential Western esoteric …
The Subtle Body
A Genealogy
Av Simon Cox
Inbunden, 2022
1720 kr
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How does the soul relate to the body? Through the ages, innumerable religious and intellectual movements have proposed answers to this question. Many have gravitated to the notion of the "subtle body," positing some sort of subtle entity that is neither soul nor body, but some mixture of the two. …
The Lady and the Beast
The Extraordinary Partnership between Frieda Harris and Aleister Crowley
Inbunden, 2025
1464 kr
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Although Lady Harris is acknowledged as the artist of Aleister Crowley's Book of Thoth, to date, most studies have focused predominantly on Harris's role as Crowley's 'artist executant', and almost exclusively from Crowley's perspective. Whitehouse argues that Harris's involvement extended far …
Open Secrets
The Popular Fiction of Britain's Occult Revival, 1842-1936
Inbunden, 2028
1058 kr
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Open Secrets examines the popular genre fiction produced by leading figures within Britain's occult revival from the 1840s to the 1930s, including Edward Bulwer Lytton, Emma Hardinge Britten, Marie Corelli, Mabel Collins, Arthur Machen, Charles Fort, Aleister Crowley, and Dion Fortune. Ferguson …
Friendship in Doubt
Aleister Crowley, J. F. C. Fuller, Victor B. Neuburg, and British Agnosticism
Inbunden, 2024
1248 kr
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Infidel. Atheist. Rationalist. Agnostic. Occultist Aleister Crowley, soldier J. F. C. Fuller, and poet Victor Neuburg embraced these labels as active contributors and participants in the British secularist movement at the dawn of the twentieth century. Rebelling against Victorian religious and …
The Unknown God
W. T. Smith and the Thelemites
Inbunden, 2024
1324 kr
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The Unknown God is the first documentary study of Thelema, a twentieth-century religious movement in the "magical" family, founded by the occultist, poet, and prophet of a new age of personal freedom, Aleister Crowley (1875--1947). Martin P. Starr tells the history of the movement through the …
Light is Sown
The Cultivation of Kabbalah in Medieval Castile
Av Avishai Bar-Asher, Jeremy Phillip Brown
Inbunden, 2025
920 kr
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In a pioneering monograph-length study of the theological journey of Moses ben Shemtov de León of Guadalajara--self-proclaimed "Light of the West" and presumed writer of the Zohar, the kabbalah's crowning literary achievement--Avishai Bar-Asher and Jeremy Phillip Brown reach bold new conclusions …
American Aurora
Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius
Inbunden, 2024
1151 kr
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American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seventeenth century. Focusing on the life and legacy of Johannes Kelpius (1667-1707), an enormously influential but comprehensively misunderstood theologian …
American Aurora
Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius
Häftad, 2024
392 kr
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American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seventeenth century. Focusing on the life and legacy of Johannes Kelpius (1667-1707), an enormously influential but comprehensively misunderstood theologian …
Recycled Lives
A History of Reincarnation in Blavatsky's Theosophy
Av Julie Chajes
Häftad, 2027
335 kr
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A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions now believe in reincarnation. The rise in popularity of this belief over the last century and a half is directly traceable to the impact of the nineteenth century's largest and most influential Western esoteric …
