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The Golden Dawn is one of most prolific and legendary of all
Western secret and esoteric societies. Hundreds of people, from the
rich and famous to the common man, have walked through its halls of
the neophyte. Very few stood as tall in the history of the occult
sciences as Arthur Edward Waite, the creator of the Rider Waite
Tarot Deck. He founded the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross in England
in 1915. For the first time in more than 80 years, these secret
ceremonies are revealed and made available to you. Included in this
volume are the following deeply spiritual rites: 1) Neophyte
Initiation, 2) Zelator Initiation, 3) Theoreticus Initiation, 4)
Practicus Initiation, 5) Philosophus Initiation, 6) Portal
Initiation, 7) Adeptus Minor Initiation, 8) Adeptus Major
Initiation, 9) Adeptus Exemptus Initiation, and 10)Return in Light
Initiation. Be part of a historical moment in the tradition of the
Western Mysteries. If you are an aspirant of the Rosicrucian
Mysteries or the Golden Dawn Tradition and looking for moving
mystical ceremonies filled with high levels of esoteric wisdom, you
will find them in this book.
Available as a single volume or as part of the 10 volume set
"Frances Yeats: Selected Works"
Historical records of charms, the verbal element of vernacular
magic, date back at least as far as the late middle ages, and
charming has continued to be practiced until recently in most parts
of Europe. And yet, the topic has received only scattered scholarly
attention to date. By bringing together many of the leading
authorities on charms and charming from Europe and North America,
this book aims to rectify this neglect, and by presenting
discussions covering a variety of periods and of locations - from
Finland to France, and from Hungary to England - it forms an
essential reader on the topic.
The Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology covers sources from Mesopotamia, Syro-Palestine and Anatolia, from around 2800 to 300 BC. It contains entries on gods and goddesses, giving evidence of their worship in temples, describing their 'character', as documented by the texts, and defining their roles within the body of mythological narratives; synoptic entries on myths, giving the place of origin of main texts and a brief history of their transmission through the ages; and entries explaining the use of specialist terminology, for such things as categories of Sumerian texts or types of mythological figures. eBook available with sample pages: EB:020302852X
A Definitive Edition of the Symbolist Classic by the author of The
Secret Teachings of All Ages Manly P. Hall is widely recognized as
the preeminent voice of occult scholarship in the twentieth
century, famous for his esoteric masterpiece The Secret Teachings
of All Ages (1928). Now, in this "deluxe edition," Hall's earliest
work, The Initiates of the Flame, is reborn with a full complement
of illustrations and historical introductions. Originally published
in 1922, The Initiates of the Flame is Hall's first
exploration--and still one of his most powerful--of myth and
symbol. Its pages shine on a light on the inner meaning of symbols
including the pyramid, holy grail, flame of wisdom, ark of the
covenant, all-seeing eye, sword and stone, the elements of alchemy,
and other gateways to the unseen world. Edited and reintroduced by
popular voice of esoteric spirituality, Mitch Horowitz, and
president of the Philosophical Research Society, Greg Salyer,
Ph.D., this is the signature presentation of Hall's landmark.
This book brings together a diverse and wide-ranging group of
thinkers to forge unsuspecting conversations across the humanist
and non-humanist divide. How should humanism relate to a
non-humanist world? What distinguishes "humanism" from the
"non-humanist?" Readers will encounter a wide-range of perspectives
on the terms bringing together this volume, where "Humanism"
"Non-Humanist" and "World" are not taken for granted, but instead,
tackled from a wide variety of perspectives, spaces, discourses,
and approaches. This volume offers both a pragmatic and scholarly
account of these terms and worldviews allowing for multiple points
of analytical and practical points of entry into the unfolding
dialogue between humanism and the non-humanist world. In this way,
this volume is attentive to both theoretically and historically
grounded inquiry and applied practical application.
'An important and timely book.' - Philippa Gregory Joan of Navarre
was the richest woman in the land, at a time when war-torn England
was penniless. Eleanor Cobham was the wife of a weak king's uncle -
and her husband was about to fall from grace. Jacquetta Woodville
was a personal enemy of Warwick the Kingmaker, who was about to
take his revenge. Elizabeth Woodville was the widowed mother of a
child king, fighting Richard III for her children's lives. In Royal
Witches, Gemma Hollman explores the lives of these four unique
women, looking at how rumours of witchcraft brought them to their
knees in a time when superstition and suspicion was rife.
"Icelandic Spiritualism" is an engaging social anthropological
study of the place of spiritualism in Icelandic church and society
during the first half of the twentieth century. Challenging
standard theoretical approaches to the study of religion, the book
contributes a wealth of data on the history of religion and
psychical research, presenting it in a vivid descriptive narrative.
The authors trace the role of the spirit world in Icelandic
culture, giving particular attention to the distinctive history of
Iceland's "conversion" to Christianity. They focus on the
appearance of "modern" spiritualism as a distinct phenomenon in
Icelandic life. The book studies the interaction between various
groups in fin-de-siecle Icelandic society, not least in the state
church, as mediumistic phenomena became widely reported through the
newspapers. To some, Icelandic spiritualism may be considered a
deviant case of Protestantism. What makes this book interesting,
however, is that the spiritualism is seen as integral to Iceland's
transition to modernity. While "Icelandic Spiritualism"
concentrates mainly on the first half of the twentieth century, it
also provides a summary of the continuation of spiritualist
phenomena up to the current period. This intriguing study will be
of interest to theologians, philosophers, sociologists,
psychologists, and anthropologists.
This volume looks at the secular state in the context of
contemporary Asia and investigates whether there existed before
modernity antecedents to the condition of secularity, understood as
the differentiation of the sphere of the religious from other
spheres of social life. The chapters presented in this book examine
this issue in national contexts by looking at the historical
formation of lexicons that defined the "secular", the "secular
state," and "secularism". This approach requires paying attention
to modern vernacular languages and their precedents in written
traditions with often a very long tradition. This book presents
three interpretive frameworks: multiple modernities, variety of
secularisms, and typologies of post-colonial secular states.
The Malleus Maleficarum is a seminal treatise regarding witchcraft
and demons, presented here complete with an authoritative
translation to modern English by Montague Summers. At the time this
book was published in 1487, the Christian church had considered
witchcraft a dangerous affront to the faith for many centuries.
Executions of suspected witches were intermittent, and various
explanations of behaviors deemed suspect were thought to be caused
by possession, either by the devil or demon such as an incubus or
succubus. Kramer wrote this book after he had tried and failed to
have a woman executed for witchcraft. Unhappy at the verdict of the
court, he authored the Malleus Maleficarum as a manual for other
witch seekers to refer to. For centuries the text was used by
Christians as a reference source on matters of demonology, although
it was not used directly by the Inquisition who became notorious
for their tortures and murders.
In this book , discover the Life Continuum, the means by which a
being inherits and then lives the lives of others. Here also
discover the Chart of Attitudes, containing the buttons which, when
pressed, unlock any case.
People with eating disorders often make desperate attempts to exert magical control over their bodies in response to the threats they experience in relationships. Mary Levens takes the reader into the realm of magical thinking and its effect on ideas about eating and the body through a sensitive exploration of the images patients create in art therapy, in which themes of cannibalism constantly recur. Drawing on anthropology, religion and literature as well as psychoanalysis, she discusses the significance of these images and their implications for treatment of patients with eating disorders. The Magical Control of the Body will be of interest to all of those concerned with patients or clients who have troubled relationships, both with others and with their own bodies.
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