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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Occult studies > General

Magical Healing (Paperback, Enhanced edition): Josephine McCarthy Magical Healing (Paperback, Enhanced edition)
Josephine McCarthy
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Quareia - The Apprentice (Hardcover, Combined volume): Josephine McCarthy Quareia - The Apprentice (Hardcover, Combined volume)
Josephine McCarthy
R1,574 Discovery Miles 15 740 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale (Paperback): Dorothea E. von Mucke The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale (Paperback)
Dorothea E. von Mucke
R890 R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Save R69 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The emergence of the fantastic tale in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reflects a growing fascination with the supernatural, the marvelous, and the occult as the site for literary innovation. Taking Jacques Cazotte's prototypical "The Devil in Love" as a starting point, this book examines the genre's early development in the fantastic tales of the German romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E. T. A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Theophile Gautier and Prosper Merimee; and Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the new literary form.
The literary innovation of the fantastic tale contributed to the production of a mode of subjectivity intrinsic to the history of sexuality. It arose at a moment in the history of communication when similarity and perfect openness were no longer considered the unquestioned basis of friendship or love, when the other's potentially dark secrets became seductive and fascinating.

The Quareia Apprentice Study Guide (Paperback): Josephine McCarthy The Quareia Apprentice Study Guide (Paperback)
Josephine McCarthy
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mysteries - The Powerful Sequel to The Occult (Paperback, 0th New edition): Colin Wilson Mysteries - The Powerful Sequel to The Occult (Paperback, 0th New edition)
Colin Wilson; Foreword by Colin Stanley 1
R631 R520 Discovery Miles 5 200 Save R111 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'A major work ... an extraordinary tour de force, [this book] will materially help to bring both sides (science and paranormal studies) together in a way which could lead to real and important advances in our view of the universe' - New Scientist First published in 1978, Mysteries is the powerful and enlightening sequel to The Occult, continuing Colin Wilson's investigations into the paranormal, the occult and the supernatural. The experience of his own panic attacks gave Wilson his insight into the concept of the ladder or hierarchy of selves with which we are all associated. In this book he fully explores this idea of multiple selves, explaining how our lower, childish selves are linked to depression and anxiety. The book offers an optimistic message to counteract our contemporary tendency towards pessimism and nihilism: purposeful activity will always allow us to call on our higher selves and bring concentration, control and a sense of meaning into life. Wilson uses the concept of the multi-personality to explain a wide range of paranormal phenomenon, from dowsing and demonic possession to precognition and spoon-bending, and he analyses the work of all the big names in 20th-century supra-rational research (from T C Lethbridge to Margaret Murray to Carl Jung) from this perspective. The story ranges widely, from the stone circles to 1960s LSD adventures, and Wilson's analysis is woven with hundreds of entertaining paranormal anecdotes and case studies taken from throughout history, including his own experiences of dowsing at the Merry Maidens stone circle and of visions and lucid dreaming.

A Doomsday Reader - Prophets, Predictors, and Hucksters of Salvation (Paperback): Ted Daniels A Doomsday Reader - Prophets, Predictors, and Hucksters of Salvation (Paperback)
Ted Daniels
R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A collection of pronouncements, edicts, and scriptures predicting the apocalypse The approach of the year 2000 has made the study of apocalyptic movements trendy. But groups anticipating the end of the world will continue to predict Armageddon even after the calendar clicks to triple 0s. A Doomsday Reader brings together pronouncements, edicts, and scriptures written by prominent apocalyptic movements from a wide range of traditions and ideologies to offer an exceptional look into their belief systems. Focused on attaining paradise, millenarianism often anticipates great, cosmic change. While most think of religious belief as motivating such fervor, Daniels' comparative approach encompasses secular movements such as environmentalism and the Montana Freemen, and argues that such groups are often more political than religious in nature. The book includes documents from groups such as the Branch Davidians, the Order of the Solar Temple, Heaven's Gate, and white supremacists. Each document is preceded by a substantive introduction placing the movement and its beliefs in context. This important overview of contemporary politics of the End will remain a valuable resource long after the year 2000 has come and gone.

Quareia - the Adept (Hardcover, 3rd Hardback ed.): Josephine McCarthy Quareia - the Adept (Hardcover, 3rd Hardback ed.)
Josephine McCarthy
R1,886 Discovery Miles 18 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman - Witchcraft in Colonial New England (Paperback, New Ed): Carol F. Karlsen The Devil in the Shape of a Woman - Witchcraft in Colonial New England (Paperback, New Ed)
Carol F. Karlsen
R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"A pioneer work in . . . the sexual structuring of society. This is not just another book about witchcraft."--Edmund S. Morgan, Yale University

Confessing to "Familiarity with the Devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens, was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. In 1662, Ann Cole was "taken with very strange Fits" and fueled an outbreak of witchcraft accusations in Hartford a generation before the notorious events in Salem took place.

More than three hundred years later the question still haunts us: Why were these and other women likely witches? Why were they vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft? In this work Carol Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society.

"A remarkable achievement. The 'witches' come alive in this book, not as stereotypes, but as real women living in a society that suspected and feared their independence and combativeness."--Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History, Cornell University

Universities And The Occult Rituals Of The Corporate World - Higher Education And Metaphorical Parallels With Myth And Magic... Universities And The Occult Rituals Of The Corporate World - Higher Education And Metaphorical Parallels With Myth And Magic (Hardcover)
Felicity Wood
R3,908 Discovery Miles 39 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Universities And The Occult Rituals Of The Corporate World explores the metaphorical parallels between corporatised, market-oriented universities and aspects of the occult. In the process, the book shows that the forms of mystery, mythmaking and ritual now common in restructured institutions of higher education stem from their new power structures and procedures, and the economic and sociopolitical factors that have generated them.

Wood argues that universities have acquired occult aspects, as the beliefs and practices underpinning present-day market-driven academic discourse and practice weave spells of corporate potency, invoking the bewildering magic of the market and the arcane mysteries of capitalism, thriving on equivocation and evasion. Making particular reference to South African universities, the book demonstrates the ways in which apparently rational features of contemporary Western and westernised societies have acquired occult aspects. It also includes discussion of higher education institutions in other countries where neoliberal economic agendas are influential, such as the UK, the USA, the Eurozone states and Australia.

Providing a unique and thought-provoking look at the impact of the marketisation of Higher Education, this book will be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students engaged in the study of higher education, educational policy and neoliberalism. It should also be of great interest to academics in the fields of anthropology, folklore and cultural studies, as well as business, economics and management.

Witch Hunting in Southwestern Germany, 1562-1684 - The Social and Intellectual Foundations (Hardcover): H. C. Erik Midelfort Witch Hunting in Southwestern Germany, 1562-1684 - The Social and Intellectual Foundations (Hardcover)
H. C. Erik Midelfort
R1,669 Discovery Miles 16 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is an analysis of witchcraft and witch hunting as they appeared in southwestern Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Starting from a short analysis of some basic problems in the interpretation of European witchcraft, it proceeds to a study of the shifting denominational views regarding witches and the growth of Catholic orthodoxy. That theoretical vantage yields insight into the patterns in time, space, and confession that characterized all witch hunts in the German Southwest. There follows a narrative analysis of the largest witch hunts and the general crisis of confidence they produced. Analysis is complemented by a summary of what is known about the people accused of witchcraft, as well as an examination of the popular suspicion directed toward old women at the start of most panics and the breakdown of this stereotype as the panics progressed.

The Lost Keys of Freemasonry - The Legend of Hiram Abiff (Paperback): Manly P Hall The Lost Keys of Freemasonry - The Legend of Hiram Abiff (Paperback)
Manly P Hall
R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

2013 Reprint of 1946 Fifth Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Mr. Hall, himself an honorary 33x Mason, reveals the profounder aspects of this ancient Fraternity which has been a source of inspiration to so many individuals through the centuries. The basic symbolism of the three degrees of the Blue Lodge is explained. The text can be read with profit by both new and old Masons, for within its pages lies an interpretation of Masonic symbolism which supplements the monitorial instruction usually given in the lodges. The leading Masonic scholars of all times have agreed that the symbols of the Fraternity are susceptible of the most profound interpretation and thus reveal to the truly initiated certain secrets concerning the spiritual realities of life. Freemasonry is therefore more than a mere social organization a few centuries old, and can be regarded as a perpetuation of the philosophical mysteries and initiations of the ancients. This is in keeping with the inner tradition of the Craft, a heritage from pre-Revival days. The present volume will appeal to the thoughtful Mason as an inspiring work, for it satisfies the yearning for further light and leads the initiate to that Sanctum Sanctorum where the mysteries are revealed. The book is a contribution to Masonic idealism, revealing the profounder aspects of our ancient and gentle Fraternity - those unique and distinctive features which have proved a constant inspiration through the centuries. Chapters Include: Chapter I - The Eternal Quest Chapter II - The Candidate Chapter III - The Entered Apprentice Chapter IV - The Fellow Craft Chapter V - The Master Mason Chapter VI - The Qualifications of a True Mason Epilogue

The Initiate's Way - A Magickal Journey into Spiritual Alchemy (Paperback): Melany Jade The Initiate's Way - A Magickal Journey into Spiritual Alchemy (Paperback)
Melany Jade
R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Tubelo's Green Fire - Mythos, Ethos, Female, Male & Priestly Mysteries of the Clan of Tubal Cain (Paperback): Shani Oates Tubelo's Green Fire - Mythos, Ethos, Female, Male & Priestly Mysteries of the Clan of Tubal Cain (Paperback)
Shani Oates
R466 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R82 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores historical and contemporary ideas of witchcraft through the perspective of the Clan of Tubal Cain - a closed Initiatory group aligned to the Shadow Mysteries within the Luciferian stream. As students of art we mediate the ancestral stream, teaching through practice with the sacred tenets of Truth, Love and Beauty. The Word is thus manifest in deed and vision.

A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Years Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits (Paperback): John Dee A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Years Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits (Paperback)
John Dee
R804 R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Save R126 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"What is here presented is a work of darkness." Yet it is no other than what with great tenderness and circumspection was tendered to men of the highest dignity in Europe, kings and princes, and by all listened unto for a while with good respect. By some gladly embraced and entertained for a long time, the fame whereof being carried unto Rome, it made the Pope to better himself, no knowing what the event of it might be, and how much it might concern him. And indeed, filled all men, learned and unlearned in most places with great wonder and astonishment: all which things will be showed and made good in the contents of this book, by unquestionable records and evidences. And therefore I make no question but there will be men enough found in the world whose curiosity will lead them to read what I think is not to be paralleled in that kind by any book that has been set out in any age to read (from the preface). This occult classic, rare and long unavailable, is a reprint from the 1659 edition, once again in print in a handsome new format from Golem Media.

Ingenium - Alchemy of the Magical Mind (Hardcover): Frater Acher Ingenium - Alchemy of the Magical Mind (Hardcover)
Frater Acher
R1,360 Discovery Miles 13 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hell's Gate - Terror at Bobby Mackey's Music World (Paperback): Douglas Hensley Hell's Gate - Terror at Bobby Mackey's Music World (Paperback)
Douglas Hensley
R622 R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Save R79 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At 44 Licking Pike in Wilder, Kentucky, just across the river from Cincinnati, Ohio...lies, what has been called "the most haunted place in America." Bobby Mackey's Music World, a country/western bar and nightclub, is well known for its mechanical bull. It is better known for more violent encounters with spirits than anywhere else in the US. Visitors and staff members report everything from poltergeist-like phenomena, to disembodied voices and laughter, to actual physical attacks by unseen forces. There are, on record, 29 sworn affidavits of sightings, several from police and clergy. Paranormal Investigator Doug Hensley was called in to determine the causes for the strange occurrences. Mr. Hensley made some startling discoveries. This book has been the subject of National TV Shows such as Geraldo, Sightings, Encounters, Sally Jessee Rapheal, A Current Affair, Real Ghosts, The Other Side and many more. Read America's Most Documented Haunting, Hell's Gate.

Ghostly Matters - Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition): Avery F. Gordon Ghostly Matters - Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
Avery F. Gordon; Foreword by Janice Radway
R634 Discovery Miles 6 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Avery Gordon's stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting." --George Lipsitz
"The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny." --American Studies International"
"Ghostly Matters" immediately establishes Avery Gordon as a leader among her generation of social and cultural theorists in all fields. The sheer beauty of her language enhances an intellectual brilliance so daunting that some readers will mark the day they first read this book. One must go back many more years than most of us can remember to find a more important book." --Charles Lemert
Drawing on a range of sources, including the fiction of Toni Morrison and Luisa Valenzuela (He Who Searches"), Avery Gordon demonstrates that past or haunting social forces control present life in different and more complicated ways than most social analysts presume. Written with a power to match its subject, Ghostly Matters" has advanced the way we look at the complex intersections of race, gender, and class as they traverse our lives in sharp relief and shadowy manifestations.
Avery F. Gordon is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Janice Radway is professor of literature at Duke University.

The Orphic Hymns - A New Translation for the Occult Practitioner (Hardcover): Patrick Dunn The Orphic Hymns - A New Translation for the Occult Practitioner (Hardcover)
Patrick Dunn
R971 R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 Save R181 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Orphic hymns are fascinating historical artifacts 87 devotions, invocations, and entreaties to the Greek gods that are as powerful today as they were when they were originally developed thousands of years ago. Designed to be used in contemporary spiritual practice and spellcrafting, this premium hardcover edition features spectacular new English translations by Patrick Dunn along with the original Greek on facing pages. These translations are complete, accurate, and poetic perfect for integrating into rituals and magical workings for every conceivable purpose, from protection to prosperity and everything in between. Written by a poet and occultist specifically for contemporary practitioners of magic, this must-have book also includes detailed notes to help you understand esoteric passages as well as suggestions for incense selection and the practical use of the hymns.

Nostradamus - A Healer of Souls in the Renaissance (Hardcover): D Crouzet Nostradamus - A Healer of Souls in the Renaissance (Hardcover)
D Crouzet
R1,614 Discovery Miles 16 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

One of the most enigmatic figures in history, Nostradamus - apothecary, astrologer and soothsayer - is a continual source of fascination. Indeed, his predictions are so much the stock-in-trade of the wildest merchants of imminent Doom that one could be forgiven for ignoring the fact that Michel de Nostredame, 1503-1566, was a figure firmly rooted in the society of the French Renaissance. In this bold new account of the life and work of Nostradamus, Denis Crouzet shows that any attempt to interpret his Prophecies at face value is misguided. Nostradamus was not trying to predict the future. He saw himself, rather, as prophesying , i.e. bringing the Word of God to humankind. In a century marked by the extreme violence of the Wars of Religion, Nostradamus profound Christian faith placed him among the evangelicals of his generation. Rejecting the confessional tensions tearing Europe apart, he sought to coax his readers towards an interiorised piety, based on the essential presence of Christ. Like Rabelais, for whom laughter was a therapy to help one cope with the misery of the times, Nostradamus saw himself as a physician of the soul as much as of the body. His unveiling of the menacing and horrendous events which await us in the future was a way of frightening his readers into the realisation that inner hatred was truly the greatest peril of all, to which the sole remedy was to live in the love and peace of Christ. This inspired interpretation penetrates the imaginative world of Nostradamus, a man whose life is as mysterious as his writings. It shows him in a completely new dimension, securing for him a significant place among the major thinkers of the Renaissance.

The Decline of Magic - Britain in the Enlightenment (Paperback): Michael Hunter The Decline of Magic - Britain in the Enlightenment (Paperback)
Michael Hunter
R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain-named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial Times In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Credit for this great change is usually given to science - and in particular to the scientists of the Royal Society. But is this justified? Michael Hunter argues that those pioneering the change in attitude were not scientists but freethinkers. While some scientists defended the reality of supernatural phenomena, these sceptical humanists drew on ancient authors to mount a critique both of orthodox religion and, by extension, of magic and other forms of superstition. Even if the religious heterodoxy of such men tarnished their reputation and postponed the general acceptance of anti-magical views, slowly change did come about. When it did, this owed less to the testing of magic than to the growth of confidence in a stable world in which magic no longer had a place.

Spirit Communication Board: Fabio Listrani Spirit Communication Board
Fabio Listrani
R618 Discovery Miles 6 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Quareia The Initiate (Hardcover, 2nd Hardback ed.): Josephine McCarthy Quareia The Initiate (Hardcover, 2nd Hardback ed.)
Josephine McCarthy
R1,579 Discovery Miles 15 790 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
In the Sign of Five: 1879-1899-1933-1998 -Today - The Five Spiritual Events, Tasks and Beings of the First Half of the Age of... In the Sign of Five: 1879-1899-1933-1998 -Today - The Five Spiritual Events, Tasks and Beings of the First Half of the Age of Michael, an Apocalyptic View of Contemporary History (Paperback)
T.H. Meyer
R367 R332 Discovery Miles 3 320 Save R35 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Spiritual knowledge is not given to us as in ancient times. By spiritual means it must be struggled and striven for against a host of demons...We must therefore get to know the powers that would cover up and obscure all spiritual knowledge.' - from the Preface 'The world seems to be standing within a demonic storm that threatens to overwhelm it', states T.H. Meyer at the outset of this rousing call for a wide-ranging, spiritual-scientific knowledge of the world. Appeals to traditional religious belief will no longer pacify this storm, and neither will 'good will' suffice. Building on Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, In the Sign of Five tackles the central task of our epoch: the epistemological struggle with evil, and presents the five most important spiritual events since the beginning of the Age of Michael: 1879 - the rise of Michael to the rank of Time Spirit; 1899 - the end of Kali Yuga; 1933 - the appearance of Christ in the Etheric; 1998 - the assault of Sorath, 'one of the greatest ahrimanic demons'; The present - the incarnation of Ahriman. These events are linked to the five main tasks of the Age of Michael, the great challenge of inner knowledge and spiritual consciousness posed by the epoch as a whole. In the light of world history, and within the context of 'the sign of five', we stand today at the fifth place - at the point of the incarnation of Ahriman. Is humanity prepared for this decisive event? Have we recognised the phenomena of evil that surround us on a daily basis? Have the tasks corresponding to the five events been identified, and to what extent have they been carried out? How is evil related to 'the good' that guides the world, and specifically to the Christ impulse? Meyer provides a vital, pithy, aphoristic handbook for our apocalyptic times.

NakedTantra - Record of a magical year (Paperback): Miryamdevi, Minanath NakedTantra - Record of a magical year (Paperback)
Miryamdevi, Minanath
R368 Discovery Miles 3 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Liber Spiritumm - Book of Spirits (Being the Grimoire of Paul Huson) (Paperback): Paul Huson Liber Spiritumm - Book of Spirits (Being the Grimoire of Paul Huson) (Paperback)
Paul Huson
R1,577 R1,167 Discovery Miles 11 670 Save R410 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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