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Hermetic Astrology - Vol. 1 (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Robert Powell Hermetic Astrology - Vol. 1 (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Robert Powell
R902 Discovery Miles 9 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book starts with a meticulous explanation of terminology used in astronomy and astrology. This can be considered as a splendid example of how to explain strictly scientific notions to readers who are not necessarily skilled in the exact sciences. From an astronomical point of view, the most interesting part of the work is the presentation of the old Egyptian world system, which the author concludes was the same as the system of Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). He considers this astronomical system not just as a transitory historical conception, but as something which possesses permanent value. The author's deep historical studies made it possible for him also to solve the problem of the interchange of Mercury and Venus, something indicated many years ago by Rudolf Steiner. This is an important achievement in the history of astronomy. The main astrological finding of this book is that the zodiac of the stars (sidereal zodiac) - as employed by the Babylonians, Egyptians, and ancient Greeks - is the authentic zodiac. Moreover, the auther promotes a new type of astrological chart (hermetic chart) for the conception, birth, and death of personalities under consideration, in addition to the customary geocentric horoscope and in place of the heliocentric horoscope promoted by Willi Sucher (1902-1985). With the hermetic chart the auther places a new tool in the hands of astrologers and opens up new possibilities for astrology as a science. On this basis he develops his two "laws" of reincarnation, illustrating them by striking examples. These "laws" express themselves by way of certain planetary configurations coinciding at the moments of birth and death in successive incarnations. He believes that with these "laws" the significance of the tropical zodiac is disproved. This work of Robert Powell, presenting a new astrological system, is a valuable step in the development of a new wisdom of the stars in line with the ideas of Willi Sucher. Willi Sucher's books and articles are full of charm - deep in a spiritual sense - representing a star wisdom in an embryonic state. With this book by Robert Powell, the ideas of Willi Sucher are born as an earthly reality and something new is brought into the world. Professor Konrad Rudni_ki Astronomical Observatory Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland

Hermetic Astrology - Vol. 2 (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Robert Powell Hermetic Astrology - Vol. 2 (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Robert Powell
R869 Discovery Miles 8 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the first chapters of this book we simultaneously follow two threads. While considering the lives of Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, and King Ludwig II of Bavaria in their nineteenth-century incarnations and in earlier incarnations, we examine the planetary configurations accompanying not only their conception, birth, and death, but also various significant events in their lives. In this way we experience how these two perspectives-the biographical and the astrological-weave together and are intimately interconnected. As illuminating as this is, the author also indicates however that astrological calculation alone can never suffice for the truly deep biographical research into karma and reincarnation demonstrated in this work. The author shows that although it is clear that an individual's destiny is connected with the positions of the celestial bodies-that certain regular occurrences are evident-nonetheless no strict regularities exist. He maintains moreover that a certain level of clairvoyance is requisite for any serious astrological study of destiny; even more-that real astrology requires initiation. Such astrological research, when successfully carried out as it is here, relating salient celestial configurations to the life-drama of well-known historical personalities, reads like fine literature. On a practical level this work illustrates several important new tools for the astrologer: how to calculate hermetic charts, how to cast horoscopes not only of birth and death but also of conception (including the astrological significance of the embryonic period between conception and birth), and then also how to apply these various horoscopes in describing the spiral of life that unfolds in seven-year periods during the course of a person's earthly existence. All this reveals profound and fascinating regularities-among them the discovery that stellar configurations during the embryonic period are reflected again and again in the subsequent periods of life. Quite new for most readers will be the author's treatment of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, indicating that the names given these planets are deeply meaningful in the light of spiritual science. To make his case he extends Rudolf Steiner's description of cosmic evolution by drawing upon Greek mythology, particularly Orphic cosmology. This book by Robert Powell is of the greatest possible interest. Professor Konrad Rudni_ki Astronomical Observatory Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland

The Secret History of the World and How to Get Out Alive (Paperback): Laura Knight-Jadczyk, Patrick Riviere The Secret History of the World and How to Get Out Alive (Paperback)
Laura Knight-Jadczyk, Patrick Riviere
R1,465 Discovery Miles 14 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy (Paperback): Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy (Paperback)
Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson
R462 Discovery Miles 4 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Yogi philosophy teaches that the physical body is built up of cells, each cell containing within it a miniature of "life," which controls its actions. -from "The First Three Principles" Followers of the New Thought movement of the early 20th century vehemently believed in the concept of "mind over matter..". and this 1903 book may well have been their guide to achieving it. One of the most influential thinkers of this early "New Age" philosophy here demonstrates how to achieve the ultimate indulgence of the "pure spirit" that defines us all. Yogi Ramacharaka explains how to shed the "sheaths that prevent its full expression" via: .the astral plane .the instinctive mind .the spiritual mind .the human aura .thought dynamics .clairvoyance and telepathy .personal magnetism .occult therapeutics .spiritual cause and effect .and more. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Yogi Ramacharaka's The Science of Psychic Healing. American writer WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON (1862-1932)-aka Yogi Ramacharaka-was born in Baltimore and had built up a successful law practice in Pennsylvania before professional burnout led him to the religious New Thought movement. He served as editor of the popular magazine New Thought from 1901 to 1905, and as editor of the journal Advanced Thought from 1916 to 1919. He authored dozens of New Thought books-including The Philosophies and Religions of India, Arcane Formula or Mental Alchemy and Vril, or Vital Magnetism-under numerous pseudonyms, some of which are likely still unknown today.

Simple Life Of Rene Guenon (Hardcover): Paul Chacornac Simple Life Of Rene Guenon (Hardcover)
Paul Chacornac
R727 Discovery Miles 7 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ren Gunon (1886-1951) is undoubtedly one of the luminaries of the twentieth century, whose critique of the modern world has stood fast against the shifting sands of recent philosophies. His oeuvre of 26 volumes is providential for the modern seeker: pointing ceaselessly to the perennial wisdom found in past cultures ranging from the Shamanistic to the Indian and Chinese, the Hellenic and Judaic, the Christian and Islamic, and including also Alchemy, Hermeticism, and other esoteric currents, at the same time it directs the reader to the deepest level of religious praxis, emphasizing the need for affiliation with a revealed tradition even while acknowledging the final identity of all spiritual paths as they approach the summit of spiritual realization. The present volume, first published in 1958 by Gunon's friend and collaborator Paul Chacornac, whose bookstore, journal (first called Le Voile d'Isis, later changed to tudes Traditionnelles), and publishing venture-ditions Traditionnelles-were so instrumental in furthering Gunon's work, was the first full-length biography of this extraordinary man to appear, and has served as the foundation for the many later biographies that have appeared in French, as well as the lone biography in English, Ren Gunon and the Future of the West, by Robin Waterfield. Its translation and publication in conjunction with The Collected Works of Ren Gunon represents an important step in the effort to bring Gunon's oeuvre before a wider public.

Legacies of the Occult - Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Unconscious Communication (Hardcover): Marsha Aileen Hewitt Legacies of the Occult - Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Unconscious Communication (Hardcover)
Marsha Aileen Hewitt
R2,124 Discovery Miles 21 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Telepathy, thought transference, unconscious communication. While some important early psychological theorists such as William James, Frederic W. H. Myers and Sigmund Freud all agreed that the phenomenon exists, their theoretical approaches to it were very different. James's and Myers's interpretations of and experimental investigations into telepathy or thought transference were an inextricable part of their psychical researches. Freud's insistence on the reality of thought transference had nothing to do with psychical research or paranormal phenomena, which he largely repudiated. Thought transference for Freud was located in a theory of the unconscious that was radically different from the subliminal mind embraced by James and Myers. Today thought transference is most commonly described as unconscious communication but was largely ignored by subsequent generations of psychoanalysts until most recently. Nonetheless, the recognition of unconscious communication has persisted as a subterranean, quasi-spiritual presence in psychoanalysis to this day. As psychoanalysis becomes more interested in unconscious communication and develops theories of loosely boundaried subjectivities that open up to transcendent dimensions of reality, it begins to assume the features of a religious psychology. Thus, a fuller understanding of how unconscious communication resonates with mystical overtones may be more deeply clarified, articulated and elaborated in contemporary psychoanalysis in an explicit dialogue with psychoanalytically literate scholars of religion. In Legacies of the Occult Marsha Aileen Hewitt argues that some of the leading theorists of unconscious communication represent a 'mystical turn' that is infused with both a spirituality and a revitalized interest in paranormal experience that is far closer to James and Myers than to Freud.

Bygone Beliefs (Paperback): H.Stanley Redgrove Bygone Beliefs (Paperback)
H.Stanley Redgrove
R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
About Face - German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz (Hardcover): Richard T. Gray About Face - German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz (Hardcover)
Richard T. Gray
R1,778 Discovery Miles 17 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Once associated with astrology and occultist prophecy, the art of interpreting personal character based on facial and other physical features dates back to antiquity. About Face tells the intriguing story of how physiognomics became particularly popular during the Enlightenment, no longer as a mere parlor game but as an empirically grounded discipline. The story expands to illuminate an entire tradition within German culture, stretching from Goethe to the rise of Nazism. In About Face, Richard T. Gray explores the dialectical reversal - from the occult to the scientific realm - that entered physiognomic thought in the late eighteenth century, beginning with the positivistic writings of Swiss pastor Johann Caspar Lavater. Originally claimed to promote understanding and love, physiognomics devolved into a system aimed at valorizing a specific set of physical, moral, and emotional traits and stamping everything else as ""deviant."" This development not only reinforced racial, national, and characterological prejudices but also lent such beliefs a presumably scientific grounding. In the period following World War I, physiognomics experienced yet another unprecedented boom in popularity. Gray explains how physiognomics had by then become a highly respected ""super-discipline"" that embraced many prominent strands of German thought: the Romantic philosophy of nature, the ""life philosophy"" propagated by Dilthey and Nietzsche, the cultural pessimism of Schopenhauer, Husserl's method of intuitive observation, Freudian psychoanalysis, and early-twentieth-century eugenics and racial biology. A rich exploration of German culture, About Face offers fresh insight into the intellectual climate that allowed the dangerous thinking of National Socialism to take hold.

The Quest for the Phoenix - Spiritual Alchemy and Rosicrucianism in the Work of Count Michael Maier (1569-1622) (Hardcover):... The Quest for the Phoenix - Spiritual Alchemy and Rosicrucianism in the Work of Count Michael Maier (1569-1622) (Hardcover)
Hereward Tilton
R5,689 Discovery Miles 56 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The author presents with this intellectual biography of the Lutheran alchemist Count Michael Maier an academic study of western esotericism in general and to the study of alchemy and rosicrucianism in particular. The author charts the development of Maier's Hermetic worldview in the context of his service at the courts of Emperor Rudolf II and Moritz of Hessen-Kassel. The problem of the nature of early Rosicrucianism is addressed in detail with reference to Maier's role in the promotion of this "serious jest" in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. The work is set in the context of ongoing debates concerning the nature of early modern alchemy and its role in the history of Western esotericism.

Thundersqueak - The Confessions of a Right Wing Anarchist (Hardcover): Liz Angerford, Ambrose Lea Thundersqueak - The Confessions of a Right Wing Anarchist (Hardcover)
Liz Angerford, Ambrose Lea; Edited by Ramsey Dukes
R660 R579 Discovery Miles 5 790 Save R81 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women Who Live Evil Lives - Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala (Paperback, 1st ed): Martha Few Women Who Live Evil Lives - Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial Guatemala (Paperback, 1st ed)
Martha Few
R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Women Who Live Evil Lives documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social relations of power in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial Central America. Men and women from all sectors of society consulted them to intervene in sexual and familial relations and disputes between neighbors and rival shop owners; to counter abusive colonial officials, employers, or husbands; and in cases of inexplicable illness.

Applying historical, anthropological, and gender studies analysis, Martha Few argues that women's local practices of magic, curing, and religion revealed opportunities for women's cultural authority and power in colonial Guatemala. Few draws on archival research conducted in Guatemala, Mexico, and Spain to shed new light on women's critical public roles in Santiago, the cultural and social connections between the capital city and the countryside, and the gender dynamics of power in the ethnic and cultural contestation of Spanish colonial rule in daily life.

A Witch's Beverages and Brews - Magick Potions Made Easy (Paperback): Patricia Telesco A Witch's Beverages and Brews - Magick Potions Made Easy (Paperback)
Patricia Telesco
R409 Discovery Miles 4 090 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Bubble, bubble, toil, and trouble! Well there's little toil, and no trouble to be found in this tasty book of witch's brews. Lore and superstition combine with modern magickal methods to help readers design beverages that quench both physical and spiritual thirst completely while tantalizing their taste buds.

Words from the Soul - Time, East/West Spirituality, and Psychotherapeutic Narrative (Paperback): Stuart Sovatsky Words from the Soul - Time, East/West Spirituality, and Psychotherapeutic Narrative (Paperback)
Stuart Sovatsky
R1,050 Discovery Miles 10 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Accepting relentless impermanence as the ground of human experience, Words from the Soul derives a spiritual psychology from the mystery and poignancy of time-passage itself. Drawing from Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Foucault, Dostoyevsky, Buddhism, kundalini yoga, and twenty-five years of clinical/mediation experience, the author's epigrammatic insights into our struggles with mortality, gratitude, apology, and forgiveness make this book relevant to psychotherapy and conflict resolution in a wade range of professional settings.

In his exploration of the furthest-reaches of human development, Stuart Sovatsky reveals the deepest potentials of the ensouled body, transforming our views of language, sexuality, ecstatic spiritualities, and of the human life cycle.

Night Has a Naked Soul - Witchcraft and Sorcery among the Western Cherokee (Paperback, New edition): Alan Kilpatrick Night Has a Naked Soul - Witchcraft and Sorcery among the Western Cherokee (Paperback, New edition)
Alan Kilpatrick
R515 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Save R90 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In a work that spans nearly two centuries, anthropologist Alan Kilpatrick explores the occult world of the Western Cherokee, expounding on previously collected documents and translating some forty new shamanistic texts that have never been disclosed to outside audiences. For over a hundred and fifty years, the Cherokee Indians have been recording their medico-magical traditions in the native script of the Sequoyah syllabary. These texts, known as idi: gawe' sdi, deal with such esoteric matters as divining the future, protecting oneself from enemies, destroying the power of witches, and purifying one's soul from all forms of supernatural harm. As one of the few scholars able to translate the discourse, Kilpatrick underlines the critical role of transformational language in the ritual performance. His book challenges conventional wisdom about Native American folk medicine, witchcraft, and sorcery by introducing a new body of shamanistic thought and by placing this thought in the context of growing anthropological literature on indigenous folk beliefs.

Between the Living and the Dead - Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age (Hardcover): Eva Pocs Between the Living and the Dead - Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age (Hardcover)
Eva Pocs
R1,676 Discovery Miles 16 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The author has undertaken extensive research on the history of folk beliefs connected with communication with the supernatural sphere. In this text, she examines the relics of European shamanism in early modern sources, and the techniques and belief-systems of mediators found in the records of witchcraft trials from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Pocs also explores the kinds of communication systems known to early modern Hungarians, the role of these systems in everyday village life, and how they were connected to contemporary European systems. On the basis of her material and analysis, she contributes a number of details and identifies types of mediators and systems which function up to the twentieth century.

New Age Religion And Western Culture - Esotericism In The Mirror Of Secularism (Paperback): Wouter J. Hanegraaff New Age Religion And Western Culture - Esotericism In The Mirror Of Secularism (Paperback)
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
R1,285 Discovery Miles 12 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sales restricted to North America paperback only due to co-publication agreement with Koninklijke Brill NV. Brill retains the cloth rights in all remaining countries.English language rights only.

Studies in Occultism (1910), v. 1-3 (Paperback): H. P Blavatsky Studies in Occultism (1910), v. 1-3 (Paperback)
H. P Blavatsky
R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Contents: Practical Occultism; Occultism Versus the Occult Arts; The Blessings of Publicity; Hypnotism; Black Magic in Science; Signs of the Times; Psychic and Noetic Action.

The Greater Key of Solomon (Paperback, Facsimile of 1914 ed): S. L. MacGregor Mathers, S.L. Mathers The Greater Key of Solomon (Paperback, Facsimile of 1914 ed)
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, S.L. Mathers
R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Mysteria - History of the Secret Doctrines and Mystic Rites of Ancient Religions and Medieval and Modern Secret Orders... Mysteria - History of the Secret Doctrines and Mystic Rites of Ancient Religions and Medieval and Modern Secret Orders (Hardcover, Facsimile of 1895 ed)
Otto Henne Am Rhyn
R819 Discovery Miles 8 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Contents: Mysteries of the East and of Barbarous Nations; The Grecian Mysteries and the Roman Bacchanalia; The Pythagorean League and other Secret Associations; Son of Man, Son of God; A Pseudo-Messiah; A Lying Prophet; The Knights Templar; The Femgerichte; Stonemasons' Lodges of the Middle Age; Astrologers and Alchemists; Rise and Constitution of Freemasonry; Secret Societies of the Eighteenth Century; The Illuminati; Secret Societies of Various Kinds.

The Rulings of the Night - Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts (Paperback): Gregory G. Maskarinec The Rulings of the Night - Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts (Paperback)
Gregory G. Maskarinec
R783 Discovery Miles 7 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It is impossible to discuss what shamans are and what they do, contends Gregory G. Maskarinec, without knowing what shamans say. When Maskarinec took an interest in shaman rituals on his first visit to Nepal, he was told by many Nepalis and Westerners that the shamans he had encountered in the Himalayan foothills of western Nepal engaged in "meaningless mumblings." But in the course of several years of fieldwork he learned from the shamans that both their long, publicly chanted rituals and their whispered, secretive incantations are oral texts meticulously memorized through years of training. In The Rulings of the Night, he shows how the shamans, during their dramatic night-long performances, create the worlds of words in which shamans exist. Maskarinec analyzes several complete repertoires of the texts that the shamans use to diagnose and treat afflictions that trouble their clients. Through these texts, they intervene to manipulate and change the world, replacing its unbalanced, inexpressible chaos with orderly, balanced, grammatical, and eloquently expressible states. They negotiate the relations between language, action, and social realities, providing a well-constructed and thoroughly consistent intentional universe-and only in that universe can all shaman actions and beliefs be fully comprehended.

Sawai Singh and His Astronomy (Hardcover): V.N. Sharma Sawai Singh and His Astronomy (Hardcover)
V.N. Sharma
R1,039 Discovery Miles 10 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sawai Jai Singh, the statesman astronomer of 18th century India, designed astronomical instruments of masonry and stone, built observatories, prepared by Zij or a text for astronomical calculations. He opted for the naked eye masonary instruments when telescope had become quiet common with European astronomers.

Access to Western Esotericism (Paperback): Antoine Faivre Access to Western Esotericism (Paperback)
Antoine Faivre
R1,123 Discovery Miles 11 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Paganism in Arthurian Romance (Paperback, New Ed): John Darrah Paganism in Arthurian Romance (Paperback, New Ed)
John Darrah
R999 R916 Discovery Miles 9 160 Save R83 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Investigation of literary and archaeological evidence in search of pagan sources for the Arthurian legend. `Darrah makes the valid point that episodes in the Arthurian romances read like motifs from the ancient mythologies...[he] reconstructs a lost British paganism, grounded in the rivers, hills and woods, and especially those grey monoliths...reminders of a cosmology vanished from this island. NIKOLAI TOLSTOY, DAILY TELEGRAPH `Contends, with a good deal of evidence, that the impact of pre-Christian Welsh, Irish, Scottish, Cornish and Breton religion is greater than has been previously thought... Extensively researched and well written.' CHOICE The origins of Arthurian romance will always be a hotly disputed subject. The great moments of the legends belong partly to dimly-remembered history, partly to the poets' imagination down the ages, yet there is another strand to the stories which goes back deeper and further: the traces of ancient pagan religion, found both in Arthurian heroes who have inherited the attributes of gods, and in episodes which reflect ancient religious rituals. Darrah's careful study of the thematic relationships of, particularly, the more obscure episodes of the romances and his identification of the relative geography of Arthurian Britain as portrayed in the romances will be valuable even to those who differ with his conclusions. His most original contribution to an unravelling of a pagan Arthurian past lies in his appropriation of the fascinating evidence of standing stones and pagan cultic sites. This is dark and difficult territory, but building on elusive clues, and tracing a range of sites, especially in south-west Britain, John Darrah hasadded a significant new dimension to the search for the sources of the legends of Arthur and his court. JOHN DARRAH has also written The Real Camelot.

Occult Roots of Nazism - Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology (Paperback): Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke Occult Roots of Nazism - Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology (Paperback)
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Nearly half a century after the defeat of the Third Reich, Nazism remains a subject of extensive historical inquiry, general interest, and, alarmingly, a source of inspiration for resurgent fascism in Europe. Goodrick-Clarke's powerful and timely book traces the intellectual roots of Nazism back to a number of influential occult and millenarian sects in the Habsburg Empire during its waning years. These sects combined notions of popular nationalism with an advocacy of Aryan racism and a proclaimed need for German world-rule.

This book provides the first serious account of the way in which Nazism was influenced by powerful millenarian and occult sects that thrived in Germany and Austria almost fifty years before the rise to power of Adolf Hitler.

These millenarian sects (principally the Ariosophists) espoused a mixture of popular nationalism, Aryan racism, and occultism to support their advocacy of German world-rule. Over time their ideas and symbols, filtered through nationalist-racist groups associated with the infant Nazi party, came to exert a strong influence on Himmler's SS.

The fantasies thus fueled were played out with terrifying consequences in the realities structured into the Third Reich: Auschwitz, Sobibor, and Treblinka, the hellish museums of Nazi apocalypse, had psychic roots reaching back to millenial visions of occult sects. Beyond what the TImes Literary Supplement calls an intriguing study of apocalyptic fantasies, this bizarre and fascinating story contains lessons we cannot afford to ignore.

The Trial of Woman - Feminism and the Occult Sciences in Victorian Literature and Society (Hardcover): D. Basham The Trial of Woman - Feminism and the Occult Sciences in Victorian Literature and Society (Hardcover)
D. Basham
R4,385 Discovery Miles 43 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the Victorian period, women were judged on the legendary guilt of the female sex. As the women's rights movement gathered strength and coherence, the advent of mesmerism, spiritualism and theosophy - collectively the new witchcraft of the Victorian period - revived old notions of female occult power. In this book, the author explores these two strands of Victorian feminism and argues that the taboo subject of menstruation was the hidden pleader at the centre of the woman question.

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