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If you think ghosts are only responsible for hauntings, think
again. The Demonologist reveals the grave religious process behind
supernatural events and how it can happen to you. Used as a text in
seminaries and classrooms, this is one book you can't put down.
Illustrated with photos of phenomena in progress from the Warrens'
private collection.
For over five decades Ed and Lorraine Warren have been known as
the world's most renowned paranormal investigators. Lorraine is a
gifted clairvoyant, while Ed is the only non-ordained demonologist
recognized by the Catholic Church. Together they have investigated
thousands of hauntings in their career.
Witches and Warlocks of New York is a collection of legends and
historical accounts about witches and warlocks from the Empire
State. This will be the second in a series (the first being
Massachusetts publishing September 1, 2021). New York has a
surprisingly rich history of witches and witchcraft. These stories
are known locally in the towns where they occurred but have never
been collected into one book before. Included are a history and
origins of witchcraft in New York State and historical tales of
"witches" across the state including Hulda and the thirteen Witches
of the Catskills.
Lux in Tenebris is a collection of eighteen original
interdisciplinary essays that address aspects of the verbal and
visual symbolism in the works of significant figures in the history
of Western Esotericism, covering such themes as alchemy, magic,
kabbalah, angels, occult philosophy, Platonism, Rosicrucianism, and
Theosophy. Part I: Middle Ages & Early Modernity ranges from
Gikatilla, Ficino, Camillo, Agrippa, Weigel, Boehme, Yvon, and
Swedenborg, to celestial divination in Russia. Part II: Modernity
& Postmodernity moves from occultist thinkers Schwaller de
Lubicz and Evola to esotericism in literature, art, and cinema, in
the works of Colquhoun, Degouve de Nuncques, Bruskin, Doitschinoff,
and Perez-Reverte, with an essay on esoteric theories of colour.
Contributors are: Michael J.B. Allen, Susanna Akerman, Lina
Bolzoni, Aaron Cheak, Robert Collis, Francesca M. Crasta, Per
Faxneld, Laura Follesa, Victoria Ferentinou, Joshua Gentzke,
Joscelyn Godwin, Hans Thomas Hakl, Theodor Harmsen, Elke Morlok,
Noel Putnik, Jonathan Schorsch, Gyoergy Szoenyi, Carsten Wilke, and
Thomas Willard.
The Jewel of Annual Astrology is an encyclopaedic treatise on
Tajika or Sanskritized Perso-Arabic astrology, dealing particularly
with the casting and interpretation of anniversary horoscopes.
Authored in 1649 CE by Balabhadra Daivajna, court astrologer to
Shah Shuja' - governor of Bengal and second son of the Mughal
emperor Shah Jahan - it casts light on the historical development
of the Tajika school by extensive quotations from earlier works
spanning five centuries. With this first-ever scholarly edition and
translation of a Tajika text, Martin Gansten makes a significant
contribution not only to the study of an important but little known
knowledge tradition, but also to the intellectual historiography of
Asia and the transmission of horoscopic astrology in the medieval
and early modern periods.
A significant number of Americans spend their weekends at UFO
conventions hearing whispers of government cover-ups, at New Age
gatherings learning the keys to enlightenment, or ambling around
historical downtowns learning about resident ghosts in
tourist-targeted "ghost walks". They have been fed a steady diet of
fictional shows with paranormal themes such as The X-Files,
Supernatural, and Medium, shows that may seek to simply entertain,
but also serve to disseminate paranormal beliefs. The public hunger
for the paranormal seems insatiable. Paranormal America provides
the definitive portrait of Americans who believe in or have
experienced such phenomena as ghosts, Bigfoot, UFOs, psychic
phenomena, astrology, and the power of mediums. However, unlike
many books on the paranormal, this volume does not focus on proving
or disproving the paranormal, but rather on understanding the
people who believe and how those beliefs shape their lives. Drawing
on the Baylor Religion Survey-a multi-year national random sample
of American religious values, practices, and behaviors-as well as
extensive fieldwork including joining hunts for Bigfoot and
spending the night in a haunted house, authors Christopher Bader,
F. Carson Mencken, and Joseph Baker shed light on what the various
types of paranormal experiences, beliefs, and activities claimed by
Americans are; whether holding an unconventional belief, such as
believing in Bigfoot, means that one is unconventional in other
attitudes and behaviors; who has such experiences and beliefs and
how they differ from other Americans; and if we can expect major
religions to emerge from the paranormal. Brimming with engaging
personal stories and provocative findings, Paranormal America is an
entertaining yet authoritative look at a growing segment of
American religious culture.
The Book of the Law, the holy text that forms the basis of Thelema,
was transmitted to Crowley by the entity known as Aiwass in Cairo,
on three successive days during April 1904. Acting as a medium,
Crowley recorded the communications on hotel notepads and later
organized his automatic writing into a short, coherent document.
Aiwass/Crowley presents The Book of the Law as an expression of
three god-forms in three chapters: Nuit, Hadit, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
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