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Primordial Traditions was the winner of the 2009 Ashton Wylie Award
for Literary Excellence. This new second edition of the original
award winning collection features a selection of essays by
Gwendolyn Taunton and other talented authors from the original
periodical Primordial Traditions (2006-2010). The new version of
Primordial Traditions offers a revised layout and a new binding.
This edition also has content not contained in the original
publication. The first section of Primordial Traditions deals with
aspects of perennial philosophy covering the broader applications
of the Primordial Tradition in the modern world. Alchemy,
philosophy, civilization, the Kali Yuga, and even the problems
afflicting the economy are addressed here from a traditional
perspective. This section deals with the nature of the Primordial
Tradition and how all True Spiritual Traditions consequently relate
to it in this new philosophy of religion. The second section of the
book then breaks down Traditions into geographic locations to
discuss European, Eastern, Middle Eastern and South American
Traditions at an advanced level. Topics covered here include:
Tibetan Tantra, Sufism, Yezidi, Tantrism, Vedic Mythology,
Theravada Buddhism, Thai Magic, Tantrism, Oneiromancy, Norse
Berserkers, Runes, Celtic Mythology, Mithras, Hellenic Mythology
and Mayan Ceremonial Astrology to name but a few fascinating
obscurities. Content includes the following articles by Gwendolyn
Taunton: Sophia Perennis: The Doctrine of Ascension, The Primordial
Tradition, The Age of Darkness: Prophecies of the Kali Yuga,
Mercury Rising: The Life & Writing of Julius Evola, Ars Regia:
The Royal Art Revisited, Tantra: Fifth Veda or Anti-Veda?,
Aesthetics of the Divine in Hinduism, Divine Mortality: Nataraja,
Shankara & Higher Consciousness in the Imagery of Siva, Monks
& Magic: The Use of Magic by the Sangha in Thailand, Does
Practice Make One Perfected? The Role of gTum-mo in the Six Yogas
of Naropa, Clarifying the Clear Light, Oneiromancy: Divination by
Dreams, Of Wolves and Men: The Berserker and the Vratya, Ancient
Goddess or Political Goddess? and The Black Sun: Dionysus in the
Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche & Greek Myth. Primordial
Traditions also contains articles by Damon Zacharias Lycourinos,
Matt Hajduk, Krum Stefanov, Bob Makransky and many more.....
Melpomene is a collection of poetry, prose and short fiction named
after the Greek Muse of Tragedy. The central theme of the anthology
is the beauty found in sorrow and the darker sides of human nature,
drawing on literary traditions such as the 'Damned Poets', the
Decadent Movement, Symbolism/Surrealism and the Fin de si cle.
Melpomene is broken into four sections: Liber Veneficium (Book of
Magic), Liber Maeroris (Book of Sorrow), Liber Fatum (Book of
Fate), and Liber Mortuorum (Book of Death). Each section contains
both new and classic literature dealing with these themes. Authors
in this volume include Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, William
Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Taunton, Azsacra
Zarathustra, Math Jones, Bernardo Sena, J. Karl Bogartte, C. B.
Liddell, James WF Roberts, Christopher Pankhurst, H. A. Cledones,
Tamas Nagyatadi Horvath, L. Alexander Carle, Bill Noble, Marg
Howlet, Ivor Steven and Gene Banyard. Containing works both old and
new, Melpomene offers a prime selection of works on the melancholic
side of existence, the transformational beauty of the esoteric,
occult secrets hidden in verse, sorrow, doom and the inevitable
grasp of death. Melpomene will haunt the reader with a dark and
unearthly beauty that is both forbidden and forlorn...
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