The Occult World
Language: English
Pages: 722
ISBN: 1138219258
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This volume presents students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of the occult. It explores the history of Western occultism, from ancient and medieval sources via the Renaissance, right up to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contemporary occultism. Written by a distinguished team of contributors, the essays consider key figures, beliefs and practices as well as popular culture.
Imagination. There is a striking resemblance of this ‘illuminist’ outlook to the renaissance ideas of a ‘visio intellectualis’ (Cusa) and the Swedish-German early Romanticist Thorild’s philosophy of an all-encompassing ‘vision of all’: the ‘All-Blick’ (Önnerfors 2008). Subsequent research, however, led to a rejection of this significant stream of the Enlightenment knowledge as inconsistent with the more powerful secular discourses and their more straightforward rational theories of knowledge. As.
Figure known from earlier Theosophical literature, but now placed at the apex of the brotherhood of Masters and personally in charge of the destiny of the USA. Another American member of the Theosophical family of currents, the Summit Lighthouse, has produced a similarly nationalistic version of Theosophical mythology (Whitsel 2003; Abravanel 2013). Founders Mark Prophet (1918–73) and Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1939–2009) saw themselves as messengers for the Ascended Masters. This vast pantheon.
The gift of immortality? (Ibid. sections 13 and 18) If we try to define the place of magic within the system of esotericism, we have to relate it to mysticism and occult knowledge. One should imagine concentric circles. The largest is mysticism: the opening up of a special way, an altered state of consciousness, a kind of illumination, epiphany, unio mystica. This happens more or less independently of the experiencing subject as a gift, like when in epiphany the divine suddenly becomes.
Status than by external evidence. Its final two causes are ens spiritale (or characterale) and ens deale. Ens spiritale is a disease with a spiritual rather than a material cause. It is neither the work of God nor of the devil. The natural human volition engenders an invisible, intangible spirit that inflicts diseases on others. What is said of ens spiritale calls to mind either the psychosomatic disorder of the individual, or the hysteria or sociopathic mass psychology of the crowd. Yet the.
Celebrated in a masque design’d for the court, on the Twelfth night. 1624, London: n.p. Kabbalistische Geheimnisse de Magia Divina worinnen allerhand rare unerhoerte Dinge enthalten (1767) Munich: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Kiesewetteriana 18. Kahn, Didier (2001) ‘The Rosicrucian Hoax in France (1623–24)’, in Newman William Anthony Grafton (eds) Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pp. 235–344. Klenk, Heinrich (1965) ‘Ein sogenannter.