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The author of "Circles of Power" and "Paths of Wisdom", presents the lodge system as a coherent whole, showing, in immediate and practical terms, how one can put it to work . 21 line drawings.
Author : John Michael Greer
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781567183146
The author of "Circles of Power" and "Paths of Wisdom", presents the lodge system as a coherent whole, showing, in immediate and practical terms, how one can put it to work . 21 line drawings.
Author : John Michael Greer
Publisher : Aeon Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,45 MB
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1913504530
For centuries, magical lodges have been one of the most important and least understood parts of the Western esoteric traditions. The traditional secrecy of lodge organizations has made it next to impossible for modern students of magic to learn what magical lodges do, and how their powerful and effective traditions of ritual, symbolism and organization can be put to work. This updated and expanded edition of Inside a Magical Lodge reveals the foundations of lodge work on all levels-from the framework of group structure that allows lodges to efficiently handle the practical needs of a working magical group, through the subtle approaches to symbolism and ritual developed within lodge circles, to the potent magical methods that lodges use in their initiations and other ceremonial workings. It is a must-read for members of existing lodges, for students of magical traditions such as the Golden Dawn, for practitioners of other kinds of group magical work and for all those who have wondered about the hidden world behind lodge doors.
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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Anthropology
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Author : John Michael Greer
Publisher : Aeon Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1913504220
Studies on druidry, Jungian psychology, politics, history and the time ahead In 2003 John Michael Greer became the seventh Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), an initiatory organization teaching Celtic nature spirituality which was founded in 1912. The outcome was that his writings began to stray into territory very far from the Hermetic occult philosophy that had been the previous focus of his career. The essays included in this volume chronicle some of the themes he explored as a result: Druidry, Jungian psychology, politics, history, and the shape of the future in a society in decline.
Author : Rosemary Guiley
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Alchemy
ISBN : 1438130007
A comprehensive illustrated reference guide with more than 400 entries on the subjects of magic and alchemy.
Author : Field Museum of Natural History
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 1922
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Author : Chicago Natural History Museum
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Anthropology
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Author : Frances Timbers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 2014-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0857735888
In early modern England, the practice of ritual or ceremonial magic - the attempted communication with angels and demons - both reinforced and subverted existing concepts of gender. The majority of male magicians acted from a position of control and command commensurate with their social position in a patriarchal society; other men, however, used the notion of magic to subvert gender ideals while still aiming to attain hegemony. Whilst women who claimed to perform magic were usually more submissive in their attempted dealings with the spirit world, some female practitioners employed magic to undermine the patriarchal culture and further their own agenda. Frances Timbers studies the practice of ritual magic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries focusing especially on gender and sexual perspectives. Using the examples of well-known individuals who set themselves up as magicians (including John Dee, Simon Forman and William Lilly), as well as unpublished diaries and journals, literature and legal records, this book provides a unique analysis of early modern ceremonial magic from a gender perspective.
Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Best books
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Author : Roelof van den Broek
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 1997-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791497666
This volume introduces what has sometimes been called "the third component of western culture." It traces the historical development of those religious traditions which have rejected a world view based on the primacy of pure rationality or doctrinal faith, emphasizing instead the importance of inner enlightenment or gnosis: a revelatory experience which was typically believed to entail an encounter with one's true self as well as with the ground of being, God. The contributors to this book demonstrate this perspective as fundamental to a variety of interconnected traditions. In Antiquity, one finds the gnostics and hermetics; in the Middle Ages several Christian sects. The medieval Cathars can, to a certain extent, be considered part of the same tradition. Starting with the Italian humanist Renaissance, hermetic philosophy became of central importance to a new religious synthesis that can be referred to as Western Esotericism." The development of this tradition is described from Renaissance hermeticists and practitioners of spiritual alchemy to the emergence of Rosicrucianism and Christian theosophy in the seventeenth century, and from post-enlightenment aspects of Romanticism and occultism to the present-day New Age movement.