Eclectic and esoteric religions and belief systems

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A guide to realizing your highest magical and spiritual potential*; Provides initiatory wisdom and practices structured around the Tree of Life to maximize spiritual powers and creativity*; Presents strategies for self-actualization drawn from transpersonal psychology, spirituality, Gaia-based religions, the Western hermetic tradition, Kabbalah, and other mystical traditions, including the teachings of Franz Bardon*; Offers practices for enhancing connection to one's higher self, exploring dreamtime on the astral plane, dissolving negativity, and developing mental clarityIn initiation, something happens to us.

With the renewed interest in the history of witches and witchcraft, this timely book provides an introduction to this fascinating topic, informed by the main trends of new thinking on the subject.

Often regarded as an artistic movement of interwar Paris, Surrealism comprised an international community of artists, writers, and intellectuals who have aspired to change the conditions of life itself over the course of the past century.

The Christian brother of bestselling author and notorious atheist Christopher Hitchens tells his powerful religious story for the first time.

An initiatory and practical guide to creative alchemy*; Shares hermetic and alchemical techniques for liberating creative expression and looks at the zodiacal and planetary timing of creative operations*; Explains how to work with and transmute alchemical energies for increased levels of insight, intuition, and imaginative expression*; Explores the connections between Surrealism and alchemy, as well as the rich and complicated symbolism of alchemical artIn this initiatory guide to the Hermetic art of alchemy, artist Marlene Seven Bremner reveals how the alchemical opus, the Great Work, offers a practical means for liberating the authentic creator within and attaining gnosis, or true self-knowledge.

This comprehensive book outlines the life and works of an important revolutionary intellectual of the 16th Century.

In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds.

This comprehensive annotated bibliography, first published in 1990, guides the user helpfully through where to find information on various elements on alchemy when researching.

*; Presents Daffi's writings on unique and unusual experiences from five decades of alchemical and hermetic practice, available for the first time in English*; Offers a view of Daffi's ';Inner Laboratory' and his pioneering investigations into consciousness, past-life regression, Hermetic healing, and divination*; Offers a psychological portrait of Daffi through writings by initiates, artists, and scholars who knew or had firsthand knowledge of the BaronFollowing the path set by renowned alchemist Giuliano Kremmerz, Marco Daffi was one of the most interesting and controversial protagonists of magical Hermeticism in the 20th century, a master initiate who illuminated the more esoteric aspects of Hermetic practice in terms of initiation, gnosis, eros, divination, and consciousness.

For over a decade the cult of La Santa Muerte has grown rapidly in Mexico and the United States.

Augustine's Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement considers the relationship between Augustine's account of God's judgment and his theology of grace in his early works.

Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages explores the response by medieval society to tales of marvels and the supernatural, which ranged from firm belief to outright rejection, and asks why the believers believed, and why the skeptical disbelieved.

The Malleus Maleficarum is one of the best-known treatises dealing with the problem of what to do with witches.

One woman alone has the power to destroy our demonsWe may not be able to see them, but they’re always there.

Originally published in 1967, this book is a study of witchcraft and sorcery among the Shona, Ndebele and Kalanga peoples of Zimbabwe.

Slavic Witches and Social Media examines the role of social media in the spiritual practices of modern Slavic witches and draws a comparative analysis between contemporary neopaganism and Catholicism in Poland.

Illuminating the Dark Side's Spirits, Fiends, Devils, and Demons.

Though it is clearly an exceptionally important part of popular culture, witchcraft has generated a variety of often contradictory interpretations, starting from widely differing premises about the nature of witchcraft, its social role and the importance of higher theology as well as more popular beliefs.

Giordano Bruno's visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture, ranging from the newly-developing science, the philosophy of knowledge and language, to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry and drama.

Paganism is rapidly becoming a religious, creative, and political force internationally.

The main concern of this study, first published in 1990, is the part played by Protestantism in the complex of social processes of 'secularization'.

From being on the margins of scholarly debate for much of the past century and a half, religion is being recognized once again as an area of concern for scholars, politicians, and public policy makers, and thus, the role of religious and spiritual education has taken on a new importance.

This book challenges the popular use of 'Valentinian' to describe a Christian school of thought in the second century CE by analysing documents ascribed to 'Valentinians' by early Christian Apologists, and more recently by modern scholars after the discovery of codices near Nag Hammadi in Egypt.

The Psychic Home: Psychoanalysis of Consciousness and the Human Soul develops, from a number of different viewpoints, the significance of home in our lives.

Explores the unified science-religion of early humanity and the impact of Hermetic philosophy on religion and spirituality *; Investigates the Jewish and Egyptian origins of Josephus's famous story that Seth's descendants inscribed knowledge on two pillars to save it from global catastrophe *; Reveals how this original knowledge has influenced civilization through Hermetic, Gnostic, Kabbalistic, Masonic, Hindu, and Islamic mystical knowledge *; Examines how ';Enoch's Pillars' relate to the origins of Hermeticism, Freemasonry, Newtonian science, William Blake, and Theosophy Esoteric tradition has long maintained that at the dawn of human civilization there existed a unified science-religion, a spiritual grasp of the universe and our place in it.

Within the past twenty years, contemporary Pagan leaders, progressive Christian and Goddess theologians, advocates for queer and BDSM communities, and therapeutic bodyworkers have all begun to speak forcefully about the sacredness of the body and of touch.

Rudolf Steiner is one of the most controversially judged educational reformers of the twentieth century.

In A Social-Political History of Monotheism, Cataldo shows how political concerns were fundamental to the development of Judeo-Christian monotheism.

See the history of witchcraft, magic and superstition come to life with this spectacular supernatural book!

Baha'i Faith: The Basics provides a thorough and accessible introduction to a fascinating, independent world religion.

Critical attention to the Victorian supernatural has flourished over the last twenty-five years.

A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is one of the most profound spiritual texts of our times, but the language can be seen as difficult.

At the core of African American religion's response to social inequalities has been a symbiotic relationship between socio-political activism and spiritual restoration.

Comparing and evaluating modern theories of myth, this book offers an overview of explanations of myth from the social sciences and the humanities.

Title first published in 2003.

Welcome to the 'more is more' world of decorating, or as it's more commonly know in the business, Maximalism.

The question of the 'structure' of the human person is central to many mystical authors in the Christian tradition.

This book brings Maximus the Confessor's logoi doctrine into dialogue with modern-day evolutionary biology.

How to study the contemporary dynamics between the religious, the nonreligious and the secular in a globalizing world?

This book introduces students to Christian mysticism and modern critical responses to it.

Peter Chrysologus is the first book to offer an introduction to the life of Peter Chrysologus and a selection of his most important sermons in translation, as well as his letter to Eutyches.

Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the twentieth century.

The bible is indeed a world of the strange and mysterious when it comes to the variety of creatures that are presented in its texts.

Originally published in 1932, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1931.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries secular French scholars started re-engaging with religious ideas, particularly mystical ones.

The contributors to this volume describe the many facets shamanism and depth psychology have in common: animal symbolism; recognition of the reality of the collective unconscious; and healing rituals that put therapist and patient in touch with transpersonal powers.