Download or read book At the Threshold of Mystery Book 1 of Essays on the Accursed Sciences written by Stanislas De Guaita and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Threshold of Mystery is a journey through the history and progression of the mystery tradition, from its place in ancient history up to late 19th century France. Throughout the journey, Stanislas de Guaita weaves in his Kabbalistic insight and beautiful glimpses of Rosicrucian Illuminism. The appendix contains an in-depth analysis of two pantacles from the works of Heinrich Khunrath as well as sections pertaining to Martinism, and Rosicrucian Kabbalah. Stanislas de Guaita was a French poet and celebrated Rosicrucian. In 1888 Stanislas founded the Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose Croix in an effort to revive the French Rosicrucian tradition. He played a fundamental role in the esoteric revival of the late 1800's and this translation gives you a glimpse into how our spiritual predecessors approached the Rosicrucian tradition.
Download or read book Essays of George Eliot written by George Eliot and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1883-01-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Serpent of Genesis written by Stanislas de Guaita and published by Ouroboros Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not a grimoire of witchcraft, but offers a quasi-scientific look at its subjects: Astral Forces, Spells, Incantations, Charms, Evocations and more. His author was a true scholar and a precursor of modern occultism.
Download or read book Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anarchism and Other Essays written by Emma Goldman and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Serpent of Genesis written by Stanislas de Guaita and published by Ouroboros Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of Stanislas de Guaita (1861-1897) are not grimoires of witchcraft, contrary to what their titles may evoke, but, in the author's own words, Essais de sciences maudits (Essays on the Cursed Sciences), meaning that he had the ambition to take a quasi-scientific look at the subjects in question. Stanislas de Guaita become one of the leading figures of the reborn occultism of the late XIX century in France. He was a true scholar and an important precursor of modern occultism. This book, the first volume of the Serpent of Genesis: The Temple of Satan, deals with black magic and the use of astral forces. The next volume of the series, The Key to Black Magic offers an overview of witchcraft through the ages and the continents most often referred to by symbolists and occultists of the time. Guaita died before finishing the third volume, The Problem of Evil, although it was published posthumously, many years after his death. The Temple of Satan includes a Bibliographical Catalogue and an Alphabetical Index. The topics covered in its seven chapters are: 1. THE DEVIL: In the intellectual world it is called Error; in the moral world it is called Selfishness; in the physical world it is incarnated in all forms of Ugliness. 2. THE SORCERER: The ambition of a despotism without control, based on the monopoly of knowledge forbidden to the common man. The Sabbath. 3. WORKS OF WITCHCRAFT: Spells, Charms, Incantations and Evocations. 4. HUMAN JUSTICE: Persecution of sorcerers. The Inquisition The case of the Knights Templar, the Military Order than became a Secret Society. 5. THE SORCERER'S ARSENAL: Interesting and unique list of material resources, astral forces, spirits, etc., used by the sorcerers. 6. MODERN AVATARS OF THE SORCERER: History of some modern sorcerers 7. FLOWERS FROM THE ABYSS: Poetry and the attraction of evil. Ego and Non-Ego. Psychic pollution. Apollo, Hecate, Eros, Atropos.
Download or read book Essays from the Chap Book written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays from the Chap-Book is an invaluable collection of literary criticism comprising engaging pieces by the most renowned critics of the late 19th century. It includes short tales, anecdotes, and essays by Louise Imogen Guiney, Maurice Thompson, John Burroughs, and many more prolific writers of the period.
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Download or read book Vanishing Roads and Other Essays written by Richard Le Gallienne and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1915 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Books of Occult Philosophy Or Magic written by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Allan Poe called it "a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore." This classic work of Renaissance esoteric-by German magician and alchemist HEINRICH CORNELIUS AGRIPPA (1486-1535), one of the important figures in the occult history and philosophy of Europe-is vital reading for anyone fascinated by the Jewish Kabbalah, Christian mysteries, and other arcane traditions. This replica of an 1897 edition, featuring all the original charts and illustrations, reveals Agrippa's understanding of the mysteries of magic, the elements, the heavens, the natural and occult virtues of all things, and much more.
Download or read book Writing and Difference written by Jacques Derrida and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thought—one of his main targets being the way in which "structuralism" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models. The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and différence—the untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical "concept" that does not exclude writing—for almost a generation of students of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Writing and Difference reveals the unacknowledged program that makes thought itself possible. In analyzing the contradictions inherent in this program, Derrida foes on to develop new ways of thinking, reading, and writing,—new ways based on the most complete and rigorous understanding of the old ways. Scholars and students from all disciplines will find Writing and Difference an excellent introduction to perhaps the most challenging of contemporary French thinkers—challenging because Derrida questions thought as we know it.
Download or read book Illuminations written by Walter Benjamin and published by HMH. This book was released on 1968-10-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century’s most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt. Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode; and his theses on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin’s life in a dark historical era. Leon Wieseltier’s preface explores Benjamin’s continued relevance for our times. Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem.
