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Book Rosaleen Among the Artists

Download or read book Rosaleen Among the Artists written by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of the Occult

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  • Author : S. Elizabeth
  • Publisher : Frances Lincoln
  • Release : 2020-10-13
  • ISBN : 0711254168
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book The Art of the Occult written by S. Elizabeth and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual feast of eclectic artwork informed and inspired by spiritual beliefs, magical techniques, mythology and otherworldly experiences. Mystical beliefs and practices have existed for millennia, but why do we still chase the esoteric? From the beginning of human creativity itself, image-makers have been drawn to these unknown spheres and have created curious artworks that transcend time and place – but what is it that attracts artists to these magical realms? From theosophy and kabbalah, to the zodiac and alchemy; spiritualism and ceremonial magic, to the elements and sacred geometry – The Art of the Occult introduces major occult themes and showcases the artists who have been influenced and led by them. Discover the symbolic and mythical images of the Pre-Raphaelites; the automatic drawing of Hilma af Klint and Madge Gill; Leonora Carrington's surrealist interpretation of myth, alchemy and kabbalah; and much more. Featuring prominent, marginalised and little-known artists, The Art of the Occult crosses mystical spheres in a bid to inspire and delight. Divided into thematic chapters (The Cosmos, Higher Beings, Practitioners), the book acts as an entertaining introduction to the art of mysticism – with essays examining each practice and over 175 artworks to discover. The art of the occult has always existed in the margins but inspired the masses, and this book will spark curiosity in all fans of magic, mysticism and the mysterious.

Book Dark Spirits

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  • Author : Nevill Drury
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9780980409987
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Dark Spirits written by Nevill Drury and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pan s Daughter

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  • Author : Nevill Drury
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-09-01
  • ISBN : 9781906958411
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Pan s Daughter written by Nevill Drury and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pan's Daughter is the only biography of Rosaleen Norton and provides the most detailed and authoritative account of her magical beliefs and practices.

Book Unsettled

Download or read book Unsettled written by Rosaleen McDonagh and published by Skein Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosaleen McDonagh writes fearlessly about a diverse experience of being Irish. 'Unsettled' explores racism, ableism, abuse and resistance as well as the bonds of community, family and friendship. As an Irish Traveller writing from a feminist perspective, McDonagh's essays are rich and complex, raw and honest, and, above all else, uncompromising.

Book The Secret Life of Bees

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  • Author : Sue Monk Kidd
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2003-01-28
  • ISBN : 9780142001745
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book The Secret Life of Bees written by Sue Monk Kidd and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-01-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings and The Book of Longings Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted Black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina—a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of Black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.

Book Homage to Pan

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  • Author : First Last
  • Publisher : Creation Books
  • Release : 2010-02-15
  • ISBN : 9781902197265
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Homage to Pan written by First Last and published by Creation Books. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosaleen Norton achieved notoriety in 1950s Australia as a controversial pagan worshipper and artist who performed mysterious occult rituals in her secret Kings Cross coven and paid homage to the ancient Greek god, Pan. Nortons provocative visionary artworks soon plunged her into legal controversy, and she was widely criticised in the media for engaging in bizarre sexual practices with her lover, the poet Gavin Greenlees. Norton was also associated with the scandal that eventually engulfed the professional career of renowned musical conductor and composer, Eugene Goossens, who had arrived in Australia in 1947 and became a member of Nortons magical coven six years later. What has been little understood until now is that although Norton dedicated her magical practice to the Great God Pan and to a lesser extent Hecate, Lilith and Lucifer, she had many other occult and metaphysical interests that influenced her cosmology and world-view. Norton was intrigued by the visionary potential of Kundalini yoga and out-of-the-body trance-exploration as well as Aleister Crowley's Thelemic sex magick, and combined all of these elements in her ritual activities. Similarly fascinated by Crowley's approach to sexuality, Goossens proved to be a significant ally, offering to instruct Norton in the Goetia and reinforcing her Thelemic tendencies. HOMAGE TO PAN is an authoritative and fully-illustrated overview of Nortons life and metaphysical beliefs which provides a detailed insight into her pursuit of sex-magic and visionary art, and identifies her as a key practitioner of the Left Hand Path. HOMAGE TO PAN also provides, for the first time, a detailed comparison between Nortons visionary art and that of the acclaimed trance magician, Austin Osman Spare her influential British counterpart. HOMAGE TO

Book Thorn in the Flesh

Download or read book Thorn in the Flesh written by Rosaleen Norton and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fantasies of a Young Submissive

Download or read book Fantasies of a Young Submissive written by Rosaleen Young and published by Chimera. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosaleen Young's book of erotic stories and poetry is an intriguing insight into the secret world of a truly submissive teenage girl. The tales are a colourful journey of self-exploration and sexual-awakening. Although still a virgin in real life, the model/authoress (pictured on the book's cover) lets her fantasies run wild in her writing. Her obsession with her own body, particularly the perfection of her bottom, and craving for submission, punishment and the wilder side of sexual pleasure are addressed with vulnerable honesty and dizzying imagination. The stunning collection of photographs of the authoress compliments the writing to make this book a verbal and visual feast for both men and women. Dark, beautiful and intensely erotic! And Fantasies of a Young Submissive includes images capturing Rosaleen's radiant innocence

Book Four Fingers and Thirteen Toes

Download or read book Four Fingers and Thirteen Toes written by Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential read that will make you laugh and cry, be angry and proud with every turn of the page. Rosaleen (Rosie) overcame horrendous injuries to her physical being as a result of her mother being prescribed Thalidomide during pregnancy. The drug left Rosie with four fingers, two sprouting from each shoulder and thirteen toes on legs which came to an abrupt end above the knee. This fascinating and beautifully written true story, charts Rosie‘s birth into an Irish immigrant family, and leads the reader through every facet of her inspirational life. It includes her early years filled with long periods of hospitalisation and treatment; her education, employment and relationships; and onto true fulfilment of a lifetime’s desire to be independent. Illustrated throughout, this remarkable story of a strong willed daughter, wife, mother and respected businesswoman, also details the factual and historical journey of Thalidomide from Nazi Germany to now. This so-called “wonder drug” of the 1960s, thought to be banished after the tragedy unfolded, is still being used in the treatment of various conditions and illnesses. Rosie examines why pharmaceutical companies are eager for it to be re-licensed and includes her honest perspective of the drug. ******************** “This deeply moving book is about triumph over devastatingly severe disability. I hold Rosie in high admiration and hope her inspiring story will be very widely read.” The Rt. Hon. Lord Morris of Manchester AO QSO (first Cabinet Minister for Disabled People) ”Before you know it you are drawn into a story that makes you proud to be a disabled person.” Disability Now magazine

Book The Green Road  A Novel

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  • Author : Anne Enright
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2015-05-11
  • ISBN : 0393248224
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Green Road A Novel written by Anne Enright and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "With language so vibrant it practically has a pulse, Enright makes an exquisitely drawn case for the possibility of growth, love and transformation at any age." —People From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness—a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them. Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen's four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she’s decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold. A profoundly moving work about a family's desperate attempt to recover the relationships they've lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright's most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date.

Book Three Macabre Stories

Download or read book Three Macabre Stories written by Rosaleen Norton and published by . This book was released on 1996-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aleister Crowley  The Beast in Berlin

Download or read book Aleister Crowley The Beast in Berlin written by Tobias Churton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical history of Aleister Crowley’s activities in Berlin from 1930 to 1932 as Hitler was rising to power • Examines Crowley’s focus on his art, his work as a spy for British Intelligence, his colorful love life and sex magick exploits, and his contacts with magical orders • Explores Crowley’s relationships with Berlin’s artists, filmmakers, writers, and performers such as Christopher Isherwood, Jean Ross, and Aldous Huxley • Recounts the fates of Crowley’s friends and colleagues under the Nazis as well as what happened to Crowley’s lost art exhibition Gnostic poet, painter, writer, and magician Aleister Crowley arrived in Berlin on April 18, 1930. As prophet of his syncretic religion “Thelema,” he wanted to be among the leaders of art and thought, and Berlin, the liberated future-gazing metropolis, wanted him. There he would live, until his hurried departure on June 22, 1932, as Hitler was rapidly rising to power and the black curtain of intolerance came down upon the city. Known to his friends affectionately as “The Beast,” Crowley saw the closing lights of Berlin’s artistic renaissance of the Weimar period when Berlin played host to many of the world’s most outstanding artists, writers, filmmakers, performers, composers, architects, philosophers, and scientists, including Albert Einstein, Bertolt Brecht, Ethel Mannin, Otto Dix, Aldous Huxley, Jean Ross, Christopher Isherwood, and many other luminaries of a glittering world soon to be trampled into the mud by the global bloodbath of World War II. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and diary material by Crowley, Tobias Churton examines Crowley’s years in Berlin and his intense focus on his art, his work as a spy for British Intelligence, his colorful love life and sex magick exploits, and his contacts with German Theosophy, Freemasonry, and magical orders. He recounts the fates of Crowley’s colleagues under the Nazis as well as what happened to Crowley’s lost art exhibition--six crates of paintings left behind in Germany as the Gestapo was closing in. Revealing the real Crowley long hidden from the historical record, Churton presents “the Beast” anew in all his ambiguous and, for some, terrifying glory, at a blazing, seminal moment in the history of the world.

Book Nature Crime

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rosaleen Duffy
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2010-08-31
  • ISBN : 0300154348
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Nature Crime written by Rosaleen Duffy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this impressively researched, alarming book, Rosaleen Duffy investigates the world of nature conservation, arguing that the West's attitude to endangered wildlife is shallow, self-contradictory, and ultimately very damaging. Analyzing the workings of the black-market wildlife industry, Duffy points out that illegal trading is often the direct result of Western consumer desires, from coltan for cellular phones to exotic meats sold in London street markets. She looks at the role of ecotourism, showing how Western travelers contribute—often unwittingly—to the destruction of natural environments. Most strikingly, she argues that the imperatives of Western-style conservation often result in serious injustice to local people, who are branded as “problems' and subject to severe restrictions on their way of life and even extrajudicial killings.

Book Witchcraft and Paganism in Australia

Download or read book Witchcraft and Paganism in Australia written by Lynne Hume and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1997 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributes to the growing literature on comparative religion and new religious movements. More specifically, it draws attention to a new religious movement. Using a multidisciplinary approcach, Hume describes the emergence of a controversial worldview which has roots in ancient ideas but whose ideology is rooted in the 20th century.

Book Hilma Af Klint

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sue Cramer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-06-25
  • ISBN : 9781741741520
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Hilma Af Klint written by Sue Cramer and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden from view for decades, the work of Hilma af Klint (1862?1944) has captured the imagination of contemporary audiences. She is now widely regarded as a pioneer of twentieth-century abstract art. Her paintings are monumental in scale, with radiant color combinations, enigmatic symbols, and otherworldly shapes. In an era of limited creative freedom for women, her secret paintings were an outlet for her prodigious intelligence, spiritual quest, and groundbreaking artistic vision. Hilma af Klint: The Secret Paintings includes over 125 artworks, ranging from enormous canvasses to small watercolors; pages from her detailed notebooks; and a selection of photographs and other images. Five essays and an illustrated chronology reveal new research on af Klint, her practice, and her place in art history.

Book 800  SAT Practice Questions  2025

Download or read book 800 SAT Practice Questions 2025 written by The Princeton Review and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXTRA PRACTICE TO ACHIEVE AN EXCELLENT SCORE. We all know that practice is one of the best ways to get comfortable with any exam. 800+ SAT Practice Questions, 2025 provides hundreds of opportunities to assess whether your skills are up to the mark on the SAT's higher-level math questions and reading comprehension passages. Detailed answer explanations for each practice problem support your progress and help you to master every aspect of the test. Work Smarter, Not Harder Diagnose and learn from your mistakes with in-depth answer explanations See The Princeton Review's techniques in action Prep realistically with included practice in our online Digital SAT interface Learn fundamental approaches for achieving content mastery Practice Your Way to Excellence 800+ practice questions and detailed answer explanations Hands-on exposure to the digital test Self-scoring reports to help you assess your test performance