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I consider this work not only a continuation of the tradition of scholarship I have sketched out above but also as a contribution to an ongoing project in the history of ideas pioneered by such…
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The final “Hermetic” period of Hegel’s life is his time in Berlin, from 1818 until his death on November 14, 1831. This is contrary to what one might expect. It might be assumed that Hegel’s…
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There are references throughout Hegel’s published and unpublished writings to many of the leading figures and movements of the Hermetic tradition. These references are in large measure approving. This is particularly the case with Hegel’s…
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Bruno is the first to exploit the concept of magic to its ultimate conclusions, envisaging this “science” as an infallible psychological instrument for manipulating the masses as well as the individual human being. Awareness of…
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Aristasia is the post-1980s name of a group which, in slightly different form, was earlier known as The Romantics and The Olympians. It was started in the English university city of Oxford in the late…
One of the most successful European attempts to introduce Traditionalism to the general public was sponsored by the English poet and literary critic Kathleen Raine. While Raine was an undergraduate student at Cambridge in the…
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In addition to these activities, [Jean] Tourniac was involved in an ambitious Traditionalist project to restore good relations between Masonry and the Catholic Church. This project was principally the work of a Jesuit priest, Michel…
Aguéli was not the only Western Sufi of the early twentieth century, though he is the first Westerner known to have established a genuine branch of a Sufi order, however small, in Europe. Perhaps the…
Сейчасъ я склоняюсь къ опредѣленію оккультнаго какъ относящагося къ области суггестіи, управленія сознаніемъ, групповыхъ и индивидуальныхъ психологическихъ техникъ, политологіи, включая параполитологію, и прочаго властвованія надъ собой и окружающими. Если кажется, будто это вынимаетъ остріе изъ…
– Anthropology and Egalitarianism: Ethnographic Encounters from Monticello to Guinea-Bissau (2010) Several months later I shared another, far more momentous, meal. I was attending an initiation ritual for blacksmiths. Among Manjaco, as in much of…