From Cleopatra to Chaos Magic: A Vibrant, Epic History of Occultism in Thought and Practice In his most sweeping historical work, occult scholar and widely known voice of esoteric ideas Mitch Horowitz presents a lively, intellectually serious historical exploration of Modern occultism, from astrology and alchemy to the dawn of Theosophy and Modern witchcraft--and the spiritual revolutions that followed.
How models of interdimensionality are loosening the hold of materialism on Modern thought..
Surprising occult influences on wide-ranging Modern icons such as Frederick Douglass, Sigmund Freud, and Isaac Newton.
Gurdjieff, Alice Bailey, Austin Osman Spare, and Carlos Castaneda.
Hall, Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, Edgar Cayce, Carl Jung, Gerald Gardner, Jack Parsons, Annie Besant, G.
I.
Pioneering voices including Manly P.
Heterodox movements and figures such as The Process Church, TOPY, Michael Aquino, and Anton LaVey.
Occult influences in politics: a delicate topic weighed maturely.
How fin de siècle scientists devised clinical protocols to study the supernatural.
Growth of New Thought and mind metaphysics.
Blavatsky.
The revolution brought by occult explorer Madame H.
P.
Randolph.
Wave of occultism ignited by John Dee, the Romantics, Franz Anton Mesmer, Eliphas Lévi, and P.
B.
Migration of religious radicalism to the New World, including how enslaved people devised the magickal system of hoodoo.
Rise of the Modern secret society, such as Rosicrucians, Freemasons, and Illuminati.
Rebirth of esoterica during the Renaissance, including Kabbalah, ceremonial magick, alchemy, Gnosticism--and the backlash culminating in the Thirty Years\' War.
In this lively, full-circle history, Mitch explores: Preservation of hidden wisdom in late-ancient Hermeticism.
From Cleopatra to Chaos Magic: A Vibrant, Epic History of Occultism in Thought and Practice In his most sweeping historical work, occult scholar and widely known voice of esoteric ideas Mitch Horowitz presents a lively, intellectually serious historical exploration of Modern occultism, from astrology and alchemy to the dawn of Theosophy and Modern witchcraft--and the spiritual revolutions that followed
