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Author : Aleister Crowley
Release : 1991
Genre : Mysticism
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Book Synopsis The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz by : Aleister Crowley
Download or read book The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz written by Aleister Crowley. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aleister Crowley
Release : 1910
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Book Synopsis The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz. (Translated from a Rare Indian Ms. by the Late Major Lutiy and Another.) [Or Rather, Written in English by E.A. Crowley.]. by : Aleister Crowley
Download or read book The Scented Garden of Abdullah the Satirist of Shiraz. (Translated from a Rare Indian Ms. by the Late Major Lutiy and Another.) [Or Rather, Written in English by E.A. Crowley.]. written by Aleister Crowley. This book was released on 1910. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alex Owen
Release : 2006-12-15
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Synopsis The Place of Enchantment by : Alex Owen
Download or read book The Place of Enchantment written by Alex Owen. This book was released on 2006-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the nineteenth century, Victorians were seeking rational explanations for the world in which they lived. The radical ideas of Charles Darwin had shaken traditional religious beliefs. Sigmund Freud was developing his innovative models of the conscious and unconscious mind. And anthropologist James George Frazer was subjecting magic, myth, and ritual to systematic inquiry. Why, then, in this quintessentially modern moment, did late-Victorian and Edwardian men and women become absorbed by metaphysical quests, heterodox spiritual encounters, and occult experimentation? In answering this question for the first time, The Place of Enchantment breaks new ground in its consideration of the role of occultism in British culture prior to World War I. Rescuing occultism from its status as an "irrational indulgence" and situating it at the center of British intellectual life, Owen argues that an involvement with the occult was a leitmotif of the intellectual avant-garde. Carefully placing a serious engagement with esotericism squarely alongside revolutionary understandings of rationality and consciousness, Owen demonstrates how a newly psychologized magic operated in conjunction with the developing patterns of modern life. She details such fascinating examples of occult practice as the sex magic of Aleister Crowley, the pharmacological experimentation of W. B. Yeats, and complex forms of astral clairvoyance as taught in secret and hierarchical magical societies like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Through a remarkable blend of theoretical discussion and intellectual history, Owen has produced a work that moves far beyond a consideration of occultists and their world. Bearing directly on our understanding of modernity, her conclusions will force us to rethink the place of the irrational in modern culture. “An intelligent, well-argued and richly detailed work of cultural history that offers a substantial contribution to our understanding of Britain.”—Nick Freeman, Washington Times
Author : Aleister Crowley
Release : 1999-11-01
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Synopsis The Vision & the Voice With Commentary and Other Papers by : Aleister Crowley
Download or read book The Vision & the Voice With Commentary and Other Papers written by Aleister Crowley. This book was released on 1999-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1909, Crowley received and wrote down his visions in the Sahara. In them, he gives an account of crossing the Abyss and attaining the grade of Master of the Temple. The core of this book is a record of his visions of the 30 Aethyres of the Enochian Magick developed by John Dee and Edward Kelley. It includes Crowley's own diagrams and the original typescript of the Commentaries. There is also a record of Crowley's magical work conducted with Victor B. Neuberg, and includes the "Esoteric Record of the Paris Working" as well as "The Holy Hymns to the Great Gods of Heaven".
Author : Simon Joyce
Release : 2022-08-25
Genre : Gender identity
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Book Synopsis LGBT Victorians by : Simon Joyce
Download or read book LGBT Victorians written by Simon Joyce. This book was released on 2022-08-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been decades since Michel Foucault urged us to rethink "the repressive hypothesis" and see new forms of sexual discourse as coming into being in the nineteenth century, yet the term "Victorian" still has largely negative connotations. LGBT Victorians argues for re-visiting the period'sthinking about gender and sexual identity at a time when our queer alliances are fraying. We think of those whose primary self-definition is in terms of sexuality (lesbians, gay men, bisexuals) and those for whom it is gender identity (intersex and transgender people, genderqueers) as simultaneouslyin coalition and distinct from each other, on the assumption that gender and sexuality are independent aspects of self-identification. Re-examining how the Victorians considered such identity categories to have produced and shaped each other can ground a more durable basis for strengthening ourpresent LGBTQ+ coalition.LGBT Victorians draws on scholarship reconsidering the significance of sexology and efforts to retrospectively discover transgender people in historical archives, particularly in the gap between what the nineteenth century termed the sodomite and the hermaphrodite. It highlights a broad range ofindividuals (including Anne Lister, and the defendants in the "Fanny and Stella" trial of the 1870s), key thinkers and activists (including Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs and Edward Carpenter), and writers such as Walt Whitman and John Addington Symonds to map the complicated landscape of gender andsexuality in the Victorian period. In the process, it decenters Oscar Wilde and his imprisonment from our historical understanding of sexual and gender nonconformity.
