Author: Publisher: PediaPress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1101
Book Description
Mary and Mariology
Author: Rosicrucian Digest
Author: American Women, 1935-1940: A-L
Author: Durward HowesPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
"A consolidation of all material appearing in the 1939-1940 edition of 'American Women', with a supplement of unduplicated biographical entries from the 1935-1936 and 1937-1938 editions."- title page.
The Rosicrucian Fraternity in America
Author: Reuben Swinburne ClymerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Rays from the Rose Cross
Author: Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism
Author: Henrik BogdanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199996067
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
This volume is the first comprehensive examination of one of the twentieth century's most distinctive iconoclasts. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was a study in contradictions. Born into a fundamentalist Christian family and educated at Cambridge, he was vilified as a traitor, drug addict, and debaucher, yet revered as perhaps the most influential thinker in contemporary esotericism. Moving beyond the influence of contemporary psychology and the modernist understanding of the occult, Crowley declared himself the revelator of a new age of individualism. Crowley's occult bricolage, Magick, was an eclectic combination of spiritual exercises drawn from Western European magical ceremonies and Indic sources for meditation and yoga. This journey of self-liberation culminated in harnessing sexual power as a magical discipline, a "sacrilization of the self" as practiced in Crowley's mixed masonic group, the Ordo Templi Orientis. The religion Crowley created, Thelema, legitimated his role as a charismatic revelator and herald of a new age of freedom. Aleister Crowley's lasting influence can be seen in the counter-culture movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s and in many forms of alternative spirituality and popular culture. The essays in this volume offer crucial insight into Crowley's foundational role in the study of Western esotericism, new religious movements, and sexuality.
Cults, Sects, Philosophical Groups and Small Denominations in Los Angeles and Southern California
Author: Arrow Research InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sects
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
California in the 1930s
Author: Federal Writers' ProjectPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520275403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is, as David Kipen writes in his spirited introduction, “anecdotal, opinionated, and altogether habit-forming.” Describing the history, culture, and roadside attractions of the 1930s, the WPA Guide to California features some of the very best anonymous literature of its era, with writing by luminaries such as San Francisco poet Kenneth Rexroth, composer-writer- hobo Harry Partch, and authors Tillie Olsen and Kenneth Patchen.
Édith Piaf
Author: David LooseleyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781382573
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined Piaf.
Reverse Ritual
Author: Rudolf SteinerPublisher: SteinerBooks
ISBN: 9780880104876
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Religious ritual is often seen as a way of bringing divine influences down into the material world. In this profound and stimulating work, Rudolf Steiner and Friedrich Benesch introduce the idea of "reverse ritual"--a way that each of us can raise our souls to the spiritual realm. In this process, the everyday world becomes a portal through which we can enter the dimension of the sacred. Here, each of us can be a "priest," and each of our actions can be a cosmic, ritual act. This stimulating collection of writings on spiritual communion of humanity includes two further lectures by Steiner that show how this process can engage our social lives. Also included are two additional essays as appendices: "Sacramental and Spiritual Communion" by Dietrich Asten and "Human Encounters and Karma" by Athys Floride. The introduction by Christopher Schaefer brings these ideas into focus for modern seekers. Contents: Part One: "The Spiritual Communion of Humanity" (5 lectures from GA 219) Part Two: "Preparing for the Sixth Epoch" Part Three: Commentaries by Friedrich Benesch Appendices: Selections from Dietrich Asten: "Spiritual and Sacramental Communion" & Athys Floride: "Human Encounters and Karma."