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Red Wheel/Weiser Invisibility: Mastering the Art of Vanishing
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Inner Traditions Bear and Company Esoteric Egypt: The Sacred Science of the Land of
Book SynopsisIn Esoteric Egypt, J. S. Gordon reveals how the sacred science and wisdom tradition of ancient Egypt--the Land of Khem--stems from an advanced prehistoric worldwide civilization. Examining the metaphysical structure of our universe as seen by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Celts, he shows that each tradition is merely a variation on the central concepts of the precession of the equinoxes and the obliquity of the ecliptic pole. He explores the connections between the cyclical movements of Orion and Sirius and the story of Osiris and Isis, the importance of the Pleiades and the circumpolar stars, and the ancient tradition of man as a divine being "born from the substance of the stars." He investigates the people who colonized greater Egypt 100,000 years ago, the progenitors of ancient Egyptian civilization descended from the 4th- and 5th-Root Race Atlanteans. Gordon explores the magical and esoteric meanings behind Egyptian sacred ritual and temple art, drawing parallels to the Mystery School process of initiation. Explaining the fundamental unity of the Egyptian pantheon and the structure of the after-death state, he shows that the Egyptians clearly believed in reincarnation and a spiritual evolutionary process. Revealing the ancient sacred science of the Land of Khem, teachings passed down from the earliest times, he examines the psychospiritual nature of the human being and the function of our spiritual identity and our souls.Trade Review“More than anyone else I’ve known, John Gordon shows a deep insight into the esoteric mind-set of the ancient Egyptians. I fully recommend this book to all who want to understand and relate to ancient Egypt’s spiritual message.” * Robert Bauval, author of Secret Chamber Revisited, Black Genesis: The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient *“An important investigation into the deep prehistory of ancient Egypt and the lost roots of ancient Egyptian spiritual wisdom.” * Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods *“In his last book, Esoteric Egypt, the late John Gordon delves deeply into the origin of ancient Egyptian beliefs and explains the mystery of their symbolism about Man and the Cosmos. It was in Egypt that man first recognized his two dimensions: physical and spiritual. While the body dies, the spirit joins the heavenly beings awaiting resurrection.” * Ahmed Osman, author of The Lost City of Exodus and Moses and Akhenaten *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part One Celestial and Metaphysical Background 1 The Spheres of Creation 2 The Astronomical and Astrological Dimensions of Creation 3 The Multi-Sevenfold Mill of the Gods Part Two The Subtle Nature of Existence 4 Kosmic Genesis--The Origin and Nature of the Gods 5 Sidereal Genesis--The Origin and Nature of Man 6 Man, the Multiple Being Part Three Egypt's Historical Background 7 The River Nile and Its Symbolism 8 The Ancient Colonization of Egypt 9 The Spread and Decline of Ancient Mystic Culture Part Four Ancient Egyptian Civilization and Culture 10 Egypt’s Sacred Art, Architecture, and Statuary 11 The Ritualized Magic of Egypt 12 The Mystery Tradition and the Process of Initiation EPILOGUE The Future of the Sacred Mystery Tradition Appendices A The Geometrical Correspondence to the Cycle of Involution and Evolution B Polar Misconceptions C The Funeral Positions of Orion-Osiris D The Primary Celtic Festivals E The Slaughter of Mankind F Correlations between the Ancient Egyptian and Tibetan Mystic Systems Notes Bibliography Index
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Inner Traditions Bear and Company Lords of the Left-Hand Path: Forbidden Practices
Book SynopsisFrom black magic and Satanism to Gnostic sects and Gurdjieff's Fourth Way, the left-hand path has been linked to many practices, cults, and individuals across the ages. Stephen Flowers, Ph.D., examines the methods, teachings, and historical role of the left-hand path, from its origins in Indian tantric philosophy to its underlying influence in current world affairs, and reveals which philosophers, magicians, and occult figures throughout history can truly be called "Lords of the Left-Hand Path." Flowers explains that while the right-hand path seeks union with and thus dependence on God, the left-hand path seeks a "higher law" based on knowledge and power. It is the way of self-empowerment and true freedom. Beginning with ancient Hindu and Buddhist sects and moving Westward, he examines many alleged left-hand path groups, including the Cult of Set, the Yezidi Devil Worshippers, the Assassins, the Neoplatonists, the Hell-Fire Club, the Bolsheviks, the occult Nazis, and several heretical Sufi, Zoroastrian, Christian, and Muslim sects. Following a carefully crafted definition of a true adherent of the left-hand path based on two main principles--self-deification and challenge to the conventions of "good" and "evil"--the author analyzes many famous and infamous personalities, including H. P. Blavatsky, Faust, the Marquis de Sade, Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, Gerald Gardner, Anton LaVey, and Michael Aquino, and reveals which occult masters were Lords of the Left-Hand Path. Flowers shows that the left-hand path is not inherently evil but part of our heritage and our deep-seated desire to be free, independent, and in control of our destinies.Trade Review“Left-hand-path philosophy finally receives an objective and extremely informative reading from Stephen Flowers, Ph.D. Highly recommended.” * Adam Parfrey, co-author of Ritual America *“This book will surely be hailed as a classic in its field.” * Nevill Drury Ph.D., author of Stealing Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Modern Western Magic *“Lords of the Left-Hand Path is an important contribution to the literature of the contemporary magical revival. Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D. celebrates the ‘way of the hero’ and champions the courage of the individual who dares boldly to ‘breach the gates of eternity’. This book will surely be hailed as a classic in its field.” * Nevill Drury Ph.D., author of Stealing Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Modern Western Magic *“Lords of the Left-Hand Path by Stephen E. Flowers, Ph.D., is perhaps the most influential work in the construct of the ‘left-hand path’ as a particular current of contemporary esotericism. Flowers draws on a wide range of sources, many of which are exceedingly difficult to find elsewhere, and argues convincingly for his conclusions. This book is essential for anyone who wants to understand ‘the left-hand-path’.” * Henrik Bogdan, author of Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation and co-editor of Aleister Cro *“Thus then now as ever, I enter the Path of Darkness, if haply so I may attain the Light.” (Aleister Crowley, The Supreme Ritual) Anyone who is aware of the 1980s and its dastardly slanders of Satanic ritual child abuse—incited by a collusion between faux law enforcement, bogus psychology, and a hysterical media—will especially welcome this book. It presents a sober, scholarly, and revealing explication of the true nature of the left-hand path and its most prominent adepts through recorded history. The author makes an essential contribution to rational philosophic discourse while exploring the hidden byways of the Promethean archetype.” * James Wasserman, author of The Temple of Solomon: From Ancient Israel to Modern Secret Societies *“Lords of the Left-Hand Path examines the principle of isolate intelligence and the subjective universe throughout history from ancient India and Iran to Lucifer and the Faustian Age and beyond. It devotes much attention to the revival of the occult, cosmology and Satanic beliefs and practices, being very informative on these issues.” * Professor Edgar C. Polomé, University of Texas at Austin *“I am astounded by just how much information is in this book, there is no padding or extraneous discussion, it is filled to the brim with information, observation and insight; it will become a classic in its field.” * Living Tradition Magazine, July 2012 *“Thank God for Stephan E. Flowers book Lords of the Left–Hand Path! It’s a vital and much–needed antidote to the hysteria and foolishness surrounding this area of ancient misunderstanding. The author’s thorough historical overview of this ‘path far less traveled’ brings into focus what the Western ‘Christian’ world has missed in its sentimental attachment to their image of Christianity. In fact, Lords of the Left-Hand Path allows the reader an unusually clear lens through which to understand the source of so many of contemporary society’s ills. This book is a serious exegesis of an important spiritual path; a noble path which is only obscure because it has become so maligned by aggressive monotheistic religions. The revival of interest in the occult and esoteric which has been gathering energy over the last century brings hope that the more open–minded and openhearted among us are exploring the spiritual realities for ourselves.” * Timothy Wyllie, author of The Return of the Rebel Angels *“I recommend this book highly to those who wish to challenge and explore their choice of paths to divinity.” * Frater U.I.F., Behutet Magazine, October 2012 *“I am astounded by just how much information is in this book. There is no padding or extraneous discussion – it is filled to the brim with observation and insight, and destined to become a classic in its field.” * Robert Black, New Dawn, July 2013 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface: Under the Lens of Reason Introduction: An Untimely Meditation 1 The Left-Hand Path 2 The Eastern Traditions 3 The Roots of the Western Tradition 4 The First Millennium 5 The Path of Satan 6 Lucifer Unbound 7 An Interlude in the Absolute Elsewhere: Adolph Hitler and the Modern Mythologizing of Evil 8 The Occult Revival 9 Anton Szandor LaVey and the Church of Satan 10 Michael A. Aquino: The Temple of Set Afterword: Terminus Viae Appendix: The Urban Legend of Satanicism Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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Red Wheel/Weiser World'S Most Haunted Places: From the Secret
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Inner Traditions Bear and Company Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin: Art, Sex,
Book SynopsisGnostic 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.Trade Review“An invaluable in-depth history--magnificently illustrated in full color--that sheds light on one of the most important periods in both 20th century Europe and the life of the Magus of the Aeon, Aleister Crowley. His two-year stay in volatile, bohemian, and urbane Berlin during the final years of the Weimar Republic and first years of the Great Depression has hitherto been largely undocumented. This full-length treatment of Crowley as artist (in Churton’s words, “the only Magus in history with a name worthy of the annals of Art”) is cast against the last days of Germany’s Versailles Treaty era and the apocalyptic rise of Adolph Hitler and his “merely brutal men.” The author well captures the cultural spirit and intoxicating New Age currents in which Crowley moved. For specialists, he provides a uniquely intimate view of Crowley’s succession to the Headship of O.T.O. during the Weida Conference of 1925; some intelligent observations on sexual magick; and extensive extracts from Crowley’s voluminous correspondence--allowing the reader a “Beast’s-eye-view” of his personal life, proselytizing efforts, business activities, and thorough contempt for Nazism. Highly recommended.” * James Wasserman, author of The Mystery Traditions: Secret Symbols and Sacred Art and In the Center o *“As soon as I opened this book I knew I was in for an exceptional treat, and I was right. This is Churton at his best. His book focuses, with some broader contextualization, on Crowley’s intermittent sojourns in Berlin between 1930 and 1932, which climaxed in a sensational exhibition of his paintings in October 1931. We follow Crowley as he strolls through the city, dressed in a knickerbocker suit, proclaiming his gospel of Thelema, exploring Berlin’s extensive demi-monde, playing chess, painting, writing, fornicating, spying for British intelligence, and mingling with a remarkable constellation of artists, writers, philosophers, and occultists. One of his friends at the time was Christopher Isherwood, who fictionalized his own Berlin experience in the novel that later became the musical Cabaret. Churton, in his vivid, witty style, superbly captures the atmosphere of the city during that feverish, decadent, but immensely vibrant and creative era, which ended abruptly with the catastrophe of 1933. Move over, Isherwood. From now on we should be talking about ‘Crowley’s Berlin.’” * Christopher McIntosh, Ph.D., author and Honorary University Fellow and Western Esotericism lecturer *“Yet again, Tobias Churton shows a unique ability to combine an approachable writing style with scholarly research and the result is an authoritative book on Crowley, the artist, a person who deserves to be re-assessed rather than be relegated to the dustbin of history.” * Sanda Miller, Ph.D., research fellow, History of Art, Southampton Solent University *“Tobias Churton has done it again! Exhaustively exploring the Beast’s sojourn through the kaleidoscope of cultural tumult that was the final years of the Weimar Republic, Churton’s astute eye and clarity of composition provide the lucky reader with a riveting view into what was a hotbed of sex, art, and politics. Churton’s gifts at conjuring a fascinating and profound study from myriad sources are in evidence as usual, painting an engaging portrait of the Magus of the Aeon and the milieu in which he moved.” * Frater Puck, Ordo Templi Orientis-U.S. Grand Lodge and host of Thelema NOW! *“Whether Quantum Magus, Berlin Artist, lover, or spy, Churton brings Crowley to life like no other biographer. He truly gets him . . . You don’t so much read this book as you live it, the noisome Beast in Berlin, our own beast within. Churton brings us the first serious and comprehensive study of Crowley’s remarkable Berlin period.” * Stephen J. King (Shiva Xâ °), Grand Master, Ordo Templi Orientis *“A remarkable account of Baphomet in Berlin, full of fascinating new information on Crowley’s decadence and discipline as a Berlin Boy as Germany spiraled down into its apocalyptic picnic. Tobias Churton has uncovered much that is new and marvelously expands on and clarifies that which was already known. A wonderful evocation of the darkness becoming visible--a truly Manichæan history.” * David Tibet, founder of Current 93 *“Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin is magic! Churton opens box after box of secrets in a dazzling display of research, erudition, and insight. Aleister Crowley is revealed in all his jaw-dropping splendor, plus warts. A genius forced to suffer fools, able to transcend misfortune, an adventurer in the worlds of art and war. His wisdom is both light and deep; the book is thrilling.” * Vanilla Beer, artist *“It’s hard not to empathize with Crowley as portrayed in the book—a man possessed of more radical intelligence than most before or after, who probably came off a bit autistic in his time, dealing with constant trouble, power games and consistently overestimating both people’s intelligence and integrity. Though he stands so far above both the Theosophical movement and its heirs in the New Age and Neopagan Revival, much of Crowley’s life was overshadowed by his troubles with money, students, the press and local governments—all of which consistently seem to thwart him in his latter years. Despite all that, he left a body of work, and philosophy, of unparalleled clarity and value. But in Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin—Art, Sex and Magick in the Weimer Republic, we get a better look at Crowley not as a symbol, but as a man of his time. Highly recommended.” * Ultraculture, Jason Jouv, August, 2014 *“The Beast in Berlin is an inspiring and engaging narrative of Aleister Crowley in the turbulent and cathartic years of Berlin in the early 1930s. Meticulously researched and filled with just enough biographical fact, informed speculation, dirty gossip and esoteric philosophy to keep you riveted from first word to last, Crowleyan scholar Tobias Churton has spun an entertaining and eye-opening tale documenting the reckless life of outsider artists living on the edge in a city on the brink of Apocalypse. Along the way we see the Beast play chess with Fernando Pessoa, correspond with Aldous Huxley, night crawl with Christopher Isherwood, spy, paint, incant, exorcise and interact artistically and sexually with a wide range of colorful, bizarre and nondescript characters—the absolute dregs of Berlin society. Perhaps the most readable and interesting book to catch the true spirit of Frater Perdurabo.” * John Zorn, Musician, July 2014 *“…This book offers a fascinating insight into a little known part of the Great Beast’s colourful and extraordinary life. Recommended.” * The Cauldron, December 2014 *“Weimar and what happens after become, in Churton’s hands, the darkness against which to highlight Crowley with stunning chiaroscuro.” * Rain Taxi, Spencer Dew, April 2015 *Table of ContentsForeword: Degenerate Berlin by Frank van Lamoen Assistant Curator, Stedelijk Museum, AmsterdamAcknowledgments Dramatis Personae -- WHO’S WHO IN THE BEAST IN BERLIN ONE -- SCOOP! TWO -- Selling Aleister Crowley THREE -- The New Age in Germany Theosophy in GermanyAleister Crowley Meets the German New AgeFOUR -- Karl Germer and the Weida Conference Arrival at HohenleubenKarl GermerThelema VerlagDr. PeithmannReturn to HohenleubenFIVE -- Cosmopolis--City of the Future SIX -- Good-Bye to All That Hello Again to All ThatSEVEN -- Kings in Exile Are Always Beggars The Stunt Hits the FanEIGHT-- Quantum Magus “Nick” Carter and the Case of the Reappearing WifeNINE -- An Old Master Modern Art in BerlinThe Artist in the BeastTEN -- Hanni Jaeger, Save Our Souls ELEVEN -- Thoroughly Modern MagusThe Ninth Degree (IX°)TWELVE -- The Last Summer of Freedom BlunderstormFlechtheimWerner Alvo Konstantin August von AlvenslebenTHIRTEEN -- Toward the Exhibition The World from BelowMarcellus and Margo SchifferFOURTEEN -- Porza! Mali and IgelFIFTEEN -- Hope of Harvest The Great Crowley Movie ConnectionSIXTEEN -- Spying Ethel ManninSEVENTEEN -- Last OrdersJean RossDiscovery of the NeutronEIGHTEEN -- Lost TimeLost PaintingsNINETEEN -- Lost People Before Hitler Was, I AmTWENTY -- Rebirth--The Spirit Can Return Notes Bibliography Index
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Light Technology,U.S. First Contact: Conversations with an ET
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Rockridge Press The Beginner's Guide to the Occult: Understanding
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Witches' Almanac Liber Spiritumm
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Massey University Press Shadow Worlds: A History of the Occult and
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El aprendiz de brujo
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