Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As radiant as the utopian world it excavates, Paul Eli Ivey’s deeply researched and immensely original work provides an x-ray vision of an esoteric California on the edge of global Theosophy.
Radiance from Halcyon is a mesmerizing tale of mystical kinship and communitarian experiments fusing architecture, landscape, music, and science that reverberate powerfully into the present." —Molly McGarry, author of
Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century AmericaTable of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Organizing Theosophy in the United States
2. The Emergence of the Temple Movement in Syracuse
3. The Esoteric Temple of Humanity: Temple Theosophy and Occult Science
4. Building Kinship: The Iroquois League and the Exoteric Work of the Temple
5. Early Halcyon: The Temple Sets Its Foundations in the Golden West
6. The Temple Home Association: A Cooperative Commonwealth
7. An Architecture of Spiritual Forces: The Blue Star Memorial Temple
8. Forces of Nature and the Electric Panacea: Healing at the Halcyon Sanatorium
9. Dune Spirit, Harmony, and Dissonance: Music and Art at Halcyon
10. The Avatar Arrives: Spiritual Fulfillment and Scientific Advancement
Conclusion
Notes
Index
