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The Victorian Occult Revival: From Mesmer to th...
Between 1770 and 1900, a wave of esoteric movements transformed Western spiritual life. From Mesmer's magnetic cures to the Golden Dawn's ceremonial synthesis, this period created the foundations of every...
William James and the Varieties of Religious Ex...
Quick Answer: The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University, the founding text of the psychology of religion. James examined first-person accounts of conversion,...
Grant Morrison's Pop Magic: Comics, Sigils, and...
Grant Morrison is a Scottish comics writer and practicing chaos magician who developed the concept of the "hypersigil" (an extended creative work functioning as a sustained magical operation) and "Pop...
Liber Null and Psychonaut: Peter Carroll's Chao...
Liber Null and Psychonaut is the foundational two-volume text of chaos magic, written by Peter Carroll in 1978 and 1981 (combined edition 1987). Liber Null presents a complete magical training...
Manichaeism: The Cosmic Battle Between Light an...
Quick Answer: Manichaeism is a dualistic religion founded by the prophet Mani (216-274/277 CE) in Sasanian Persia. It teaches that the cosmos is a battleground between two eternal principles, Light...
Discordianism: Eris, Chaos, and the Principia D...
Discordianism is a religion, philosophy, and sustained prank dedicated to Eris, the Greek goddess of chaos and discord. Founded in 1963 by Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley, it uses humour,...