A Dark Muse: A History of the OccultBasic Books, 9 sept. 2009 - 378 pages The occult was a crucial influence on the Renaissance, and it obsessed the popular thinkers of the day. But with the Age of Reason, occultism was sidelined; only charlatans found any use for it. Occult ideas did not disappear, however, but rather went underground. It developed into a fruitful source of inspiration for many important artists. Works of brilliance, sometimes even of genius, were produced under its influence. In A Dark Muse, Lachman discusses the Enlightenment obsession with occult politics, the Romantic explosion, the futuristic occultism of the fin de sièe, and the deep occult roots of the modernist movement. Some of the writers and thinkers featured in this hidden history of western thought and sensibility are Emanuel Swedenborg, Charles Baudelaire, J. K. Huysmans, August Strindberg, William Blake, Goethe, Madame Blavatsky, H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, and Malcolm Lowry. |
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A History of the Occult Gary Lachman. ably . Unlike Mesmer , who was criticized for treating only wealthy patients and for ignoring the needy , Cagliostro often refused to serve the rich . In European capitals , he would head to the poor ...
A History of the Occult Gary Lachman. ably . Unlike Mesmer , who was criticized for treating only wealthy patients and for ignoring the needy , Cagliostro often refused to serve the rich . In European capitals , he would head to the poor ...
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... Mesmer or Cagliostro , and although he moved among them , he did not try to ingratiate himself with the aristocracy as did Saint - Germain . Saint - Martin was a true hermetic philosopher , deeply concerned with mankind's spiritual ...
... Mesmer or Cagliostro , and although he moved among them , he did not try to ingratiate himself with the aristocracy as did Saint - Germain . Saint - Martin was a true hermetic philosopher , deeply concerned with mankind's spiritual ...
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... Mesmer's important disciple , Puysegur . Saint - Martin joined the Parisian Society of Harmony in 1784 , but felt that Mesmer's emphasis on the physical action of his fluids strayed dangerously close to materialism , and that this could ...
... Mesmer's important disciple , Puysegur . Saint - Martin joined the Parisian Society of Harmony in 1784 , but felt that Mesmer's emphasis on the physical action of his fluids strayed dangerously close to materialism , and that this could ...
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... Mesmer , and had met Cagliostro in 1783 at a Masonic lodge in Strasbourg , later becoming an initiate of his Egyptian Rite . De Loutherberg settled in London in 1785 , lived in Hammersmith and devoted himself to mesmerism and the ...
... Mesmer , and had met Cagliostro in 1783 at a Masonic lodge in Strasbourg , later becoming an initiate of his Egyptian Rite . De Loutherberg settled in London in 1785 , lived in Hammersmith and devoted himself to mesmerism and the ...
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A History of the Occult Gary Lachman. ebb with Mesmer's fall , the growing antipathy to freemasonry , and Cagliostro's embroilment in the ' Diamond Necklace Affair ' . Yet , aside from some titillating dabbling , Beckford's contact with ...
A History of the Occult Gary Lachman. ebb with Mesmer's fall , the growing antipathy to freemasonry , and Cagliostro's embroilment in the ' Diamond Necklace Affair ' . Yet , aside from some titillating dabbling , Beckford's contact with ...
Table des matières
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Romantic Occultism | 64 |
Satanic Occultism | 127 |
Fin de siècle Occultism | 152 |
The Modernist Occultist | 226 |
Selected Texts | 271 |
Selected Bibliography | 381 |
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19th century alchemical Aleister Aleister Crowley Andrei Bely appeared Balzac Baudelaire beautiful became Beckford believed Bely Blackwood Blake Blavatsky Briusov Cagliostro called Cazotte consciousness cosmic Crowley Crowley's dark Daumal death decadent Devil dreams early Eliphas Levi Enlightenment esoteric experience Fernando Pessoa fin de siècle freemasonry Gérard de Nerval Goethe Golden Dawn Gurdjieff heaven hermetic Hoffmann human Huysmans idea Illuminati influence Kabbalah kabbalistic later light literary living London Lowry Lytton Machen Madame Blavatsky magical magician Malcolm Lowry matter Maupassant Mesmer Meyrink Milosz mind mother mysteries mystical nature Nerval night Novalis novel obsessed occult occultist Ouspensky Ouspensky's P.D. Ouspensky Paris Pessoa philosopher Poe's poems poet poetry remarked Rimbaud Romantic Rosicrucian Rudolf Steiner Russian Saint-Martin Satan secret societies sense soul spiritual Steiner story strange Strindberg Swedenborg symbol theme Theosophical things thou thought tion truth universe Villiers vision Weishaupt's writing wrote Yeats
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Page 180 - I saw that all men are immortal; that the cosmic order is such that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all ; that the foundation principle of the world, of all the worlds, is what we call love, and that the happiness of each and all is in the long run absolutely certain.
Page 329 - But he can never be thus divested — at least never will be — else we must imagine an action of God returning upon itself — a purposeless and futile action. Man is a creature. Creatures are thoughts of God. .It is the nature of thought to be irrevocable. P. I do not comprehend. You say that man will never put off the body ? V. I say that he will never be bodiless. P. Explain. V. There are two bodies — the rudimental and the complete ; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the...
Page 368 - Along with the consciousness of the cosmos there occurs an intellectual enlightenment or illumination which alone would place the individual on a new plane of existence — would make him almost a member of a new species. To this is added a state of moral exaltation, an indescribable feeling of elevation, elation and joyousness, and a quickening of the moral sense, which is fully as striking and more important both to the individual and to the race than is the enhanced intellectual power.
Page 86 - They arise in the soul (alas, how rarely!) only at its epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the bodily and mental health are in perfection, and at those mere points of time where the confines of the waking world blend with those of the world of dreams. I am aware of these " fancies " only when I am upon the very brink of sleep, with the consciousness that I am so.
Page 180 - Among other things he did not come to believe, he saw and knew that the Cosmos is not dead matter but a living Presence, that the soul of man is immortal, that the universe is so built and ordered that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all, that the foundation principle of the world is what we call love and that the happiness of every one is in the long run absolutely certain.
Page 284 - Radtol (ordinal nnmbers) the first the second the third the fourth the fifth the sixth the seventh the eighth the ninth the tenth the eleventh the twelfth the thirteenth the fourteenth the fifteenth the sixteenth the seventeenth the eighteenth the nineteenth the twentieth the twenty-first...
Page 286 - THE LIPIKA CIRCUMSCRIBE THE TRIANGLE, THE FIRST ONE, THE CUBE, THE SECOND ONE, AND THE PENTACLE WITHIN THE EGG. IT IS THE RING CALLED "PASS NOT" FOR THOSE WHO DESCEND AND ASCEND. ALSO FOR THOSE WHO DURING THE KALPA ARE PROGRESSING TOWARDS THE GREAT DAY "BE WITH US.
Page 316 - For everyone has all things in himself and sees all things in another; so that all things are everywhere and all is all and each is all, and the glory is infinite.