Occult

By Tzvetan Todorov

Una s?ntesis cr?tica de las reflexiones que sobre lo simb?lico se han esbozado en nuestra cultura.

By Afefe Ogo

Kindoki provides African ways to the Western occultist from a Left Hand direction standpoint. if you grew up studying imprecise little booklets present in the nook botanica, to people who prefer huge ceremonial tombs, this article will bridge the space through supporting the real practitioner accomplish projects in an easy yet certain demeanour. Kindoki is a glance at witchcraft and witchcraft established traditions from the point of view of an skilled practitioner of African sorcery equipment. the writer is an initiated Santero within the Parana line from Cuba, tracing his lineage all of the as far back as one of many founders of l. a. Regla de Ocha. He has labored with Palo Mayombe, Hatian Voodoo and Mexican withcraft for over twenty years and holds numerous initiations in every one culture. Afefe Ogo says ".... precise magical strength is derived from the person witch's artistic procedure and their reference to these forces that they've constructed relationships with" and in Kindoki the reader will learn how to wield effective tools that certainly foster this kind of reference to the 'forces' that experience helped Magicians/Sorcerers/Witches/Shaman follow their magical energies for millions of years.

By Frederick Hockley

Frederick Hockley (1809-1885), was once an incredible - if usually ignored - determine in nineteenth-century occultism. He was once an energetic "seer" who engaged in scrying, and became interested in ritual magic, alchemy and spiritualism. He used to be additionally a Freemason, who in later in existence was once linked to the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and different esoteric fraternities. as well as his personal writings, Hockley sought out and copied Grimoires and different magical, alchemical and kabbalistic texts that had lain hidden in inner most collections round England. lots of Hockley's early manuscripts have been commissioned by means of the bookseller John Denley (who had obtained Ebenezer Sibly's lovely library, the resource of a number of the texts that Francis Barrett utilized in compiling The Magus), while others have been for his personal use. After his dying Hockley's library used to be dispersed, and is it identified that many Hockley manuscripts made their approach into the arms of individuals of the airtight Order of the Golden sunrise. Such was once the excessive regard during which Hockley used to be held, that of the group's founders, W. Wynn Westcott, not just wrote that Hockley's manuscripts have been "highly esteemed," but in addition posthumously claimed him as Adept of the Golden sunrise. "The Rosicrucian Seer" not just finds a lot approximately Hockley's existence and esoteric actions, but in addition offers precious insights into the occult milieu of 19th century England that gave upward push to the Golden sunrise and encouraged its participants.

By Melita Denning, Osborne Phillips

(SEMI)RETAILESQUE

Deliberate psychic assault is especially infrequent. although, your psyche is consistently lower than assault from neighbors and strangers, advertisers and politicians who are looking to manage you. fortunately, there's a solution—Denning and Phillips'' The Llewellyn sensible advisor to Psychic Self-Defense.

The top technique to conquer assaults in your psyche is thru expertise that they're happening. This calls for you to turn into extra unsleeping and alert to this bombardment. a part of the procedure is to appreciate how this tried manipulation works. through learning this ebook you are going to achieve that wisdom. the result's that the mental intimidation that has been used on you some time past will now not regulate you.

There are forms of psychic assault. the 1st variety is assault by way of anyone who has now not had any occult education. she or he may perhaps think slighted or betrayed by means of you (based on genuine or imagined occasions) and carry directly to damaging feelings. ultimately, unknown to that individual, the unfavorable power can bounce out, directed at you.

This booklet unearths that your air of secrecy is your most sensible defensive line. through the use of the routines during this e-book to reinforce your air of mystery, this kind of accidental psychic assault will simply be dispelled and discharged.

Even extra infrequent is the "classic" psychic assault the place anyone does a few type of spell or ritual to hurt you. complete directions are given for overcoming such detrimental magick, either on a realistic, actual point (sever any actual connection among you and the attacker) and on a ritual, religious point (perform benefits and rites to beat psychic attack).

But what occurs if an assault does get via? First, you'll want to understand how to acknowledge it. frequently, a winning assault moves at your vulnerable hyperlink. that may be your actual future health (causing affliction) or your psychological perspective (causing depression). This e-book will allow you to realize the matter and the way to house it successfully.

By G. I. Gurdjieff

Publish yr note: First released in 1950
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The instructing of G. I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949) has become famous as essentially the most unique, enduring, and penetrating of our century. whereas Gurdjieff used many various skill to transmit his imaginative and prescient of the human predicament and human hazard, he gave detailed significance to his said masterwork, Beelzebub's stories to His Grandson.

Beelzebub's stories is an ocean of tale and of principles that one could probe for a life-time. it truly is majestic in scale and content material, challengingly artistic in prose type, and, for these very purposes, usually approached with apprehension. the 1st English language variation of the Russian unique seemed in 1950. given that then, readers have famous the necessity for a revised translation that may make clear the verbal floor whereas respecting the author's personal notion and magnificence.

This revised edition, in instruction for a few years less than the course of Gurdjieff's closest student, Jeanne de Salzmann, meets this desire. initially released in 1992, this translation deals a brand new event of Gurdjieff's masterpiece for modern readers. it's awarded in a robust textile version that echoes its unique e-book.

By Maury Terry

Out of print.

All too short description from the publisher:
Satanic Cult, actual Crime.
(Well, "Luciferian/occult" crime, to be specific.)

Info:
Too a lot is to be stated approximately this terror and his accomplices (!) which have been even spoken approximately in the police research, many times... specifically in the beginning. There's an all too very important passing point out to the direct with Scientology estate. but, hypothesis apart during this large and excellently researched paintings, there's good enough to contemplate... rules that just recently, Berkowitz has stated himself, regardless of worry of his family members being murdered. He unearths many innovations that the mainstream media has no longer coated accurately, either heavily-weighted insinuations (of Berkowitz) and the astute/persistent explorer of darkness, Maury Terry.

From readers:
"I am not likely to assert much approximately this ebook. humans provide adequate details in studies to inform what it's approximately. I spent enormous period of time learning what's defined during this ebook, taking a look at basic resources, newspaper articles, courtroom records, etc... and what i've got came upon is extra frightening than phrases can describe."

""This booklet places the complete develop into point of view with the weather of Manson, the leisure undefined, mafia, cults, satan worshippers, pedophiles and top category perverts as a motive force. the writer mentions the London scene, Marianne devoted, Kenneth Anger and the Stones in passing. …
Many tune celebrities have been into the occult (from Satanic to S&M to Nazi symbols and subject matters) from the past due 60's throughout the 70's. It jogged my memory that have been into the occult fringe the writer describes. …
In addition to the entire intermeshed tentacles of this Godless underground of killers and perverts, it truly is frightening that the author's phrases and photographs reminds us that Berkowitz and many the opposite criminals concerned gave the impression of general humans, had nine to five day jobs as trades humans, medical professionals, attorneys, policemen, and so forth. i suppose you by no means be aware of who's sitting subsequent to you at the subway or who's knocking at your door.""

By Donald Tyson

Erotic unions with spirits have occured all through historical past, however the tools were suppressed and misplaced, store for references and fragments in historic alchemical and magical texts. This booklet provides a mystical method for beginning sexual unions with spirit beings and utilizing the strength published from those unions for self-empowerment and private transformation. It deals to teach the reader: magical sexual practices and a sexual religious union to surpass the pleasures of actual intercourse; rituals to motivate the circulate of Kundalini power; magical makes use of for sexual fluids; concepts for making a homunculus - a man-made human.

By Clive Barker

With the 1984 ebook of Books of Blood, Clive Barker grew to become an in a single day literary sensation. He used to be hailed by means of Stephen King as "the way forward for horror," and received either the British and international delusion Awards. Now, along with his quite a few bestsellers, photo novels, and hit video clips just like the Hellraiser motion pictures, Clive Barker has develop into an unto himself. however it begun right here, with this journey de strength assortment that opponents the darkish masterpieces of Edgar Allan Poe. learn him. And rediscover the real that means of worry.

By J. K. Birksted

While Charles-Édouard Jeanneret reinvented himself as Le Corbusier in Paris, he additionally conscientiously reinvented the 1st thirty years of his existence by way of highlighting a few occasions and hiding others. As he defined in a letter: "Le Corbusier is a pseudonym. Le Corbusier creates structure recklessly. He pursues disinterested principles; he doesn't desire to compromise himself.... he's an entity freed from the burdens of carnality." Le Corbusier grew up in los angeles Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, a urban defined by means of Karl Marx as "one unified watchmaking industry." one of the unifying social constructions of l. a. Chaux-de-Fonds used to be the Loge L'Amitié, the Masonic inn with its francophone ethical, social, and philosophical principles, together with the symbolic iconography of the precise attitude (rectitude) and the compass (exactitude). Le Corbusier might later describe those as "my advisor, my choice" and as his "time-honored rules, ingrained and deep-rooted within the mind, like entries from a catechism." via exhaustive study that demanding situations long-held ideals, J. ok. Birksted's Le Corbusier and the Occult strains the constitution of Le Corbusier's model of modernist spatial and architectural principles according to startling new records in hitherto undiscovered kinfolk and native data. Le Corbusier and the Occult hence solutions the conundrum set through Reyner Banham (Birksted's predecessor on the Bartlett university of structure) who, fifty years in the past, wrote that Le Corbusier's ebook in the direction of a brand new structure "was to turn out to be probably the most influential, commonly learn and least understood of the entire architectural writings of the 20 th century."

By Don Miguel Ruiz

Within the 4 Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz finds the resource of self-limiting agreements that rob humans of pleasure and create useless soreness. in response to historic Toltec knowledge, the 4 Agreements supply a robust code of behavior which could swiftly remodel anyone’s lifestyles to a brand new adventure of freedom, actual happiness, and love. those agreements are deceptively basic: Be impeccable along with your be aware (speak with integrity; say in basic terms what you mean); Don’t take whatever in my view (nothing others do is due to you); Don’t make assumptions (find the braveness to invite questions and convey what you actually want); regularly do your most sensible (and you are going to stay away from self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret). Peter Coyote’s resonant analyzing emphasizes the ability in those amazing tenets.