THE OCCULT UNDERGROUND
Language: English
Published by Open Court Publishing Company, LaSalle, Illinois, 1974
- Hardcover
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Seller: Michael Benham, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaMichael Benham
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Small tears to edges of dust jacket.This is an American revision of the author's The Flight from Reason Vol 1 of THE AGE OF THE IRRATIONAL. In this revised edition the preface has been slightly abbreviated, all the footnotes are after each chapter no longer as a separate section at the end of the book and the illustrations have been reduced from 34 to 25 and printed on plain paper. 387 pages.
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- Title
- THE OCCULT UNDERGROUND
- Author
- Webb, James
- Publisher
- Open Court Publishing Company, LaSalle, Illinois
- Publication year
- 1974
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0912050462
- ISBN 13
- 9780912050461
- Item weight
- 650 grams
- Dimensions
- 14 centimeters width by 21 centimeters height by 3.5 centimeters depth
Just when it seemed that Science and Reason had scored their greatest triumphs, the mid-nineteenth century witnessed an astonishing rebirth of occultism and anit-rationalism: the beginnings of the movement we now call New Age. A secret tradition of knowledge rejected by the Christian or Scientific establishments suddenly became emboldened to seek publicity and converts.
James Webb’s painstaking research carry him into the undergrowth inhabited by such illuminated personages as Madame Blavatsky, the Reverend Leadbeater, the Bortherhood of Luxor, Annie Besant, Krishnamurti, Swami Vivekananda, Spiritualists, Rosicrucians, Vegetarians, Mithraic cults, and all manner of occult propagandists.
"fascinating detail . . . particularly good in tracing the obscure and subterranean spiritual affiliations through which these pilgrims of eternity were bound together . . . as relevant to our own time as it is to the nineteenth century."
--Goronwy Rees, ENCOUNTER
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