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Occultism: The Occult Sciences and the Occult Revival

The Theosophical Enlightenment

by Joscelyn Godwin

A history of the ideas that fed nineteenth-century occultism and Theosophy, from Enlightenment speculation on comparative mythology and phallic religion to mesmerism, Spiritualism and the occult orders. Godwin argues that Theosophy owed as much to rationalist scholarship as to mysticism.

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