Liber XXII · Occultism
Chapter VI
Occult Literature & Art
7 min readBulwer-Lytton's Occult Novels: Zanoni, Vril and the DwellerEdward Bulwer-Lytton's occult fiction, from Zanoni's Rosicrucian adepts to The Coming Race and vril, and how novels became sources for Victorian occultism.8 min readHilma af Klint: Theosophy, Séances and Abstract PaintingHilma af Klint (1862–1944), the Swedish painter whose Theosophical and spiritualist abstractions became world famous with the 2018 Guggenheim exhibition.8 min readOccult Literature and Art: From Zanoni to Hilma af KlintOccult literature and art from Gothic novels and Zanoni to Yeats, the Rose+Croix salons, Kandinsky, Hilma af Klint and the Surrealists' search for magic.7 min readW. B. Yeats and the Golden Dawn: The Poet as MagicianW. B. Yeats and the Golden Dawn: his Theosophy, initiation in 1890, Celtic Mysteries, the order's crisis of 1900 and the occult system of A Vision.