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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Occultism"”.
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Seeing the Word : John Dee and Renaissance Occultism
This study reassesses the occult philosophy of the British polymath John Dee (1527-1609). Focusing on his treatise Monas hieroglyphica (1564) and his notorious angelic conversations in the 1580s, it describes Dee’s philosophical career as a continuous search for a language which could yield …
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A modern mecca of psychic forces: the Psychical Science Congress and the culture of progressive occultism in fin-de-siecle Chicago, 1885-1900
… and theosophy as elements of a progressive occultism which promised not only to heighten mankind’s spiritual and moral development but to accelerate societal reforms which would improve the human condition. As a profound evolutionary force, progressive occultism promised knowledge and …
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Performance, Design, Display: Making Occultures in Ithell Colquhoun's Archive c.1920–1960
… to consider the ways in which Colquhoun’s occultism intersected with her artmaking, both within Surrealism and without. Specifically, I analyse three contexts which have been under-explored in critical literature on the artist to date: performance, design, and display. Chapter one evaluates …
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William Butler Yeats and Edmund Dulac; a correspondence: 1916-1938
… of Yeats’s supremely creative later years: occultism, painting, theater, stamp and coin design, Eastern philosophy, and the two great preoccupations of his late poetry: his cyclical theory of history, set forth in A Vision, and his concept of the proper music for sung poetry. Yeats wrote to …
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Jock Macdonald : the search for the universal truth in nature
… Contradictory as they may appear, science and occultism formed the matrix of his semi-abstract and abstract art by suggesting ways to visualize nature's hidden energies
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The occult in Rabelais: three supplementary aspects of the Rabelaisian allegory
… or implied, to the systems of contemporary occultism in Rabelais’s work. Although a division may be made between those allusions which seem merely to reflect humanist preoccupation with the occult and those which are functional in terms of the proposed allegory, it is argued that all occult …
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Ezoterika J. Ivanauskaitės romane „Placebas“ /
… are presented, the development (hermetism, occultism, esotericism) is discussed ant the esotericism and religion relations are investigated, as well as it’s connections with “New Age” movement. In the second chapter called The signs of esoteric in J. Ivanauskaite`s novel “Placebas” Placebo …
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Towards a performance of Scriabin's Sonata No. 6, Op. 62: a practice-led exploration
… Scriabin’s orchestral Prometheus Op. 60 with the occultism and mysticism of Theosophy. My contribution in this regard lies in a detailed, practice-led research project based on the interpretation of the score instructions found in the Sixth Piano Sonata, Op. 62, in which I connect aspects of the …
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The Place of the BlessedVirgin Mary in the Work of Jois-Karl Huysmans
… croix."* His spiritual Odyssey led him through occultism to the Catholic Church in 1892. He was received as a Benedictine oblate in the monastery of Ligug£ and on May 12, 1907, died in Paris a painful but Christian death.</p> <p>In the works which he wrote after his conversion, Huysmans laid an …
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Living Paint: Tempera and Knowledge in the Surrealist Art of Leonora Carrington, Sylvia Fein, and Gerrie Gutmann
… relate to their respective interests, notably occultism, animism, and abjection. Chapter One formulates a material meaning for tempera specific to Leonora Carrington’s occult-feminist paradigm, touching on its magical efficacy and her definition of matter as “thinking substance.” In Chapter …
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Problems in investigating psychokinesis in special subjects
An attempt is made to establish the authenticity of a number of 'Psychokinetic' (PK) effects claimed to have been obtained with Special Subjects and in the process to elucidate the question why in over a hundred years these phenomena remain controversial. Four cases are examined in detail. The …
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Cotton Mather's cosmology and the 1692 Salem witch trials
The Salem witchcraft trials and Cotton Mather's role in them continue to engage the interests of historians and scholars, who have written about them from a number of perspectives, including those derived from most of the social sciences. However, Mather's own seventeenth-century, New England …
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Panic on the British Borderlands: The Great God Pan, Victorian Sexuality, and Sacred Space in the Works of Arthur Machen
… development of individual psychic explorations. Occultism and the formation of ritual magic groups are a response to deep-seated cultural concerns of industrialized, urban modernity. Within the esoteric traditions, the Gnostic outlook of a fractured creation corresponds to the cosmogony of a …
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The Broken Spell: The Romance Genre in Late Mughal India
This study is concerned with the Indian "romance" (qissah) genre, as it was understood from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Particularly during the Mughal era, oral and written romances represented an enchanted world populated by sorcerers, jinns, and other marvellous beings, …
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Occult Communism: culture, science and spirituality in late socialist Bulgaria
"“Occult Communism” explores the unlikely infusion of state-sponsored spiritualism into the materialist ideology of Bulgarian late communism. In the 1970s, Minister of Culture Lyudmila Zhivkova initiated grandiose state programs to inject the “occult” into Bulgaria’s national culture, art, science …
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Remembering the Forgotten Beauty of Yeatsian Mythology: Personae and the Problem of Unity in The Wind Among the Reeds
Remembering the Forgotten Beauty of Yeatsian Mythology: Personae and the Problem of Unity in The Wind Among the Reeds
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"Rosa alchemica," "The tables of the law," and "Adoration of the magi," edited and with an introduction
<p>"This volume contains an introduction to William Butler Yeats' early occult short stories "Rosa Alchemica," "The Tables of the Law," and "The Adoration of the Magi." Panned by critics over the last century, the three stories contained in this volume are both controversial and difficult. The …