| Description |
xi, 212 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Sterling chronologies
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"An elightening journey through occult history, this fascinating chronology explores such diverse topics as the earliest alchemists of ancient Egypt, the Philosopher's Stone, the Cabala, the original of the Tarot, the Knights Templar, the founding of the Hellfire Club, Aleister Crowley's The book of the law, modern-day Wicca, and more. With the turn of every page, you will encounter beautiful artwork and intriguing insights about the occult, an astonishing story of suppression, survival, and rebirth, extending over more than two and a half millennia"--Back cover. |
| Contents |
6th century BCE: Pythagoras comes to Crotona -- 5th century BCE: Empedocles invents the four elements -- Late 5th century BCE: The first horoscopes -- 347 BCE: Death of Plato -- 186 BCE: Rome outlaws the Bacchic Mysteries -- 1st century BCE: Miriam the alchemist -- 33 CE: Death of Jesus -- 57 CE: Fall of Mona -- c. 1st century BCE: Invention of the runes -- 1st century CE: Apollonius of Tyana -- c. 120: Basilides of Alexandria -- 2nd century: Magic on trial -- 155: Valentinus loses a papal election -- 3rd century: The "Corpus Hermeticum" -- 244: Plotinus begins teaching in Rome -- c. 300: Zosimos of Panopolis -- 330: Death of Iamblichus of Chalcis -- 363: Last pagan emperor of Rome -- 396: End of the Eleusinian Mysteries -- 538: The edicts of Justinian -- 573: Merlin and the Battle of Arderydd -- c. 800: Jabir ibn Hayyan -- 9th century: Canon "Episcopi" -- 1118: Founding of the Knights Templar -- 1208: The Albigenisian Crusade -- c. 1230: Origins of the Cabala -- 1256: Translation of "Picatrix" -- 1271: Fall of Harran -- 1279: Abraham Abulafia goes to Saronno -- 1307: Arrest of the Knights Templar -- 1327: Cecco d'Ascoli burned at the stake -- 1382: The Philosopher's Stone -- 1418: Origin of the tarot -- 1428: The great Valais witch trials begin -- 1464: Translation of the "Corpus Hermeticum" -- 1486: The "Malleus Maleficarum" -- 1494: Johannes Reuchlin's "On the Miraculous Word" -- 1526: Paracelsus comes to Basel -- 1533: Cornelius Agrippa's "Three Books of Occult Philosophy" -- 1555: The "Prophecies" of Nostradamus -- 1559: John Dee schedules a royal coronation -- 1570: Isaac Luria arrives in Safed -- 1575: The "Benandanti" -- 1587: The legend of Faust -- 1600: Giordano Bruno burned at the stake -- 1610 -- The visions of Jacob Boehme -- 1611: Johannes Bureus interprets the runes -- 1614: The first Rosicrucian manifesto -- 1628: Casting spells for the Pope -- 1630: Gerard Thibault's "Academy of the Sword" -- 1647: William Lilly's "Christian Astrology" -- 1694: Rosicrucians arrive in Pennsylvania -- 1717: The first Masonic Grand Lodge -- 1736: Passage of the Witchcraft Act -- 1744: The visions of Emanuel Swedenborg -- 1746: Founding of the Hellfire Club -- 1767: The Élus Coens -- 1778: Franz Anton Mesmer comes to Paris -- 1781: Tracing the tarot to Egypt -- 1783: Etteilla publicizes tarot divination -- 1795: Alessandro Cagliostro dies in Rome -- 1798: Druids celebrate the autumn equinox -- 1801: Frances Barrett's "The Magus" -- 1820: Johann Georg Hohman's "The Long Lost Friend" -- 1821: Thomas Taylor translates "On the Mysteries" -- 1844: The visions of Andrew Jackson Davis -- 1848: Birth of spiritualism -- c. 1850: The "Voodoo Queen" -- 1855: Éliphas Lévi's "Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic" -- 1862: Juliet Michelet's "The Sorceress" -- 1874: The Brotherhood of Eulis -- 1875: The Theosophical Society -- 1884: The Martinist Order -- 1887: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn -- 1892: The first Salon de la Rose+Croix -- 1897: The first Hoodoo drugstore -- 1899: Charles Godfrey Leland's "Aradia, or The Gospel of the Witches" -- 1902: Guido von List's vision of the runes -- 1904: Aleister Crowley's "The Book of the Law" -- 1910: The Rider-Waite tarot deck -- 1912: Carl Jung breaks with Sigmund Freud -- 1913: Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophical Society -- 1914: Evangeline Adams acquitted of fortune-telling -- 1917: The Thule Society -- 1921: Margaret Murray's "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe" -- 1922: Alfred Watkins discovers the leys -- 1924: Harry Houdini battles fake medium -- 1925: The "Wars of the Roses" -- 1926: The Fulcanelli enigma -- 1928: Manly P. Hall's "The Secret Teachings of All Ages" -- 1929: End of the Order of the Star in the East -- 1935: Dion Fortune's "The Mystical Qabalah" -- 1936: Dane Rudhyar's "The Astrology of Personality" -- 1948: Raymond Palmer founds "Fate" magazine -- 1954: Gerald Gardner's "Witchcraft Today" -- 1960: The modern alchemist revival -- 1969: John Mitchell's "The View Over Atlantis" -- 1979: Wicca goes mainstream -- 1983: Ralph Blum's "The Book of Runes" -- 2012: The end of the thirteen baktun. |
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Occultism -- History.
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Alchemy -- History.
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Witchcraft -- History.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Occultism.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Reference.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spiritualism.
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Alchemy. (OCoLC)fst00804245
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Occultism. (OCoLC)fst01043123
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Witchcraft. (OCoLC)fst01176327
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9781454925774 (hardcover) |
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1454925779 (hardcover) |
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