Books, Ideas & Hidden History

Occultism, Alchemy & Esoteric History

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Primary Esoteric Texts Investigated

Investigate influential esoteric texts through provenance, history, transmission, and clear distinctions between record, myth, and interpretation.

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    The Emerald Tablets of Thoth: Ancient Text or Modern Esoteric Literature?

    A text that claims to come from Atlantis, Thoth and the Great Pyramid becomes far more interesting when its trail is compared with the older Emerald Tablet tradition it resembles but is not.

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    Ars Notoria: Ritual Knowledge, Memory and the Medieval Imagination

    A medieval student could spend years mastering grammar, logic and theology. Ars Notoria offered another path: prayers, sacred names, angelic mediation and mysterious figures said to compress learning itself.

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    The Kybalion: Ancient Hermetic Wisdom or Modern New Thought?

    It presents seven laws as timeless Hermetic teaching from ancient Egypt and Greece. The publication trail leads instead to Chicago in 1908 and a prolific New Thought writer hiding behind the name “Three Initiates.”

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    Aleister Crowley’s Book of Thoth: Tarot, Thelema and Symbolic System

    A project expected to take months became a seven-year collision of Tarot, Thelema, astrology, Kabbalah and modern art, and the archival record shows Frieda Harris was far more than Crowley’s illustrator.

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