Opinions
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Jacques Collin de Plancy’s Delineation of the Demonical
Ed Simon explores the work and how at its heart lies an unlikely but pertinent synthesis of the Enlightenment and…
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An Outline on the Spiritual Character of Occult Science
At present, the words “occult science” are apt to arouse the most varied feelings, and to some, occult science is…
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The Order of the Knights Templar, the Assassins, and Heresy
In 1128 the Order was sanctioned by the Council of Troyes and by the Pope, and a rule was drawn…
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Twentieth-First-Century Contemporary Books on Witchcraft
From the later fifteenth-century, which brought forth the monumental ‘Malleus Maleficarum,’ to our day, writings on witches and witchcraft have…
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Gothic Matters: the Brainchild of the Eighteenth-Century
Once considered escapist or closely linked to fantasy, the Gothic genre (or mode, as scholars increasingly call it) has recently…
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Learning About Japan Through Fear and Horror Games
Whether they are attempting to mimic Western horror or create experiences rooted in the country’s long tradition of scary stories,…
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Occultism and the Adepts: Teachings of Occult Philosophy
The identity of occultism as practised in all ages must be kept in view, to account for the magnitude of…
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The Late Witches and the New Science in Renaissance
Though foundational theories of modern science emerged during the Renaissance, the arguably non-scientific beliefs in witchcraft and the consequent persecution…
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Roman Charity of Allegory Breastfeeding as “Other Speech”
This article explores the visual tradition of lactation imagery that eventually gave Pero and Cimon their particular resonance as Roman…
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Introduction to Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art
Esoteric spirituality here is reflected only by Theosophy, but encompasses a far broader set of belief practices that influenced modernist…
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Beyond the Witchcraft Trials in the Age of Enlightenment
The so-called Age of Enlightenment of the eighteenth-century has often been portrayed as a period in which much of Europe…
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Dutch Gothic Literary Culture as an Epiphenomenon of Change
In order to explain the marginality of the Gothic novel within eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Dutch literature, we would like to…
