Cauda Pavonis
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Author: Stanton J. Linden
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 0813182875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing extensively on alchemical allusions as well as on the practical and theoretical background of the art and its pictorial tradition, Linden demonstrates the pervasiveness of interest in alchemy during this three-hundred-year period. Most writers—including Langland, Gower, Barclay, Eramus, Sidney, Greene, Lyly, and Shakespeare—were familiar with alchemy, and references to it appear in a wide range of genres. Yet the purposes it served in literature from Chaucer through Jonson were narrowly satirical. In literature of the seventeenth century, especially in the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton, the functions of alchemy changed. Focusing on Bacon, Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton—in addition to Jonson and Butler—Linden demonstrates the emergence of new attitudes and innovative themes, motifs, images, and ideas. The use of alchemy to suggest spiritual growth and change, purification, regeneration, and millenarian ideas reflected important new emphases in alchemical, medical, and occultist writing. This new tradition did not continue, however, and Butler's return to satire was contextualized in the antagonism of the Royal Society and religious Latitudinarians to philosophical enthusiasm and the occult. Butler, like Shadwell and Swift, expanded the range of satirical victims to include experimental scientists as well as occult charlatans. The literary uses of alchemy thus reveal the changing intellectual milieus of three centuries.
Author: John F. Moffitt
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 0791486907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcknowledged as the "Artist of the Century," Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) left a legacy that dominates the art world to this day. Inventing the ironically dégagé attitude of "ready-made" art-making, Duchamp heralded the postmodern era and replaced Pablo Picasso as the role model for avant-garde artists. John F. Moffitt challenges commonly accepted interpretations of Duchamp's art and persona by showing that his mature art, after 1910, is largely drawn from the influence of the occult traditions. Moffitt demonstrates that the key to understanding the cryptic meaning of Duchamp's diverse artworks and writings is alchemy, the most pictorial of all the occult philosophies and sciences.
Author: Don Lewis-Highcorrell
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Published: 2014-10-08
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0738718211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe three-volume Witch School teaching series will prepare you for initiation into all three degrees of Correllian Wicca, one of the largest and fastest-growing Wiccan traditions in the world. As an additional bonus, WitchSchool.com offers many optional interactive features to enhance your textbook learning experience. The Witch's Journey Venture further on your journey into the magical life of a Witch. The twelve lessons of the Witch School's Second Degree, designed to be completed in the traditional "year and a day" format, build on the skills and knowledge you gained in the First Degree training program. Each lesson has four sections: an in-depth lesson, magical exercises, a spell, and a glossary. You'll round out your magical education and be ready choose your specialty within the Wiccan arts when you master the following advanced tools and techniques: Tarot Physiognomy Astrology Magical Alphabets Numerology Death, Spirits, and Spirit Guides Sex Magic Magical Calendars Advanced Chakra and Energy Work Ley Lines The Ba Gua Group Dynamics Completion of the twelve lessons in this book makes you eligible for initiation into the Second Degree of Correllian Nativist Wicca.
Author: Jay L. Halio
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780874136999
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Jay L. Halio is internationally distinguished as an editor of Shakespeare's plays and as a critic of Shakespeare in performance. This collection, with an international list of contributors, honors both those interests and explores their interconnectedness."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Nina Brown
Publisher: Ballymena LLC
Published: 2017-01-30
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 0982676913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is designed to energetically awaken within the reader the remembrance of our human divinity. In so doing, the wisdom it imparts serves as a reminder that our purpose is not to seek perfection but to realize that we are perfection expressing itself. We then become the divine beings we were intended to be, conscious creators.
Author: Kristy Sweetland
Publisher: Ballymena LLC
Published: 2017-01-30
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 098267693X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains the profound richness of the non-dogmatic philosophical foundation of Surrender, Trust, Allow, Receive, plus the Four Essential Qualities ofWholeness (human divinity), Self-love, Play (the now moment) and the Embodiment of the Expanded Golden Rule from the empowering perspective of philosopher Nina Brown, articulated by Kristy Sweetland, M.A., Master of Transpersonal Psychology.These two empowered women have provided practical and inspirational insights on putting the S.T.A.R. philosophy to use to help us with some of the toughest human experiences. While reading this book, we are invited to make quantum leaps into the octaves of richness, amazing relationships, play and more. And once we start to play with our own formula of molding what we learn in the S.T.A.R. Philosophy Fascinated Observer's Guide, we become liberated from even the most tenacious patterns of complacency.From spiritual pearls to rich practical insights and playfully enlightening activities that engage you and groups of your friends and loved ones; this guide has been written to lead readers into the beautiful octaves of human divinity that come from the simple yet profound act of becoming a Fascinated Observer.
Author: Gyorgy E. Szonyi
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010-07-02
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0791484424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDelving into the life and work of John Dee, Renaissance mathematician and "conjurer to Queen Elizabeth," György E. Szo‹nyi presents an analysis of Renaissance occultism and its place in the chronology of European cultural history. Culling examples of "magical thinking" from classical, medieval, and Renaissance philosophers, Szo‹nyi revisits the body of Dee's own scientific and spiritual writings as reflective sources of traditional mysticism. Exploring the intellectual foundations of magic, Szo‹nyi focuses on the ideology of exaltatio, the glorification or deification of man. He argues that it was the desire for exaltatio that framed and tied together the otherwise varied thoughts and activities of John Dee as well.
Author: David Fideler
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Published: 1991-09-01
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780933999169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJournal of cosmology, philosophy, myth, and culture.
Author: David C. Lindberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780198239925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Lindberg presents the first critical edition of the text of Roger Bacon's classic work Perspectiva, prepared from Latin manuscripts, accompanied by a facing-page English translation, critical notes, and a full study of the text. Also included is an analysis of Bacon's sources, influence, and role in the emergence of the discipline of perspectiva.